
Sam Parr
Guest on My First Million ยท Host of My First Million
Sam Parr is an entrepreneur and media founder best known for creating The Hustle, a business news and email newsletter company that he scaled to eight-figure revenues and sold to HubSpot. He is the co-host of the popular business podcast My First Million, where he and Shaan Puri brainstorm and analyze business ideas. Parr is currently the founder and president of Hampton, a vetted peer community for startup founders and CEOs.
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13 Steps to Mentalism๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing the foundational mentalism textbook that shaped oz's practice
โSo you read this, I, I, I, there's this book called 13 Mentalists. Is that right? 13 Steps to Mentalism? Yeah. Sorry. It's 13 Steps to Mentalism. I think you said that that was like the book that got you. Rogan asked me on the spy cycle book. Hey, yeah, it's, it's, that's, that's, that's like the Bible. That's the initial one.โ
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1929๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing books on history and the great depression era
โAndrew Ross Sorkin. Um, he's got this new book called 1929. I'm in the middle, in the middle of reading it. I think you read science fiction, right? Yeah. It's just purely. I like science fiction. I like, uh, some of the more popular ones, but I'm a big history guy. And this book, uh, 1929, it's about the, um, great depression and how it came to be.โ
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An Informal Guide to Workwear๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing variety of books being read and sharing insights quarterly
โAnd then I'm reading an informal guide to workwear, which is a style of clothing. So long story short, I love reading lots of books and I can for sure come with stories once a quarter on books and what the big stories and takeaways are that I've learned.โ
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Bad Therapy๐ Recommends
โฆexamining how excessive self-reflection on happiness can increase unhappiness
โThere's this amazing book called Bad Therapy. And this author used this idea that the people who think why and ask themselves all the time, why am I not happy? Why am I not following my life's work? Why am I not following my passion? This should feel better. This doesn't feel better. Those people are actually oftentimes significantly more discontent with their life.โ
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Black Ivy๐ Recommends
โฆstudying the history and cultural significance of ivy style fashion
โI also loved workwear, which basically just means what poor workers would wear. Denim, a lot of functional clothing, just basically blue collar stuff. And then the third one was this thing called Ivy Style. And I started to ask myself why. And so I read these books. This is another book that I love. It's called Black Ivy. It's about how in the 1960s, black men in America started copying the Ivy style, which is a traditionally white person's fashion. They wore it out of an act of defiance and wanting to fit in.โ
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Black Spartacus๐ฌ Mentioned
โฆdiscussing Toussaint Louverture and how slavery ended throughout history
โThere's a book called Black Spartacus. And he told the story about how this guy who I think was a slave became like the leader of a 500,000 person army. And it was like one of the few places where slavery ended as like out of like a successful revolution.โ
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Bowling Alone๐ฌ Mentioned
โฆdiscussing social club decline and community membership trends in america
โI was reading this book called Bowling Alone, and it's all about in America up until roughly the 60s. The average American was a member of a variety of clubs like the PTA Rotary Club, which most people don't even know what that is. I don't even know what that is, but I've heard it like the Elk Club, like all these clubs that like we've heard the name, but we're not entirely sure what they were.โ
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Braun T3 Radio๐ Recommends
โฆintroducing the braun t3 radio as an example of good design and taste
โHave you ever seen this radio? It's called a T3 radio. It was invented in 1953. It's called the Braun T3 radio. Most people haven't seen this. But I'm going to tell you a story about this radio. And by the end of the story, you're going to know how it was one of the most important objects ever designed. And you still are impacted by this radio today.โ
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Confessions of an Ad Man๐ Recommends
โฆrecommending books to read for mastering marketing and positioning
โI love his second book, Confessions of an Ad Man, I think is, uh, equally as good. Have you read that one, Sean? Yeah. I have for sure. Yeah. It's brilliant.โ
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Dressing the Man๐ Recommends
โฆlearning the rules of fashion through instructional texts on dressing well
โThere's this book called Dressing the Man. It's right here. It looks like a textbook. It literally is. It's pretty amazing. I was shocked that these things exist. But there's literally books. I'm holding it up now. That show you, based off of your face shape, what your collar should look like. Or if you're wearing a sports jacket, how long it should go.โ
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Dumb Phone (Dumb.co)๐ Recommends
โฆshowcasing a low-cost flip phone device that acts as a forwarding phone to reduce smartphone addiction
โI bought this thing called a dumb phone. Go to dumb.co. It's a flip phone. It's a TCL phone. It's $25 and then $20 a month after that. What they've done is they've created an app that I have on my phone. If you call my phone, I can turn my iPhone in dumb mode or smart mode. If it's in dumb mode, that basically means I can't receive calls and all the calls are going to go to here.โ
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Dyson๐ Recommends
โฆpremium home appliance company praised for design and innovation
โYeah. Like the Dyson. They've done a good job.โ
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Grit๐ Recommends
โฆreferencing Angela Duckworth's research on passion and perseverance in achievement
โYou, uh, there's this cool book called grit. We talked about it a ton here on this podcast and you cite it a bunch. Yeah. It's awesome. Um, I forget the exact equation, but it's basically like she, Angela Duckworth, she's like, I think she started, um, the original book with 50% passion of 50% perseverance.โ
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Grit๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing how napoleon hill's ideas about persistence align with modern research
โAnother thing that he said was this idea of persistence and grit. And he goes through tons and tons of chapters of the importance of persistence and grit. Angela Duckworth, I think we talked about it, has this book called Grit. And it's also been proven that grit is more likely to make you succeed than IQ.โ
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How to Get Rich๐ Recommends
โฆrecommending Felix Dennis book about magazine publishing and entrepreneurship
โHave you guys ever read this book called How to Get Rich? No. It's by an author called Felix Dennis. Felix Dennis, you guys have to read this. You have a magazine guy, right? The magazine guy. You should Google Felix Dennis. So Felix Dennis, he was like, he was like a combination of Richard Branson and Mick Jagger. He was kind of vulgar, but he had this like British aristocrat vibe. He was really funny. He was very funny. He died from cancer.โ
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How to Get Rich๐ Recommends
โฆpraising direct response copywriting books for tactical business advice
โYou know who's the best, I think, is Felix Dennis. Have you read Felix Dennis, How to Get Rich? Yeah. Dude, the best writing I've ever read.โ
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How to Get Rich๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing felix dennis's honest autobiography about pursuing wealth then retirement
โFelix Dennis episode 129 yes one of as fast as I can hopefully by the age of 35 and then I would spend the rest of my life writing poetry yes and the reason I believe him is he spent the last 10 years of his life retired writing books on poetry.โ
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living๐ Recommends
โฆsharing a formative book that inspired him to take action and get a tattoo
โWhen I was younger, and it involves moving to San Francisco still from Tennessee, I read this book by Dale Carnegie. It was called How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. And he had this amazing quote. It was, inaction breeds doubt and fear. So get out and get busy.โ
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How to Win Friends and Influence People๐ Recommends
โฆrereading classic self-help books from the 1930s for business and personal wisdom
โI'm rereading a bunch of old books because I like rereading old books. And I started reading Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Have you read that one? I love that book, Sam. Rule number one. Rule number one. A person's name is the most beautiful. Their favorite word in the English language. The golden rule. I love that book. 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.โ
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How to Win Friends and Influence People๐ Recommends
โฆsam parr crediting dale carnegie's book for teaching him conversation skills
โAnd when I was younger, I read this book called How to Win Friends and Influence People. Yeah, Dale Carnegie. Yeah, it changed my life. I'm not naturally like a very good conversationalist or a good people person. My family calls me a little neuro spicy. You know, I had a... I kind of had to learn a little bit.โ
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How to Win Friends and Influence People๐ Recommends
โฆrecommending tactical copywriting and business books
โDude, this is why I like, by the way, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Very tactical. So like the takeaway that everyone will have for that book, well, at least one of them will be you say someone's name. Say someone's name because that's the most beautiful sound in the English language. Very tactical.โ
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Human Nature๐ฌ Mentioned
โฆdiscussing how people generally resist behavioral change despite good intentions
โRobert Green has this great book called Human Nature and he was like in general assume most people won't change.โ
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Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip๐ Recommends
โฆexploring historical perspectives on american culture and tourism
โThere's this great book. I'm sharing it now. I don't know how to pronounce their name, but it's Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip. I read this a few years ago. It's so good. So basically, and it has very few reviews. On Amazon, it has 40 reviews. And a paperback copy is $400. And so in 1935, well into the era of Soviet communist Russia, two Russians came over and they took a road trip throughout America and they describe what they're seeing.โ
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion๐ Recommends
โฆsam crediting robert cialdini's influence book as foundational to his persuasion abilities
โIt's crazy hanging out with you because, um, like I have this book up here, persuasion, you know, who wrote that? Of course. Uh, Robert Chani, his book influence. Like I read that when I was going through my period and I was like, I was like, I have this ability to convince people of certain things.โ
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing robert cialdini's influence book and persuasion principles
โThere was, um, have you read the book Influenced by Robert Cialdini? No. Oh, man. It's like, in terms of... I feel like I'm going to end this podcast with, like, an entire reading list. It's, like, considered the gospel when it comes to, like, influence, which is related to marketing.โ
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Joyride๐ Recommends
โฆpraising Ryan Trahan's cinematic commercial for his candy brand Joyride
โSo check this out. He's got this video called We Need to Talk. It's a video that's promoting his candy brand. You know, he's got like a candy brand. I forgot what it's called. Joyride. Yeah. Joyride. And I watched this and I go, I have no interest in candy in general, let alone his candy. I watched every second of this video. And about two minutes in, I just sort of had to pause. And I was like, oh, every other candy company is screwed.โ
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M&Ms๐ Recommends
โฆsam parr describing how he used candy as a substitute habit to break alcohol addiction
โOne of the ways that people continue being stuck on this treadmill, and this sounds very oversimplified, but it's true in my case, like you start like craving carbohydrates the day after you drink, like you still crave because I was drinking like 20 beers a day and I still craved like the sugar. And so I actually just made a small habit. Every time I wanted to drink alcohol, a beer, I ate a pack of M&Ms.โ
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Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing brian halligan's book on grateful dead marketing strategy and philosophy
โWhat's the name of the book? Called Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead. Buy it in triplicate. You gotta buy that for your parents.โ
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Mastery๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing how mastery and finding passion shaped personal career path
โWell, the reason I was asking is like, I kind of want this whole, like, I'm kind of obsessed with this idea of finding your passion, not just because of your book, but like one of my favorite books is Mastery by Robert Greene. Yes. Which changed my life. That changed my life.โ
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Mastery๐ Recommends
โฆhow robert greene's mastery book transformed sam's career thinking
โI read that when I was 22 years old, about 12 years ago, 11 years ago. It totally changed my life. It changed my life because I thought that being a generalist was the way to go. But according to the book Mastery, it was not.โ
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Matic Robot Vacuum and Mop๐ Recommends
โฆadvanced robot vacuum and mop combination product demonstration
โDo you guys want to see a sick robot? I have nothing to do with this company. I just think it's cool. Go to matic robots.com. So M-A-T-I-C. Okay. Yeah. Let me tell you the story. I met this guy and I just thought his robot looked awesome. So I started DMing him and I got one and it's basically like a twelve or eleven hundred dollar Roomba, but it vacuums and it mops your house.โ
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Maverick๐ฌ Mentioned
โฆdiscussing books that shaped his quarter and their reading habits
โI'm reading this Maverick. I almost finished with this. It's about a Brazilian business guy who like runs his business via democracy, which is strange... No, but because I've only... But it's highly recommended. So I just it's in that weird category of like it's probably good, but I don't like it.โ
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Meta Glasses๐ Recommends
โฆrecommending meta glasses for recording short video moments hands-free
โDo you use the meta glasses? No. Are they awesome? Should I get them? They're awesome. They're really great. If you want to do the kind of one second a day VHS camcorder thing, it's kind of perfect. It doesn't go the 10, 15 minutes length. That's like too long of a recording, but you get two minutes at a time basically if you just push the button. And it's your point of view and you don't have to take out your phone.โ
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Method๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing eric ryan's billion-dollar brands and product innovations
โYou are the co-founder, the inventor of products that sit on a lot of people's shelves. There's some in my kitchen right now. Method Soap, Oli gummies that my kids have every day, Welly Band-Aids, and then your investor and a whole bunch more. So you are here and you're kind of the magic man when it comes to reinventing consumer categories.โ
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Miniature Dollhouse Building Kits๐ Recommends
โฆdetailed miniature house building kits for adult hobbyists
โYou are literally building a home, like framing it with like the drywall and everything else. And this guy is crazy. He's using a proper nail gun and you're building a very real life replica of a house. I'm in. This sounds awesome. I spend my time doing this with engines. Like when my wife's pregnant, we like, you know, you can't like do too much. You got to like kind of sit around a lot. We got into Legos and now we like to build like replica V8 engines.โ
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Never Split the Difference๐ Recommends
โฆsam referencing chris voss's negotiation book in relation to robert's empathy advice
โWell, have you ever read Chris Voss's book, Never Split the Difference? Like if there was any takeaway, it's basically, so Chris Voss was like an FBI negotiator and he teaches people how to negotiate. And like the main thing that he teaches is exactly what you said, which is don't react to what you hear, put yourself in their shoes and actually verbalize and label how they feel.โ
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Nonviolent Communication๐ฌ Mentioned
โฆdiscussing books on difficult conversations and leadership communication
โHave you read nonviolent communication? Yeah, I actually didn't like it as much as a lot of people did. What I preferred was The Motive.โ
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Olly๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing eric ryan's billion-dollar brands and product innovations
โYou are the co-founder, the inventor of products that sit on a lot of people's shelves. There's some in my kitchen right now. Method Soap, Oli gummies that my kids have every day, Welly Band-Aids, and then your investor and a whole bunch more. So you are here and you're kind of the magic man when it comes to reinventing consumer categories.โ
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Poor Charlie's Almanack๐ Not a fan
โฆdiscussing difficulty reading dense investment and philosophy books by charlie munger
โI have like tried to read Poor Charlie's Almanac like five different times and I just find it incredibly boring. But now that I think about it... Yeah. I'm like, I should love this. On paper, everything about this, I should love it. And then you read it and it's like, I'm reading about Charlie's grandkid. Do I care about this? No, no, no.โ
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Ring๐ Recommends
โฆvideo doorbell camera that successfully disrupted home security
โBut there are a handful that seems silly, like a Nest or like a ring camera, but they actually were so cool and they did revolutionize an industry.โ
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Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power (or Daily Laws)๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing powerful books on manipulation and persuasion tactics
โRobert Green, they say this about his book, 48 Laws of Power. Like I think one of the like marketing schticks, which I don't know if he completely made up or is true and then he used it to like, to market his book but it was, this book is banned from prisons. It's the best. Because they don't want the prisons to like, the prisoners to be able to like, overtake prison. It's so powerful. It's so powerful that it's banned in prisons is, ah, just perfect marketing.โ
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Shoe Dog๐ฌ Mentioned
โฆdiscussing phil knight and nike's early history and the shoe dog memoir
โSo I've only read Shoe Dog and I've read Bill Bowerman's book. So I've never read too much about Phil Knight other than that one, Shoe Dog. No, I think Phil Knight was a dog. I think he was just kept at it. I think he was relentless. Nike, the book Shoe Dog, it only goes for the first 10 years of Nike.โ
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Status and Culture๐ Recommends
โฆdefining what good taste means and its core requirements
โAnd good taste is defined by this guy named David Marks. I read his book called Status and Culture. It's pretty amazing. He says, good taste, it requires two things. One is proposing an identity that matters to be valued in the community of your choice. And the second thing is using your lifestyle choices to clearly, congruently, and authentically communicate that identity.โ
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Status and Culture๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing authenticity and status in relation to personal brand building
โThere's this book I read last year called Status and Culture. And it was this like idea of what does high status mean and how does that impact trends, whether it be fashion or whatever. And the book's author, one of his points was to be inauthentic is the lowest status thing. And if you look at all the people who you admire, they're truly, whether they've become that person or they're born that way, both are fine. They are truly authentic.โ
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Stumbling on Happiness๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing how decisions affect happiness through a psychological experiment
โDan Gilmer is a psychologist who's the goat on studying happiness. He's got this amazing book called Stumbling on Happiness. So my favorite part from his book is an experiment where he went to a college campus and he selected two groups of students.โ
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The 33 Strategies of War๐ Recommends
โฆsam referencing multiple robert greene books on strategy and seduction
โI'm getting them confused. But you have a whole book on seduction, which like I wish I would have read this when I was younger. Art of Seduction, 33 Laws of War.โ
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The 48 Laws of Power๐ Recommends
โฆsam praising robert greene's books as university curriculum alternative
โI've read all your books. And I've always thought that instead of whatever they're teaching at universities, I was like, man, I wish I could just do a four-year degree on like four or six of these Robert Greene books because they're amazing.โ
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The 48 Laws of Power๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing early reading habits and studying power dynamics through books
โWhen I was younger, in my early 20s and late teens, I used to do book reports on all the books that I read... One quarter, it was like the 48 Laws of Power because I was like, well, if you like learn about like power, then I could see when people are trying to manipulate me. And if I want to get powerful, hopefully I can memorize it.โ
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The Art of Seduction๐ Recommends
โฆsam praising the art of seduction for practical persuasion tactics
โBut you have a whole book on seduction, which like I wish I would have read this when I was younger, because like you outline like all these interesting ways, basically, seduction, not meaning just sleep with people, but like seduce someone into like basically doing what you want them to do.โ
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The Art of the Deal๐ฌ Mentioned
โฆreading trump's business book to understand negotiation strategy with iran
โSo I was like, I don't really understand what he's negotiating with Iran about. I'm not, I'm not totally certain. So I bought, I bought the art of the deal. I was like, I'm going to read the art of the deal to try to understand what is the, what is the strategy here? What's going on? Have you ever actually read the art of the deal?โ
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The Chief๐ Recommends
โฆlearning about william randolph hearst and his media empire legacy
โThere's this amazing book called The Chief that I've been reading about it. Have you ever seen or have you ever heard of the movie Citizen Kane? It's regarded as one of the best movies of all time. And the main character in the movie is based off of William Randolph Hearst.โ
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The Gambler: The Life and High Times of Kirk Kerkorian๐ Recommends
โฆrecommending biography of industrialist and distressed asset investor
โOh my gosh. That's one of the best biographies of all time. Kirk Akorian. Oh, you like that one? That's a really good one. Oh my God. Yes. The Gambler. That's one of the best biographies. Basically he's a Armenian. I think, I think Armenian, uh, immigrant raised in Central Valley, California, uh, went to the army. When he got back, his first little business was a small airline, which basically just means he somehow convinced someone to lease him a small Cessna and would fly people back and forth from like, I don't know all around California.โ
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The Game๐ Recommends
โฆsam discussing how he studied pickup artist concepts to understand social interaction
โWhen I was 14, I remember I read this book called The Game. Have you read The Game? Of course. Oh, my God. It has a little bit of an ick factor, but the way it discusses and quantifies and creates terminology for interactions with people is incredible.โ
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The Game๐ Recommends
โฆsam discussing neil strauss's the game book on seduction tactics
โAnd Sean, I don't know, you know, like me and Sean have both talked about the book, The Game, which I assume you know all about, Neil Strauss. And for a 14-year-old boy, that was like the greatest thing ever because we like desperately wanted to meet girls and it was like a very pop-y way of like learning about it.โ
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing strategic moments entrepreneurs experience during company building
โThere's a moment that in Ben Horowitz's book, The Hard Thing About the Hard Things, he talks about a few like kind of key moments that happen. It feels like when it's happening in your company, it's unique to you, but then you read these books and you realize, oh shit, every company goes through these moments.โ
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The Inner Game of Tennis๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing how intuition and practice outweigh self-criticism and overthinking
โHave you read the inner game of tennis no but everybody tells me so listen to this so I think it's I think the guy's name is Tim Galloway the idea is that he wrote it in the 1960s or maybe 70s he was a tennis instructor and so he was like trying to get his students to be better tennis players and he developed this idea of self one and self two self one is a critic and so when you would hit a ball you'd say shit that was horrible I gotta move my hand this way I gotta do this self two is someone who doesn't listen to the brain but listens to the body.โ
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The Motive๐ Recommends
โฆreferencing a book about difficult conversations and confrontation techniques
โI just read this book called The Motive and the whole book is how to have a conversation like that. So basically like someone showed it and it's like small stuff. So it's like someone shows up to leave for a meeting. They're not prepared. They made someone cry. And I remember reading this and I was like, I don't want to talk about this on the pod maybe because I think I feel stupid that I'm having to learn like a script on how to like confront someone.โ
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The Motive๐ Recommends
โฆdiscussing books about leadership and having difficult conversations with employees
โWhat I preferred was The Motive. Have you read The Motive? No. What's the premise of that? Basically, to be a CEO or to be a leader, you basically have to recognize that a large percentage of your time is going to be having difficult conversations.โ
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York๐ Recommends
โฆexploring robert caro's writing process and greatest biography work
โHis big world famous bit of writing was called The Power Broker. And it was on a New York politician called Robert Moses. And Obama has since written like the foreword for the most recent edition of The Power Broker, just to give it an idea of how influential this book is. Many people regard The Power Broker as the greatest biography of all time.โ
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The Power of Habit๐ Recommends
โฆhow charles duhigg's book on habits helped sam parr overcome drinking
โSo in 2014, I wrote about how I lost weight. But previously, I used your book a year before because I had a little bit of a drinking issue and it was frankly was kind of ruining my life. And I read your book and the idea of the habit loop changed my life. Your book changed my life probably more than any book I've ever read. And I have read probably thousands of books.โ
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The Power of Positive Thinking๐ Recommends
โฆreading motivational books from the 1930s during an emotional life phase
โRereading that one. I'm reading, I just got the power of positive thinking. That's another one from the 1930s. I just love these old books. And like I told you, I'm in the motivational phase of my life right now. I'm back at it. I just want to be influenced to be, you know, motivated and happy and all that stuff.โ
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The Terminal List๐ Recommends
โฆsharing passion for military thriller fiction series by former navy seal author
โI did that with Jack Carr this year. You know Jack Carr?... It's called The Terminalist... Dude, it's crazy. So this guy was a, we had him on the pod. I didn't want you to come because I wanted to nerd out with him and I was embarrassed as like how much I like love this book.โ
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The War of Art๐ Recommends
โฆbook about distinguishing amateur versus professional mindset in work
โHave you read the, I think it's called The War, is it War on Art by Steven Pressfield? War of Art, sorry. And he talks about this idea of the difference between like an amateur and a professional.โ
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Titan๐ Recommends
โฆexplaining how tracking finances changed his approach to wealth building
โA book that changed my life was Titan, which is the biography of John Rockefeller. John Rockefeller, he was a tycoon in the early 1900s, and he was the richest man to ever live. He was two times richer than Elon Musk is today.โ
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.๐ฌ Mentioned
โฆdiscussing ron chernow biographies lloyd has read
โWhich one moved the needle for you most? For me, it was Titan. And I know you did a thing with Ron Chernow. Actually, I read Titan. I didn't love it as much as that.โ
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Traction๐ Recommends
โฆentrepreneurial operating system book that guides company management through L10 meetings
โEOS for those listening it's an operating system run your company the book is called Traction by this guy named Gino Gino by the way Sean has asked to come on a whole bunch so if we want we can invite them on but basically it's the crux of the whole thing is your L10 meeting which happens for us every Monday at 3 o'clockโ
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Warren Buffett on balance sheets๐ฌ Mentioned
โฆreferencing accounting education book while discussing financial analysis tools
โI actually bought a book called like Warren Buffett on accounting or something like that, or Warren Buffett on balance sheets when I was trying to learn accounting. And cause I was trying to figure out what does he see? You know, what sticks out to him? Um, but this, and the book was really hard to read. These are complicated concepts.โ
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Yoto๐ Recommends
โฆcomparing alternative children's music toy brand with similar business model to tonies
โTony's, the other one is Yodo. That's the one I got. Y-O-T-O. Have you seen Yodo? No. It's like the same thing. I don't know how they're different... 127 million in revenue. Are you joking me? What's going on? Crazy, right? It's an incredible toy. It's ridiculous.โ
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