Fact
Three traits great people share: love of work, high energy, eat little
From the podcast 'How to Take Over the World,' Sam noticed three commonalities across Napoleon, Edison, and the Rothschilds: they enjoyed their work to the point of addiction, had crazy high energy, and ate very little.
“So I'm going to tell you 3 things that I've noticed that these folks had in common. The first, all of them enjoyed their work. So there's a story where Nathan Rothschild, this, this one woman was talking to him and he's like, you know, I hope you better hope that your kids aren't addicted to work like you are. And he goes, oh no, I hope they are because I love what I'm doing and I don't ever want to stop.”
Steal thisStudy greatness across many fields and look for the traits that repeat, not the tactics that don't.
Fact
Three traits great people share: love of work, high energy, eat little
From the podcast 'How to Take Over the World,' Sam noticed three commonalities across Napoleon, Edison, and the Rothschilds: they enjoyed their work to the point of addiction, had crazy high energy, and ate very little.
“So I'm going to tell you 3 things that I've noticed that these folks had in common. The first, all of them enjoyed their work. So there's a story where Nathan Rothschild, this, this one woman was talking to him and he's like, you know, I hope you better hope that your kids aren't addicted to work like you are. And he goes, oh no, I hope they are because I love what I'm doing and I don't ever want to stop.”
Steal thisStudy greatness across many fields and look for the traits that repeat, not the tactics that don't.
Number
From 200 to thousands of listeners a day after one MFM mention
Ben Wilson says a single mention on My First Million took his 'How to Take Over the World' podcast from roughly 200 daily listeners to many thousands a day, a vivid case study in audience slingshotting.
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Daily podcast listeners before the MFM mention · listeners/day
“Yeah, yeah. If you're looking at where from a daily perspective, yeah, that's right. It was about 200 per day to many thousands per day.”
Prediction
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Shaan predicts Ben's podcast will be twice as big as MFM in 2 years
Shaan goes on the record predicting that Ben Wilson's 'How to Take Over the World' will be twice the size of My First Million within two years, crediting the strong content and niche plus the boost MFM is giving it.
“I believe, and I will also make my best effort, I believe your podcast is going to be twice as big as ours within 2 years. That's my prediction for this thing.”
Story
Why Ben started the podcast: biographies feel like injected testosterone
Ben explains the origin of 'How to Take Over the World': reading biographies of great people left him feeling like he'd been injected with testosterone and ready to take over the world, and he wanted to give listeners that same charged feeling.
“I was just gonna say that that's actually the reason I started doing this is because I would read these, these biographies, and I'd come out of it just feeling like I'd been injected with bull testosterone or something and gorilla testosterone. And just like ready to take over the world.”