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My First Million

Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison & Hitler

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 30 September 2022

ā±ļø 32 minutes

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Summary

Episode 369: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Producer Ben (@BenWilsonTweets) take a turn with One Question Friday... instead of a question they discuss traits of conquerors from yesterday and today. ----- Links: * My First Million * How To Take Over The World * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (02:25) - lessons from Hitler (10:25) - addictive personalities (18:10) - charismatic people (26:25) - bias to action ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0

Do you feel weird learning lessons from the life of Hitler?

0:02.8

Well, I'm not necessarily learning a lesson that I want to emulate,

0:05.7

but that said, I do think you can learn good lessons from bad people.

0:09.5

Like, you definitely can learn a good lesson from a bad person.

0:22.8

Hey, my first million fans. This is producer Ben.

0:24.4

I'm subbing in this week because Sean is out with some family stuff.

0:27.4

But for one question Friday today, Sam and I sat down to discuss

0:32.0

how to take over the world some things that I have learned from studying lives of great achievers

0:37.4

and conquerors throughout history. And Sam and I just got to talking about history

0:41.2

and great people in our own lives and what we've learned from them.

0:43.1

So it's a little bit of a more random and less focused one question Friday,

0:46.7

but I think there's some really good stuff in it that I think you'll really like.

0:49.6

So enjoy.

0:50.5

So I asked you traits of conquerors. And the reason I'm thinking about that is I just finished

0:59.9

this like epic book. It's like 1400 pages long. It's called The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

1:06.0

Have you heard of that?

1:06.9

Yeah. It's kind of one of the seminal texts on Hitler and Naziism.

1:11.5

Yes. And it's crazy. And I was reading it and I was like, this is nuts that the reason I read it

1:18.0

was I wanted to figure out why would a country, you know, be so complicit with such bad things.

1:23.2

And I was like, what on earth was about this Hitler dude that like convinced all these people to do

1:27.7

all these these bad things? And so I learned and it was wild. And I started and basically it all kind

1:34.8

of came down to like he was in prison one time because he like tried to like basically was a glorified

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