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- 0:00Welcome to the Strength in Numbers podcast.
- 0:02I'm your host John Bloom, and today I'm going to do a quick
- 0:05solo episode on five ideas that might challenge the way you
- 0:08think and also give you some top books to check out that have
- 0:11been really, really good that I've read this year.
- 0:14OK, so first we're going to get into those five ideas to get you
- 0:18thinking a little bit. Number one, why sometimes having
- 0:21an injury to a really good player early in the season can
- 0:25actually be beneficial now, especially for my strength
- 0:29coaches. Listen, you probably hear that
- 0:30and you're like that, that might be the stupidest thing I've
- 0:33heard. And I get that.
- 0:34And obviously we never want to have an injury to an athlete
- 0:37ever That for I don't for me seeing seeing people hurt is is
- 0:41the worst. But one thing to consider is how
- 0:45this actually can't be beneficial to you.
- 0:48And you know, I think I first started thinking about this
- 0:50reading Adam Grant's book Hidden Potential, and he and he talks
- 0:54about this research where I think in the NBA, they found
- 0:57when they superstar player would get hurt beginning of the year,
- 1:02it actually resulted in the team being better as the season went
- 1:06on. You know, why is this right?
- 1:07You take a top player, someone that's going to have a lot of
- 1:10minutes, a lot of touches, really demand the ball.
- 1:13And now other people are going to step up.
- 1:15Other people are going to take minutes, learn to get in the
- 1:17rotation, start to establish a bigger role than maybe they
- 1:20would have had when that other person was in there.
- 1:23And, you know, I think I've seen this since then and I've seen
- 1:26the other way to where I've been with teams where we we never,
- 1:29you know, thankfully, you know, I'm glad we didn't have
- 1:32injuries, but it also then we relied on the same people from
- 1:36the beginning season to end of season where, you know, I've
- 1:39been a place to where we've had people that led the nation in
- 1:41minutes, right, And and we're not having a deep bench at all.
- 1:44And I think that limits our potential as a team down the
- 1:48line for taking college basketball.
- 1:51If you know, maybe you have somebody that's out a little bit
- 1:53in the non conference and now you're having to experience with
- 1:56different players, allow opportunities for different
- 1:59players, get people comfortable and then now you get that player
- 2:02back. And now you're in conference
- 2:03play, post season play. And now you have more people
- 2:06that you can trust to play, which is going to be valuable,
- 2:10especially as you know, if you rely on the same people all the
- 2:12time. I think that mental and physical
- 2:15load can start to wear as the season gets on and I think
- 2:18usually the top teams have depth where they can have people that
- 2:22they count on and people that can you can trust to come and
- 2:25step up. So obviously we, you know, we
- 2:27don't want injuries, but if you do have some injuries, obviously
- 2:31don't want long term injury. If you have some injuries early
- 2:33on, it might not be the worst thing.
- 2:35You know, you might get some benefits out of that.
- 2:37OK, next idea is on 20% time and player development.
- 2:43And this has to do with autonomy, OK.
- 2:46You know, there's, there's big companies that have kind of
- 2:48these like Google three M of like this 20% time or 15% time
- 2:53where their employees basically get to spend that time and work
- 2:56on whatever they are interested in, right?
- 2:58And whatever, whatever kind of they're passionate about and
- 3:01their own their own side things that might not be lined up with
- 3:04what the, you know, the organization's pursuit is at
- 3:07that time. And like for Google, a lot of
- 3:09their biggest in creation and breakthroughs have been from
- 3:13people and their 20% time there's that autonomy is such a
- 3:17a driver for every person, coaches, athletes, business
- 3:20people and any anyone. Autonomy is so huge in
- 3:24development and, and preventing burnout and then just staying
- 3:29passionate about what you're doing.
- 3:30And you know, I thought about this for a while, like can we
- 3:33take kind of that concept over to player development, right?
- 3:37Where maybe if we're thinking about like basketball skilled
- 3:40development side. So can there be times of the
- 3:42year where we allow the players to drive what they're working on
- 3:48to some degree? You know, maybe it is 20% of
- 3:51their development, maybe it's in the summer, in the offseason,
- 3:55OK, we we're still, you know, we're practicing the team, we're
- 3:57still doing skilled development with, with, with the coaches or
- 4:00GAS or whatever it is that's in line with what we need for that
- 4:02player, what we believe that player needs.
- 4:05We're also going to let them in that further, further a long
- 4:08time, you know, drive with what they they want to work on a
- 4:11little bit. And maybe it's not quite in line
- 4:13with what we're thinking about from from what we want to do.
- 4:17Maybe we don't want to work on their bag a little bit more, but
- 4:20that's going to make them much more invested in the process.
- 4:23I think if we can allow them that free freedom to drive with
- 4:27the working on and I think there's going to be a lot of
- 4:29long term benefit of that. And then, you know, maybe you
- 4:31have that in the in the offseason, maybe some in the the
- 4:34preseason in the fall. And as you start getting the
- 4:36season, it's more OK. Now all of our work is directed
- 4:39towards the role that you're solidified and in for this
- 4:42season and how you can be really good on that.
- 4:45But I still even even including a little bit of autonomy, I
- 4:48think could be important during that end season part and you're
- 4:52in the weight room. I think it's really important
- 4:54about autonomy too, where I think people have to earn it.
- 4:56Obviously you have to have a level of training,
- 4:58understanding, but I think once you put some trust, I've seen so
- 5:01many great benefits from OK, hey, you know, you, you know,
- 5:04especially like maybe later on in the season with someone you
- 5:06trust, OK, you can pick this type of squatter, this type of
- 5:09squat. We're still going to have the
- 5:11same, you know, volume, intensity, But I'm, I'm giving
- 5:13you some choice and, and how you're going to do it and what
- 5:17you feel the best with. And sometimes it's even, OK, I'm
- 5:20giving you these two or three options.
- 5:21I kind of know what you're going to pick and it's kind of what I
- 5:23want you to pick, but I'm still, he's still giving you that
- 5:26choice to where you choose it. And now you're probably going to
- 5:29put a little more into it and take a little more ownership
- 5:31over something that you choose. One thing I heard Luca Hosovar
- 5:35talking about his podcast was I believe it was what you want
- 5:38blocks. And it's kind of like finishing
- 5:40a workout with a YWAYWW blog where it's like, OK, what what
- 5:44do you want? What do you feel you need?
- 5:46Yeah, I'm thinking about starting to do that for some of
- 5:48my people in the business where it's like, OK, at the same like,
- 5:51you know what, what do you want? Blocks And OK, maybe it's
- 5:54someone that's trying to get bigger, Let's give you a little
- 5:55more upper body or someone, you know, that want to work on their
- 5:57health, mobility. Let's do some mobility recovery
- 6:00stuff. I'm you know what, whatever it
- 6:02is. And we can just give them a
- 6:04little bit of that choice and let them feel like, OK, this is
- 6:07directed towards me. This is giving me what I need.
- 6:09And I think that's going to create a lot of retention and
- 6:12just buying when we when you can have that choice.
- 6:14So I think that's just something to think about.
- 6:16Like how can we fit in and where can we fit in these blocks of
- 6:20autonomy, these blocks of, you know, 20% whatever percent time
- 6:23development it is where they're getting to choose and guide what
- 6:27they're working on. Now, the, the, the third thing
- 6:32is an idea I've thought about over the last couple years and
- 6:35I, I think it's really pertinent with the transfer portal and
- 6:40building teams. Even, you know, in high school
- 6:43with, with the way you see, you know, kids switching schools can
- 6:46be very relevant there as well. And then they quote that I, that
- 6:51I thought about my head for a while is careful choosing the
- 6:54player who raises the ceiling of what you could be, but hurts who
- 6:58you consistently are. I'm going to say that again, be
- 7:00careful choosing the player who raises the ceiling of what you
- 7:03could be but hurts who you consistently are.
- 7:06I've seen this over and over where OK, we're getting this
- 7:10super talented person from the Chancellor portal who on paper
- 7:14makes us a lot better, but because of different aspects of,
- 7:18you know, who they are, how they act, their character skills,
- 7:21their habits, the way they interact in a team, that they
- 7:24hurt us more and then they help us.
- 7:26And it's, it's hard because you see those, you see those clips
- 7:31of, of talent, you see those things in practice or in games
- 7:34where it's like, wow, that was incredible.
- 7:37Like that was, that was a, you know, pretty elite, like we
- 7:41can't get that from from many people.
- 7:44And it kind of kind of sucks you into to continuing to stay with
- 7:47them and then they continue to hurt you.
- 7:49And, and I always come back to this other quote that was in
- 7:53Fergus Conley's book 59 Lessons, where he's, he's talking with
- 7:56the special OPS commander about picking the right people for a
- 7:59team. The special OPS commander is
- 8:03talking about how, you know, I'd much rather take the guy that's
- 8:10going to give me an 8 out of 10 each day, then the guy that
- 8:12gives me a 10 out of 10/1 day, and then a six out of 10 and
- 8:15then three out of 10. Then we're back to 9 out of 10.
- 8:17But then it's a 2 out of 10 the next day.
- 8:18You don't know what you're going to get, right?
- 8:20Both the guy that's going to give you 8 out of 10 every day.
- 8:22You know, you're going to 8 out of 10 tomorrow, 8 out of 10 the
- 8:24next day. And, and guess what you're going
- 8:26to get the next day, another 8 out of 10.
- 8:28You know what you're going to get.
- 8:29You have predictability right there, right?
- 8:31And so I think, you know, from the outside looking in, it's
- 8:35really easy to think like, OK, why, why do people, why would
- 8:39people choose that? That person obviously has no
- 8:41predictability or consistency and who they are.
- 8:45But I, I think that 10 out of 10 that, that one that comes around
- 8:48so often can be kind of like it like a drug.
- 8:51It kind of hooks you in and, you know, you get it every so often,
- 8:54right? When you're about to, you're,
- 8:56you're quit, you're about to quit, you're about to be done
- 8:57with them. And you're like, you know, I, I
- 9:00think I can get that out of them more often.
- 9:02I can change them and make them more consistent and, and you
- 9:07know, tap into their potential on a more consistent basis.
- 9:11And I think, you know, there definitely are times with that.
- 9:13But I, I think sometimes, especially now and you don't
- 9:17have as much long term, you know, ability to have long term
- 9:20outlooks where people are going to leave and come in and go, you
- 9:24know, pretty rapidly year to year.
- 9:26You've got to be careful with those choices because you might
- 9:29continue to hang on to that person and they might continue
- 9:32to hurt you more, more than they help you.
- 9:37And you might be waiting around for that consistency that never
- 9:40comes and end up, you know, that person leaves the next year and
- 9:44you don't have them anymore anyway.
- 9:46And so just be be careful. Obviously there's time.
- 9:48We got to take risks on hey, I think I can, I think I can get
- 9:51the best out of this person, but you have to weigh weigh both
- 9:55sides of it. Now the 4th, 1, the 4th idea is
- 9:58that the ability to develop yourself is a skill.
- 10:03You know, I like to think about potential a lot.
- 10:05And usually when people are thinking about potential,
- 10:07they're thinking about, OK, this person has huge potential.
- 10:10What do you think? You're thinking of people that
- 10:12OK, super long and athletic and just these God-given abilities
- 10:16and talents when we think about potential.
- 10:20But I, I think sometimes when you think about like potential,
- 10:23when you think about that development of yourself is a
- 10:26skill and an ability that is going to impact your long term
- 10:31potential. Because if I have somebody that
- 10:35has all those God-given abilities, the lengthy
- 10:39athleticism, maybe not all the skill and stuff, but they don't
- 10:42have that skill of development, then they might never, you know,
- 10:47tap into what you think they can become.
- 10:50But then maybe you have those athletes, those, you know, that
- 10:54aren't quite tall enough, quite athletic and enough, but they
- 10:57always seem to win and outperform the people with more
- 11:02potential than them. And you know, let's, let's take
- 11:06you maybe have an incredible high school player, but they're,
- 11:09they just don't project as a great college player based off
- 11:12those different anthropometrics or athleticism, whatever it is.
- 11:15But then they go, you know, they, they walk on at a school
- 11:19and, and all of a sudden a couple years they're under
- 11:21scholarship and they're, they're performing at the highest level.
- 11:24And then they, they still, you know, they're, they're one of
- 11:26the top college players, but then they don't get drafted.
- 11:29You know, they're undrafted rookie.
- 11:31They end up earning a contract to meet a great pro player.
- 11:35It's like, why does, why do they keep getting overlooked?
- 11:37Why do they keep continue to perform?
- 11:39It's because they, they have this ability, the skill to
- 11:43develop themselves to the greatest potential of
- 11:46themselves, right? And so they're going to continue
- 11:49in the environments to put in, learn to adapt those
- 11:52environments and build the skills needed to perform and
- 11:55maximize who they are in in any situation.
- 11:59And so I, I think like we might look at at those types of
- 12:03athletes, like they don't have that much potential.
- 12:06But if you think about how they have the ability to develop
- 12:10themselves, I think that kind of reframes how we can view who
- 12:13actually has potential. Now, I think the the superstars
- 12:16are going to be the people that have all those God-given things.
- 12:19They have the ability to have us the disciplines to maximize
- 12:23those and develop themselves. And that's when you see people
- 12:26that are superstars and in the pros of of having both of those.
- 12:29But we can't just only look at one.
- 12:32I think we need to look at both. And I think that really shaped a
- 12:35lot of decision making potentially differently when it
- 12:38comes to recruiting in college or drafting in in the pros.
- 12:41Now the last idea that I have is something I thought was relation
- 12:46this this is less of idea that make you think, but more so
- 12:49something you might implement. And when I was the director of
- 12:51sports forums at Oral Roberts, one thing we started doing with
- 12:54our staff was having 5 minute staff meetings.
- 12:58And what that was is basically each one of our coaches,
- 13:01including myself, we would put 5 minutes up on the on a timer.
- 13:05And during each one of those meetings, we each had five
- 13:07minutes to present on anything we wanted to or anything we're
- 13:11interested in, maybe something we're learning, something, you
- 13:14know, we were digging into whatever it was we could present
- 13:16on it. And you had five minutes.
- 13:18You only rules really like once the 5 minutes off, you couldn't,
- 13:21you couldn't keep going at all. You're done.
- 13:23The rest of the staff, like we wouldn't ask questions or
- 13:25anything during it. We just listen for the 5
- 13:28minutes, let them use their time.
- 13:29Then we'd go to the next person. We kind of go around everybody
- 13:32do that. And then after that we'd start
- 13:33asking questions, start talking about different things.
- 13:35And so I think it was, it was, it was fun and really cool.
- 13:39And a couple, a couple of things is that one, it made us have to,
- 13:45you know, I wanted everybody to have to practice the skill of
- 13:48consuming information and then delivering it and presenting
- 13:51that and being able to communicate that to each other.
- 13:55Where I think so much as their job as coaches is being able to
- 13:58communicate ideas simply and clearly.
- 14:01So practice on that practice and articulating ideas to each other
- 14:05and getting those across. Also, you know, kind of along
- 14:08the 20% time it's allowing us to dig into and talk about
- 14:12anything, any, anything that's interesting to us at that point,
- 14:15anything we're digging in, passionate about.
- 14:17So having a little autonomy there.
- 14:19And then also allowing now, OK, all, you know, five of us in
- 14:23that room are getting four other ideas that these other people
- 14:27are passionate about that maybe we're not digging into.
- 14:29Now we're getting we're getting exposed to that little bit.
- 14:31We're getting in and talk about that and ask questions and just
- 14:35kind of having a melting pot of of different very different
- 14:38ideas each week that then maybe we want to dig in deeper to talk
- 14:43to the other, you know, people working with about, you know,
- 14:45later that day, later that week, whatever it is.
- 14:47And so I think that I was just a really fun, easy thing that we
- 14:51did to help help develop some skills and develop a little
- 14:56broader base of knowledge for everybody.
- 14:58OK, so 5 ideas can you know, just to just to think about, you
- 15:02know, I all those might not have resonated with you, but I hope
- 15:07at least one make is starting to make you think about something a
- 15:10little bit differently. And just, you know, to re go
- 15:12back over those. The first one, right, why
- 15:15sometimes having an injury to a good player early on the season
- 15:18can be beneficial. Second, the power of autonomy
- 15:21and 20% player time. Player development #3 be careful
- 15:25choosing a player who raises the ceiling of what you could be but
- 15:28hurts who you consistently are for looking at the ability to
- 15:32develop yourself as a skill and how that impacts potential.
- 15:35And then five, having those 5 minute staff meetings.
- 15:39OK, next I want to get into some books just within the last year
- 15:44that that are really good, that I've really really enjoyed, that
- 15:47have impacted me. And I'm going to, you know, have
- 15:49a different couple categories from business to self
- 15:52development to coaching and to even fiction and non coaching or
- 15:56business related books. OK, so first in I'll go to
- 16:00business 1st, 1st 2 are by both by outer Mosey top
- 16:05entrepreneurs, people, people out there when it comes to
- 16:08business and really just I think ideas and development and
- 16:11anything out there. But two books from him gym
- 16:13launch and $100 million money models.
- 16:16OK, Jim, if you're in the, if you're in the private sector, if
- 16:19you're in the gym business, you've got to read gym launch
- 16:24and just the ideas there from a financial aspect of how to be
- 16:28profitable, how to make money, how to get customers, how to get
- 16:31the most money from your time from what you're doing and how
- 16:35to set up your business, how to set up your gym and your
- 16:37schedule, all aspects of running a gym business.
- 16:41Like he goes in over and there super high level.
- 16:44I can't recommend recommend that one enough.
- 16:46His next $100 million money model is the third one in a
- 16:48series with $100 million offers and leads.
- 16:52Now this third one, right? All of his books, I think he
- 16:54just doesn't. He does such a good job of
- 16:57communicating at such an easy level to comprehend, but such
- 17:02high level ideas that are practical too.
- 17:05And then this third one in the series is no different in terms
- 17:08of how we're building these money models of how we actually
- 17:11earn money within our businesses, how we can upgrade
- 17:14just the models we're using and thinking about.
- 17:16Can't, can't recommend those two books from him or all of his
- 17:19books and his content enough. Third one, unreasonable
- 17:22hospitality. This was a great one.
- 17:25Looking at, you know, kind of the, the restaurant business and
- 17:28how they, how they have aspects of hospitality and creating
- 17:33these special moments for their guests to drive business.
- 17:36And I think there's a lot we can take to to our businesses.
- 17:39How, how are we providing this incredible service for our
- 17:43customers that's going to drive retention to drive referrals and
- 17:46just want people to get the most help people get the most out of
- 17:49what they're doing based on how we're serving them.
- 17:52Last one in the business, the road less stupid.
- 17:54This was a this is a really good one when it comes to just
- 17:57creating this thinking time of of how we're actually giving
- 18:00ourselves time to think and write on problems.
- 18:04But also, you know, it it wide range, wide-ranging wisdom on
- 18:08all aspects of business and life and decision making.
- 18:11Really, really good book. OK, next, next we'll go into
- 18:15kind of self development and the first one is the diary CEO book
- 18:19and this from Steven Bartlett, who runs the diverse CEO
- 18:22podcast, one of the best podcasts out there, I think.
- 18:25And you know, I think it's just a great book on how to develop
- 18:29yourself in any field, how to develop your career, how to
- 18:32develop your business, but just just tons of practical info and
- 18:37also wide-ranging wisdom that is super, super good.
- 18:41Second one finished empty. This is the sequel to Chopwood
- 18:45carry water, you know, super, super popular fable there.
- 18:48And this one's from years later in the, in that, that same world
- 18:52there that he created. And you know, I thought this
- 18:55one, this one was really, really powerful to me.
- 18:57I think even way more powerful than chocolate carry water.
- 19:00And it's about like living with a deathbed mentality and, and
- 19:03how we're approaching life through that lens of a deathbed
- 19:06mentality. And I don't want to give way too
- 19:08much, but just extremely impactful of how you view life
- 19:11and how you view decision making based on different values.
- 19:15Can't recommend that one enough. Third one, the artist spending
- 19:17money by Morgan Haswell. So he's written psychology money
- 19:20is his most famous book. He's written a couple of others,
- 19:23but this one was probably one of my favorites from him.
- 19:26And it's not just about it's not just a finance book.
- 19:29Okay, how do you spend your money, you know, 30% to this
- 19:32area of, you know, XY and Z whatever, but but more so
- 19:35looking at it on, you know, what matters to you in life and how
- 19:39you're aligning your spending with your values and just a ton
- 19:43of ton of wisdom, ton of things that really will make you think
- 19:47about a lot more than just money in this book.
- 19:50And so really highly recommend that one.
- 19:51Also now for coaching, I'm just going to give one book, honestly
- 19:56more more. The books I read these days are
- 19:59in development or business or other aspects and less just like
- 20:03straight coaching, but this one. Just really, really stood out to
- 20:06me. It's every, every moment matters
- 20:09on O'Sullivan super. I mean, it goes into so many
- 20:13different aspects, but it it's, it's really powerful and, and,
- 20:17and, and I think getting to the root of coaching, you know,
- 20:22there, there is different, you know, X and OS of, of how we're
- 20:25delivering coaching school acquisition, different things.
- 20:28But really going back to like, why do, why are we coaching?
- 20:30And it's about impact and I think looking about how we're
- 20:33impacting the athletes and our, our overall purpose as coaches.
- 20:39And it really made me reflect on a lot of how am I acting as a
- 20:43coach? How am I, how am I impacting the
- 20:47athletes I'm with everyday. So it's a really, really good
- 20:50book. Lots, lots of information there,
- 20:52but really makes you think about how you're you living your
- 20:56purpose as a coach. Now the the last category is
- 21:00kind of more fiction type books. And you know, some of y'all
- 21:05probably don't don't even read, read anything that might not be
- 21:09quite related to your craft. But for for me, I'll, I'll tell
- 21:14you why I've started reading a lot more fiction.
- 21:16And then before I did, I used to just be coaching books, you
- 21:19know, just things that were going to make me better in my
- 21:21craft. But over the last couple years
- 21:23I've really started reading a lot of fiction fiction right
- 21:26before I go to bed. And for me, it's become a safe
- 21:29switch to turn off, OK, to turn, turn my mind off from all the
- 21:33thoughts that are honestly in my head about how to, how to make
- 21:36these athletes better, how to make my business better.
- 21:38Like, you know, I've got to do XY and Z, I've got to do all
- 21:40these different things. And I'm sure many of you can
- 21:42relate to that. And you're going to bed and you
- 21:45just, you can't turn those thoughts off.
- 21:46So for me though, it's become kind of a, a barrier where it's,
- 21:51it's my nightly routine. So now I know like, OK, I might
- 21:53read a non fiction book for a little bit in bed.
- 21:56And then, but then when I shift to the fiction book and read
- 21:58that for a bit, that's the, that's the, that's turning it
- 22:00off and then allowing me to go to bed.
- 22:02And it's really, it's really done.
- 22:04You've done a lot to help with that for me, because, you know,
- 22:06let's say I was reading one of these self development books
- 22:09before bed. Only ideas are going to come to
- 22:11life. That's what you want from the
- 22:12book, right? Is ideas related to your life.
- 22:15So I'm reading this book and say I can apply this.
- 22:18I play XY and Z, you know, and then now your, your your mind's
- 22:22ruminating on those ideas and that that's not going to put you
- 22:25in a good spot to go to sleep. OK.
- 22:28And so now it's like I'm putting up that barrier of basically
- 22:32shifting my mind off from my current world and in moving into
- 22:38that fictional world where I can kind of escape the thoughts and
- 22:43problems of whatever is happening in real life and go
- 22:47into that different world for a little bit.
- 22:50And so, so a couple of those books is, you know, I, I, I, I
- 22:55saw these ones from Brett Bartholomew.
- 22:57The it's, it's a series, but the, the first one is called the
- 23:00power of the dog and the second one is just the cartel.
- 23:02And it's basically kind of historical non fiction going all
- 23:05the way from the 70s about how the Mexican drug cartel started
- 23:09in the in the war on drugs and following these different
- 23:12characters that each incredible storytelling that that goes all
- 23:16the way from the 70s to modern day and just really powerful,
- 23:21really pretty, pretty dark at at times, but an incredible
- 23:24storytelling and just books There second series is going to
- 23:28be the terminal series by Jack Carr.
- 23:31Some of y'all may have seen the the TV show that has the first
- 23:34series, but there's a whole I think 8 books now.
- 23:37And the books continue to get better and better as the series
- 23:39go on. Incredibly powerful books
- 23:42dealing with counting it into the military, special OPS, CIA
- 23:46type type type of world. They're really, really good.
- 23:49The next one is called Shadow Cell and this one actually isn't
- 23:53fiction. It's based off 2 married CIA
- 23:57agents of how they created this new cell concept based off how
- 24:02terrorist organizations operate to operate these cells within
- 24:06CIA and how they use this to go root out in a foreign adversary
- 24:13country who had a mole inside the CIA.
- 24:16It was pretty fascinating. Super entertaining book that I
- 24:19would really, really recommend that one.
- 24:22OK, so went through different books from such level of
- 24:26business, coaching, fiction. There's there's, there's plenty
- 24:29more that recommend. If you want any more
- 24:32recommendations, feel free to reach out to me.
- 24:35But those are some really good ones that come to mind from
- 24:37those different areas. Feel, you know, feel free to
- 24:40share, share with me or share in the comments.
- 24:42Great books, man. I love finding more great books.
- 24:44My wife likes to get on me for ordering too many books.
- 24:47But, but I, I think, I think if we're going to spend money on
- 24:50something, books is a great thing to spend it on.
- 24:53OK. So I hope, I hope you're
- 24:55thinking a little bit now from those five ideas.
- 24:57Hopefully you got some books that you might want to go check
- 24:59out. But as always, appreciate all of
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