Welcome to the Growth Stacking Podcast.

This is Dan Martel.

I spent 168 hours with Richard Branson, and here's what I learned.

A few years ago, I got an invite to spend a week of Richard Branson at his home in Switzerland.

I had imposter syndrome out the yin- yang. But I went and I said to myself,

I'm just going to go with one specific reason. I want to see how the billionaire that every other

billionaire wants to be like, how does he operate in his day to day? What is he actually like? How

does he hire people? What are the kind of people that he hangs out with? And I washed him get up.

Eat breakfast with his assistant and leave for the rest of the that he hangs out with? And I watched him get up, eat breakfast

with his assistant, and leave for the rest of the day just to play. He spent most of his time with

us, not doing any work, not being distracted, not being stressed out, but just having fun and live in

life. And over a few days, I asked his assistant, how do you work with Richard? And that's when

she shared with me the simple

process that's changed my life forever. The first thing I learned is he doesn't touch technology.

Every morning when they have breakfast, that is when she writes down all the things that she doesn't

know how to deal with and presents them to Richard. And he gives her feedback and ideas and suggestions.

And then she takes all of that and all the

other requests that come in throughout the day and she moves those things forward while Richard is

hanging out with us. So that way he can be so present in his day to day. He can hear for opportunities.

He's listening. He's in the moment. And it's a fascinating thing to see because when you live in a world

where everybody's distracted, here's a guy that's worth billions that is only there for the conversation.

So he routes 100% of his conversations through his assistant. All the demands, all the request,

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