Welcome to the 10 minute entrepreneur podcast, intended to equip and encourage business owners and

aspiring entrepreneurs, taught by active business owner, best selling author, and teacher Sean

Castrina. All right we're doing one of our teaching podcasts which you know I love to do.

I was watching a Netflix special. podcasts, which you know I love to do.

I was watching a Netflix special on Bill Gates last night,

and the one thing that I got out of it

is I know why he's the richest person in the world or has at least spent the better part of the last 30 years as the richest person in the world.

Frighteningly smart. Frighteningly smart.

I tell you when I watched him talk I literally felt like I had a learning disability.

The most brilliant person and just humbling. But what I got out of this Netflix special and I've read books on him and I've seen countless things that he's done and interviews and articles is there were seven qualities that absolutely blew me away that he has.

And they seem to be, you know, areas that other gifted, intelligent, highly successful people have, but he has them in just spades.

He just, it just permeates who he is.

Let me just share with you one of his quotes before we get started.

If you are born poor, it's not a mistake.

But if you die poor, it's your mistake. I love that.

Personal responsibility.

If you are born poor, it's not your mistake but if you die poor it's your

mistake. I thought that was so good. All right let me take you through the seven things that I learned and I think you can learn from Bill Gates.

First thing is he absolutely loves learning and he always loved learning from being a child.

From childhood he loved learning.

His mother was a teacher. His dad was a lawyer. So smart

family, but he was a voracious reader even as a child. But he reads 150 pages an hour. He travels with no less than 10 books at a time.

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