Gurley worked with researcher Joseph Friedman to study academic research on career passion and grit for his book.
“Malcolm actually, his team introduced me to a researcher named Joseph Friedman, who pushed us to study the academic part. So we started reading all the research.”
“And even says more profoundly, if a fifth person had been on the calls, almost no matter who they were, they would have had the same success.”
Gurley quotes MrBeast saying collaborative learning group achieved forty thousand hours through shared knowledge.
“He said, you know how they talk about ten thousand hours referring to the Malcolm Gladwell book? He says, we got forty thousand hours because we were sharing it all.”
Gurley says college makes people competitive and sharp-elbowed when the world is not actually zero sum.
“But what I would tell people is the world's not zero sum. In any field that we're in, there's, there's many, many winners, many, many great winners.”
Gurley says ultra competitive college path creates zero sum mindset when most fields actually have tons of winners.
“And in most fields, and I'm sure this is true in theater even though I've never worked in it, there's tons of winners.”
Gurley describes how MrBeast and three peers Skyped sixteen hours daily for four years, all becoming millionaires with million-plus followers.
“they were doing a Skype call together for, he says, sixteen hours a day for four years. And they were sharing what they were learning.”
Gurley says MrBeast claimed to spend sixteen hours daily on Skype with peers for four years.
“he met three other people that were on that same journey. And they claim, this is probably an overstatement, but they claimed they were on Skype together sixteen hours a day for four years.”
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