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December 8, 2020 53 mins
How does an 18 year old college freshman end up cracking access to rooms full of the world’s most successful people? Alex Banayan is the author of the international best-selling book, The Third Door, where he set out to uncover how people like Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Steven Spielberg (and many more!) broke through and launched their careers. And in this episode he unveiled many of the eye-opening insights he learned during this wild quest of adventure. So get ready! Here, you’ll discover: The sneaky ‘success principle’ Steven Spielberg stole from his first mentor, and how you can exploit it to catapult into massive success of your own (this strategy alone allowed for a huge chunk of Spielberg’s initial breakthrough!) (11:31) How to employ the 5 ‘third door’ storytelling elements to instantly write attention-grabbing stories that HOOK your readers until the very end (disclaimer: this framework is so effective, it was never unveiled to the public... until now!) (35:24) You can find more of Alex’s work at: www.thirddoorbook.com
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