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Mark Beneke: Firing an employee is always the employer's hiring fault
“And I would say most of the time, no, I would say all of the time it is our fault at the end of the day, because we hired them. And if we would have done a good enough interview, we would have been able to find the red flags that would have let us know. Hey, t…”
Mark Beneke says his conservative brother is their primary growth bottleneck
“I personally felt like the bottleneck within our company has actually been my brother because he is extremely conservative in everything that he does.”
Benecke: Microdosing LSD Multiplies the Flow State a Hundred Times
“If anybody has ever experienced the state of flow, it is like the state of flow multiplied by a hundred times. Like you can sit there and focus on something and nothing could ever distract you away from it. You have tunnel vision in what you're doing.”
Mark Beneke: Knowledge without implementation is merely entertainment
“You can give people knowledge, but knowledge without implementation is just what entertainment, right? And maybe one percent of the population acts on all the knowledge that floods them every single day.”
Mark Beneke: People value tactical empathy over emotional empathy
“You don't have to feel what they're feeling. You don't have to like, let's say emotionally empathize with them, but you can, let's say tactically empathize with them. And I think people care about that more than they do you feeling their emotions. They care mo…”
Mark Beneke and his wife live on just $35,000 annually
“We live on about 35,000 dollars a year, like, even though we make way more than that, like, that's really all we spend, like, that's our Mortgage. That's our food. That's our entertainment. That's taking our trips. The puppies, like we got three dogs that we t…”
Benecke: Microdosing Focus Is Temporary, but Interpersonal Appreciation Is Long-Lasting
“The focus itself, it's great while you are actually micro dosing. It's not like a long lasting effect. The long lasting effects are more of the feelings of appreciation that you get For those around you and everything around you and the level of introspection …”
Benecke: Ended 14-month LSD microdosing experiment because the novelty wore off
“I ended up stopping the experiment altogether after a year and a couple of months because of that whole thing, like, it just, the novelty had worn off.”
Benecke: Do not combine LSD microdoses with caffeine or Modafinil
“Don't do it with Modafinil and don't do it with any kind of stimulant, like any other kind of stimulant, like caffeine or anything. It alters the way that you experience it. It's a lot better with it just by itself.”
Mark Beneke models his leadership philosophy on the historical baron
“So a baron is essentially the, like, the person that held over a small section of a kingdom. They had, like, their little town, you know, within it, and they were the leader within that town, and they would kind of have people come in and work for them, and th…”
Mark Beneke: Business data primarily serves to strengthen interpersonal relationships
“I believe in relationships more than I believe in full on data. And while data is very, very useful I kind of feel like The data is only there to help you strengthen the relationships that you actually make. And that could be relationships within your employee…”
Mark Beneke's Fresno car dealership generates over $6 million annually
“We probably take in a little over six million each year.”
Mark Beneke's real estate holdings generate $300,000 to $400,000 annually
“I would say that one takes in not nearly as much as the dealership, but probably somewhere in like the 300,000 range, three, 400,000 range in over the year.”