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My First Million

Robert Greene: How to use the 48 Laws of Power to get what you want in business

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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*Want the 7 books that transformed Sam's thinking this year? Get his list + reading strategy: https://clickhubspot.com/ekb Episode 740: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Robert Greene ( https://x.com/RobertGreene ) about the most important ideas from his books and how to apply them today. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (00:48) Why specialists beat generalists (1:42) Your brain needs deep work (3:03) 300 books read for every 1 book written (14:58) Clues from childhood (21:27) Buffett’s Inner Scorecard (23:16) The Power of Silence and Mystery (30:35) Find your purpose (31:02) Authenticity Is Overrated (34:31) Boldness attracts. Timidness repels (41:08) Who’s Playing the Power Game Well Today (52:52) Turning a disaster into attention. (56:19) Breaking Through at 37 — Links: • The 48 Laws of Power - https://tinyurl.com/4ahkxzfj • The 33 Strategies of War - https://tinyurl.com/57vp9khn • The Art of Seduction - https://tinyurl.com/424mbtux • The 50th Law - https://tinyurl.com/zcte6826 • Mastery - https://tinyurl.com/3ch5ah8y • The Daily Laws - https://tinyurl.com/3n8pjv3t — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0

One of the best parts about this is there's so many levels to this.

0:02.8

So when I tweeted this quote out, Darmesh, who's the co-founder of a $20-30 billion company, retweeted it says, this is exactly what I needed to hear today. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. On a road, let's travel. Never seeking back. Man, I am so excited to talk to you.

0:23.4

I've read all in it like no days off on the road. Let's travel. Never looking back. Man, I am so excited to talk to you. I've read all your books. And I've always thought that instead of whatever they're teaching at universities, I was like, man, I wish I could just do a four-year degree on like four or six of these Robert Green books because they're amazing. And in particular, mastery, it absolutely changed my life.

0:38.5

I read that when I was 22 years old, about 12 years ago, 11 years ago. It totally changed my life.

0:45.1

It changed my life because I thought that being a generalist was the way to go. But according to the book,

0:51.5

mastery, it was not. Yeah. Well yeah well you know we live in these fantastic times with

0:59.0

so much technological power it's just almost incredible you know i mean yesterday i was working on

1:06.0

my new book and i had a question and i just did an ai, and it's just insane what it can do for you.

1:13.9

But the problem is the human brain is what it is. It isn't a piece of technology that somebody

1:21.5

developed recently. It's something that has hundreds of thousands of years of development,

1:26.9

and it has a certain way that it operates and a certain

1:29.3

grain to it and you want to go with that grain and you want to be excited by learning and you want to make

1:35.0

connections in the brain between different things and you want to be able to focus so deeply on

1:40.8

something I like to think of the brain as this kind of landscape. And it can be rich

1:47.5

and it can be one where all these different plants are emerging or it can be like a wasteland.

1:52.3

And if you learn different things and you focus very deeply and you're excited by what you're

1:57.7

learning, then all of these connections will start happening in the brain.

2:01.9

And so if you go through that apprenticeship, focused and developing real skills and whatever that is,

2:09.0

by the time you finish your apprenticeship, let's say you're 30 years old, you'll be set.

2:14.4

You'll be able to create your own business.

2:16.4

You'll be very creative.

2:17.4

You will lay groundwork for something really important to happen. you'll be set, you'll be able to create your own business, you'll be very creative,

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