How to Reverse Engineer Success with Ron Friedman: An EOFire Classic from 2021
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2021. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Dr. Friedman is a social psychologist who specializes in top performance. He's the author of The Best Place to Work and an amazing new book called Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. The reality is, the best in the world learned from their contemporaries, and they're learning from their masters and mentors.
2. Reverse engineering is finding the best in the field and then working backward to figure out how they did it.
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| 0:00.0 | Light that Spark Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire brought to you by the HubSpot |
| 0:08.4 | Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like I digress. |
| 0:14.1 | Today we're pulling a classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking down how to reverse engineer success. |
| 0:19.8 | To drop these value bombs I brought to Ron Friedman into Eoffire Studios. |
| 0:23.0 | Ron is a social psychologist who specializes in top performance. |
| 0:26.8 | He's the author of The Best Place to Work and an amazing new book called Decoding Greatness |
| 0:31.0 | how the best in the world reverse engineer success. |
| 0:34.0 | And today's foundation, we'll talk about reverse engineering. |
| 0:36.8 | We'll talk about learning from the best, the contemporaries, and we'll also talk about studying |
| 0:41.2 | somebody else's work will help you so much when you want to |
| 0:44.4 | hack what is working right now and to oh so much more. |
| 0:48.0 | And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Ron and our sponsors. |
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