8 Things You Need To Know About CryptoCurrencies
In 1994, I was working for HBO at a low-level programming job. I had begged for the job and I wasn’t qualified but they gave it to me anyway because my boss’s boss’s boss was a fan of chess and he...
View Article13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do
I don’t like writers. Stop writing advice books if you’ve never lived through it. Just. Stop. That’s why I asked Amy Morin, author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People DON’T Do” on my podcast (released...
View ArticleThe Way You Do Anything, Is The Way You Do Everything [INFOGRAPHIC]
I do standup comedy now up to six times a week. And I’m even less reluctant to write about it now than when I went up zero times a week. Because of the simple cliche: the more I DO, the less I KNOW....
View Article10 Unusual Things I Learned From Mr. X
The FBI went to his high school when the 15-year-old Mr. X hacked into the largest Internet company in the world and stole 90 million credit card numbers. “You are going to jail for a long time,” they...
View ArticleRichard Branson-How He Found A Gap In The Market And Became The Billionaire...
I want to be there that moment, “and then everything in my life changed”. It always seems there’s no “right place” and “right time”. The right place is always far away. The right time was always a long...
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Sheila Nevins: The HBO Producer Who Dawned the Era of the Human Experience
Before Sheila Nevins, no one cared about our human stories. “I felt that there could be a performance in every man, that every man could perform his life or his situation or his trauma or his successes...
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Everything You Need To Know About Bitcoin Without ‘Technical Jargons’
Here’s the problem: most people who know a lot about Bitcoin can only speak “tech”. I was at a conference recently. I was the keynote speaker but had zero talk prepared (as usual). It was a...
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Seven Steps To Learn and Master Anything As Quickly As Possible
I hate learning. I wanted to learn how to trade stocks and I ended up losing my home. I wanted to learn how to play chess better and in one of my first tournaments I threw all the pieces on the floor...
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10 Reasons You Have To Quit Your Day Job
Then he said, “Don’t quit your day job”. This is supposed to be a funny way of saying, “You shouldn’t get out of your comfort zone. You shouldn’t try to better yourself. You shouldn’t strive for more....
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An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future…
This is one of my most popular episodes. It came out in 2016. Right after the show came out, I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal (featuring Steve Case, founder of AOL). And in the article, he...
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7 Secrets Of Becoming A Peak Performer
Anders K. Ericsson discovered the “10,000” hour rule. I had him on my podcast in 2016 to talk about peak performance. (One of my favourite topics.) He broke down the steps everyone needs to know to...
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You Can’t Control The Outcome, So Keep Doing What You Love
It was his childhood dream to be an astronaut. He had the costume and everything. “I didn’t think it was possible,” Mike Massimino said. He got rejected over and over again. But he still figured out a...
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12 People Who Found Success Later In Life
This is what happens at 50: Nothing. Nothing changes. And I’m still ambitious. And I still worry about tomorrow. And I still want to learn to be more peaceful. I still want to choose myself. For...
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5 Lessons From Billionaire Ken Langone, The Home Depot Co-Founder
I got to spend two hours with Ken Langone, the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot. I got to ask him all the questions I wanted. And then I told him I’d never been to one of his 2,274 stores. “A pox...
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The Secret of Success (it’s not what you think)
I could’ve made a million dollars at my very first job. A MILLION DOLLARS! A few months earlier I had been kicked out of graduate school. I had failed all of my classes for four semesters in a row. So...
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Strive For Progress And Not Perfection
I almost ruined my career right at the beginning. In 1992, HBO offered me a job. I wish I had taken it. They wanted me to work on this new field, “virtual reality”. I never responded to them. I felt...
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How To Evolve, Where To Go Next And What Steps To Take
We were about halfway through the interview when I needed to hit the rewind button. “Talk about when you found your purpose and passion and developed your craft,” I said. I was interviewing Bishop T.D....
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The Laws of Mastery: Know What You Want & How to Master It
Five years ago I interviewed one of my all-time favourite authors and brilliant thinkers. Now, I’m bringing this interview back to the surface. It’s about mastery. But before you can master something,...
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7 Techniques To Influence Anyone Of Anything
I don’t know what level of influence I have in the world. I suppose my influence with a colleague or a comedian is different than with a podcast guest or my daughters. So in 2016, I stopped guessing....
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The Laws of Mastery: Know What You Want & How to Master It
Five years ago I interviewed one of my all-time favorite authors and brilliant thinkers. Now, I’m bringing this interview back to the surface. It’s about mastery. But before you can master something,...
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How To Get A Billion Dollar Idea
I wrote this article exactly 1 year ago. And sometimes I re-read it… to remind myself of everything Sara Blakely taught me. She’s a self-made billionaire. She’s the founder and creator of Spanx. All of...
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Do You Want To Have Money Or Impact?
One of the most famous people on television was on my podcast. I asked him, “Are you addicted to being relevant?” He had to think about it. He had sacrificed relationships, time with family, rest time...
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The Process To Get ANY Idea Off the Ground
I had to mention that he was Chris Rock’s brother. I would’ve felt weird if I didn’t. But Chris Rock is not Tony Rock’s mentor. In fact, they rarely talk about stand up together. Tony always wanted to...
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Everyone Is An Entrepreneur – No Excuses!
People often think an entrepreneur is about risk-taking and I hear this a lot “not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur”. Neither of these statements are true. 1) An entrepreneur DOES NOT take...
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