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🗓️ 10 January 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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As an entrepreneur, you have an obligation to yourself and your business to strive for continuous personal growth in order to scale your empire. In this episode, Craig Ballantyne and Bedros Keuilian share their top 10 books that helped them take control of their mental state so that they could become better leaders, persevere through challenges, and dominate their path.
Here’s what you’ll discover:
6:35 - How this Dan Kennedy book will help you learn how to manage people and profits to keep your empire from collapsing.
9:38 - How Maxwell Maltz reveals the effects self image has in achieving our goals in his book “Psycho-Cybernetics”.
15:06 - How Bedros used the strategies from Craig’s “Perfect Day Formula” to become more disciplined and structured in his life.
18:35 - How to forget what we can’t control and focus on what we can through our thoughts, words, and actions.
20:23 - How former U.S Navy SEAL, Robert O’Neill, teaches you to develop mental toughness, leadership, and decision making skills to conquer obstacles.
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0:00.0 | An overarching theme in the books that we have chosen is perseverance is taking control of your mental state, |
0:06.0 | forgetting about the externals and saying, |
0:08.0 | hey listen, if you want to build an empire, it's not about catching the latest trend, |
0:11.6 | it's not about hoping that your Facebook ad works. |
0:14.4 | It's about you. Hey friend, what are the top 10 books that you've ever read? Well guess what Craig and |
0:38.2 | I are about to tell you the top 10 books that we've read that's helped us build |
0:41.2 | our empire that might help you build your empire as well |
0:44.3 | on this episode of the Empire podcast with me Bedros Koolian and Craig Valentine |
0:49.8 | let's do this what do you got Craigie all right so the first one that I'm going to start off with, I think should be mandatory reading in high school for a couple of reasons. And it's called Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankle. Victor Frankle was a guy who spent years |
1:05.1 | in a concentration camp in World War II. |
1:08.1 | Now here's the thing that I didn't realize |
1:09.7 | until a couple years ago. |
1:11.3 | It was his choice. His choice. So he was outside of Germany or |
1:16.5 | Poland or wherever he was eventually captured, but his parents were still there. |
1:21.5 | So he could have left his parents there and been free himself, but |
1:26.2 | he decided to go back knowing that he was going to get caught by the Nazis and taken to a concentration |
1:32.1 | camp. |
1:32.8 | So he then went there, lived through it, |
1:35.5 | and he's a psychologist or a psychiatrist, one of the two. |
1:38.8 | And so he then wrote a book called Man's Search for Meaning, |
1:42.6 | and it essentially shows you, there's very famous quotes in there, |
1:45.5 | it's very stoic approach to life about how |
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