S3 E4: Think and Grow Duped

The Dream

Little Everywhere

Health & Fitness, Business, Society & Culture

4.6 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Napoleon Hill, ever heard of him? He wrote "Think and Grow Rich," one of the favorite self-help handbooks of all time. His fans include Tony Robbins and life coaches of all stripes. But Napoleon Hill was not a genius of self-help. He was a scam artist who never practiced what he preached. Journalist Matt Novak tells Jane what he’s found (and what he hasn’t) about one of the biggest architects of modern coaching.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.4	Hi, all, Jane Marie here.
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0:53.3	Previously, on the dream, so that you can see this training, seven steps to becoming a
0:59.4	recruiting machine, but it doesn't actually tell you how to recruit people.
1:03.6	This is funny because it's like, step one, like make a decision, step two, mindset, step
1:18.2	three, collect friends, like it's just, what?
1:26.4	There are about a million different origin stories for our current obsession with maximizing
1:31.1	our potential in America.
1:33.2	And my favorite one of those stories kind of explains everything you need to know about
1:37.0	the coaching hustle today.
1:38.9	Only it starts back around the first time the machine started to take over.
1:42.9	I'm talking industrial revolution era, the latter half of the 1800s, not this like
1:48.9	new chat GPT stuff.
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