Coming up, we're going to review the habits of maybe one of the most influential people

America has ever known. And then middle class jobs are shrinking, but there are some that are

growing. We'll break it down. That's next. Welcome to the show that helps you win at work.

I want you getting better so that you're moving up the ladder and you are leading

effectively.

So this is perfect.

You want to do great things?

Do what great people do.

There you go.

That could be the entire show.

I could literally stop the show.

Alex wouldn't be happy.

But that would be enough for you to learn something today.

You want to do great things, do what great people did.

And so we're going to go back into the Wayback Machine today.

The team and I were talking about this recently about an idea and I'd been reading a book about America's founding fathers and how they viewed the pursuit of happiness, a phrase that

they actually talked about in their personal correspondence well before Thomas Jefferson

penned it in the Declaration of Independence. It was an idea that they that they were influenced by.

And so I was reading this book, the actual title of the book is The Pursuit of Happiness.

It's a great book. You should read it.

And one of the things that kept popping up in this book was the daily rituals, the routines,

the agendas of these very influential men.

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