My First Million

Key Takeaways

Everything is an issue of agency; agency is the most valuable skill for any founder
Work from a creative mindset by actively applying your sense of agency: Write down the value, how you can display it, and then do the thing
Getting Ted Lasso’d: When a Brit with twice the intelligence and knowledge gets outperformed by the American who has 10x the agency and confidence
Pay attention to your ideas that make you laugh; if they elicit this type of emotion in you, then you might be onto something
If you wait for the news, you will be wrong or late
- What is ignored by the media today that will be studied by future historians?
Leverage on high agency has never been higher, thanks to modern AI tools
Some people let reality happen to them and then use words to describe it, while others use words to edit and shape their reality
- Language shapes the world around us
- Minimize “should” from your vocabulary and start doing!
- The best way to increase your agency is to hang around people with high agency
Ideas are avocados: they are perishable – there is no time like the present to work on your idea
The high-agency approach to problem solving: Ask “Why, Why, Why?” and continue to drill down on the problem until you arrive at the fundamental issue upon which you can take action today
Speed is negotiable: Mobilize your army, which is your ideas, your resources, and your intention, to achieve your goal in much less time than you perceive to be possible

Episode 703: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to George Mack ( https://x.com/george__mack ) about high agency.

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Links:

• Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/wec

• High Agency - https://www.highagency.com/

• Nick Mowbray episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHcxoZ0j9A

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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