3 Underdog Stories That’ll Get You Inspired This Week
About This Episode
Sam and Shaan explore the 'one hit away' phenomenon through the underdog stories of singer Noah Kahan, Ed Sheeran, and Olympic swimmer Eric the Eel. They also analyze the business models of a father-son car brokerage and the gamified health app Pokemon Sleep, while Shaan shares personal growth frameworks from a high-level networking event.
Episode Description
Show Notes
- 0:00The Jewish Ed Sheeran
- 10:22The actual Ed Sheeran
- 15:00Eric the Eel
- 20:00How CarEdge is quietly crushing it
- 29:21How a car dealership is pulling millions of views on TikTok
- 33:07$100M+ Pokemon sleep tracking app
- 35:55Nick Gray's new thing
- 39:37“The best advice is free by definition”
- 43:29Take a 360 review of your life
- 50:16Shaan bombs a talk at a conference (lessons learned)
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Key Takeaways
In creative and content-driven fields, success is often a power-law where a single 'hit' can transform a career, making it vital to keep taking shots even after early failures.
The best life and business advice is often free because it is either too simple to charge for or provided by highly successful individuals who have reached a state of abundance.
A powerful framework for personal growth is a scorecard that buckets experiences into wins, accepted weaknesses, areas of active improvement, and 'losses no longer tolerated'.
Business Ideas Mentioned
Gamified Real-Time Fitness Racing App
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Automated Habit Accountability WhatsApp Service
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