The Jordan Harbinger Show

49: Alex Banayan | Why Mentors Are Important and How to Get One

May 31, 2018

01:00:58

Episode guests

Alex Banayan

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

How to Start a Business With Bill Gates

3min

How to Get Your Guest on Your Show

2min

The Role of Luck in Success

2min

Chi Lu's Story

4min

The Science of Luck

2min

The Science of Luck

2min

The Internal Bias

3min

How to Convince Yourself That You're Lucky

2min

10.

How to Create an Internal Bias

2min

11.

The Importance of Mentoring

4min

12.

How to Be a Successful Mentor

4min

13.

How to Be a Successful Mentor

2min

14.

How to Be a Successful Mentor in Silicon Valley

2min

15.

How to Reach Out to VCs

3min

16.

How to Find the Need in Your Life

2min

17.

How to Reach Out to a Person

2min

18.

How to Reach Out to Busy VIPs and CEOs

5min

19.

How I Won the Prices Right to Fund My Book

3min

20.

How to Hack the Prices of Your Show

2min

21.

How to Make Sure You Know Everything You Need to Win

3min

22.

How to Win a Sailboat

3min

23.

The Year Number One Takeaway From Alexa

2min

Alex Banayan (@alexbanayan) is the author of The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers, which chronicles his seven-year quest tracking down icons from Bill Gates to Lady Gaga to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.

What We Discuss with Alex Banayan:

What Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, and Jane Goodall all have in common.
The role of luck in success (it's probably not what you think).
Why mentors are important (and the mistakes people make when trying to find one).
How you can reach out to potential mentors even if you don't have a connection in common to make the introduction.
How Alex hacked The Price Is Right to fund this book venture and his speaking career.
And much more...

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