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How to Take Over the World

Napoleon Revisited

How to Take Over the World

Benjamin Wilson

Self-improvement, Education, History

5853 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How exactly was Napoleon able to accomplish so much in such a short period of time? On this episode, I review the book Napoleon: How He Did It. It was written by Baron Fain, a private secretary of Napoleon's. He explains Napoleon's systems and work habits in minute detail. On this episode, I highlight some of my top takeaways for how to be more efficient and maximize your impact. ----- This episode is brought to you by Cold Plunge. To learn more, go to TheColdPlunge.com and use code BenWilson for $150 off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

This is our society fellow.

0:07.0

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

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to how to Take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. Today we have a slightly

0:27.0

different episode. It's kind of halfway between a regular episode and a mini episode. I got a

0:32.6

recommendation from a listener of the show, John Henry Parr, and he gave me this tip about a book called

0:38.7

Napoleon How He Did It.

0:40.7

And the book is written by one of Napoleon's private secretaries.

0:43.8

The guy's name is Baron Agathon Jean-Francois Féin.

0:47.9

And what it is is an extremely detailed account of exactly how Napoleon worked, how he

0:53.2

organized his desk, how many secretaries he hired,

0:56.3

when he woke up, what his morning routine was, when he went to bed, when he took dinner,

1:00.5

how many meetings he had, and when he had them, everything just breaks down his work schedule

1:04.7

and his work methods in minute detail. And it's like a perfect book for how to take over the

1:10.2

world, right? So I read it and I was

1:13.5

blown away. It was even better than I was expecting. It really inspired me. And in fact, I've changed a

1:18.3

few things about how I work and how I do this show based on what I read in that book. It's already

1:23.3

changed my life. So I think this episode is going to be really inspirational and hopefully

1:27.3

has a few concrete takeaways for all of you as well. So let's get into it. But first, a word

1:33.8

from our sponsors. This episode is brought to you by Cold Blunch. Look, if you listen to the

1:41.0

Alexander the Great episodes, you know how important cold baths were to the Greeks and Alexander the Great specifically.

1:46.7

They were also important to the Romans who always had a cold pool in their famous bathhouses.

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