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How to Take Over the World

The Shackleton Guide to Taking Over the World (Free Preview)

How to Take Over the World

Benjamin Wilson

Self-improvement, Education, History

5853 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

What was the key to Ernest Shackleton's success that made him "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth - bar none?" On this subscriber-only episode, we dive deeper into his playbook and go through the endnotes - more interesting side stories and random information about the journey of the expedition. --- To subscribe go to takeoverpod.supercast.com. Like this podcast and want to create one like it? Email [email protected] or learn more at podramp.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm going to show you how great I am.

0:05.0

This is our fighting power.

0:07.0

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

0:18.0

Thus, while Shackleton was undeniably out of place, even inept, in a great many everyday situations,

0:28.7

he had a talent, a genius even, that he shared with only a handful of men throughout history.

0:34.3

Genuine leadership.

0:35.8

He was, as one of his men put it, the greatest leader that ever

0:39.3

came on God's earth, bar none. Hello and welcome to How to Take Over the World. My name is

0:45.1

Ben Wilson. That was a quote from Endurance by Alfred Lansing, and this is the Shackleton guide

0:51.0

to taking over the world. So I'm replacing my end notes episodes with these

0:55.7

guides where I just dive a little deeper on some of the lessons that I have learned and kind of

1:00.2

put it in this list format. I'll also be doing end notes at the end of this episode. Those are my

1:05.5

random thoughts, some of the interesting stories that were cut out of the main episode. But I heard from

1:09.7

a number of you that really liked that Caesar Guide episode.

1:13.2

So I thought this is a framework that might offer a little more value to those of you who

1:17.0

subscribe.

1:18.2

This one is obviously hot on the heels of the main episode.

1:21.2

And there's one key reason that I am releasing this so quickly.

1:24.5

There was a hiccup in the technology of uploading the episode.

1:27.7

And so many people who downloaded it, especially right as it came out, got a version of the

1:32.8

episode that was only 19 minutes long or sometimes only one minute long. The actual main

1:38.0

Shackleton episode is one hour and 10 minutes. That has been fixed now. So you can go back in

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