David Senra: Why the Best Are Not just 10% Better

My First Million episode 784 in which Sam Parr talks with David Senra, host of the Founders podcast, about greatness, balance and what destroys successful people. David says the gap between the best and pretty good is not 20% but many times larger, and describes wanting to be the best in the world at what he does. He credits a friend's advice about constantly refining who you associate with, shares a line that mediocrity is invisible until passion shows up, and says he reads one to four books a month and trusts intuition and taste when deciding what to underline. Later chapters in the description cover advice for 19 year olds, an ideal board of advisors, not doing what someone else can do, and what successful people think about at the end. He tells a story of a founder with hundreds of stores who still cannot wait to get back to work. Sponsors named in the description: HubSpot and others listed in the show links. PARTIAL COVERAGE: the captions cover most of the opening, the reading and taste segments and the advisors segment, but not every chapter. Later chapters are named by title only. All views are the speakers' own and are not independently checked. Nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice.