Founder of Eight Companies Explains: How to Take Massive Action (ft. Noah Kagan)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast
Mark Manson
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Social media messes with our expectations because it convinces us that we should be doing everything, everywhere, all at once.
But the reality is that we should focus on doing one or two things extremely well, in one place, consistently over a long period of time.
Today on the pod, I talk to Noah Kagan, multi-millionaire and multi-business owner, about the type of consistency and habits that lead to wealth.
Noah created his own wealth out of self-belief, learning from failing and being careful with what he gives a fuck about. Noah’s story is compelling as he shares how he found success over decades, by never ceasing to try.
If you’re looking for some raw talk to get you motivated to go out and do cool shit, this is the episode to sink your energy into. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Noah Kagan, founder of eight different companies, |
| 0:04.4 | million dollar companies, one of the first employees at Facebook, |
| 0:07.8 | I'm sure we'll get into that, |
| 0:09.2 | author of Million Dollar Weekend, |
| 0:11.3 | we're definitely going to get into that. My first question is, what do you not give a fuck about that most people do? |
| 0:17.0 | Mm. Hmm. Hmm. I think I haven't given so many fucks about taking myself so seriously. |
| 0:28.0 | I was going to say because that's a little bit of a paradox like you live in this risky world of entrepreneurship of I mean the whole book is just about taking chances |
| 0:37.2 | Essentially and yet you when I talk to you you know it's like this kind of like constant self-consciousness like, oh my God, |
| 0:45.3 | what am I doing this wrong is my leg weird? Should I be like this? |
| 0:48.0 | Like, yeah. So there's got to be like a loophole in there somewhere. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah, because I think people that probably are portraying like, I don't care about what anyone thinks. |
| 0:57.6 | It's like, well, you're probably putting that publicly, so you're clearly clearing |
| 1:00.8 | about what people are thinking about you. |
| 1:02.3 | You're hiding something, yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, and for me, I think as I'm getting older, |
| 1:06.0 | I'm definitely being more mindful, like, |
| 1:08.0 | why do I care if I have more followers or not? |
| 1:11.0 | Why do I care, literally? It's like 7 a.m. I'm responding to a random |
| 1:15.0 | guy on my Instagram DM that read my book instead of being in bed with my girlfriend. |
| 1:20.8 | Right. And so as I'm getting older and being more mindful about like what |
| 1:24.0 | actually matters. Yeah. You seem to be almost impervious to rejection. Would you say that's it? Like that's the thing? Because most people are absolutely |
| 1:36.4 | terrified of rejection. I mean, most people won't start anything. Like, forget a business, they won't even start a conversation because they're afraid of |
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