#204 - Behind-the-Scenes of Shaan's Power Writing Course

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's Podcast Network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Shaan Patel** (1:02)
I think once you treat your hobby like a job, that's like a recipe for failure. And that's what happens to a lot of people.

**Sam Parr** (1:21)
All right, what's going on?

**Shaan Patel** (1:22)
What's up, man?

**Sam Parr** (1:23)
So we're gonna get into some ideas, but let me tell you something that I did this week, and I cannot give detail. I actually got in trouble three different times where someone was like, hey, we had this conversation, and you just didn't talk to me. Well, I'm like, well, I don't...
I just, when you and I, the way that you and I talk now is how we talk all the time.

**Shaan Patel** (1:43)
Yeah.

**Sam Parr** (1:44)
And yeah, and so they're right. So I'm gonna try to keep this one vague. I had this dinner, and I was with a guy who has 8,000 employees in China, as well as many thousand in America.
And yeah, impressive person.

**Shaan Patel** (2:00)
Like a factory or something else in China?

**Sam Parr** (2:03)
Tech related, just like some huge company.
If I gave you 100 guesses, you likely wouldn't guess it. It's just some big company that exists in the tech world.

**Shaan Patel** (2:11)
Fair enough.

**Sam Parr** (2:12)
And it's impressive, but it's not like a mainstream thing. And there was this other guy there who made a comment where he was like, China's gonna crush us in the next five years or something.
And then a couple of other people-

**Shaan Patel** (2:25)
People love to say that, by the way. Don't people love saying how China's passed up America?

**Sam Parr** (2:30)
A bunch of other people pounced on that. And then this guy, it was this guy, he lives in China. I believe he, I don't know what ethnicity he was, but he looked like, I mean, he's probably maybe born and raised in China. And then there was this other woman there who actually was born and raised in China. And this guy with the 6,000 Chinese employees goes, a lot of people say that. I do not think that's true. And I don't think any of you should ever think that.
He was just saying, he was like, Americans actually work maybe as hard or harder than a lot of other countries.
And also you talk about this like artificial intelligence and this, it's mostly AI that people, I mean, they talk about China crushing America and a bunch of stuff, but AI is like a hot thing. And this guy was like, I don't think that would happen. And if, and what I think you should do is invest most of your money into American equities. I think he goes like, I'm just so bullish on America. And this, so it was like an interesting perspective. Have you ever heard that?

**Shaan Patel** (3:27)
It's like the one person who probably knows what they're talking about at the table and everybody else who just reads shit on Twitter and like regurgitates it.
All right, I'm going to go with the guy who's got 6,000 employees in China. That makes more sense to me.

**Sam Parr** (3:40)
That's, you know, and that was good. I felt great about that. And so it was just an interesting perspective. But we have...