This week Grant is coming out every day with a new set of useful links and tips for you to check out; starting with the trait that’s common on every successful person he’s interviewed:  the growth mindset. You will know its definition and hear some quick tips and links to get on board with it; we would really appreciate feedback on this special week of episodes, if you like them, if they’re useful, better or worse, please let us know by emailing [email protected].

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Listen to this episode to find out:

• How the growth mindset is defined
• A way of using spreadsheets for growth
• More great book recommendations about the mindset you gotta be in
• A friend that inspires Grant to greatness
• One simple exercise to get you into the growth mindset

People on this episode:

• Grant Weherley

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Obstacle is The Way by Ryan Holiday
• Mindset: The New Phsycology of Success by Carol Dweck
• Think Long: Why it’s Never Late to be Great by Tom Butler
• How to Learn Anything in 30 Days TED talk by Connor Grooms
• Connor’s Spanish in a Month documentary

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If Amazon can be a money-making machine, Grant’s guest Brad DeGraw surely knows how to operate it; starting with 100 dollars and making a thousand times that in the first year then scaling up to seven figures, Brad learned the downside of reselling and then started to go after his own brands, first with white labels then his own products. He also helps other people get their business running and shares the reasoning behind it, his amazing philosophy on hiring and how he wants his employees to make mistakes while keeping the company’s moral stances in focus… and on top of that, some pretty good relationship advice: accept the terms.

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• The interesting reason why Brad started doing inventory sales with only 100 dollars
• A big downside of reselling products that are not your brand
• Brad’s three models of service: product, do-it-for-you and educational
• Why is makes sense to help other people get their business going
• How the people behind the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” brand got in touch with him
• The fictitious people organisational chart methodology 
• How team members are the most important part of your business
• His tips for creating a great job listing
• The best way to make a mistake on the job: with the foot on the gas pedal!
• The H-word H-bomb that will end a job interview on the spot
• Why the founders must be better sellers than the employees
• Lessons about our mental software from The Inevitable You

People on this episode:

• Grant Weherley
• Brad DeGraw

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Inevitable You System

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Everybody loves to talk about the latest marketing technologies and strategies, so oftentimes the phone gets overlooked; in this episode, Grant gives good arguments for this older mean of communication and how it can help you grow your business and close a few more sales faster than other strategies; in a phone call, the path to customer trust is a lot quicker and you can take advantage of that, as long as you observe the right time to do it and how much of your time and effort to put into it so that it’s worth the money.

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• The most overlooked way to sell 
• How low-tech means of communication can get you quicker to a sale
• How it’s more in your interest to call your costumers if you have a more complex info product
• The main difference between new marketing strategies and the old-school call
• The best times to call your costumers
• How to balance product price versus client acquisition costs
• The way that placing a value on your time can help you define price points for sales

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• Grant Weherley

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A hard time learning how to surf makes Grant think about the initial pain of learning anything and how the enjoyment you take out of performing an activity depends drastically on your skill level at it, so he defines the enjoyment threshold, how it varies depending on the activity you’re undertaking, what’s the critical component to get over it, what’s the teacher’s role in getting someone past it and how you shouldn’t forget what it was like to be a beginner, always remembering to take care of the emotional side of the learning experience for yourself and your customers.

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• How well did Grant do on surf lessons in Bali
• What’s the enjoyment threshold
• How the enjoyment threshold varies by activity
• The critical component to get over this threshold
• Why it’s important to understand this concept of the enjoyment threshold on a personal level
• How to employ this concept on your business
• How the “gamefication” of education plays with this concept
• A way to think about yourself in the role of teacher and student to make your material better

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• Grant Weherley

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While his latest travels take him to Bali, Grant ends up at the monkey forest where, unsurprisingly, he meets a few monkeys and learns a few lessons about inter-species relationships (hint: not everyone likes too much eye contact); then a visit to the doctor is in order and becomes a mathematical life or death situation where a statistically minuscule chance of getting rabies is rationally comprehended but emotionally adverted when Grant doesn’t feel like dying; a few days later the drama continues and becomes a sunken cost problem, when perhaps it would be better to let go of the losses and just not care about the subsequent rounds of shots, but the whole “not wanting to die” thing persists. Grant is still alive, podcasting about rational and emotional decisions, sunken costs and how those emotions come to play in your business decisions.

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• The correct approach to meeting a monkey
• How your body language is important in a social context
• How eye to eye contact is reserved for human interactions only
• The odds of dying from monkey-induced rabies in Bali
• How much rabies treatment costs in Bali (it’s seven figures)
• How we like to think we are a lot more rational than we are
• The way that sunken cost math can be affected by emotional responses
• If you are focusing time on improbable things that are emotional heavyweights
• The importance of evaluating the real chances of a certain risk happening before you act on it

Mentioned in this episode:

• Your body language shapes who you are, TED talk by Amy Cuddy
• Body language, the power is in the palm of your hands by Alan Pease
• Grant’s video playing with the monkeys
• Pascal’s wager: why you should (mathematically) believe in God
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
• Black Swan by Nassin Taleb
• Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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• Grant Weherley

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It’s not just about teaching efficiently, a lot depends on the mindset and resources of your listeners. In this episode, Grant talks about how some online businesses seem sketchy - specially info products with their exaggerated marketing promises; how the expert fallacy makes people fail to account for another person’s resources, contacts and invested time; how serendipity also happens a lot in every kind of business, so no strategy is a done deal. Also, increasing your luck surface area, how it’s important to understand that people trying your course will fail and how you as an expert should be giving them tools and making them understand that how they use them is a critical factor for sucess. 

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Listen to this episode to find out:

• Why sometimes online products feel sketchy
• How exaggerated marketing claims can be detrimental to your credibility
• What’s the “expert’s fallacy”
• Why even if you can teach someone 95% of what you know, the other 5% can make a big difference
• Increasing your luck surface area
• People who consume your material will fail, how you should approach this fact
• Being an expert is about providing tools for your audience
• The importance of doing one thing at a time, but how you can also do many things over a lifetime
• “Here’s what you should have done by now” - a good marker for your content to be more efficient
• A good way to figure out how many major projects you still have left to do

Mentioned in this episode:

• How to increase your luck surface area
• Tim Ferris interviewing Derek Sivers, part 1 and part 2

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• Grant Weherley

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In this episode, Grant talks with Jeremy Ginsburg - a comic, writer, traveller, language learner, entreperformer and overall great guy about the different way that he manages to work online while appearing on vietnamese TV shows, doing standup comedy, writing and improving himself daily.

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• How Jeremy got started playing guitar in Vietnam
• His view on going in a different way other than the most common online businesses
• How he broke away from “starving artist” mode to do multiple sources of income
• How getting famous plaid a role in his path to success 
• His experience being a poster child for all foreigners in a vietnamese love reality TV show
• Tips to understand a tonal language better
• Different challenges and strategies that an unconventional path brings
• The pressure that a self-contract can impose on your mindset
• How having a few different creative endeavours can balance your creative flow
• How being a foreigner can be liberating so you’ll find your passion easier

People on this episode:

• Grant Weherley
• Jeremy Ginsburg

Mentioned in this episode:

• #JeremyGShow on Youtube

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In this episode Grant shows 12 great ways to improve your life and business by recommending awesome resources that have changed his life; how great things take time, getting stuff off your plate, the difference between marketing channel and marketing tactic, letting go of anxiety and keeping perspective, guidelines to happiness from the Dalai Lama and personal journaling applications.

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• 7 great book recommendations
• 5 awesome tools to make your life better 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Tim Ferris’ Four Hour Workweek
• Derek Sivers - Anything You Want also his website, sivers.org
• Darren Hardy - The Compound Effect
• Greg McKeown - Essentialism
• Gabriel Weinberg - Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Costumer Growth
• The Dalai Lama - The Art of Happiness
• Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Ryan Holiday - The obstacle Is The Way
• Amazon Kindle
• Unroll.me
• John McIntyre
• 5 minute journal app
• Shawn Achor TED talk: Happy Secret to Better Work
• 5 by 5 training

People on this episode:

• Grant Weherley

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In this episode, Grant talks with Jasper Ribers about leaving your job to pursue something that makes you happy, how not to get started with a business online, finding a passion into travelling by leveraging an asset you already have, ways to change your perspective with travel and a personal challenge from Grant to all the listeners out there!

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• Jasper’s story leaving his job as a stock broker to go travel
• How he got started making money right away with a trick and why you shouldn’t do it
• The problem of being dependent of one factor of one tool
• How he lost his first online business overnight
• The two big lessons of his first online business failure
• How he got started making money with Airbnb
• A good rule of thumb to live by when you google “how to make money online”
• The question to ask yourself when you’re starting any business
• How to learn that time is more valuable than money
• Grant’s challenge to you to change your perspective

People on this episode:

• Grant Weherley
• Jasper Ribers

Mentioned in this episode:

• Get Paid for Your Pad book
• Jasper’s blog, the Travelling Dutchman
• His courses on Udemy

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In this episode Grant talks about being overwhelmed with too many tasks and a way to deal with it

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• A good solution to delegate your tasks
• Grant’s experience utilizing this solution in his company

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• Grant Weherley

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