The Power Of The "One Thing": My Interview With Gary Keller
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Tai Lopez
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🗓️ 3 October 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
I was reading the book, "The One Thing" by Gary Keller.
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It's all about getting things done. Reading this reminded me about one of my habits that massively boosts my productivity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, hello, everybody. Welcome to today's Book of the Day show. I'm here in my backyard |
| 0:06.3 | at Beverly Hills, and I'm on the phone with one of the greats out there right now. Gary |
| 0:12.4 | Keller, if you, I'm sure if you watch any of my stuff you've seen that I recommend |
| 0:16.9 | is book the one thing, as long as the top books in my top 150. He's a chairman and co-founder |
| 0:23.7 | of Keller Williams Realty, which is the largest residential real estate company in the |
| 0:30.0 | United States. And in addition to that, which is an amazing feat, he's also gone on to sell |
| 0:37.0 | 1.5 million books and be a New York Times best seller. So we're going to be talking about |
| 0:42.3 | all kinds of stuff. We're going to be talking about how you focus, the power of focus in |
| 0:49.2 | a distracted world. And then we're going to go for those of you in the accelerator. We're |
| 0:53.2 | going to have some sections on building companies, marketing. You don't build, you don't |
| 0:57.8 | become the number one in the United States in anything unless you're good. So Gary, thanks |
| 1:01.9 | so much for being on today's haul. You're welcome. And I hate to correct you, but actually |
| 1:06.7 | number one in the world. On number one in the world. Okay. Yeah. Awesome. Well, that's |
| 1:11.4 | better. And I hate to correct you again, but it was 2 million, over 2 million books. |
| 1:16.2 | Okay. I'm reading back at this cover of this. Yeah, that's how they did. He asked |
| 1:21.6 | two years old. Well, so it holds another half a million, so 2 million. That's amazing. |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah. So let's jump right in. I like to do the best stuff for what I love about that. |
| 1:32.2 | Let's talk about the power of focus in a distracted world. I'm just going to let you talk to |
| 1:38.6 | hear the master. Well, I asked me whatever you'd like to know. I mean, the truth of the |
| 1:43.2 | matter is, is that most people don't understand focus. They think it's a concept instead |
| 1:48.0 | of an action item. And so they talk about it, but they don't actually do it. What's |
| 1:54.6 | the reward for being focused? So let's say somebody here that being on a 1 to 10 considers |
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