#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

**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 Puri** (1:02)
What's the most annoying thing in the world?
An unhappy billionaire. And I think he said something like that. And I was like, wow, that's so true actually. Like if he came to me about being glum and whatever, it would be hard for me in my initial reaction to be like, dude, you have it all.

**Sam Parr** (1:28)
All right, let's get into it. You ready?

**Shaan Puri** (1:29)
Yeah.

**Sam Parr** (1:31)
All right, what's going on?

**Shaan Puri** (1:34)
Not too much.

**Sam Parr** (1:36)
Can I tell you a quick story that I just read?

**Shaan Puri** (1:39)
I love when we start with a story.
The last story got rave reviews. Big reaction for the psychedelic story. Which story?

**Sam Parr** (1:47)
Oh, did it?
Great. All right, let me tell you a quick one. This isn't about me though, and I'm actually reading the book called Storyworthy because you told me it was a good book. Yeah. So I haven't read it enough that I'm going to implement what I've learned, so don't have your high expectations. But I'm reading the biography of the Wright brothers. Do you know who they are?

**Shaan Puri** (2:06)
Of course, Vince de airplane.

**Sam Parr** (2:07)
Well, you didn't know who Dolly Parton was.

**Shaan Puri** (2:08)
I was the first people to have a flying plane.

**Sam Parr** (2:12)
Yeah. The Wright brothers, they created like insulin, right?
So Wilbur Wright was like the smart brother, or he was like the lead brother.
And when he was in high school, he was very smart. He was going to go to Yale.
He was going to be a big deal.
And he was an athlete. And he was out one night playing hockey in the neighborhood.
He lived in Dayton, Ohio, where it was really cold in the winter. And you could play ice hockey on the lakes.
And he was playing. And this kid comes from behind him and smacks him in the face with a stick.
And he knocks out most of his teeth. He breaks his jaw. And he has digestive problems for years. And he's basically like not in a coma, but he doesn't leave his house for four years. The guy who hit him, his name is Howard Hoth or something like that. And this guy, this kid who hit him, one of the reasons why it's hypothesized why he hit him, is this kid had been suffering from a cold or some type of flu for a really long time. And at the time, they gave him this medicine that was cocaine based. And so basically, he was like a drug addict at a young age.
And he was a bully. He was known to be a bully. And he smacked Wilbur Wright in the face really bad. No one knows if it was on accident, if it was on purpose. Turns out years later, this guy who hit him turns out to be one of the first serial killers based out of Ohio. And he's put to death because he kills like 20 people. So, he was like a bad guy since the beginning and he hits Wilbur Wright in the face. And so, Wilbur Wright was going to go to Yale that year.