Why Do Some People Hit Us So Deeply?

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"I think movie stars, one of the problems they have in the real world is that everyone sees them for their characters and everyone's been following them," she says. "And so I think that people who have played like really outsized parts in our lives, again, professional athletes that like provided us the inspiration when we saw how hard they pushed it impacted our life."

Elliot Bisnow is an entrepreneur. He is the co-creator of Summit and Summit At Sea - an international conference that has featured speakers like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Gary Vaynerchuk. Bisnow has invested in almost 50 early-stage startups, including Uber, Coinbase, Warby Parker & Allbirds.

He is the co-author of Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community

I stumbled across Elliott because he is the featured mentor in The Third Door by Alex Banayan.

Learn why he got into business, why people don’t change, how to live in gratitude, mentoring, balance, hosting a dinner party, and why he messed up his interview with Eric Schmidt.

(0:00) Intro

(3:12) Finding Out About Business

(13:20) Dropping Out Of School

(22:45) Living In Gratitude

(27:14) Family Business

(31:42) Seeing People As They Are

(34:14) Why Don’t People Change?

(40:08) Storytelling

(44:50) Interviewing Kobe Bryant

(49:31) Why Do People Hit Us?

(51:16) “I Like People Who Create”

(54:51) Forbes 100 For Balance