John David Mann is an award-winning author whose books have sold more than 2 million copies, including the New York Times bestseller "The Red Circle" and the national bestseller "The Go-Giver." He performed his first composition, a musical score for Aeschylus’s "Prometheus Bound," in Greece when he was 13; won the BMI Awards for Student Composers at 15; started his own high school at 17; and concertized on the cello before turning to business and authorship.

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Author and composer John David Mann discusses what adding value means, how composers and do so, and his Go-Giver series of books.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The 5 Laws of Stratospheric Success
• Adding value
• Randall Thompson is the 3rd law
• Music is about life
• Saying a lot about a lot
• The Study of Counterpoint
• Hermes
• Portfolio Penguin
• Find someone who can give you criticism
• Be the best writer
• Be easy to work with
• Have faith like a rock & humility like water
• Expand what you know

Website:

• johndavidmann.com

Recommended Listening:

• J. S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne
• Bela Bartok, String Quartets

Recommended Reading:

• Bob Burg and John David Mann, The Go-Giver
• Bob Burg and John David Mann, Go-Givers Sell More
• Bob Burg and John David Mann, The Go-Giver Leader
• Seth Godin, The Dip
• Stephen King, On Writing

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