Read & Repeat

May 15 2024 77 ep. 58 mins
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Become a learning machine! Join us as we tell the stories of exceptional entrepreneurs, businesses, scientists, athletes & more. You’ll learn the strategies they used to dominate their own fields and how these ideas can change your own life.

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EP77 Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder

May 15 2024 62 mins  
This week, we continue our journey with Arnold by learning how he rose to the top of the bodybuilding world in only an 8 year span!! As a 15 year old kid in Austria, Arnold wasn't on anybody's radar to become the next bodybuilding sensation. Certainly no one thought he would become the Mr. Universe champion as a teen... yet his unbreakable self confidence and relentless w

EP76 Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger

May 08 2024 53 mins  
This week we dive into Arnold Schwarzenegger's book 'Be Useful,' offering insights into how he reached the pinnacle of success across bodybuilding, acting, and politics. Arnold shares the 7 tools that were most influential for his life, including setting an ambitious vision, outworking his peers, and giving back. He describes how he was able to sell the sport of bodybui

EP75 What I Learned About Investing From Darwin

May 01 2024 57 mins  
We loved making this episode because it's part Darwin evolutionary biology and part Buffett investing wisdom! In the book, Pulak Prasad shares how he has built his investment philosophy based on evolutionary survival, and how many lessons surprisingly cross over into the finance world. His approach may seem simple, but it is effective: 1) Avoid Big Risks 2) Buy High Quality at

EP74 Only the Paranoid Survive

Apr 24 2024 40 mins  
In this episode we cover Andy Grove's famous book, Only the Paranoid Survive. Andy Grove was a co-founder and former CEO of Intel, leading the company through some of its best years as it established a stronghold over the growing PC market. In this book, he talks about the many challenges they faced before getting to that point. Andy Grove views technological change through t

EP73 The Tao of Charlie Munger

Apr 17 2024 51 mins  
An episode dedicated to the investing legend, Charlie Munger. Enjoy! ---- The Tao of Charlie Munger - David Clark ---- Please share with a friend or rate 5 stars if you enjoyed this episode! | Find us at ReadnRepeat.com and on Twitter @ReadnRepeatPod ---- Recommendation of the Week: Trader Joe's Peanut Thai Salad is back!!! ---- The Web of Ideas: The Tao of Charlie Munger (my n

EP72 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Apr 10 2024 58 mins  
In this episode, we cover Influence - Robert Cialdini's seminal book on the 6 principles of persuasion. This book was so influencial on Charlie Munger that he even gave Cialdini shares of Berkshire's class A stock, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars today! We discuss how the principles of reciprocation, commitment & consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and

EP71 Son of Hamas

Apr 03 2024 71 mins  
This episode continues our two part series on the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. In this episode, we learn the origin story of the terrorist group Hamas, told firsthand by their founder's son, Mosab Hassan Yousef. We share his perspective growing up in the Palestinian region of the West Bank, internalizing a deep hatred of Jews and their role in the Palestinian people's su

EP70 Israel: The Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Mar 27 2024 61 mins  
This week's episode is extra special to us. In this episode, we dive into the history of Israel and the conflict in the Middle East, attempting to provide nuance to an extremely polarizing subject. We answer questions like: are Israelis colonizers? Is Israel an apartheid state? Why do we even need a Jewish state? Who is the real threat in the Middle East? Based on the fantast

EP69 The Rise and Fall of FTX

Mar 20 2024 70 mins  
In this episode, we cover the rapid rise and stunning fall of crypto darling, FTX. Sam Bankman-Fried and his firm FTX provide us with a number of incredible INVERT lessons, such as never installing a board or CFO, hiring anyone who walks through the front door, spending hundreds of millions on sports marketing in a non-core market, and lacking all forms of accountability. We discus

EP68 The Reign of Marvel Studios

Mar 13 2024 71 mins  
In this episode we tell the story of Marvel, going back to way before Robert Downey Jr donned the Iron Man suit! Our story starts in 1961, when Stan Lee created the relatable Fantastic Four comics to compete with the superheroes Batman and Superman. Over the next 3 decades, Stan Lee went on to create incredible heroes such as Spiderman and Iron Man, sparking a tulipmania-like bubbl