Lewis Howes

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This 5-Minute Friday is with our very first guest Robert Greene and I’m so excited to share this with you it’s when I did it on my iPhone and the audio recording was bad just to show you that it doesn’t matter where you at now, you can always improve any area of your life, your health, business, relationship and take things to another level. So, without further ado let’s dive into this 5-Minute Friday.

Thanks so much for coming on the show Robert.

Robert: Thank you very much for having me Lewis and I’m excited.

Lewis: First of before we get into the content why did you decide to cover this topic?

Robert: Well prior this book I’ve been working for let’s say 13 years or so researching power in all of its different forms from great political figures to seducers to artist. Then I have the opportunity to actually interact with a living power figure 50 cent and I notice that all of these people shared something, it was something that a quality they all had it wasn’t anything physical it was something about how their minds operated and I just thought if I can figure out what these people shared it would be the ultimate book. It would be like the ultimate power itself, I could reduce it to something relatively and for the process that these people went through I say attain of a superior level of intelligence. And once you have this intelligence basically the world is yours to conquer if you have setbacks it’s inevitable in life and you know how to get back on your feet, it’s like the key to everything. So, I wanted to share this knowledge that I have from so much research with my readers.

Lewis: Amazing. Now, can you tell more about your [?] with 50 cent, I think it’s pretty cool that you actually wrote a book with him and how much did you spend time with him and what did you really learn how he got to where he is?

Robert: Well he contacted me, he was just curious to meet me and we met in the backroom in a steakhouse in New York City in 2006 I think it was. It was kind of intimidating because I was the only sort of white guy there.

Lewis: He had a huge entourage.

Robert: He had a huge entourage and it’s kind of like something out of the godfather, but it ended up really well and you wouldn’t think of looking at us because we didn’t look simpler or anything but we got along really well. We shared interesting strategy and warfare and like to talk about sports and empowering maneuvers and what people are really up to in the music business. So, we decided to do a book together, I spend about for 6 months I was pretty much hanging out with him. I’d go back and forth to L.A but I was in New York a lot, I would hang out with him in all these meetings, I went to his house and hang out in his strange mansion in Connecticut that he bought from Mike Tyson and then I went to Vegas a lot with him, party a lot with him but neither of us was party animals. So we got to know each other pretty well and being around him you know I was sort of considering, I never got to be around Napoleon Bonaparte I’m now that old but I thought this is my chance to be around a real kind of I call him Napoleon Bonaparte, he really see in real time what a powerful figure is like and he was amazing and I had to deduce from that time the secret to 50 is fearlessness and that’s what the 50 is about.

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