Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Episode 370: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talks to best-selling author, podcaster, bookstore owner, and former marketing director for American Apparel, Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday), about how to make money in publishing, creating a masterpiece, and investing in a ghost town. ----- Links: * Ryan Holiday * Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator * Brass Check * The Painted Porch Bookshop * Vinyl Me, Please * Ghost Town Living * 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: (03:55) - Does the bestseller list still matter? (05:30) - Breaking down the #s of the publishing industry (29:20) - How big is your team? (35:10) - Who do you admire? (44:40) - The pros and cons of reality distortion fields (50:40) - Ryan's ghost town ----- 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	So I've gotten to meet like a number of very successful business people over the years.
0:03.8	And like as a rule, they all want to write books and it was a reminder to me that like doing
0:10.3	stuff that's cool that you like that means something to you is what people do with their
0:16.4	money when they have it.
0:29.3	My man Ryan Holiday, what's going on?
0:31.2	Nice to talk to you.
0:32.2	Good to talk to you too.
0:33.3	So you asked to come here and I'll just because I just want to get out of the way I want
0:36.7	to give you the love.
0:37.7	You asked to come on here because a we're homies and I love you and also because b you
0:42.1	have a book coming out.
0:43.4	Yes.
0:44.4	What's the goal?
0:45.4	Discipline is destiny.
0:46.4	This is the new one for the series and yeah, it came out yesterday.
0:49.2	Oh, and how's it going so far?
0:51.2	Really good.
0:52.2	It's already significantly higher than the last one.
0:54.7	I know where the numbers are, but I'm waiting the one thing you don't know until the end
1:00.5	of the second week is audiobook numbers and where it may or may not land on the best
1:07.4	solo list.
1:08.4	What do you think is the outcome of this one's going to be?
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