‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

Fake and Grow Rich, amazing book. One of the best selling books of all time. But the whole backstory, completely fake, and he's a total con man. What? What do you mean none of it's true? I have to tell you this story. So I'm rereading a bunch of old books because I like rereading old books. And I started reading, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Have you read that one? I love that book, Sam. Rule number one. Rule number one. The, a person's name is the, is the most beautiful one. English language. The golden rule. I love that book. I just I the reason I like these old books is because some of them, the the the rules have stood the test of time, and the writing is always, like, older writing, for some reason, it's, like, cute. There's something about it. Tell you something stupid I did. I took the book, and you know how people wear, like, you're you're a denim guy. You know this. Distressed jeans. Oh, yeah. I distressed the book. I roughed it up a little bit. I made it look like this is an heirloom that's been passed down from Napoleon himself. Did you, like, dog ear certain pages even though you didn't didn't even read the thing? Tattered. Tattered, folded. Folded like a baseball hat. First 30 pages, but, like, I made this book look like it has already won Friends and Influence people. Yeah. Go on. You just put it in the back of your pocket and just walk around with it. Wait. For people who don't know the or, you know, people have heard of the book, but if you if it's been one of those things like, you know, like The Wire, it's like, I heard it's a great show, but it's kinda old now, and I just I guess I'm out on that. Like, if you know of the book, but you haven't actually cracked into it, could tell the quick story of it? Dale Carnegie, he originally was a public speaker, and he taught public speaking classes, then he created a book called How to Win Friends and Influence People, and I think it's, like, 15 or 20 rules on how to basically make friends and make people like you. So it could be saying their name. It could be asking them questions, so they do most of the talking. It's, never arguing with someone, because there's no one wins an argument when you guys fight. And there's, like, how many 15 or 20 rules. And it's just like an old timer book. It was released in the nineteen thirties, so it's almost a 100 years old, and it probably has sold 50 to a 100,000,000 copies. And to this day, there's the Dale Carnegie Institute, which is a public speaking classes. And, a lot of amazing people, including Warren Buffett, have said that, that book influenced them and helped them. …