Parr: Billionaire Outlier Success Requires Genetic Predisposition, Not Just Hard Work
Sam Parr · Is The Rock Going to Make $1B+ From Tequila? + Placebo Water, STR Update, and More · Jan 28, 2022 · at 8:04
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss what separates multi-millionaires from outlier billionaires while debating an ambitious founder's trillion-dollar goals.
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“You can kind of sweat your way to like maybe five or ten million in a lifetime, but becoming a billionaire and this huge outlier, I think it takes like a particular type of skill. Like you just genetically Predisposed to have it in your favor. And I think that matters. You're not saying this kid does or does not have it, but I think that it's more important than just like training for 12 hours a day. I think that just being gifted genetically is more important than hard work to be the best.”
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