Episode · My First Million · 2024-06-11
Books mentioned on $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable
Episode 595: Anand Sanwal ( https://x.com/asanwal ) joins Sam Parr ( https://twitter.
Anand Sanwal recommended Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto and Chasing Perfection by Rachel Brooks. Shaan Puri recommended The talent code by Daniel Coyle, and discussed The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto is a critical examination of modern public education systems written by an experienced classroom teacher and whistleblower.
Recommended“there's a great book called Weapons of Mass instruction and it's basically like you know it's an I've never it's like a book it's the only book I describe as aggressive and it basically like talks about like how schools are totally broken and it's actually by an ex teer so that one's I thought was really good that I'm”
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Chasing Perfection
Chasing Perfection by Rachel Brooks is an inspiring sports leadership book chronicling the historic De La Salle High School football team in California, celebrated for achieving the longest winning streak in American football history.
Recommended“there's a great book I read about the de lasal High School football team team so it's like the winningest high school football team in history it's out in California I think and the coach wrote this book and like half of it's like what drills do the safeties do and stuff like stuff I don't care about but there's”
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
The Score Takes Care of Itself is a leadership and management book by football coach Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, and Craig Walsh that focuses on program building through inputs and daily standards rather than fixating on outcomes.
Discussed“sounds similar to like the score takes care of it self is that the Bill Walsh Bill Walsh book yeah so you know same thing super successful football coach it's a football it's a sports book a football book but it's not at the same time it's a program building leadership book actually and it's an entire philosophy of like”
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The talent code
Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code explores how talent hot spots are formed around the world and demonstrates that skills and confidence are developed through disciplined practice rather than innate magic gifts.
Recommended“have you read the Talent Code no I'm GNA write that down that's a good one for you”
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