If you want to learn about business, the late 1800s and 1900s offer absolute gems.
Here are the best books on some of the most successful businessmen of all time:
1. Titan - The Life of John D. Rockefeller
Inflation-adjusted, Rockefeller would be worth over $400 billion.
32 years ago, a brain tumor changed Tony Robbins forever.
He refused surgery and took his health into his own hands.
He’s since amassed a staggering $620 million net worth.
He’s coached Presidents, Billionaires & Olympic gold medalists.
Here are his top 6 health strategies:
How to spot high agency people:
1. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.
2. Energy distortion field - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill with max incline. Low agency people do the opposite.
3. Golden question - If you're in a 3rd world prison cell and had to call someone to get you out, who would you call? That's the highest agency person you know.
4. You can never guess their opinions - The boxer that writes poetry. The advertiser obsessed with the history of war. The beauty queen who reads Nietzsche. If their beliefs don't line up with their stereotypes, they've exercised agency.
5. Immigrant mentality - If they've moved from their hometown, that's a good sign. If they've moved from their home country, that's an even greater sign.
It takes agency to spot you're in the wrong place, resourcefulness to operationalise a move and a growth mindset to start from zero in a new location.
6. They send you niche content - Low agency people look at the social engagement of content before deeming its quality. High agency people just look at the content. They spot upcoming trends very early.
7. Mean to your face but nice behind your back - The social incentives are to be nice to people's faces and gossip behind their backs. To do the opposite requires agency because they're swimming against the social tide.
This. This is every interracial family in America. Every friendship across color lines. Every employer who hired an employee who she respects even with opposite politics.
Stop telling us how much our parents & brothers and co-workers hate us.
It’s untrue:
Canada wouldn't exist without Sir John A. Macdonald. Canada is a great county, and one we should be proud of. We will not build a better future by defacing our past.
It's time politicians grow a backbone and stand up for our country.
Thousands of CEOs/CFOs will read this press release over next few days. Will be discussed in many company meetings in coming months...
https://t.co/a7ViCceD3g
Hey @jockowillink. It'd be awesome to see you and @davidgoggins in a podcast bouncing ideas off of each other. Is this something possible in the future on your show?