Life & Business Lessons from Will Smith

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this episode, I share lessons from the life of one of the greatest entertainers of our generation, Will Smith, including my favorite quotes from the audiobook for his new memoir Will. As mentioned, you may want to check out previous Founder’s Journal episode Lessons from Starting a Book Club Check out the full transcript of this episode below, and if you have any ideas for our show, email me at [email protected] or my DMs are open @businessbarista. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone, this is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning
0:05.7	Brew.
0:06.7	Welcome back to Founder's Journal, My Personal Audio Diary, where I give you the business
0:11.6	builder, the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building
0:16.3	a business, a team, or a new product.
0:19.4	Today, I am sharing lessons from the life of one of the greatest actors of our generation.
0:25.5	Let's hop into it.
0:31.0	It is official, I am into memoirs.
0:36.1	For my Founder's Book Club, which I did a recent episode on Founder's Journal about,
0:41.0	if you want to learn more, our current read is Will.
0:44.2	And Will details the life of Will Smith from childhood to present.
0:48.8	And it's co-written by Mark Manson, who is the best-selling author of The Sun Lord of
0:52.8	Not Giving A Fock, as well as Will Smith.
0:55.6	If I'm being honest, I was skeptical when we chose a memoir.
0:59.7	We felt comfortable just continuing to read business books and social psychology books
1:04.6	by Gladwell and Coniman, and I wasn't sure what I could learn from a guy that I really
1:10.4	only knew from men in black, a few other movies, and fresh principle error.
1:15.8	I was so incredibly wrong.
1:18.5	This was one of the best books I've ever read.
1:20.6	I am officially a Will Smith fanboy.
1:23.3	I learned so many valuable lessons from his life experiences, and now I just want to
1:28.2	read more memoirs.
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