What It Takes To Succeed
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
1:07 Born on the 4th of July
2:42 How to be successful
10:30 Helping others financially
12:55 Finding out what you're good at
18:48 Finding out what you like
24:15 Do it for a long time
33:34 Setting time horizons
30:33 Leaning in to your strengths
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to the RP Strength podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I am Nick Shaw and joined by The Man, the Myth, the Legend of Dr. Mike. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, legend. |
| 0:17.0 | What a grotesque overstatement. |
| 0:20.0 | Legend of the Falls. |
| 0:22.3 | Oh, hey, isn't that like that movie with Brad Pitt? |
| 0:25.1 | Brad Pitt. |
| 0:26.2 | Hmm, dreamy. |
| 0:27.8 | I remember Scott the video that I tried to describe, no, no, Chris, you know our friend Chris, |
| 0:32.8 | Hawaii, Chris, could try to describe the plot of it to me, and I basically lost interest after about two sentences. There's a war scene in. I think it's World War I, if I recall correctly, but I don't, I couldn't tell you the plot either. Was it gnarly? Oh, God, I don't remember. I don't think I watched the whole thing. But, you know, it's one of those movies you're watching. you're like, oh, there's like five, ten minutes of like a war scene. And you're like, yeah, that was the part that actually had made interest. Yeah, beyond that, I'm not really sure. Yeah. Dude, I got into some, man. So it was at the Best Buy or some shit like that with my parents when I was a kid, like an early teen. |
| 1:14.0 | And there was a movie playing, you know, to show that all the TVs worked. |
| 1:18.0 | And it was a scene from the movie born on the 4th of July with, I think, Tom Cruise. |
| 1:24.6 | It was a war scene, Vietnam. |
| 1:27.5 | And I thought it compelling. |
| 1:28.5 | I was like, oh, I'm going to watch this. |
| 1:29.5 | This is right at my alley. |
| 1:31.5 | Born on the 4th of July is basically he goes to Vietnam, gets really fucked up. |
| 1:37.6 | I think he's in a wheelchair for forever. |
| 1:40.3 | And then he like struggles on a downward spiral of suicidal ideation and drug addiction |
| 1:43.9 | the rest of the time. |
| 1:44.9 | I may have missed some plot elements, but that's basically it. |
| 1:48.4 | And so what I actually saw it was like, oh. |
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