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The Property Podcast

TPP207: Non-property books you should read to become a better investor

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

Business News, News, Business, Education, Investing

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A total geek-out for The Robs this week as they're both bookworms. This week they take a look at non-property books which can make you a better investor, and this is well worth checking out. Rob B gives us a brief teaser of his first investment of the year, more to come on that in a future episode! Listen to The Robs at the Tropical MBA Podcast Our favourite podcast other than this one has to be the Tropical MBA Podcast and if you haven't checked it out yet then why ever not? Now is a great time to dive into this one though as you can listen to Rob and Rob in conversation with TMBA in  episode 377: How does your business feel? House prices set to rise for the next 50 years and outstrip incomes even further, warns ex-Bank of England economist Our news story this week is exactly as the headline suggests. Rob D has a note of scepticism and explains why, but as Rob B mentions, we make plenty of predictions here at The Hub ourselves! Take a look at the full story here. It's Meetup night and Rob D is off to the seaside! It's Meetup night and Rob D is heading to the seaside to the re-launch of the Brighton Meetup. Get your free ticket here if you would like to join him this evening. Meetups will take place across the country tonight (and in Copenhagen and Hong Kong too), and if you'd like to find your nearest venue, just check out the details over on the website. Resource of the week This week's episode is one huge resource of the week and here are all the links mentioned. Arnold Schwarzenegger - Total recall Inspiring! But did you know Arnie made his money through property before he was famous? How to fail at almost everything and still win big - Scott Adams Lessons: Talent stacking, systems v goals Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss Lessons: Loads - from top performers in all fields The Subtle Art of not giving a f*** – Mark Manson Lesson: Perspective  and not being bothered by small stuff “In life, we have a limited amount of f***s to give. So you must choose your f***s wisely.” Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh Deliver service like this in property and you’ll stand out for all the right reasons Continue the conversation over in the forum Recommend a book that we can add to our ever growing must-read list. If you enjoyed The Property Podcast, please leave a review on iTunes Reviews are really important in helping other people to find the show, so by way of thanks we read out every single review we receive on air. If you’d like to hear your name on the show, leave us a review on iTunes here. Not sure how to leave a review? This video shows you how to review and subscribe on iTunes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome to the Propsy Podcast, it's Rob B here, of course joined by Rob D, and we've got an episode

0:06.7

we can really geek out over this week. It's non-Propsy books that you should read to become a better investor.

0:12.8

Yes indeed it is.

0:18.8

Right couple of bookworms.

0:20.2

We've been doing lots of reading, pulling out some amazing books for you to

0:24.0

check out not property books but as we go along we'll explain why these books are so

0:29.2

powerful so that's coming up I think this is going to be a really good episode. But before we get into all that, I believe congratulations are in order.

0:37.0

You've made your first investment of the year.

0:39.0

Well, it's not gone through yet, but yes, very excited. It's in Sheffield Sheffield more on that in the future but yeah it's just nice to get one

0:46.3

onto the belt so early on in the year I was saying earlier before we started recording Robil after

0:50.4

do an update and some of the stuff we've done last year I maybe include some of the stuff we're looking at or doing this year as well.

0:56.0

I know those episodes are very popular.

0:58.0

So we'll keep you updated, but yeah, real cracker this one, very excited, very pleased to get it and yeah, look forward to telling everybody more in the future.

1:08.5

Excellent, and yeah, we must make the update episode happen. We'll pencil that one in. Also worth celebrating is

1:14.4

tonight is meet-up night. First Thursday of the month,

1:17.6

that can only mean one thing. It means that we're doing meet-ups all over the

1:20.7

country. I'm going to be heading down to Brighton for the relaunch of the Brighton

1:25.9

meet-up. Had one in the past, then it dropped away, but it's come back again. I'm sure it's going to be

1:30.1

super strong. I'm always happy to have an excuse to go and see the sea and have some fish and ships and if I can meet some nice property people into the bargain, well that's just even better. So whether you get to Brighton or anywhere else in the country or beyond.

1:43.4

Just go to the Property Hub.net slash meet-ups you can book your free place there.

1:47.6

And remember Rob to bring back some rock so you can throw it at me for being naughty and

1:52.2

being now unable to attend the Waterloo Meetup.

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