The Epic Real Life Quest to Interview the World’s Most Successful People with Alex Banayan
The Science of Success
Matt Bodnar
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Today’s episode is a bit different than a normal episode of Science of Success. We share the incredible "Real Life Story of The Epic Quest To See How The World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers” - including a wild journey of hacking the Price is Right, meeting Bill Gates and Lady Gaga, and an epic five year quest to study and learn form the world’s top achievers. This is a topic I’ve dedicated my life to and this fascinating discussion with our guest Alex Banayan shines some new light on one of the most important questions of our lives - what was the inflection point that set massively successful people’s lives on a different trajectory?
Alex Banayan is the best-selling author of The Third Door, which chronicles his five-year quest to track down the world’s most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. He has been named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list and Business Insider’s “Most Powerful People Under 30.” He has been featured in major media including Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek, Billboard, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and much more!
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| 1:03.8 | Welcome to the Science of Success. |
| 1:07.4 | Introducing your host, Matt Bodner. |
| 1:19.1 | Welcome to the Science of Success, the number one evidence-based growth podcast on the internet, with more than 3 million downloads and listeners in over 100 countries. |
| 1:24.1 | Today's episode is a bit different than a normal episode of the science of success. |
| 1:29.8 | We share the incredible, real-life story of the epic quest to see how the world's most successful people launched their careers, including a wild journey of hacking |
| 1:36.1 | the prices right, meeting Bill Gates and Lady Gaga, and an epic five-year quest to study and |
| 1:43.1 | learn from the world's top achievers. |
| 1:45.4 | This is a topic I've dedicated my life to, |
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