Young and Profiting with Hala Taha

That's why the book Atomic Habits has sold so many copies, is because we all know we need to work on our habits.

And that's why like a lot of people that have experienced something like this, if you ... In Atomic Habits, that's the biggest thing is you can change your habits like this if you change your surroundings.

An author named James Clear, who wrote a book called Atomic Habits. It's the bestselling and one of the best books of the last generation.

author of the bestselling book Atomic Habits.

the heart of your book, Atomic Habits, is that the idea that small habits can make a big difference.

Same with Atomic Habits.

I love the book Atomic Habits, and it talks about a similar example of if you really want to get really fit, build a gym habit, have the best technique. The very first skill is just driving your car to the gym. Can you do that every day?

Napoleon Hill in his book, Think and Grow Rich, said, if you don't know how to start your entrepreneurial journey, if you don't know your path to riches, just guess. Take a baby step.

And that that success manifested outwardly, but it really was what you put into your mind and took into your heart. So I started getting all the classics of personal development from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People to Think and Grow Rich to The Magic of Thinking Big and PsychoCybernetics and As a Man Thinketh and Ogmandino's books...

The old classic is Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Half the book is worthless.

The first half is pretty darn good.

Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.

the classics, Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.

So you've got a book called The First Rule of Mastery, your most recent book. Can you talk to us about the genesis of why you decided to put out this book? ... The first rule is to stop worrying about what people think of you. ... The first rule is to work from the inside out.

There are so many gems in Michael's book, The First Rule of Mastery. So I highly recommend that everybody go out and get that.

He's also the host of the Finding Mastery podcast and the author of the recent book called The First Rule of Mastery.

So you've got a book called The First Rule of Mastery. The first rule is to stop worrying about what people think of you. The external noise that corrupts the internal signal... I'm not saying don't care about what other people think, but I'm pointing to the excessive worry that happens for the majority of us.

I highly recommend that everybody go out and get that.

He wrote an HBR article on FOPO and twelve months later they called and said, 'let's write a book about it.' That's how the book came to be.

those are the ones that I highlighted in the book and in the research. And we called it The First Rule of Mastery.

Michael's Book, The First Rule of Mastery: bit.ly/TFROM

So let's move on to your new book. So you've got a book called The First Rule of Mastery, your most recent book. Can you talk to us about the genesis of why you decided to put out this book?

And young and profiters, there are so many gems in Michael's book, The First Rule of Mastery. So I highly recommend that everybody go out and get that.

I try to get my kids to read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale and Carnegie. I love that book, the title makes it sound cheesy, but the advice is so deep.

And that that success manifested outwardly, but it really was what you put into your mind and took into your heart. So I started getting all the classics of personal development from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People to Think and Grow Rich to The Magic of Thinking Big and PsychoCybernetics and As a Man Thinketh and Ogmandino's books...

I love the book that this came from. Dale Carnegie, I think had a win friends and influence people. I love the book.

the word you use is absolutely, I use it in the book Limitless, lie.

There is a story in Limitless, and I don't want to go and get all audible right now, but maybe I could read this anecdote.

there's a quote in limitless that says life is the C between B and D life is C between B and D B stands for birth. D stands for death.

I talked about this in Limitless, even when it came out five years ago. I talk about digital distraction. I talk about digital dementia.

There's a quote on Limitless that says, life is the letter C between B and D, where B is birth and D is death and life C is choice.

And so I learned Limitless and we do our podcast to give people an owner's manual for your brain.

I'll repost it and I'll give it out a couple of signed copies randomly of Limitless but share one thing you're going to do because you learn to earn to return that's the sequence there.

the word you use is absolutely, I use it in the book Limitless Lie.

the quote in Limitless that says, life is the C between B and D. Life is C between B and D. B stands for birth. D stands for death. Life C, choice.

our book, Limitless, limitlessbook.com. You can find it anywhere you buy books.

Also get Blitz Scaling. I love that book as well.

Also get Blitzscaling. I love that book as well.

And I know you say that in your book, Blitzscaling, which you put out in 2018. And even though it was put out sevenish years ago, it's still super relevant.

I highly recommend that everybody read Blitzscaling. I loved reading through it. I want to read it in even more detail because I feel like it's just so relevant, especially for newer entrepreneurs scaling their business.

You talk about speed over profitability and you mention that concept a lot in your book Blitzscaling, which really shaped the way we think about rapid growth.

When you get to the operating margins will be when people start valuing your business more - something we explore in Blitzscaling.

One of the best investing books of all time. It's sort of a legendary one. One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch... he invested in Hanes... and ended up making like a 100x return on this public market investment.

One Up On Wall Street is one of the best investing books of all time. It tells the story of how Peter Lynch invested in a tiny underwear company after his wife raved about it and got a 100x return.

When I was at home, I had read this book, One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch, and I had started trading stocks.

Donald Miller, the bestselling author of Building a Story Brand, explains why great marketers don't just tell stories. They invite customers into one.

So I wrote a book called Building a Story Brand. That book sold a million copies.

It's on Amazon. It's called Building a StoryBrand. You can read about it. It's on Audible.

I have a friend that wrote a book called The Comfort Crisis.

And he has this book called The Comfort Crisis and he basically argues that a lot of our convenience in modern life is really hurting our health and our happiness because we just live so much differently than our ancestors did, who they had to work in the fields.

the idea of space comes from Viktor Frankl, who is the famous Holocaust survivor, the author of Man's Search For Meaning.

He has a quote where he says that our power exists in the space that we can create between stimulus and response. That insight comes from Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search For Meaning.

I had Nick Bostrom on who wrote Superintelligence.

Super Intelligence by Nick Bostrom: bit.ly/_Superintelligence

He's the author of Superintelligence, the groundbreaking book that brought the risks of advanced AI into mainstream conversation.

The groundbreaking book that brought the risks of advanced AI into the main conversation, as well as the book Deep Utopia...

my earlier work and like this book super intelligence past gender strategies came out in 2014

His books are so interesting, guys. Super intelligence, deep utopia, very, very good stuff.

Mark Manson did that. He wrote the book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. Now all of his personal branding, all of his socials, all of his YouTube, all of his Instagram is just more of that book over and over and over again.

Mark is the bestselling author of many books, including The Subtle Art of Not Giving an F, and was also on my show way back in episode number 65 during the early days of the pandemic.

I talked about this in my first book, Subtle Art. I said that if you think about the most important experiences of your life, probably three out of four of them were negative experiences.

I love Charles Duhigg great book on habits.

He currently writes for The New Yorker, and he's the author of several bestselling books, including The Power of Habit and Smarter, Faster, Better.

Before I actually started this podcast in 2018, The Power of Habit was actually my favorite book and I had it on audible and I used to listen to it like every three months.

Okay, let's move on to your new book. It's called Same as Ever. It covers a lot of the ideas that we've been discussing and much more.

Same as Ever is about what never changes over time. I think in many ways, Psychology of Money is about the behavior of you, the individual. And Same as Ever is about the behavior of us, the collective.

You see how people responded to greed and fear and uncertainty and opportunity, that is the same today in the United States as it was in any culture 1,000 years ago. And it hasn't changed at all.

You may know him as the author of books like The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever.

My book's The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever.

Kim Scott is the bestselling author of Radical Candor and the cofounder of the company by the same name. She shared her playbook for how to solicit honest feedback, handle it like a pro, and build a stronger relationship with your boss in the process.

You want to start by soliciting it and really drawing it out of your boss... think about your goto question, embrace the discomfort, sit with the silence, listen with the intent to understand, not to respond, and then reward the candor by either fixing the problem or explaining why you disagree.

Don't pretend to agree when you disagree... look for that 5% or 10% of what your boss said that you can agree with, give voice to that, and ask to think about the rest.

Kim Scott is the bestselling author of Radical Candor and the cofounder of the company by the same name. She shared her playbook for how to solicit honest feedback, handle it like a pro, and build a stronger relationship with your boss in the process.

we're going to talk about his new book, Day Trading for Tension. It's literally a masterclass on social media marketing and advertising.

it's the most textbook that I've ever written. I loved your book, by the way. I thought it was great.

my first book, coming out the gate, my message, even you said it earlier, like it was crush it. Cash in on your passion.

When we spoke earlier this year about his new book, Day Trading Attention, Gary broke it down for me.

TikTokification of social media like I talk about in the book.

He's the author of books like The Psychology of Money, and he was my guest earlier this week on the podcast.

Okay, so your book, Psychology of Money, came out in 2020. It was a huge hit. And you say in the book that money has little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave.

Can you shed some more color on that and give us examples of how behavior can actually trump smarts? Well, here's how I always define it.

You say in your book that we learn traditionally about finance like it's physics, right? It's rules. There's laws. But you say we should look at it more like psychology with emotion and nuance.

You have a chapter called Tales You Win, and you talk about how sometimes one Picasso painting can make up for all the ones that don't.

You may know him as the author of books like The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever.

My book's The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever.

Her brand new book, The Let Them Theory, offers a groundbreaking approach to reclaiming your life from the burdens of others' expectations.

It may surprise you to learn that, you know, with this book, The Let Them Theory, this is truly the first time that I've had a major moment in terms of the normal press cycle.

I read The Let Them Theory and it was so impactful for me. I know that people have it tattooed on their arms. It's been so helpful for so many people around the world.

She's a #1 New York Times bestselling author and her latest, The Let Them Theory, have been translated into 50 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide.

I recently had the chance to do a special live inperson interview with none other than Mel Robbins. ... Her brand new book, The Let Them Theory, offers a groundbreaking approach to reclaiming your life from the burdens of others' expectations.

And as you know, with this book, The Let Them Theory, this is truly the first time that I've had a major moment in terms of the normal press cycle.

I read The Let Them Theory. It was so impactful for me. I highly recommend that everybody go get it.

And you've got so much good advice like this in your book, Radical Confidence.

I love that you first put out this book in 2022 and now you're releasing it with a new chapter.

I didn't really feel the weight until after my book came out. So that's really what the extra chapter is about.

Again, her book is called Radical Confidence. She's rereleasing it with a new chapter.

Something else that you discuss in your book is having a welldefined goal or plan towards your dreams.

She is the host of Women of Impact. She's also the best-selling author of Radical Confidence

I love that advice and you've got so much good advice like this in your book Radical Confidence

her book is called Radical Confidence she's re-releasing it with a new chapter

if you guys are in a relationship that's hurting your confidence I highly recommend that you go check it out

we did not cover nearly as much of the good gems that are in that book

his latest book is called Boundless Parenting, and his breakout book, Boundless, is pretty good.

And those are books, and I get into this in my book Boundless as well, that describe how nearly every element of human metabolism relies upon the proper charging of that battery.

I didn't realize until I actually started to study up the science of it for my book Boundless how big of an impact it has on the release of feelgood chemicals, on decreased inflammation, on the conversion of metabolically inactive white adipose tissue into metabolically active brown fat.

When you do a fasted morning cold shower, as a matter of fact, in Boundless, I talk about my strike, stroll, shiver strategy.

I talk a lot about these cooling strategies in the book.

I want to talk about your new book, Boundless. Originally, you put this out in 2020. I think it was 600 pages. It really was the Bible of biohacking.

Once you throw in biohacking and stem cells and peptides, longevity, antiaging, gut, diets, there's so much new research on an ongoing basis that a book like Boundless necessitated a little bit of an update. I thought, well, I could write a whole new book or I could just update this one. I wish I could tell you that I made it shorter. It wound up getting longer. However, I'm pretty proud of the final results. It's got a lot of juicy stuff in there that's the newest, latest research to help people out.