I'm going to show you how great I am.

This is our society tower.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to How to Take Over the World.

This is Ben Wilson.

Welcome to Part 2 on the life of George Washington, the American General, Statesman,

and the first president of the United States of America.

So far, in part one, this is an interesting story about a guy who has achieved some success, but he is

far away from being one of the most famous men of all time. In this episode, we're going to

explore the Revolutionary War, so that's when the United States declares independence from

Great Britain, his leadership in that war, why it was so vital, and how he was able to be so

successful despite being a pretty mediocre battlefield general.

One of the things that I think is so powerful is when you identify great, really successful people

who were bad at certain things, and not just anything, but things that were core to what they were

trying to do. So, for example, Demosthenes is known as one of the greatest speakers of all time.

He lived in ancient Greece.

And he had a horrible speech impediment.

Okay, so here you have someone who was the greatest speech giver of all time who was physically

bad at speaking.

And so that means that there is something incredibly valuable that you can learn from

Demosthenes because you learn what is actually valuable in the pursuit of something and what is not.

So if I'm giving you a sports analogy to this, LeBron James, he's a little bit older now, but

let's wind back the clock 10 years.

...