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Modern Mentor

BONUS: Introducing One Plus One

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Every great collaboration is a love story. It’s intense. Passionate. Along the way, there are flashes of love, hate, pride, ego, ambition, and brilliance. This is One Plus One, the show about the spark that drives two original thinkers to ultimate success. We’ll unearth the stories of Paul McCartney & John Lennon, Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, Beyonce & Jay-Z, Shaq & Kobe, and many more, and learn what it is about their chemistry that led them to greatness. Subscribe to One Plus One today at wondery.fm/OPO

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0:00.0

This is Steeper Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.1

I'll be back with a regular episode next week, but today I want to introduce a brand new podcast I think you're really going to like.

0:15.4

Most of us don't achieve our best work alone. For lots of us, it takes one great partner to balance out our weaknesses and push us

0:21.4

to achieve more. That's why some of the most influential people in business today got to where

0:25.5

they are with the help of a friend. That's the theme of the new podcast, One Plus One, from

0:30.3

Wondery, the show that tells the story of some of history's most successful partnerships,

0:34.3

pairs of people who change the way that we see the world. Hosts Rico Galliano and Faith Saly will chart the ups and downs of these partnerships and

0:41.3

analyze what they gained from coming together. You're about to hear a preview of the first

0:45.5

episode of this series, which focuses on a couple of guys you may have heard of, John Lennon and

0:50.0

Paul McCartney. Individually, they may have been brilliant, but together they literally rocked the world.

0:55.9

If you like what you hear, be sure to subscribe to 1 Plus 1 on Apple Podcast or wherever you listen.

1:00.8

You can also find a link in the episode notes and tell your friends about it.

1:04.0

You never know.

1:05.0

Maybe one of them will be the other half of your legacy.

1:13.9

It's January, 1967, in London, England.

1:18.9

John Lennon is sitting at the piano in his home in the suburbs, writing a new song.

1:23.9

It's based on a newspaper account of a young socialite named Tara Brown, killed in a car crash.

1:30.9

John comes up with something he thinks will work.

1:34.9

But John's having trouble finishing the song.

1:38.1

So he heads on over to Paul's house, just a few blocks from Abbey Road.

1:42.6

Together, they finish John's verses and round out the tune

1:46.3

by adding a fragment from one of Paul's.

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