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Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
- ▶ 22:27 David Senra I've read a ton of biographies on Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, and I actually think it's in those books where they talk about Phil Knight that we actually understand how deep this is. 4 times in the scene
How Roger Federer Works.
- ▶ 28:26 David Senra This is exactly what people would say about Michael Jordan. 10 times in the scene
How Rick Rubin Works
- ▶ 15:54 David Senra That's a quote from, uh, from Michael Jordan.
- ▶ 1:06:07 David Senra This reminded me of when I read that gigantic, like, 600 page biography of Michael Jordan, and Michael was a fantastic individual basketball player, but he couldn't get past the Detroit Pistons in the playoffs, and he failed year after… 4 times in the scene
The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin
- ▶ 33:33 David Senra There's a great interview that Michael Jordan did a long time ago with Oprah Winfrey and that he has a line in there where he says success 4 times in the scene
Bruce Springsteen Repairs Himself
- ▶ 26:10 David Senra Michael Jordan has this great quote where he says, work ethic eliminates fear.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder
- ▶ 37:03 David Senra If you remember on the Michael Jordan episodes and also on the Nike episodes, when the NBA banned, uh, the original Jordan shoe at the very beginning, Nike's like, Oh, hopefully we're going to sell. 2 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 57:17 David Senra That was Bill Gates and Michael Jordan.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 52:23 David Senra This is going to remind me of what Michael Jordan said in his autobiography on episode two, 13. 2 times in the scene
The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari
- ▶ 30:22 David Senra This sounds a lot like Michael Jordan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 David Senra There's another thing that he's going to have in common with Michael Jordan. 2 times in the scene
Jimmy Iovine: Founder of Interscope Records & Legendary Record Producer
- ▶ 54:38 David Senra When, when the first Michael Jordan shoes, the Jordan brand shoes came out, the NBA tried to ban them. 2 times in the scene
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 31:54 David Senra And there's something that Michael Jordan said that I think, I think is important. 4 times in the scene
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 6:20 David Senra So Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan actually shared the same, uh, the same trainer, this guy named Tim Grover, and he wrote two books about what it was like working very closely with them, you know, basically spending every day with them. 3 times in the scene
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 1:07:55 David Senra But then you also look at some of the craziest deals in history, like Michael Jordan's, uh, royalty, he gets five percent of all the, uh, the sales of the Jordan brand. 2 times in the scene
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 43:18 David Senra And the last dance is obviously about Michael Jordan and the final season with the bulls. 6 times in the scene
Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
- ▶ 6:59 David Senra In fact, I was watching, uh, Steph Curry was interviewing Michael Jordan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:57 David Senra I think it was two years before they drafted Michael Jordan.
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 9:38 David Senra And I'm thinking about Michael Jordan, then multiple episodes I've done on Michael Jordan. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:56 David Senra What did Michael Jordan say?
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 44:41 David Senra If you listen to the last episode I just did on Michael Jordan, the last 20 minutes of that podcast is me going through because I was asked the question, how do, how did history's greatest entrepreneurs think about hiring?
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 9:04 David Senra So I obviously, you know, I've make all these episodes on Michael Jordan. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:52 David Senra What did Michael Jordan say?
- ▶ 50:04 David Senra If you listen to the last episode I just did on Michael Jordan, the last 20 minutes of that podcast is me going through because I was asked the question, how do, how did history's greatest entrepreneurs think about hiring?
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 56:27 David Senra I think of what Michael Jordan said, that successful people listen, the people, the people that, uh, don't listen don't last long, and he was talking about, you know, obviously, uh, not only, uh, listening, like, in terms of learning from…
Michael Jordan And Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra On the night that the Chicago Bulls were eliminated from the 1995 NBA playoffs by the Orlando Magic, I sat with Michael in the darkened arena until three a.m. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41 David Senra Both were written by Tim Grover, who was Michael Jordan's trainer for 15 years, and he also trained Kobe Bryant. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 David Senra Obviously he's talking about Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, some other people he trained as well, but there was a, the story about back in Mozart's day. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 David Senra The dark side of Michael Jordan and Kobe's personality is mentioned a lot in this book, and so I just want to go into a little bit here. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:55 David Senra And then he immediately starts comparing people like Michael, Kobe, uh, Pat Riley, Phil Jackson, Larry Bird. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 David Senra The first time is when he wins, uh, when Michael Jordan wins his first NBA title ever, you know, seven, eight years of struggle, really an entire lifetime of struggle, and he's, you know, like, just, he's got his head, there's this famous… 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 David Senra Another trait that Kobe and Michael shared, something that's mentioned over and over again is their, just how strong their mentality is, the fact they had control over their minds. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 David Senra And so another thing that Michael and Kobe had in common from Tim Grover's perspective is the ability to keep it simple and to master the fundamentals. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:11 David Senra And that's something Michael talks about, because now, you know, obviously he's one of the greatest, if not the greatest basketball player of all time, but if you look at what he's done in his, he's one of the best entrepreneurs too, and… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 David Senra Ok, so back to traits that Michael and Kobe shared. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:38 David Senra And this is Tim Grover's interpretation of, you know, Michael's a legend at trash talk. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:31 David Senra and so there's a bunch of stories about, uh, about Michael doing that, about Kobe doing that, this is an example of, uh, Michael doing it. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 David Senra And, you know, I kind of abuse myself in the way that, uh, Michael abuses himself and his teammates. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:53 David Senra Now we're getting to the early nineties, late eighties, and they realize, you know, they're playing against the young Michael Jordan. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:06 David Senra People like Kobe and Michael have a high tolerance for physical and mental pain. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:16 David Senra Now I have this note on myself, uh, on my desk to myself now, uh, for all of Michael's amazing moves and unforgettable moments, he knew that none of that could happen without the fundamentals, those basic moves that he practiced over and… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:57 David Senra Michael is the fact that they have a hard time trusting other people or, or maybe not. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:34 David Senra I have, I have to just share a couple of, I have a ton of these stories, mostly other Michael stories. 30 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:24 David Senra And Michael Jordan's relationship, you know, that they had, you know, I watched a eulogy recently to prep for this podcast that Michael Jordan had at Kobe's memorial. 20 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:26 David Senra He tells a Michael Jordan story. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:31 David Senra And there's another Jordan interview and I'll link it down below. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:18 David Senra Everyone wanted to be like Mike. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:43 David Senra And then one of the most fascinating parts of the book was that he compared and contrasted, like, talent, MJ, versus hard work, where Michael worked hard, but was more naturally talented, and Kobe worked harder, but was less naturally… 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:12 David Senra Kobe and Michael were the opposite of that, and everybody around him knew this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:59 David Senra And so one thing about Michael Jordan, I'm going to read a story from, uh, Driven From Within, which I'll pick up in one minute. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:59 David Senra And every time Kobe and Michael are saying the same thing, I'm not coming down to your level. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:55 David Senra And what's interesting between Michael and Kobe and Steve Jobs is they were about, like, mastering the fundamentals and trying to get, like, they were addicted to, like, simplicity. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:16 David Senra And then one thing that appears over and over again is the, the, the commitment to reinvestment that Michael and Kobe would make. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:31 David Senra And so I think the perfect place to end this is exactly how Michael ended the last episode of The Last Dance. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:13 David Senra And the last thing I was thinking about was a line that was in the episode that you just listened to, that they were describing Kobe and Michael, and they're like, the greats never stop learning. 9 times in the scene
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 54:08 David Senra Because I'm just a big believer, like Michael Jordan said, that successful people listen, those that don't listen don't last long.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 33:14 David Senra If you remember on the Michael Jordan episodes and also on the Nike episodes, when the NBA banned, uh, the original Jordan shoe at the very beginning, Nike's like, oh, hopefully we're going to sell. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Anna Wintour
- ▶ 5:00 David Senra I have a bunch of, you know, I love Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan stories. 18 times in the scene
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 11:07 David Senra Kobe Bryant obviously idolized Michael Jordan growing up, patterned a lot of his, uh, his game after him, would watch videotapes of him. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:28 David Senra I think I said in that book that if Michael Jordan sold enterprise software, he'd be Larry Ellison.
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
- ▶ 8:28 David Senra And we've seen this over and over again, go back to Naval Ravikant, go back to Michael Jordan, Edwin Land, Steve Jobs will say the same thing.
The Biography of Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 15:59 David Senra And so something he's doing during these years that he's going to do also when he goes to college and really for the rest of his career, career, this reminded me very much when you, when you read like early, uh, like read biographies of…
- ▶ 38:58 David Senra Michael Jordan, Sidney Harmon, Rick Rubin, Andy Beal, Harry Snyder, James Cameron, Felix Dennis, Claude Shannon, and Mark Twain.
Mark Twain's Biography
- ▶ 28:34 David Senra Successful people listen.
The Biography of James Cameron
- ▶ 58:32 David Senra There's this great line in Michael Jordan's autobiography, which I covered back on episode two, 13, where he says, I focus on the little things, the little things add up to big things. 2 times in the scene
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)
- ▶ 25:57 David Senra This reminded me of what Michael Jordan said in his autobiography back on episode two, 13.
The Biography of Tiger Woods
- ▶ 11:38 David Senra I read a 600 page biography of Michael Jordan. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:30 David Senra The, the, the business aspect of, this is the same thing Michael Jordan realized, where he's like, listen, the only reason that I'm a billionaire now is because of my dedication to winning. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:48 David Senra And Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 David Senra I don't care if my next, my kid is the next Tiger Woods, or the next Michael Jordan, or the next Taylor Swift, because my daughter really loves to sing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:53 David Senra And then we go back to the Michael Jordan is Tiger Woods. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:06 David Senra He's going to turn pro, um, and he gets to meet, he starts getting to meet Michael Jordan, uh, who he idolized. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:20 David Senra Just so happen to idolize Jordan, but also become friends with Jordan. 6 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 50:32 David Senra This is gonna remind me of what Michael Jordan said in his autobiography on episode two 13. 2 times in the scene
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 19:24 David Senra Uh, episode two 12, if you haven't listened to it yet, that book is a 600 page biography of Michael Jordan, uh, literally changed my life. 6 times in the scene
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
- ▶ 6:06 David Senra That sentence reminded me one of my favorite lines that I've heard in any of the biographies that I've read came from episode two, 13 in Michael Jordan's autobiography. 2 times in the scene
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 37:56 David Senra Sam Walton, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Rockefeller, Edwin Land, Coco Chanel, Andrew Carnegie, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Larry Ellison, Ray Kroc, John Malone, Henry Ford, George Lucas, the Wright brothers.
- ▶ 1:03:39 David Senra It's no different than a young Kobe Bryant watching videotape of Michael Jordan and magic, magic Johnson, and just constantly being exposed
The Making of McDonald's: The Biography of Ray Kroc
- ▶ 11:53 David Senra And it's a quote from the Michael Jordan documentary, the last dance describing Michael Jordan. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 32:02 David Senra It reminded me of something that, uh, Michael Jordan said in his autobiography. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 56:48 David Senra So I think of Coco Chanel, and I think of Michael Jordan, Coco Chanel, I covered this on episode number one 99. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of The Founder of Rolls-Royce
- ▶ 2:57 David Senra This line could, he's just, in this case, he's talking about, Paul's just talking about Leonardo da Vinci and Michael Jordan and others. 2 times in the scene
Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 1:07:05 David Senra This is something obviously that really stuck in my mind from reading the biography of Michael Jordan on episode two, 12.
The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
- ▶ 32:27 David Senra We're gonna talk later on about how he would isolate, self-isolate in hotel rooms, just like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant talk about in their biographies.
- ▶ 52:05 David Senra This is what I mentioned earlier in both their biographies, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan talked about that, like the fame and the pressure and everything wearing so, so
Paul Graham's Essays Part III
- ▶ 18:06 David Senra He was like Michael Jordan.
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 12:45 David Senra For example, a lot of programmers, actually let me pause there before I go into, he's going to talk about what this is for him, which is programming, that when I got to this section, this is exact, when you read about, I did a, I read, I… 4 times in the scene
Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
- ▶ 3:11 David Senra He's like, listen, I coach Michael Jordan.
- ▶ 9:19 David Senra On this picture, on this page, is a picture of him and Michael Jordan talking on the court together.
- ▶ 29:27 David Senra And then I'll close on this idea that we learned from Michael Jordan's autobiography.
The Biography of Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 6:39 David Senra Shortly before he died, one of the last conversations he had with Michael Jordan, and we're going to get to Jordan today a lot because he's a main character in this book as well. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:46 David Senra This is the guy that's running the actual summer camp, and he wanted it more than anybody else, and it says if you're breaking down tape of Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, which, which Kobe's doing as a 14, 15, 16, and 17 year old kid, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:59 David Senra Jordan and Knight certainly shared a competitive nature that bordered on insanity. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:34 David Senra He's idolizing Michael Jordan, he's watching his game tape, he's studying over and over again, and so it says, 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:34 David Senra Famously, there was a clause in Michael Jordan's contract called for the love of the game clause, meaning he could play basketball anytime and anywhere he wanted, which I guess was rare because, uh, from my understanding, NBA teams were…
- ▶ 31:20 David Senra When Tex Winner, so Tex Winner is this coach, Coach Jordan and Kobe.
- ▶ 33:38 David Senra And so I want to read his immediate reaction to this unbelievable disappointment that he had to endure, and how it compares to Michael Jordan and the founder of IKEA. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:44 David Senra Brian talking about how Jordan was in the development of his own career. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:56 David Senra So I told you, I haven't said this a few times now, the book that I did on two, 12, the, the biography, it's like a 700 page biography of Michael Jordan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:14 David Senra So this is just somebody that knows both Kobe and Michael Jordan. 7 times in the scene
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