Controversial Business Lessons From Hitler, Napoleon & Edison

My First Million

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “You can learn good lessons from bad people.” – Sam Parr Throw away your shame and embarrassment, fully commit to the bit, and you’re going to be really successfulHitler, Napoleon, Caesar, and Jeff Bezos all took tons of resources and focused them on a very small pointThis was Blitzkrieg for the Nazis and is Blitzscaling for the business worldMost successful people have addictive personalities; they are addicted to something, it just so happens that it is something positive Highly successful people are likely born with a propensity to addiction People born with a propensity to addiction could end up conquering a vast European empire or could get hooked on drugs and end up a junkie on the streets Times of turmoil call for leaders who are mentally ill, whereas times of stability call for non-mentally ill leaders, according to author Nassir Ghaemi Truly charismatic people make the people they interact with feel special Many of the great dictators and CEOs were great orators; great orating starts with great writingIt’s tempting to obsess over planning and preparing when a bias towards measurable action oftentimes results in more success Over planning is self-masturbation and a bullshit way to convince yourself that you’re actually doing something when instead you should just start and figure it out along the way “It’s way better to execute a bad plan than to execute no plan.” – Sam Parr Rookies should start their business today, generate $1 in revenue in the first five days, and get addicted to hearing the “cha-ching” sound from their Shopify store In business, you don’t always need to know the math behind things, or why certain things work and certain things don’t; you just need to try stuff until you find out what works 

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Episode 369: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Producer Ben (@BenWilsonTweets) take a turn with One Question Friday... instead of a question they discuss traits of conquerors from yesterday and today.

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Show Notes:

(02:25) - lessons from Hitler

(10:45) - lessons from Edison

(10:25) - addictive personalities

(18:10) - charismatic people

(26:25) - bias to action

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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