I'm going to show you how great I am.

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I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

Hello and welcome to how to Take Over the World.

This is Ben Wilson.

Today's episode is a mini episode.

I just wanted to share two stories and two quotes, all with the theme of just getting to work.

The first story comes from the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger,

the famous bodybuilder, actor, entrepreneur, and politician. This is from early in his career

when he was a nobody. He had no staff, no team, no coach. He was just a guy on his own who

liked to lift and was hoping to make a name for himself. I'm going to quote now from his book. It's called

The Education of a Bodybuilder. Highly recommend it. It's great. But here's the quote. He says,

Once a week, I took a training partner and drove out into the country with the weights. We limited

ourselves to one exercise for a particular body part. I remember the first day we carried 250 pounds

out into the forest and did squats for three hours

straight. I began by doing 20 repetitions with 250 pounds. Then my partner did whatever he could.

Then it was my turn again. We ended up doing something like 55 sets of squats each. The last hour

seemed endless. But it worked. Our thighs pumped up like balloons. That first day,

we gave our thigh muscles such a shock that we couldn't walk right for a week. We barely could

crawl. Our legs had never experienced anything as tough as those 55 sets. And each of us put something

like an eighth or a quarter of an inch on our thighs. They just blew up.

They had no chance to survive except to grow.

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