750 6 Years of Greatness

This is Five Minute Friday. Welcome to Five Minute Friday. This is episode number 750. And also today is the sixth year anniversary of the School of Greatness podcast. Guys, we are doing this together. We are living our lives fully. We are taking on our dreams. We are learning lessons from the challenges we go through, and we are one huge family and I'm so grateful for all of your support over the years. And this Five Minute Friday is with our very first guest, Robert Greene. And I'm so excited to share this with you. It's when I did it on my iPhone and the audio recording was bad. Just to show you that it doesn't matter where you're at now, you can always improve any area of your life, your health, your relationships, your business, and take things to another level. So without further ado, let's dive into this Five Minute Friday. Thanks so much for coming on the show, Robert.

Thank you very much for having me. I'm excited. I'm very excited.

Now, first off, before we actually get into some of the content, why did you decide to cover this topic of mastery?

Well, prior to this book, I had been working for, let's say, 13 years or so researching power in all of its different forms. from great political figures to seducers, to artists, et cetera. And then I have the opportunity to actually interact with a living power figure, 50 Cent. And I noticed that all these people sort of shared something, that there was something that's a quality that they all had. It wasn't anything physical. It was something about how their minds operated. And I just thought if I could figure out what it is that these people shared, it would be like the ultimate book. It would be like the ultimate secret to power itself. I could reduce it to something relatively simple, a process that these people went through to, I say, attain sort of a superior level of intelligence. And once you have this intelligence, basically the world is yours to conquer. If you have setbacks, as they're inevitable in life, you'll know how to get back on your feet. It's just like the key to everything. So I wanted to share this knowledge that I had from so much research with my readers.

It's amazing.

Now can you tell a little bit.

More about your national with 50 Cent?

I think that's pretty cool that you.

Actually wrote a book with him. And how much time did you get to spend with him?

And what did you really learn about.

How he got to where he is?

Well, he contacted me. The 48 Laws of Power is really big in the hip hop community. He was just curious to meet me and we met in the back room of a steakhouse in New York City back in 2006, I think it was. It was kind of intimidating because I was the only sort of white guy there. You had a huge entourage. He had a huge entourage. It was kind of like something out of the Godfather. But it ended up, we hit it off really well. You wouldn't think of looking at us because we don't look similar or anything. But we got along really well. We shared a kind of interest in strategy and warfare. We like to talk about sports and power maneuvers and what people are really up to in the music business, what this executive is doing and why it fits in with the 48 Laws. But we connected really well on that. And so we decided to do a book together. I spent about, for six months I was pretty much hanging out with him. Really? I'd go back and forth back to LA, but I was in New York a lot. I would hang out with him in all his meetings. I went to his house and hung out at his strange mansion in Connecticut that he bought from Mike Tyson. And then I went to Vegas a lot with him, partied with him. Neither of us are like real party animals, but so we got to know each other pretty well, you know? And wow. Being around him, you know, I was sort of considering, I never got to be around Napoleon Bonaparte. I'm not that old. And I thought, this is my chance to be around a real kind of I call him the Napoleon Bonaparte of hip hop, to really see in real time, you know, what a power figure is like. And he was amazing. And I deduced from that time that the secret to 50 is his fearlessness, and that's what the 50th law is about.