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🗓️ 25 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm going to show you how great I am. |
0:05.0 | This is our fighting a fellow. |
0:07.0 | I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to How to Take Over the World. |
0:24.8 | This is Ben Wilson. |
0:25.9 | Welcome to the Washington Guide to taking over the world. |
0:30.0 | If you're new to How to Take Over the World, this guide episode is where I summarize all |
0:33.5 | my takeaways and also go through my end notes. |
0:35.7 | Some of the random notes that I took about |
0:38.5 | this person, in this case, George Washington, that didn't fit into the main narrative. So to start |
0:43.6 | off with, what is the Washington guide? What is the Washington plan to achieving his type of success? |
0:49.3 | I think the first thing that stands out to me is be quietly ambitious, be reliable, and follow a clear |
0:57.5 | path, a well-trod path. You know, Washington was not someone who set out to start a new country. |
1:04.1 | Isn't someone who set out to be the father of his country. He's someone who just set out to do the |
1:09.2 | right thing, to be beloved by his countrymen, to gain |
1:13.1 | some type of renown. |
1:15.1 | But he wasn't a wildly ambitious person. |
1:17.6 | He wasn't someone in the mold of a Napoleon or even Alexander Hamilton, who is his |
1:21.4 | contemporary. |
1:22.4 | And you know, I do think that there is a place to be someone who's extremely ambitious, |
1:26.8 | like a Hamilton. But there's also a place to be someone who's extremely ambitious, like a Hamilton, |
1:30.3 | but there's also a place for people like Washington. |
1:36.6 | And if you want to be a Washington-type figure, you're not going to chase after big, visionary dreams of something grand. |
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