Alex Banayan: The Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

When he was growing up, Alex Banayan felt like it was his destiny to become a doctor. But once he got to college, he realized he wasn’t on the right path. Alex ended up going on The Price Is Right, winning, and using that money to go on a journey to track down the most successful people in the world and discover what they did to break through and launch their careers. He’s now one of the most successful businessmen in the US himself. Hear his story about discovery, risk-taking, and more.

Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door, the story of how he tracked down some of the most successful people in the world to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. He has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, Business Insider’s Most Powerful People Under 30, and been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, and CBS News. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world including Apple, Nike, IBM, Dell, MTV, Harvard, and countless others. You can find him on Twitter at @AlexBanayan

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0:00.0	You know evolution doesn't didn't necessarily you know value those risk acres because they were many of them would die
0:10.8	So it's the ones who follow that path of certainty of, you know, finding the most
0:17.3	hospitable environment, staying there, building a tribe, you know, making sure everybody stays, you know, tightly packed and tightly
0:26.7	knit, those are the ones who flourished.
0:30.0	But when you look at, you know, our current world and our current society,
0:37.2	like you said in that passage, you read,
0:39.2	no one has ever achieved a dream
0:41.5	in the comfort of certainty. And you know that's not some
0:46.0	poetic philosophy it's just a reality of if you have a dream it's probably not to do the same thing you're doing every day.
0:56.6	Achieving that dream will require you to leave the world that you currently know, give up things that you currently have in search
1:07.6	of something new.
1:11.5	And you know, stepping through that threshold of entering the world of uncertainty is by far one of the scariest things.
1:20.0	Any entrepreneur, any filmmaker any
1:23.0	any creator any creator of any kind has to face
1:27.0	I'm Sreeney Rao
1:32.0	I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window
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