April 22, 2024 • 17 mins
Embark on a historical journey with us as we draw inspiration from the legendary conqueror, Alexander the Great. Our podcast peels back the layers of ambition and conquest as depicted in the biography by Arian, and in doing so, offers invaluable lessons for today's entrepreneurs. We're not just recounting tales of ancient battles; we're uncovering the strategic vision and leadership that propelled a young king to empire-builder by the age of 30. This episode promises to enrich your understanding of how tenacity, vision, and an unyielding pursuit of success can be the driving forces behind your own painting business empire.
As we traverse Alexander's path to greatness, we extract timeless leadership principles that resonate with modern ambitions. I share how Alexander's commitment to leading by example cultivated deep loyalty and how this can be mirrored in contemporary business practices. Whether you're directing a painting company or any entrepreneurial project, the episode will equip you with the strategies to inspire and lead your team to victory. Plus, we're extending a warm invitation to continue the conversation and growth within our 'Grow Your Painting Business' Facebook group. Tune in for a robust dialogue on the makings of a leader and the imprint of ambition.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Profitable Painter Podcast
biography edition, where wedelve into the lives of some of
history's most successfulindividuals to uncover the
strategies, tactics and mindsetsthat propel them to greatness.
Today we're exploring theextraordinary life of a figure
whose unyielding ambition hasallowed his name to carry on for
over 2,000 years.
(00:21):
So join me as we navigate thejourney of this remarkable
individual and extractinvaluable lessons you can apply
to elevate your professionalpainting business.
Get ready to be inspired, tolearn and to transform the way
you think about success andleadership in your own
entrepreneurial journey.
So over the last week or so,I've been reading Alexander the
(00:41):
Great by Arian.
So Arian was a Greek historianback in Roman time and he was
infatuated with Alexander theGreat, and he wrote this
biography of Alexander the Great.
And Alexander the Great was anancient Macedonian ruler and one
of history's most legendarymilitary leaders.
(01:03):
He was born in 356 BC inMacedonia and his dad was King
Philip II and his mom was QueenOlympus.
And he became a king at age 20after his father was
assassinated, and he's beenrenowned for his unparalleled
ambition.
Alexander ended up embarking onan unprecedented military
(01:27):
campaign through Asia andnortheast Africa and by the age
of 30 he had created one of thelargest empires of the ancient
world, stretching from Greece tonorthwestern India.
Alexander was not only amilitary genius, but he was also
a student of Aristotle, and heembraced learning and culture.
(01:47):
Despite his untimely death at32, alexander's conquest spread
Greek culture throughout theknown world, significantly
influencing the subsequenthistory of Europe and Asia, and
his legacy endures as a symbolof visionary leadership and
tactical brilliance.
He's a pretty interestingcharacter to dive into.
(02:08):
One of the key things is thathe has just this insatiable
hunger for fame.
Just from the early onset andthis is a quote from the book
his passionate desire for fameimplanted in him a pride and a
grandeur of vision which wentfar beyond his years, and this
started in his teenage years.
He had these seeds of greatnessin him.
(02:31):
He wanted to basically takeover the world from an early age
and he had a huge vision.
So I think that's one of thethings we can take away from
Alexander the Great is don'tlimit your vision.
I think Grant Cardone he wrotethe book the 10x Rule and that's
what he kind of says.
You know, take your goal andalways 10x it.
(02:51):
I think Alexander the Greatprobably like a thousand next it
.
But one of the quotes from thebook.
He had no desire to inherit akingdom which offered him riches
, luxuries and the pleasures ofsenses.
His choice was a life ofstruggle, of wars and
unrelenting ambition.
So he just never stopped.
He just was always going, whichwe'll get into here in a second
(03:13):
.
But as far as his early lifethis is a quote from the book
Philip, his dad, had noticedthat his son was self-willed and
that while it was verydifficult to influence him by
force, he could easily be guidedtowards his duty by an appeal
to reason.
Philip, actually, you know, hesaw this in his son and he
wanted to foster the capabilityof being able to reason.
(03:36):
And so he actually got like hegot the best person he could
find to tutor his son, which wasAristotle.
So that's pretty crazy.
You get like the most famousGreek philosopher to tutor your
son one-on-one.
Alexander got that one-on-onetutorship from Aristotle, and
one of the quotes from the booksays and so Philip sent for
(03:58):
Aristotle, the most famous andlearned of the philosophers of
his time, and rewarded him withthe generosity that his
reputation deserved.
You know, this kind of fosteredthe love of literature that
Alexander had.
He loved the Iliad by Homer andhe always carried around that
(04:18):
book with him throughout hislife.
He would take it on thecampaigns he went and he
actually had a copy that wasannotated by Aristotle himself
that he would just have with himall the time and refer to.
And he was very inspired by thecharacters in the Iliad,
especially Achilles.
He also his mom kind of told,basically encouraged that kind
(04:43):
of thinking and even toldAlexander that he was, you know,
a part God.
So he had this kind ofotherworldly sense of himself
and that he was destined for bigthings.
Education was huge forAlexander.
So not only did he have thisbig vision, but he was very
smart and he knew a lot ofthings.
(05:04):
He had studied, you know, thegreat military commanders of the
past and battles and things.
So he knew a lot.
So his dad is assassinated whenhe turns 19.
And at this point Alexanderbecomes the king.
However, whenever there's anykind of transfer of power during
(05:27):
these days, it's a time ofgreat risk.
So he basically goes, takes thearmy and starts to quell some
uprisings throughout Greece.
So he's up in Macedonia, hegoes down to down south to
Thebes, athens and all thesedifferent places and he's
basically fighting other Greeksand getting his own territory
(05:52):
under control, and his plan isbasically to get homes
straightened out so he can go tothe east and take over Persia,
which is Persia was like thebiggest enemy of Greece back in
these days and he had this goalof taking over the world and
then started with Persia.
But first he went to Greece andgot things under control, and
(06:15):
that was something aboutAlexander.
He faced challenges head on,and here's a quote from the book
.
Nevertheless, alexanderbelieved that these difficulties
actually made the capture ofthe city even more central, as
such unexpected success wouldstrike terrible fear into his
enemies, whereas failure wouldbring disgrace upon him.
(06:36):
So, basically, whenever therewas a challenge and there was
many challenges, because he wentconquer this vast area from
Greece all the way to India,there was all these different
challenges and he would kind ofget excited with the challenge
and he would face it head on.
He would never shy away fromthings that were really hard.
I mean, he was taking on thePersian army.
(06:59):
For example, whenever he wentinto the battle against the
Persians, they often outnumberedhim at least two to one, using
the low estimates of the Persianforce.
It was like the Persians wouldalways outnumber the Macedonian
in Alexander by two to one, andthen he would also just take
over crazy places that you wouldthink would be impossible to
(07:21):
take over.
For example, there's this onearea in off the coast of Lebanon
modern day Lebanon it's calledTire Island and it's basically.
It's an island and it has thesehuge walls that surround the
island.
Alexander had a great army, buthe didn't actually have really a
navy.
He kind of had a navy, but notreally the Persian.
(07:44):
The Persians had a way betternavy than he did, but he had to
take over this island and hedidn't have a navy to really
attack it, so he had to use hisland force, and so what they
ended up doing was he tried toget them to submit to him
without doing a battle, but theywouldn't.
(08:06):
The Tire Island leadership waslike no, you can't take us over
anyway.
Nebuchadnezzar tried and wewere able to withstand that.
So we're good, we're not goingto submit to you.
So you have listen to thisوا.
Alexander the Great ended upbuilding this bridge out.
It was like a mile from themainland out to the island, and
(08:27):
During this process you know hehad this problem solved so many
things because the tire Navystarted attacking the people who
were making the making thebridge, that and so he had to
build protection to protect hisguys who were building the
bridge.
And then the Navy startedthrowing firebombs at the bridge
and burning it, and so then hehad to go and actually get a
(08:50):
Navy to to attack the, the tireNavy.
And then it was just problemafter problem that he had a
problem solved, so he wasn'tafraid of challenges, and then
he was always problem solvingthese challenges.
He ended up taking over thatisland Even though he didn't
really have a Navy to start withand there was no bridge to get
(09:10):
there.
One example of many where he'sjust going around and doing
these crazy things that nobodyis expecting very bold maneuvers
and People are always supersurprised of the things that
he's doing.
And he also had a tremendousresilience and here's one of the
quotes From the book for,besides all his other hardships,
(09:33):
he had recently been woundedbelow the knee by an arrow which
splintered the shin bone, andso he was always getting hurt in
these battles.
Because he's leading from thefront, I mean he's not like just
in the back, like doing thestrategy or whatever.
He's actually Leading the mainpart of his force and he's
getting wounded, but he's, he'sfighting through wounds.
(09:55):
He's Constantly just dealingwith that.
Here's another quote from thebook.
Alexander just kept coming onand on.
The freezing cold and thestarvation made it a tremendous
task, but they couldn't stop him.
So he, you know, they're goingthrough the deserts, they're
going through huge mountains,it's cold and he's always
(10:15):
pushing his, his, his troops andthat's another thing is that
every army that he's facing asthey're taking over all these
different places, they're alwayssurprised, every single time.
They're always surprised at thespeed at which Alexander would
show up or do a counterattack.
But they were always surprisedand that was one of the things
(10:36):
that made him successful wasthat his ability to Just
surprise people at which, thespeed at which he's moving and
making decisions and that's oneof the things we talked about
Jeff Bezos in a prior podcast,jeff Bezos kind of.
He also values speed anddecision-making.
He said something the fact thatthe best workers won't want to
work with you if you're slow tomake decisions, because they
(10:58):
want to get things done.
And that was absolutelysomething that Alexander did was
Use speed to his advantagespeed and decision-making and
also just speed in the movementsthat he was doing.
He was pushing his troops,leading from the front,
inspiring them to keep going,and that was that was quite a
task, because they went a verylong way, from Greece to India.
(11:23):
So, and as far as just to goback to the ambition that I,
alexander, had, one of thequotes from the book is as far
as I can see, true men need noreward for their labors aside
from those labors themselves, aslong as these have noble
consequences.
Nevertheless, if anyone shouldwish to know what limit is set
(11:44):
for our campaign, let me tellthem that is only the whole of
the of the earth.
So, basically, the reward forlabor is labor itself, and that
this campaign is gonna we'regonna take over the world, and
that was working for many, manyyears.
(12:04):
Basically, this campaign waslasting like almost basically a
decade.
He started at 20 and he wasstill going at 30, 30, 31, 32 so
is well over a decade, and hewould have kept going.
But he started making somemistakes and this kind of led to
(12:24):
his downfall.
One of the things that hestarted doing later on he had
taken over Persia, killed the,the Persian king, and he had all
of Persia.
And then he was Going evenfurther east, through
Afghanistan modern-dayAfghanistan and into Pakistan.
One of the things that hestarted doing was drinking
(12:45):
alcohol a lot and, and duringone that time he actually ended
up killing one of his friends,which is a general.
They got kind of in an argumentand he ended up killing him and
he felt really bad about it.
But you know that's that's nota good thing to do killing your
friends and you know, I thinkpart of it was attributed
(13:06):
attributed to the alcoholismthat I think he was falling into
and he made some bad decisions.
He burned down some cities youprobably shouldn't have burned
down and I think that kind ofattributed to his eventual
downfall.
Another thing I think that ledto his downfall was his
arrogance.
He has started to force his mento prostrate themselves,
(13:28):
basically to bow down to him,and that was not something that
the Greeks really did to theirkings.
They would only, they said,basically said that you should
only really Bow down to gods,not to men.
But he, he was starting toforce his men to bow down to him
after he took over Persia andthey didn't like that too much
(13:49):
and he kind of lost the trust ofhis men, so they ended up
muting against him in the packmodern-day Pakistan, and so they
had to turn back.
And this is after 10 plus yearsof fighting together and taking
over, you know, a good part ofthe world.
And it wasn't actually the factthat Alexander the Great lost
any battles, I mean, he was justhe was there, were still
(14:11):
winning.
It was just that he kind of letit get to his head and he
started drinking and, and thenthat that's what kind of stopped
his, his progress.
So some things I think we shouldtake away from Alexander the
Great.
Studying him is he had a hugevision for his life and I think
(14:32):
that could help us.
You know, think, hey, maybe Ican, I could have a bigger
vision, because it sometimes weput limits on ourselves, on our
beliefs and and that kind ofImpacts what we can actually
accomplish, whereas if weincrease our vision, you know we
can accomplish even more thanwhat we might actually think.
He was also very focused oneducation and learning.
(14:53):
I think that's something thatgreatly assisted him and taking
over a good part of the world,his he was very tactically sound
, he was out thinking other veryaccomplished generals, and so
that's that's something we cantake take in our own lives is
constantly learning andInnovating so we can have that
(15:18):
competitive edge in themarketplace.
The other thing is resilience.
He went through so many hard,difficult things whether it was
starvation, getting stabbed inthe shoulder, through the leg,
you know dealing with his, histroops and he, for the most part
, you know, kept it together andwas able to push through.
(15:40):
And then also, he also led hit,led by example.
So he led his troops by example.
He didn't ask his troops to doanything that he wasn't doing.
He was always in the front, hewas leading the charge, and I
think that's one of the reasonswhy his Army fought so long with
him, you know, over ten years,not going home.
(16:00):
You know that they're older,their wives and their children
they're back in Greece andthey're still fighting with him
years and years later, becausethey really admired him and he,
he was a leader that led byexample, and that's something
that I think, as leaders, that'ssomething that we need to take
to heart as well, because thefolks that we lead definitely
(16:22):
pay attention to what we'redoing and if we're kind of
resting on our laurels and notreally Engaging, they see that
and they're not going to giveyou their all if they see you
not giving your all.
Those are, I think, are somesome key notes for Alexander's
life and what we can do to takethat in our own businesses and
(16:43):
with that, love to hear yourthoughts for future episodes,
future biographies.
Definitely go to grow yourpainting business on Facebook if
you type that in to Facebookand go to the group and love to
hear your thoughts or or ideasfor future podcasts.
With that, I'll see you nextweek.
You.
Welcome to the Profitable Painter Podcast
biography edition, where wedelve into the lives of some of
history's most successfulindividuals to uncover the
strategies, tactics and mindsetsthat propel them to greatness.
Today we're exploring theextraordinary life of a figure
whose unyielding ambition hasallowed his name to carry on for
over 2,000 years.
(00:21):
So join me as we navigate thejourney of this remarkable
individual and extractinvaluable lessons you can apply
to elevate your professionalpainting business.
Get ready to be inspired, tolearn and to transform the way
you think about success andleadership in your own
entrepreneurial journey.
So over the last week or so,I've been reading Alexander the
(00:41):
Great by Arian.
So Arian was a Greek historianback in Roman time and he was
infatuated with Alexander theGreat, and he wrote this
biography of Alexander the Great.
And Alexander the Great was anancient Macedonian ruler and one
of history's most legendarymilitary leaders.
(01:03):
He was born in 356 BC inMacedonia and his dad was King
Philip II and his mom was QueenOlympus.
And he became a king at age 20after his father was
assassinated, and he's beenrenowned for his unparalleled
ambition.
Alexander ended up embarking onan unprecedented military
(01:27):
campaign through Asia andnortheast Africa and by the age
of 30 he had created one of thelargest empires of the ancient
world, stretching from Greece tonorthwestern India.
Alexander was not only amilitary genius, but he was also
a student of Aristotle, and heembraced learning and culture.
(01:47):
Despite his untimely death at32, alexander's conquest spread
Greek culture throughout theknown world, significantly
influencing the subsequenthistory of Europe and Asia, and
his legacy endures as a symbolof visionary leadership and
tactical brilliance.
He's a pretty interestingcharacter to dive into.
(02:08):
One of the key things is thathe has just this insatiable
hunger for fame.
Just from the early onset andthis is a quote from the book
his passionate desire for fameimplanted in him a pride and a
grandeur of vision which wentfar beyond his years, and this
started in his teenage years.
He had these seeds of greatnessin him.
(02:31):
He wanted to basically takeover the world from an early age
and he had a huge vision.
So I think that's one of thethings we can take away from
Alexander the Great is don'tlimit your vision.
I think Grant Cardone he wrotethe book the 10x Rule and that's
what he kind of says.
You know, take your goal andalways 10x it.
(02:51):
I think Alexander the Greatprobably like a thousand next it
.
But one of the quotes from thebook.
He had no desire to inherit akingdom which offered him riches
, luxuries and the pleasures ofsenses.
His choice was a life ofstruggle, of wars and
unrelenting ambition.
So he just never stopped.
He just was always going, whichwe'll get into here in a second
(03:13):
.
But as far as his early lifethis is a quote from the book
Philip, his dad, had noticedthat his son was self-willed and
that while it was verydifficult to influence him by
force, he could easily be guidedtowards his duty by an appeal
to reason.
Philip, actually, you know, hesaw this in his son and he
wanted to foster the capabilityof being able to reason.
(03:36):
And so he actually got like hegot the best person he could
find to tutor his son, which wasAristotle.
So that's pretty crazy.
You get like the most famousGreek philosopher to tutor your
son one-on-one.
Alexander got that one-on-onetutorship from Aristotle, and
one of the quotes from the booksays and so Philip sent for
(03:58):
Aristotle, the most famous andlearned of the philosophers of
his time, and rewarded him withthe generosity that his
reputation deserved.
You know, this kind of fosteredthe love of literature that
Alexander had.
He loved the Iliad by Homer andhe always carried around that
(04:18):
book with him throughout hislife.
He would take it on thecampaigns he went and he
actually had a copy that wasannotated by Aristotle himself
that he would just have with himall the time and refer to.
And he was very inspired by thecharacters in the Iliad,
especially Achilles.
He also his mom kind of told,basically encouraged that kind
(04:43):
of thinking and even toldAlexander that he was, you know,
a part God.
So he had this kind ofotherworldly sense of himself
and that he was destined for bigthings.
Education was huge forAlexander.
So not only did he have thisbig vision, but he was very
smart and he knew a lot ofthings.
(05:04):
He had studied, you know, thegreat military commanders of the
past and battles and things.
So he knew a lot.
So his dad is assassinated whenhe turns 19.
And at this point Alexanderbecomes the king.
However, whenever there's anykind of transfer of power during
(05:27):
these days, it's a time ofgreat risk.
So he basically goes, takes thearmy and starts to quell some
uprisings throughout Greece.
So he's up in Macedonia, hegoes down to down south to
Thebes, athens and all thesedifferent places and he's
basically fighting other Greeksand getting his own territory
(05:52):
under control, and his plan isbasically to get homes
straightened out so he can go tothe east and take over Persia,
which is Persia was like thebiggest enemy of Greece back in
these days and he had this goalof taking over the world and
then started with Persia.
But first he went to Greece andgot things under control, and
(06:15):
that was something aboutAlexander.
He faced challenges head on,and here's a quote from the book
.
Nevertheless, alexanderbelieved that these difficulties
actually made the capture ofthe city even more central, as
such unexpected success wouldstrike terrible fear into his
enemies, whereas failure wouldbring disgrace upon him.
(06:36):
So, basically, whenever therewas a challenge and there was
many challenges, because he wentconquer this vast area from
Greece all the way to India,there was all these different
challenges and he would kind ofget excited with the challenge
and he would face it head on.
He would never shy away fromthings that were really hard.
I mean, he was taking on thePersian army.
(06:59):
For example, whenever he wentinto the battle against the
Persians, they often outnumberedhim at least two to one, using
the low estimates of the Persianforce.
It was like the Persians wouldalways outnumber the Macedonian
in Alexander by two to one, andthen he would also just take
over crazy places that you wouldthink would be impossible to
(07:21):
take over.
For example, there's this onearea in off the coast of Lebanon
modern day Lebanon it's calledTire Island and it's basically.
It's an island and it has thesehuge walls that surround the
island.
Alexander had a great army, buthe didn't actually have really a
navy.
He kind of had a navy, but notreally the Persian.
(07:44):
The Persians had a way betternavy than he did, but he had to
take over this island and hedidn't have a navy to really
attack it, so he had to use hisland force, and so what they
ended up doing was he tried toget them to submit to him
without doing a battle, but theywouldn't.
(08:06):
The Tire Island leadership waslike no, you can't take us over
anyway.
Nebuchadnezzar tried and wewere able to withstand that.
So we're good, we're not goingto submit to you.
So you have listen to thisوا.
Alexander the Great ended upbuilding this bridge out.
It was like a mile from themainland out to the island, and
(08:27):
During this process you know hehad this problem solved so many
things because the tire Navystarted attacking the people who
were making the making thebridge, that and so he had to
build protection to protect hisguys who were building the
bridge.
And then the Navy startedthrowing firebombs at the bridge
and burning it, and so then hehad to go and actually get a
(08:50):
Navy to to attack the, the tireNavy.
And then it was just problemafter problem that he had a
problem solved, so he wasn'tafraid of challenges, and then
he was always problem solvingthese challenges.
He ended up taking over thatisland Even though he didn't
really have a Navy to start withand there was no bridge to get
(09:10):
there.
One example of many where he'sjust going around and doing
these crazy things that nobodyis expecting very bold maneuvers
and People are always supersurprised of the things that
he's doing.
And he also had a tremendousresilience and here's one of the
quotes From the book for,besides all his other hardships,
(09:33):
he had recently been woundedbelow the knee by an arrow which
splintered the shin bone, andso he was always getting hurt in
these battles.
Because he's leading from thefront, I mean he's not like just
in the back, like doing thestrategy or whatever.
He's actually Leading the mainpart of his force and he's
getting wounded, but he's, he'sfighting through wounds.
(09:55):
He's Constantly just dealingwith that.
Here's another quote from thebook.
Alexander just kept coming onand on.
The freezing cold and thestarvation made it a tremendous
task, but they couldn't stop him.
So he, you know, they're goingthrough the deserts, they're
going through huge mountains,it's cold and he's always
(10:15):
pushing his, his, his troops andthat's another thing is that
every army that he's facing asthey're taking over all these
different places, they're alwayssurprised, every single time.
They're always surprised at thespeed at which Alexander would
show up or do a counterattack.
But they were always surprisedand that was one of the things
(10:36):
that made him successful wasthat his ability to Just
surprise people at which, thespeed at which he's moving and
making decisions and that's oneof the things we talked about
Jeff Bezos in a prior podcast,jeff Bezos kind of.
He also values speed anddecision-making.
He said something the fact thatthe best workers won't want to
work with you if you're slow tomake decisions, because they
(10:58):
want to get things done.
And that was absolutelysomething that Alexander did was
Use speed to his advantagespeed and decision-making and
also just speed in the movementsthat he was doing.
He was pushing his troops,leading from the front,
inspiring them to keep going,and that was that was quite a
task, because they went a verylong way, from Greece to India.
(11:23):
So, and as far as just to goback to the ambition that I,
alexander, had, one of thequotes from the book is as far
as I can see, true men need noreward for their labors aside
from those labors themselves, aslong as these have noble
consequences.
Nevertheless, if anyone shouldwish to know what limit is set
(11:44):
for our campaign, let me tellthem that is only the whole of
the of the earth.
So, basically, the reward forlabor is labor itself, and that
this campaign is gonna we'regonna take over the world, and
that was working for many, manyyears.
(12:04):
Basically, this campaign waslasting like almost basically a
decade.
He started at 20 and he wasstill going at 30, 30, 31, 32 so
is well over a decade, and hewould have kept going.
But he started making somemistakes and this kind of led to
(12:24):
his downfall.
One of the things that hestarted doing later on he had
taken over Persia, killed the,the Persian king, and he had all
of Persia.
And then he was Going evenfurther east, through
Afghanistan modern-dayAfghanistan and into Pakistan.
One of the things that hestarted doing was drinking
(12:45):
alcohol a lot and, and duringone that time he actually ended
up killing one of his friends,which is a general.
They got kind of in an argumentand he ended up killing him and
he felt really bad about it.
But you know that's that's nota good thing to do killing your
friends and you know, I thinkpart of it was attributed
(13:06):
attributed to the alcoholismthat I think he was falling into
and he made some bad decisions.
He burned down some cities youprobably shouldn't have burned
down and I think that kind ofattributed to his eventual
downfall.
Another thing I think that ledto his downfall was his
arrogance.
He has started to force his mento prostrate themselves,
(13:28):
basically to bow down to him,and that was not something that
the Greeks really did to theirkings.
They would only, they said,basically said that you should
only really Bow down to gods,not to men.
But he, he was starting toforce his men to bow down to him
after he took over Persia andthey didn't like that too much
(13:49):
and he kind of lost the trust ofhis men, so they ended up
muting against him in the packmodern-day Pakistan, and so they
had to turn back.
And this is after 10 plus yearsof fighting together and taking
over, you know, a good part ofthe world.
And it wasn't actually the factthat Alexander the Great lost
any battles, I mean, he was justhe was there, were still
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winning.
It was just that he kind of letit get to his head and he
started drinking and, and thenthat that's what kind of stopped
his, his progress.
So some things I think we shouldtake away from Alexander the
Great.
Studying him is he had a hugevision for his life and I think
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that could help us.
You know, think, hey, maybe Ican, I could have a bigger
vision, because it sometimes weput limits on ourselves, on our
beliefs and and that kind ofImpacts what we can actually
accomplish, whereas if weincrease our vision, you know we
can accomplish even more thanwhat we might actually think.
He was also very focused oneducation and learning.
(14:53):
I think that's something thatgreatly assisted him and taking
over a good part of the world,his he was very tactically sound
, he was out thinking other veryaccomplished generals, and so
that's that's something we cantake take in our own lives is
constantly learning andInnovating so we can have that
(15:18):
competitive edge in themarketplace.
The other thing is resilience.
He went through so many hard,difficult things whether it was
starvation, getting stabbed inthe shoulder, through the leg,
you know dealing with his, histroops and he, for the most part
, you know, kept it together andwas able to push through.
(15:40):
And then also, he also led hit,led by example.
So he led his troops by example.
He didn't ask his troops to doanything that he wasn't doing.
He was always in the front, hewas leading the charge, and I
think that's one of the reasonswhy his Army fought so long with
him, you know, over ten years,not going home.
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You know that they're older,their wives and their children
they're back in Greece andthey're still fighting with him
years and years later, becausethey really admired him and he,
he was a leader that led byexample, and that's something
that I think, as leaders, that'ssomething that we need to take
to heart as well, because thefolks that we lead definitely
(16:22):
pay attention to what we'redoing and if we're kind of
resting on our laurels and notreally Engaging, they see that
and they're not going to giveyou their all if they see you
not giving your all.
Those are, I think, are somesome key notes for Alexander's
life and what we can do to takethat in our own businesses and
(16:43):
with that, love to hear yourthoughts for future episodes,
future biographies.
Definitely go to grow yourpainting business on Facebook if
you type that in to Facebookand go to the group and love to
hear your thoughts or or ideasfor future podcasts.
With that, I'll see you nextweek.
You.
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