What's up, everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founder's Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business builder,

the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,

a team, or a new product. So I need to share an update, and that is, for the next little while,

we're going to be republishing classic episodes of Founder's Journal. Two reasons. One,

because these are really good episodes that I spend a lot of time on, and with so many new

listeners to the show, it's very likely you haven't heard some of these older episodes, and I think

you'll benefit from them. Second, I'm spending a ton of time thinking about how to evolve this show,

so that we can make it as good as humanly possible for the next generation of builders and entrepreneurs.

And with that, I would love your help as I dream up the future of this show. So once you've listened,

shoot me an email to Alex at Morning Brew.com, and don't hold back any feedback,

recommendations, ideas, I want to hear it all, and I want to have it help me inform where this show

is going. That's the update now time for the episode. In today's classic episode, originally

published on October 27, 2021, I talk about the mental toolkit of all successful entrepreneurs.

So there are three ways of thinking, three lenses, three mindsets that I believe make the

greatest entrepreneurs and professionals so great. These are things you can think about for yourself

as a builder. They are also things you can look for in early employees or top senior leaders in

a business. And so I'm going to take you through each of them, what they look like, how you can

cultivate them, and some examples. The first tool is being an obsessive thinker. What does that

mean? Very simply, you wake up thinking about your business, you go to sleep thinking about your

business. Inevitably, entrepreneurs spend a ton of time working on their business, but even more

than the actual physical act of working on it, I think that the time that an entrepreneur spends

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