Episode · My First Million · 2025-09-03
Books mentioned on These old school businesses are making millions
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Train Hard, Win Easy
Train Hard, Win Easy by Toby Tanser is a sports biography and training philosophy book that chronicles the intense lifestyles and rigorous routines of elite Kenyan distance runners.
Recommended“One of my favorite books when I was in high school I ran cross country track and field and I and I ran in college and I was and I was pretty decent. And there was a book that changed my life. It was called train hard win easy. That's the same phrase where I think about that all the”
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The Triple Package
Discussed“There's a book called the triple package and the author claims to have analyzed incredibly successful groups of people ultra successful people. And she narrows it down to three reasons as to what are three things they all have in common. The first is a superiority complex so they feel that they are born to be better.”
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Purple Cow
Purple Cow by Seth Godin is a foundational marketing book that argues the key to modern business success is radical differentiation rather than incremental improvement.
Recommended“And so the and you're like that right there is a purple cow. And purple cow is a book by Seth Godin and it's one of many books that basically say the same thing, which is like in order to stand out you have to have it's better to be different than it is better. And I've been thinking about”
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