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Dr. Benjamin Hardy is the co-author of the books, "10x Is Easier Than 2x" and "Who Not How" with Dan Sullivan. I read his new one, "The Science of Scaling," and then I couldn't sleep. Step one is to set a goal so big you don't believe you can hit it, and I got stuck there, so instead of interviewing Ben about his framework I asked him to run it on me live. He pulled my own goal three years forward and made me say out loud what would have to go, which is when it clicked: the goal is not a prediction, it's a tool for deciding what you cut.
Mentioned on the podcast:
► The $100K Playbook: https://capitalism.com/100K
► Bootcamp waitlist: https://capitalism.com/bootcamp
► The Science of Scaling by Dr. Benjamin Hardy
► 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy
► Who Not How by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy
(0:00) Very talented entrepreneurs could be getting 100X the results they are
(0:38) Step one of the book: set an impossible goal
(1:02) My challenge to you before we start, and the number I want you to aim at
(2:21) "I have a bone to pick with you." The book that cost me a night of sleep
(3:10) How Ben made his money, and the coaching company he sold
(4:15) Why he walked away from social media, masterminds, and his old business
(6:27) Most people think scale means doing twice as many things
(8:03) High-rep, low-rep, and Joseph Nguyen's "no-rep" learning
(9:59) Five pathways that were all decent, and not one of them powerful
(11:09) I got stuck on chapter one with seven goals that all seemed related
(14:20) Using time as a tool: shorten the window, filter out the seven-figure decisions
(15:53) "How blunt do you want me to be?" Ben moves my 2030 goal to 2027
(16:53) The first thing that falls apart is a role we manage instead of hire well
(18:29) Acquire bigger brands, or install better operators
(19:20) The honest answer for why I never just changed the timeline
(20:44) Nobody is monitoring your goal, which is exactly what makes it a tool
(23:30) Your impossible goal does not have to be a billion dollars
(24:46) What happens after $100 million, and why a billion feels unclear
(26:05) My seven goals out loud, and the four I had already forgotten
(27:20) The Cleveland Guardians, and the goal I stopped believing in
(30:34) Your goal and the company's goal are two different goals
(32:20) The Bain Capital founder who could not answer "how do you choose the right goal?"
(33:39) "Just choose" versus optimizing for the wrong thing
(36:02) The purpose of the goal is whatever it forces you to face
(37:58) Physician's Choice cut profitable SKUs to build a $100 million company
(39:55) Why every event and every scroll hands you four more goals
(41:47) Alicia Alt went from 10 customers to 8,000 in one week
(43:20) The power law, and why a great one is worth 10,000 average ones
(45:20) Margin for error: what a superstar does for everyone else on the floor
(46:03) "The who often comes with the pathway"
(48:15) Tom Brady and Odell Beckham Jr. had the same game and different goals
(52:43) José Ramírez took $100 million below market to be the greatest Cleveland player ever
(53:37) How many goals Ben actually has
(54:48) The Logan Paul problem, and what Musk is really optimizing for
(57:41) You are not sacrificing the other six goals, you are sacrificing them for now
(1:00:37) Raising the floor is the conscious choice to let things go
(1:04:07) "I'm not capable of that." Why belief is not required at the start
(1:08:44) Hidden commitments: the $31 million founder avoiding his father's collapse
(1:12:45) Big visions and a life you actually enjoy
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