MrBeast Has Virtually No Knowledge of Pop Culture Outside YouTube
Sam Parr · Brainstorming +$1M Weird Business Ideas With Morning Brew’s CEO Austin Rief (#543) · Jan 24, 2024 · at 38:21
Sam Parr shares a personal interaction with top YouTuber MrBeast to illustrate how elite achievers maintain extreme hyper-focus on their domain.
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“It was Mr. Beast, you know, he's the best in the world, and I remember, I think it was either you or me and someone else, and I, we were just shooting the shit about, like, a TV show that I thought everyone knew about, And he had no idea. And I was like, I was just like curious about this. So I had some more pop culture stuff. Didn't know anything about like this normal stuff. He's like, sorry, I just pay attention to YouTube. Like, that's all I do. He had the exact same thing where he didn't know anything about anything outside of his expertise.”
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