What's up everyone, this is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning

Brew.

Welcome back to Founders 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.

This week on Founders Journal, we're doing things a little differently.

We are dropping our how to start building mini-series, focused on how to turn your business

ideas into reality.

That means you're getting twice the episodes, two Monday, two today, and two on Friday.

You're listening to episode four of the mini-series.

And today I am talking about the mental toolkit of successful entrepreneurs.

Let's hop into it.

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.

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