Arnold actually talks about this in The Education of a Bodybuilder.

The Cancer Episode > My diagnosis and prognosis > What this means for How to Take Over the World > A few thoughts on death > See below for links to GoFundMe, etc.

This might sound outlandish, but it has been extremely successful when attempted.

If you couldn't attend this and would like to hit the next one: Our next beautification event will be held on June 13th, 3 PM, in Southern Salt Lake County (Exact location still TBD). Invitation in subsequent post.

George Washington: "deliberate maturely, but execute promptly and vigorously." Rockefeller had a similar style:

Never doubt the true American spirit. Always remember that the director of the greatest scientific establishment of the day with UNLIMITED FUNDING... was beat by two frontier boys with a bike shop and a pinch of autism.

People don't understand just how vast the contributions of Thomas Edison were: * Invented the light bulb * Invented recorded sound * Invents the carbon microphone telephone * Key innovations in developing the power grid * Develops alkaline storage battery * Major innovator in film and motion pictures * Invented the research corporation * Many other "minor" inventions like the underwater microphone, the electric pen, and the mimeograph He also had one of the most interesting lives of all time: * Mark Twain frontier childhood * Has to overcome being mostly deaf from his early childhood (probably due to an explosion he caused from one of his chemistry experiments) * Prankster who loves shocking people with electricity in an age when most people don't even know what electricity is * His entire business burns down at its very height * International celebrity - genuinely one of the most famous people of his day So what made him great? * Genuinely addicted to inventing. Usually fell asleep at his desk. * His lack of education actually helped him. Rather than trying to understand exactly how something worked, he just tinkered until it DID work. * Unbelievable persistence - just never ever gave up on something once he started it * Great showman - loved showing off new inventions * He was comfortable pushing his employees extremely hard * Unbelievably competitive Best Edison quotes: * “Everything on earth depends on will. I never had an idea in my life. I’ve got no imagination. I never dream. My so-called inventions already existed in the environment—I took them out. I’ve created nothing. Nobody does. There’s no such thing as an idea being brain-born; everything comes from the outside. The industrious one coaxes it from the environment; the drone lets it lie there while he goes off to the baseball game. The ‘genius’ hangs around his laboratory day and night. If anything happens he’s there to catch it; if he wasn’t, it might happen just the same, only it would never be his.” * "I am no genius. Unless we accept the theory that genius is prolonged patience. I am patient enough, to be sure." * Tesla quote about Edison "The effect that Edison had on me was rather extraordinary. When I saw this wonderful man, who had no training at all, no advantages, and did it all himself, and saw the great results by virtue of his industry and application, I felt mortified that I had squandered my life."

To be an extraordinary leader you must have compelling eyes. From Paul Johson's biography of Jesus: "Jesus was very observant. It is notable how many times he is described as 'looking,' 'looking upon,' 'looking round,' 'looking up.' His habit of penetrating observation punctuates the narrative: '[H]e looked round' before speaking. 'And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and said . . .' 'And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter.' '[H]e had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts.' He was a man greatly interested in detail. He missed nothing. He had a penetrating gaze, which eyewitnesses noticed and remembered. His all-seeing eyes were, almost certainly, the first thing that struck people about him."

Thomas Jefferson: "The room was hung around with a collection of portraits of remarkable men. Hamilton asked me who they were. I told him they were the... greatest men the world had ever produced. He paused for some time. 'The greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar'"

In honor of Apple's 50th anniversary tomorrow, here is my favorite Steve Jobs quote on what a founder actually does: "There needs to be someone who is the keeper and reiterator of the vision. Because there's just a ton of work to do. A lot of times, when you have to walk a thousand miles and you take the first step, it looks like a long way. It really helps if there's someone there saying, 'Well, we're one step closer. The goal definitely exists. It's not just a mirage out there.' So in a thousand and one little, and sometimes larger, ways, the vision needs to be reiterated."

🚨🚨 NEW EPISODE: HITLER PART 2 🚨🚨 In part 2, we look at how Hitler went from building a movement to taking total power in Germany. 00:00 - How Tyrants Take Power 01:30 - Beer Hall Putsch Begins 08:00 - Hitler Sways the Crowd 12:50 - The Coup Collapses 23:30 - The Trial of the Century 38:30 - Writing Mein Kampf 44:00 - Lebensraum Vision 51:20 - The Great Reunification 58:00 - Bamberg Power Play 01:03:17 - 25 Point Program 01:08:04 - Anti-Clericalism 01:21:14 - Building For the Future 01:29:24 - Weimar System Primer 01:33:49 - Hitler Runs For President 01:36:22 - Refusing Vice Chancellor 01:43:34 - Hitler Strategy Doing Nothing 01:59:00 - Enabling Act Ends Democracy 02:05:48 - Reichstag Fire Crackdown 02:11:22 Four Lessons Wrap Up ----- Sources:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny by RHS Stolfi⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan Simms⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠In His Own Words: The Essential Speeches of Adolf Hitler by CJ Miller⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (New Ford Translation)⁠⁠ ----- Sponsors:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠The Classical Society⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠David Senra Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Zodl (The new Zashi wallet)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Speechify⁠

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