Rob Walling

I did listen to Think and Grow Rich, didn't love it.

But there were books about management.

There were books about entrepreneurship and company building and

I had never managed a person before.

I didn't really know how to do it.

I even listened to books about kind of self-improvement, social skills, confidence, learning how to be, it's not even like more charismatic, but just how to operate in the world and have difficult conversations.

I wasn't taught any of that growing up.

And so this allowed me to start installing mental models before I needed them.

And as I faced these situations later,

I started realizing, oh, this is the thing that one book talked about, right?

And these days, do I listen to audiobooks way in advance of needing them?

No, I don't.

I'm much more a believer in just-in-time learning.

But back then, I was such a sponge.

I had so much free time.

And I didn't know anything.

I just needed to be exposed to a bunch of concepts.

And so a lot of the books on tape, most of them were from the library.

I didn't have any money.

They were the most popular business books and self-improvement and self-help books.