‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Get Sam's top 7 books for entrepreneurs (+ his reading strategy): https://clickhubspot.com/wkf Episode 800: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the backstory of Think and Grow Rich, lessons from prolific indie hackers, plus Sam’s new career to becoming a dating expert. — Show Notes: (0:00) Think and Grow Rich (12:57) The fraud of Jay Shetty (15:29) What makes a guru legit? (22:38) Peter Steinberger (25:24) Pieter Levels (34:34) Christina Cacioppo (40:21) Sam, a dating expert (43:40) 5-second rule (45:01) Shaan the matchmaker — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

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0:00.0	Fake and Grow Rich.
0:01.2	Amazing book.
0:02.8	One of the best-selling books of all time. But the whole backstory, completely fake. And he's a total con man. What? What do you mean? None of it's true. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. the road. I have to tell you this story.
0:21.6	So I'm rereading a bunch of old books because I like reading old books.
0:26.1	And I started reading Dale Carnegie How to Wins Friends and Influence People.
0:29.7	Have you read that one?
0:31.0	I love that book, Sam.
0:33.1	Rule number one.
0:34.2	A person's name is the most beautiful.
0:37.8	The golden rule.
0:38.9	The golden rule.
0:41.5	I love that book.
0:42.9	The reason I like these old books is because some of them, the rules have stood the test of time and the writing is always like older writing for some reason.
0:49.6	It's like cute.
0:50.3	There's something about it.
0:50.7	I tell you something stupid I did.
0:52.1	I took the book and you know how people wear like, you're a denim guy.
0:55.4	You know this.
0:56.1	Distressed jeans.
0:57.2	Oh, yeah. I distressed the book. I roughed it up a little bit. I made it look like this is an heirloom that's been passed down from Napoleon himself. Did you like doggy or certain pages even though you didn't even read the thing? Tattered. Tattered and folded.
1:08.9	Folded it like a baseball hat.
1:10.1	I'm still in the first 30 pages,
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