Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2024-07-15
Books mentioned on Entrepreneurship Expert: How To Build A $1m Business Without Hard Work!
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The personal MBA
The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman is a comprehensive business guide designed to provide readers with the foundational principles of commerce, management, and entrepreneurship without the massive debt of a traditional graduate program.
Discussed“why why why did you write a book called the personal MBA it's a world class Business book that sold almost a million copies so far it's a real iconic book in the category but why why did you feel compelled to write that book”
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The First 20 Hours
Discussed“first 20 hours yeah the first 20 hours how to learn anything and you have a TED Talk don't you which was crazy I don't know if it's hit 40 million views yet but PR pretty close if not 40 million views on a TED talk about the first 20 hours how to learn anything”
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The personal MBA
“and so my goal in writing the Pumba was to explain business to someone who has no knowledge no experience no idea what's going on start from absolute Square zero and explain all of the different parts of a business how they work how they interrelate to each other”
Own book The personal MBA
“I I talk about 12 different forms of value in the personal MBA so the instantiation of the idea really depends on the form of which the you're you're going to deliver it to to the end result”
Own book The personal MBA
“that's why I wrote the first LBA okay so yeah can you will you tell me about all of this stuff if I get this book yes it so the the whole idea aidea behind personal MBA was to take all of these Concepts like amortization like nonprofit all of this and explain it in the clearest most direct most”
Own book The First 20 Hours
“and then the the Genesis of the book was was digging into some of the psychology research that I that I uncovered in the process of working on personal MBA which was all about learning new things and learning that the first few hours of acquiring or learning any particular skill are validated by research to be both the most”
Passing The personal MBA
“like it's a it's a thing so um for me it is like a lot of those regrets revolve around um decisions that I made that didn't work out um relationships um I have I have two kids and the process of of raising kids is uh hopefully informed trial and error but like fundamentally trial and error”