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No matter what you want out of life, there are very important steps between where you are now and where you want to be next. Patrick Bet David captures this concept in his novel Your Next 5 Moves. On today’s episode you’ll get an entertaining summary of Bet David’s book and its highlights.
Key Takeaways
- Master knowing yourself,
- Master the ability to reason
- Master building the right team
- Master strategy to scale
- Master power plays
🕵🏻♂️ Move 1: Master Knowing Yourself
It would be pretty difficult to be the best you can be without knowing yourself well first. What do you value? What drives you? What do you enjoy doing and what are you passionate about? Without knowing the answer to some of these pivotal questions, your journey to success would be like a sailboat without the sail.
⚖️ Move 2: Master the Ability to Reason
Before reaching personal fulfillment and success, you will be faced with thousands of decisions to make and options to weigh. Each decision you make could change the course of your journey, so it is important to practice effective decision-making skills. Of course, making a tough decision will always be “tough”, but the outcome and spotted opportunities along the way are what make a reasoning master.
🛠 Move 3: Master Building the Right Team
Behind every successful individual is an equally successful team. Everyone has weaknesses and blind spots, but that doesn’t mean a team can’t help fill them! Most famous celebrities and entrepreneurs have teams behind them, even including Arnold!
📈 Move 4: Master Strategy to Scale
It can be critical to implement strategic elements in your business early and often for future growth. Without the ability to scale, many businesses become bottlenecked at a certain level of revenue and never grow past that point.
🏆 Move 5: Master Power Plays
Who doesn’t love a bold move? Often it is the bold, brave, or even “ballsy” strategic initiative that can bring a person, team, or company to the next level. There are numerous times in history where power has shifted from the oppressor to the oppressed, the rich to the poor, the ruler to the people, and so on – all because of power plays. Patrick Bet David even highlights the importance of power plays by interviewing former gangsters!
📄 In Conclusion
Your next 5 moves should be viewed as paramount to your success. By knowing yourself, mastering the ability to reason, having the right team, implementing scalable solutions, and performing power plays, your success is inevitable!
Watch the full video on YouTube here!
Quotes
“Your Next 5 Moves is definitely focused around a chess theme. In business, in life, you have to think like a chess master.”
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“Unless you’re Elon Musk and say, “Im going to Mars” and you have known that since age 12, most people don’t know that. So, they don’t yet know what their 15th move is.”
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“If you don’t know who you are and what you want, how are you going to plan anything?”
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“Think about where you want to be and then reverse engineer down to the present day. Then you may have a better idea of what your next 5 moves are.”
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About the Host
Dick Polipnick
Founder and Chief Growth Officer of Online Growth Systems
Dick Polipnick is the Founder of Online Growth Systems, a media company that helps big-name brands turn their e-commerce businesses to profit and advises high-growth, venture-backed startups.
The National Federation of Independent Business named him a top “Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, AdFed listed him on “32 Under 32”, and he’s been featured on and collaborated with Business.com, Nickelodeon Studios, World Wide Fund for Nature, Clean Energy Resource, and more.
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