Hey, welcome to the Tom Ferry Show.

Today I'm introducing you to seven extraordinary individuals

and their thoughts on success.

Hey, welcome to the Tom Ferry Show. Today I want to reveal for you and answer a question that I get more than anything else.

Which is Tom, what is the thing that makes people so wildly successful?

And when I look back over the totality of my life,

it's mentorship, it's exposure, it's ultimately what one of my mentors called the arc of perspective seeing things differently so you can go out and take action and dominate in whatever landscape you're interested in

So what I decided to do today is do a little mash up of eight people that I look to as inspiration,

as friendship, as mentor, as an arc of perspective, starting with a guy named Mike Vance. Mike was my mentor

between 28 and 30 years old, a personal coach, a mentor if you will, where we talked

all the time about what was possible. Now for context, you understand,

he worked for a guy named Walt Disney

for the last eight years of Walt's life.

He was the dean of the Disney University.

He launched Orlando.

He helped create things like the Magic Kingdom Club card, Mondays for schools. He did so many things for Walt. And when he left, he didn't just finish there. He took on another young mentor, a guy you probably heard of named Steve Jobs, and mentored

Steve for years during the early days and towards the end of his career, along with people

like Mother Theresa and Jack Welch.

So when you talk about the arc of perspective and why I think differently it's because of Mike enjoy this.

There should be a sign up here back of me that really says Walt Disney because much of what I am I owe to the good luck that I had to work with

Walt and I think one of the keys one of the really big ideas that I learned from

Walt if you want to really think out of the box, build highly creative

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