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How Bob Dylan Studied His Way to Greatness
- ▶ 15:21 David Senra Hitler, Churchill, Mussolini, Stalin, Roosevelt.
How Claude Shannon Invented The Future
- ▶ 24:52 David Senra During World War II, they improved radar, sonar, and the bazooka, and they created a secure phone line connecting Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps
- ▶ 10:58 David Senra And then he quotes, ah, Winston Churchill. 2 times in the scene
How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 49:42 David Senra There would be no shots of generals pushing boats across a map, no Churchill, no politics.
Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
- ▶ 31:45 David Senra I was reading everything I could get my hands on about generals, samurai, shoguns, along with biographies of my three main heroes, Churchill, Kennedy, Tolstoy.
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 18:54 David Senra There's a great quote from Churchill.
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 9:11 David Senra Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Elon Musk, Edwin Land, Bill Gates, they devour entire shelves.
- ▶ 35:36 David Senra It's a little like Roosevelt telling Churchill that he could deal with Stalin.
How Elon Works
- ▶ 11:09 David Senra Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Michael Dell, Edwin Land, they would read every single thing in a library on their subject of interest.
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 13:01 David Senra Andrew Carnegie, Winston Churchill, Nathan Rothschild.
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 1:01:03 David Senra And required little time to issue and to understand Winston Churchill. 4 times in the scene
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 20:11 David Senra There's a line in a young Churchill's, um, biography that I read that talked about the difference between, I think he was like, 26 when he was in Parliament. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:22 David Senra And so again, Lee Lu, just like Churchill,
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 3:44 David Senra That line devouring whole shelves comes from this biography on a young Winston Churchill. 3 times in the scene
J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
- ▶ 53:06 David Senra Paul Getty is having with Winston Churchill's son Randolph. 3 times in the scene
The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
- ▶ 22:46 David Senra When I read that, I thought of one of my favorite things Winston Churchill ever did. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:44 David Senra Winston Churchill, uh, Dwight D Eisenhower before and during that he, uh, got elected to the president, the American presidency. 2 times in the scene
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- ▶ 18:04 David Senra I would really think of Churchill in this case, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:25 David Senra A few years ago, I read a 700 page biography on Charles de Gaulle, and everybody around him, Churchill, FDR, they just could not understand why the guy just refused to quit.
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 13:11 David Senra But the reason I keep doing episodes on Napoleon and Winston Churchill 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:05 David Senra Another combination with Winston Churchill. 5 times in the scene
The Life Story of Jesus
- ▶ 3:08 David Senra I've read and made podcasts on a bunch of biographies that he's written, uh, like on Winston Churchill, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Mozart, Picasso, Disney.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 19:40 David Senra In fact, one of my favorite things, uh, one of my favorite, like, historical anecdotes about Coco Chanel was the fact that, I think she's dating, uh, the Duke of Windsor at the time, and Duke of Windsor was, uh, friends with Winston… 5 times in the scene
The Biography of Anna Wintour
- ▶ 42:59 David Senra It reminds me of, Churchill did this later on when they were fighting the Nazis in World War II. 4 times in the scene
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 39:05 David Senra A few weeks ago, I found one in the early life of Winston Churchill that I love. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:57 David Senra I always say it's like Churchill, this is Churchill's just on my mind, but other people like Churchill had this fierce self belief. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:45 David Senra One of the biographies on Winston Churchill's young life ends with the words that he is a dangerous optimist. 2 times in the scene
Herb Kelleher: Founder of Southwest Airlines
- ▶ 6:17 David Senra Unsurprisingly, one of Herb's favorite people was Winston Churchill. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:31 David Senra In fact, he would imbibe his company directors with a lot of like Winston Churchill, uh, references. 2 times in the scene
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Churchill lost something in 1915 that he never regained. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:45 David Senra Last week, if you listened to last week's episode, covers the first 26 years of Winston Churchill's life. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:37 David Senra One thing that you get out of reading a bunch of biographies is you realize that people don't stumble into greatness, and it was the case for Winston Churchill as well. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:57 David Senra And so, as he's reading about these great people, he realizes, oh, they're like me too. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:55 David Senra So in addition to spending the last few weeks reading two books about Churchill, I also rewatched this, this movie called In the Darkest Hour. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:14 David Senra I think Churchill's about maybe 20 years old when his father dies. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:16 David Senra A main influence in Winston Churchill's life, just like a lot of people that you and I study, is the fact that you can always understand the son by the story of his father, that the story of the father is embedded in the son. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:20 David Senra There's two successful attributes that Churchill has that I think we should try to emulate. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:19 David Senra And so Churchill's doing this not only for the people around him, but he's actually trying to change the institution in which he's operating. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:05 David Senra He becomes the civilian head of the strongest naval force in the world. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:56 David Senra Churchill's rival, this guy named Reggie McKenna, who actually wanted to read to be the head of the Navy and not Churchill, starts saying stuff like this. 24 times in the scene
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Although he was still a very young man, Churchill was no stranger to situations of great personal peril. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:27 David Senra Since his earliest childhood memory, Churchill had been fascinated by war. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:57 David Senra The descriptions of Churchill's, like, self-belief in this book are my biggest takeaway from it, because it just happens, you know, page after page after page. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 David Senra He dies unexpectedly of pneumonia, so that opens up the opportunity for Churchill to run, but this is where his relentless self-belief is going to be proven wrong temporarily. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 David Senra And so, as prone to happen at this point in history, there's another, uh, war that Brit, the British are fighting, and so Churchill had already written like two or three books at this point, mostly about his time at war, and so he winds up… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:49 David Senra So there's a bunch of other war correspondents that are going to be stationed in and around Churchill, and one of these guys has, spending a lot of time with Churchill, and he's like, man, this is, this is another Teddy Roosevelt. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:44 David Senra In fact, actually, these two other people come up with the plan, and then Churchill goes off on his own. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:02 David Senra Churchill could not have done this alone. 24 times in the scene
The Biography of Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 8:47 David Senra Churchill may be the best example of this because he even has this great quote I love.
- ▶ 45:14 David Senra There would be no shots of generals pushing boats across the map, no Churchill, no politics.
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 3:28 David Senra I did episodes on his Winston Churchill biography, his biography on Socrates, his biography on Mozart.
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
- ▶ 26:00 David Senra Consider Winston Churchill. 2 times in the scene
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- ▶ 2:54 David Senra After World War II, they still talk about Napoleon, but then you have a lot of mentions of Winston Churchill in there as well. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Napoleon
- ▶ 7:04 David Senra One of my favorite books I've ever read for the podcast was actually his biography of Churchill. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:22 David Senra That was all, uh, this book called Heroes from Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle.
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
- ▶ 33:54 David Senra Churchill. 6 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 24:53 David Senra It was a little like Roosevelt telling Churchill that he could deal with Stalin.
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 30:30 David Senra And then he's trying to help Churchill and Roosevelt defeat them so he can get his country back.
Henry Ford's Autobiography
- ▶ 15:35 David Senra I read a bunch of it now since the, since the first time I read this book, and now, you know, I've probably read, I don't know, like, 200 books, whatever it is, and I read two of them on Winston Churchill. 5 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 32:47 David Senra And he says, it was kind of like Churchill thinking he could deal with Stalin.