Best of This Week: Jan 28th

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
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**Ben Wilson** (0:36)
Hey, welcome to My First Million. This is Ben Wilson, here to bring you another Best Of episode. This time we're going Best of the Week. And I think we're gonna try and do these things going forward. It's just 20 to 30 minute episodes where we pull some of the highlights from the week in case you weren't able to hear absolutely everything. So we'll put these out on Fridays, but let us know what you think, whether you like this new format. You can holler at me, Sam, or Shaan on Twitter.
Okay, so for our first clip, we're bringing you a conversation about what it takes to be a billionaire.
Sam's hypothesis is that just about anyone can grind their way to a few million dollars, but it takes a certain personality to become a billionaire. And he explains what that personality is.

**Shaan Puri** (1:15)
We have a buddy who texted me yesterday. He's, you don't know him as well, but I think we can mention him.
I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't say his name, because it's a funny quote.

**Sam Parr** (1:26)
Say it, and then say his name, then bleep him, we'll bleep it out.

**Shaan Puri** (1:29)
So he texts me, and he goes, he texts me, he's like, I just expanded the vision for what I'm doing. He goes, this is eventually going to be the next BlackRock, bigger than BlackRock. I think I can be a trillionaire in the next 50 years.

**Sam Parr** (1:41)
Oh my gosh.

**Shaan Puri** (1:43)
And I was like, he says it with a straight face. He's not like joking, which is amazing and delusional and amazing again, right? That's like those, that's how my brain goes. I'm like, wow. Then I'm like, wow, that's delusional. Then I'm like, well, you know, great, good for you.
That's what gets you excited.

**Sam Parr** (1:59)
Is he capable?

**Shaan Puri** (2:00)
Is he capable of pulling it off? Yeah, like I said this early on, I met him when he was like 19 or 20 And I said, of all the people I've ever met, if I had to bet my life, which one of these people who today is worth less than, you know, $5 million will be a billionaire.
I would have put my life on the line on him. Cause I was like, he's singularly focused on just that.
So it's like, you know, Michael Phelps woke up every day and swam like for fucking three hours and then 18,000 calories. And then did that for like 12 years straight and didn't take a day off. So it's like, yeah, when you devote your life singularly to a pursuit, whether it's swimming laps in a pool or it's becoming a billionaire, you know, that already cuts you away from 99% of the population that wants to be wealthy, but also wants to be, you know, in a good relationship. It also wants to be this. It also wants to have fun with their friends and go out on the weekends. It's like, he cuts out all that. So, you know, I think it gives him the odds on top of being a very smart, capable guy, right? Like he's already amongst the like high IQ people. Then within that, he's got an obsession on money that very few people have.

**Sam Parr** (3:06)
Let me let me please play Devil's Advocate, or as my other favorite podcast calls it, Devil's Avocado. Let me play. Let me play Devil's Avocado here for a second.

**Shaan Puri** (3:14)
Who says that?

**Sam Parr** (3:15)
So Michael Bisping said it at his own. He was Devil's Avocado.
Yeah. So two things. One, I'm reading this book or I already read it recently called Sports Gene. And they basically talk about genetics. And they're just like, look, like the closer you live to the equator, the longer your limbs are and the shorter your torso is. And that just makes you like 15 percent better runner.
And what that means is like if your legs are longer, that just means that if we all work the same and the best people who don't have long legs and short torso, some of them definitely can compete. But like you have a 15 percent edge. And when you're talking about gold medals and being the best in the world, that 15 percent is like a world of difference.