Top 10 Lessons from 2025

I'm a show you how great I am. Let's have tiny power. I just wanna say from the bottom of my heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody. Hello, and welcome to How to Take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. On this podcast, we dissect the lessons to be learned from the greatest leaders to have ever lived all throughout history and this episode is gonna be a little bit different instead of going through one person's life and sharing my takeaways. As you probably gathered from the title, we'll be discussing my top 10 takeaways from all the episodes I did in 2025. So I went through and briefly reviewed every episode and pulled out some of my favorite lessons. As a reminder, the episodes that were released in 2025 were Charlemagne, Isaac Newton, Machiavelli, Captain Cook, Donald Trump, Coco Chanel, Edwin Land, Jesus, Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Bach, Hannibal, Thomas Jefferson, Scipio Africanus, Roger Federer, Arminius, Nietzsche, Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Cleopatra, Andrew Carnegie. I also released video versions of Lee Kuan Yew, Joan of Arc, and Ernest Shackleton, who I had previously covered on the podcast. So I went back and reviewed them. Here's some of my top takeaways. Obviously, many of the lessons are the same no matter who we're talking about because great leadership is great leadership. Right? But instead of repeating the same lessons, I have chosen all new lessons from last year because last year, I also did a top 10 lessons. And as a reminder, those lessons were number one, the power of negative thinking. Number two, leadership wins. Three, vision. Four, insist on quality. Five, eat light. Six, pain is where the progress is. Seven, charisma is in the eyes. Eight, Holly's Law. Nine, set simple intuitive goals. And ten, two weeks can change your life. Alright. I'll I'll link that episode in the show notes if you wanna go check out some of those lessons. So this isn't just the top 10 lessons that I could think of. It is the top 10 lessons that are new to this year that we hadn't necessarily discussed previously. So let's get into it. So number one is learn to communicate clearly at scale. The essential element of leadership is vision. You have to be able to have and articulate a vision. Otherwise, you can't lead people toward anything. And closely connected to the idea of vision is the ability to communicate it. That is how you lead. That is how you get people moving in the same direction. So, some good quotes from this year that I thought really articulated well, this idea that you need to be able to clearly articulate your vision. From Charlemagne, he was rich in eloquence and was able to express most clearly whatever he wished to say. I think that's so interesting because Charlemagne in many ways comes from a very foreign world ours. This is over …