Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison & Hitler

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
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**Ben Wilson** (1:02)
That is what all of them did. That's what Napoleon did. That's what Hitler did. That's what Caesar did. Is this like taking tons of resources and focusing them on a very small point and taking lots of gravity and kind of narrowing the focus.
Www.zeoranger.co.uk Hey, My First Million fans, this is producer Ben. I'm subbing in this week because Shaan is out with some family stuff. But for One Question Friday today, Sam and I sat down to discuss how to take over the world, some things that I have learned from studying lives of great achievers and conquerors throughout history.
And Sam and I just got to talking about history and great people in our own lives and what we've learned from them. So it's a little bit of a more random and less focused One Question Friday, but I think there's some really good stuff in it that I think you'll really enjoy.

**Sam Parr** (1:50)
Okay.
So I asked you traits of conquerors. And the reason I'm thinking about that is I just finished this like epic book. It's like 1400 pages long. It's called the, what is it called? I think it's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Have you heard of that?

**Ben Wilson** (2:11)
Yeah. So it's kind of one of the seminal texts on Hitler and Nazism.

**Sam Parr** (2:15)
Yes, and it's crazy.
And I was reading it and I was like, this is nuts. The reason I read it was I wanted to figure out why would a country be so complicit with such bad things? And I was like, what on earth was about this Hitler dude that convinced all these people to do all these bad things? And so I learned and it was wild. And I started, and basically it all kind of came down to like, he was in prison one time because he like tried to like, basically was a glorified protestor, like I do, he kind of like stormed the, it was like storming the capital kind of like type of thing. And he was arrested for it.
And in prison, he wrote his book called Mein Kampf. And in the book he wrote, like, I've recently discovered that it is my obligation to lead the German people to greatness. And he like dedicated his life to that. And it was wild that there was like a decision to be made.
And like, it was almost perfect execution. I mean, you know, it wasn't in the end because he didn't achieve whatever he was trying to achieve. But like, he got so freaking far, so past what like, what I ever would have thought. And at the time when Nazis came to power, or right before they came to power, they were the freaks of Germany. Like at the time they were like, they had a lot of homosexuals in the crew, which was like not looked on nicely, you know, at that time they had like a bunch of artists, a bunch of like oddballs, people who were like had a lot of antisocial behavior, like they dressed funny. Like people were like, who are these guys are a joke. No one's gonna take these idiots seriously. And it, you know, it changed quickly. And so anyway, I thought that was fascinating about conquerors and like these types of people and like how on earth they came to be. And so I wanted to ask you like, what are some common traits amongst those?