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

Yes, let's have a fighting fellow.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

Hello and welcome to how to Take Over the World.

This is Ben Wilson.

Welcome to the show and especially big welcome to anyone who's coming from My First

Million.

For those who didn't see, my first million is running a little experiment.

They're playing some episodes of How to Take Over the World.

And we're going to see how it goes. And if it goes well, then we're going to keep playing

episodes on their feed. It's a big podcast for those who don't know. In the tech and

entrepreneurship space, it's actually one of my favorite podcasts. If you are into business,

if you're into making money, if you're into tech and entrepreneurship, I suggest you check it out, my first million, wherever you get your podcast. But it's an

exciting development for how to take over the world and it should mean a slightly bigger

audience and therefore I can rationalize dedicating more of my time to this. So yeah,

expect to see a few more episodes going forward. Before today's episode, ask yourself, what if there

was a formula for genius? What if you could engineer in a lab, a Caesar or a Mozart or a Picasso?

This episode's about a man who not only theorized that this was possible, but did it three times.

And you'll have to excuse me, but this one is a somewhat

self-interested episode. I had my first child nine months ago, and yeah, that is one of the

reasons that production of this podcast slowed down for a little while. But now that I have a

daughter, I'm thinking about how to raise her. And it got me interested in the story of a man named

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