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My First Million

MrBeast: 'I Obsess Every Second of Every Day Until I Have a Mental Breakdown' - With Hasan Minhaj

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 25 August 2022

ā±ļø 29 minutes

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Summary

Episode 352: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) sit down with YouTube sensation MrBeast, and award-winning comedian Hasan Minhaj to talk about obsession, how to win, finding your creativity, measuring success, how to run a company... and more. ----- Links: * MrBeast * Hasan Minhaj * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: (02:45) - What Hassan and MrBeast think of each other (03:25) - How do you measure success? (12:15) - How do you run your company? (19:20) - Doing good while getting attention (22:25) - Fitting in vs standing out (25:55) - What are you trying to figure out? ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0

The way I like to work is like I like to go basically wake up, obsess over something, go to bed, wake up, obsess, go to bed like every second of the day until I just have a mental breakdown, I burn out, I just go as hard as I can, every ounce of my entire body until I just crashed.

0:14.0

And somehow that's sustainable.

0:15.5

I feel like I could rule the world and know I could be what I want to put my all in it like a day zone.

0:22.5

On a road, let's travel, never looking back.

0:25.5

We just did an episode with Mr. Beast who is one of the biggest YouTubers in the world and Hussin Minhazh, one of the biggest comedians in the world.

0:32.0

That's right. We had Mr. Beast, Hussin Minhazh, join us on my first million live in the flesh. How did this happen?

0:37.5

So basically Sean told me three weeks ago, he goes, I'm going to rent a house and I'm going to create this thing called camp MFM.

0:42.5

I didn't actually think he was going to do it, but he rented out this amazing house in North Carolina. He invited like 20 people.

0:47.5

He just sent him a DM on Twitter, rented the house. It was kind of like if I make it, will they come? Well, they actually did.

0:52.5

We were just sitting here doing our own thing, doing our own interview and they came in during our interview and joined us and it kind of turned out to be the best thing we've ever done.

1:01.0

They crashed the interview, they told stories. Mr. Beast talked about what motivates him, who he looks up to, how obsessed he is with YouTube.

1:07.5

He made fun of us. They told us about their inspirations, how their business works, how much he spends per video, $1.5 million per video.

1:14.5

It was pretty crazy. I actually think he talked about a few things I've never heard him talk about. It was awesome.

1:18.5

Yeah, it was a big deal. It was awesome. So check it out. I think you're going to dig it.

1:21.5

We also got a live audience here. Why?

1:23.5

Why?

1:24.5

This is the power of Sean.

1:27.5

So here's what's interesting. We got me and Sam. We got Hussin Minhazh, who's a famous comedian, Netflix special.

1:34.5

We haven't announced it yet, but yeah, sure.

1:37.5

Breaking news.

1:40.5

We got Jimmy AKA Mr. Beast.

1:44.5

Craziest crossover.

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