Young and Profiting with Hala Taha

I write about this in my book, Brave New Words, is in the 19th century when the camera came out, I am sure a lot of portrait artists said, oh, my God, this is cheating.

She wrote a number one bestselling book called Creating Confidence. Now she has overcome your villain. She's spoken everywhere.

One of my favorites is a practice that was shared with me by James Altucher, a prolific writer and serial entrepreneur. And well, it's a little sexual in nature. So let's dig into this. Coming up with good ideas or bad ideas, I guess, just like this idea creativity. We talked about intersections a bit. But we didn't talk about something related which you call purpose sex. Can you talk to us about that? Yeah. So, you know, and I also call it idea sex. I call it a couple of things. And the idea is, it's sort of like that sports and business example, is that you want to come up with two things that you're either interested in or know about and explore what the intersection of those things are.

Idea sex could create completely new industries. You know, let's say you're making a restaurant. Okay, there's a million Mexican restaurants on this street. But there's people who might, in the next town over, there's a lot of sushi restaurants. So let's make the Sushi Rito restaurant. We're going to make burritos of raw fish or whatever. This might be a bad idea.

And the idea sex that resulted was the iPod, the first iPod. Oh, let's combine the iPod with phones. And the result was the smartphone, the iPhone. Oh, let's combine computers with this flat surface we've been doing with our phones. Oh, so now they have the iPad.

This is what I wrote the book Skip the Line about is that it's not like cheating, but there are learning techniques you can use to be in the top 1%. Let's say you're interested in cooking... To be in the top 1% of cooking, I mean a billion people around the world or more know how to cook. To be in the top 1% means to be in the top 10 million of those. That's very easy to do.

And this book, Skip the Line, gives so many great gems for entrepreneurs of how they can skip this line and get to the top 1% of their field.

The very first book I wrote was called Speaking Up without Freaking Out. It's all about how to manage anxiety. I was in San Francisco airport... He said, just knowing that a book like that existed helped him normalize his fear.

You are the author of seven books and your latest book is called The Power of Regret, How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.

So in this book, you did a lot of research yourself, but there was also years of research prior to that about regrets and the common regrets that people have.

I loved his book, The Power of Regret. So make sure you guys go get that.

but he wrote a book called The Tao of Jeet Kune Do which was about his style of martial arts

Dave is the VP of Data and Analytics at BiggerPockets, the host of the popular On the Market podcast, and the author of the new book, Start with Strategy.

I wrote this book because I get a lot of the same questions about real estate. Things that make the decisions about real estate investing in your portfolio seem somewhat objective, where the reality is that real estate decisions are entirely subjective.

I loved reading this book.

There was a book called Attached. That's what started a lot of this. Attached was written by Amir Levine and this was written, I believe, 2007. So it's a minute ago. And it's like the number one book in this field.

I think the best book out there is Success Principles by Jack Canfield.

And it is a fabulous book. It's big. It's 600, 700 pages.

The other thing is The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy. And it is little steps done repeatedly over years gives you amazing results.

And the final one would be Kaizen. And that's the Japanese concept of 1% improvement of 100 things every day and not 100% improvement once a year.

We talked about the gospel of ownership and her new book, Main Street Millionaire. It's all about how you can become extraordinarily wealthy from buying very ordinary businesses.

this phrase, this phrase, a possible mindset, it's actually the first page of my new book, The 12-Hour Walk.

my new book, The 12-Hour Walk, is really how we all have this power inside of us to unlock limitless possibilities.

He wrote this book called Cracking the Code to Happiness.

He's a Harvard professor, social scientist, and basically, he talks about how your brain biologically is different before 40 and after 40.

Daniel Levitin is a neuroscientist who just wrote a book called Successful Aging.

He said flat out, the best advice I can give you on retirement is don't retire. Don't ever retire.

When I wrote Bold, which is a book about like entrepreneurship and people like Larry Page and Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and how to really use exponential technology and some flow science stuff to really level up organizations.

you talk about this in your book. you say that they're either a dabbler, a parttimer, a pro or a rock star.

in your book, you write, you've got to offer something that's priceless to your viewer.

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