Dr. Brian Keating

But you need to have some amount of it, some amount of collaborative nature because no one gets a Nobel Prize alone.

No one person wins the World Series.

Yes, you can win Olympics or whatever or Oscar or whatever.

But those aren't really the kind of legacy for the ages.

Like I don't know half the people that have won a single gold medal in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

I don't know.

I can't remember a single one.

But I know every single Nobel Prize winner in this field.

Don't chase the shiny objects.

You can't start a fire.

You can't melt the army man or that fire ant that's coming after you.

You can't do it unless you use the magnifying glass pointed in exactly the right way to choose your lane.

And this is something James Altucher disagreed with me about, but he kind of, you know, we went back and forth.

I think he convinced me a little bit that sometimes you do want to go into a different lane, but focus on what you're trying to do because you don't have enough time to even master your own discipline, let alone master

Be a master of every single discipline.

So the last thing is about, you know, the book is a guidebook to reclaim your attention so that you can do the greatest good for people around you, your family, and accumulate the influence and the power and the responsibility that you have and that you're capable of.

That's right.

All these people, you know, we have a tendency to hero worship as human beings.

It's a natural kind of,

you know, tribal thing that probably goes back to, you know, caveman origins.