Episode 197： Top 10 Documentaries for Entrepreneurs
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Summary
10 Documentaries To Watch As An Entrepreneur 1. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead by Steve Aoki 2. I'm Too Stupid To Die by John Singleton 3. I Don't Care About That by Robert Downey Jr. 4. I Can't Sleep Anymore by Oprah Winfrey 5. The Power of a Family by Michael Bloomberg 6. My Next Guest: Steve Jobs 7. Evocator by Gloria Allred 8. Enron by Andy Fastow 9. I Have No Idea What I'm Gonna Do with My Next $100,000 by Enron 10. One Time for the Underdog by DJ Khaled
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30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
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the sky, touch the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Pat Shubit, your host of ITM, and today I'm gonna recommend you 10 documentaries to
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Number 10 documentary is I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.
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See, when I watch his documentary, I watch it a night before I was sitting down with
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Steve Aoki to kind of talk to him about what his life is all about.
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How did he go from being a regular guy in Orange County to all of a sudden making $28 million,
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How did he make $28 million, you're DJing, and you're on a Forbes list?
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And when you listen to his story of his life, you will realize exactly why he became who
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His father went on one of these hot air balloon rides and went from Japan to US, that was a
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Guinness Book of World Record for like 30 years, and his father was a wrestling champion,
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and Steve Aoki is the son, and he has to overcome the shadow and try to top this guy.
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So when you see the dynamics about the role his mother played, his father played, it's
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She has settled lawsuits, nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in her career.
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So when you watch this documentary, a lot of people say, oh, you know, she's all about
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She pins men against women, all this other stuff.
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I've seen feminists that don't even know what feminism means, and I know feminists
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When her and I sat down in her office, everybody was uncomfortable.
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This is gonna come out here soon, but one of the things I respect about her story is
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the fact that this woman is an absolute true believer.
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It'll make you think about true believers in a whole different way.
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Number eight, this is the story of Enron, the smartest guys in the room.
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Andy Fastow was the former CFO for Enron, and him and I have sat down, we've spoken, we've
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had some very, very good conversations together.
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He's changed his life dramatically after what happened before to what it is today.
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You hear a time when everybody was doing what Enron was doing.
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Now listen, they weren't doing the right thing, but everybody was doing it.
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So if everybody is doing it, you're in the mix, you're kind of like, well, they're doing
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This is when you hear certain news channels, MSNBC and CNN say, capitalists, they're filled
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Hopefully when you watch it, you'll say to yourself, I am involved in certain things in
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I highly recommend for you to get out of it because all it takes is one time.
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One time for something to happen and your business is gone and you have to go back and
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rebuild your reputation, your business, and it's just not something you want to go through.
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This is the story of a host back in the days, in the 80s, 90s, Morton Downey Jr., who was
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a son of Morton Downey Sr. and what happened to him, how he came up.
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They had a house right by the water and the Kennedys had it behind them.
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So he hung out with the Kennedys and everybody knew and they respected the dad.
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One time they brought a magazine in with his father before he's getting interviewed and he throws
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his, trashes his magazine all over the place, flips out temper.
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He said, I don't want to be in this guy's shadow.
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And then he gets the opportunity, becomes the biggest thing on television and what happened
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for him to go from here, passing Oprah, passing Phil Downeyl, passing everybody and what caused
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When you study the fall, you'll sit there and say, wow, I never thought about it this way
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Because sometimes when you get caught up with a lot of attention, you're willing to do anything
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and everything to get more attention because you always want to top the attention.
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And sometimes you can cross the line and that's when a big fall is around the corner.
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Evacuator is a great documentary you've got to watch.
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This is the story of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, which is a very, very famous soccer player.
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This guy's made a few hundred million dollars playing soccer and he just recently gave up
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a $90 million contract to play in China for two years for $3 million contract to play
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in LA for two years, which is insanity, but he took it.
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The reason why this documentary is very important, I watch this documentary on my sister's house
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because my nephew, Sean, is a ridiculous soccer player whom I believe in.
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I think this kid can do some special things with his life.
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Sean, if you're watching this, buddy, your uncle loves you.
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He is going with his agent to sign his first contract and he is 16, 17 years old.
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His agent's in his mid-40s and his agent is nervous.
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He looks at his agent very calmly and says, hey, hey, look at me.
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A 16, 17-year-old kid is telling a 45-year-old something like this.
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And the agent looks at him and says, oh, I'm sorry.
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Here's a person that's 45 that's his age and is giving advice by a 16, 17-year-old.
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Why is this so important for the younger people to watch this?
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It's because some of you think you have to be 40, 45, 50 years old to go out there and
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make these big deals and big negotiation deals.
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Here's a 16, 17-year-old kid who knew how much time and effort he had put in a tray to
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become as good as he is right now, which gave him the confidence to tell a 45-year-old, listen,
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Just go to the negotiation that we need to do here to get the deal that we know we deserve.
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Very, very important documentary for the younger teenage entrepreneurs to watch.
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But it's on a list of a documentary that's must-watch.
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I would have put it higher, but I put out the ranking that it is right now.
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So we rented out the biggest private castle in America, 32 bedrooms.
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I said, tell me what you're thinking right now.
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You see, the story there is a story about a coach named Mike Ditka, who was a phenomenal
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He used to be the first tight end Hall of Famer.
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Great guy as a player that ends up becoming a coach.
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Yet, the credibility in the locker room was by a guy named Buddy Ryan, whom the defensive
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guy would have ran through a wall for this guy named Buddy Ryan.
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And it was Mike Singletary and all these other guys.
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The quarterback who was going through concussion tests.
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And you're seeing the dynamics of leadership, how the Bears brought in Ditka and said, Buddy
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I'm supposed to be the head coach and it didn't happen.
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Many times when you're running a business, you're running a team, ownership or someone
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is going to make the wrong call on who needs to run the whole thing.
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And you still got to figure out a way to make it work.
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And you still got to figure out a way to say, listen, I know you think I'm in this position.
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I'm going to go above and beyond and show you my leadership level that I have in the
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company needs to be higher and hopefully to get noticed.
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And it's a very emotional Super Bowl and how they won it.
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It's the only time in the history of sports and football, this is the first time where
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they carried the coach and the defensive coordinator, Buddy Ryan.
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This has never happened because the players are trying to say, you were just as much of
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And Ditka, years later, agreed when he talks about the story.
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I got the chills just thinking about it because I remember when we were in Ohika Castle and
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Phenomenal documentary to watch with your team.
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And number four, four days in October, which is the story of the 2004 Red Sox that are down
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three to nothing to the New York Yankees and they make a comeback.
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The entire country was rooting for the Red Sox because they hadn't won a championship for
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Babe Ruth, the whole thing that they did, all of these guys are cursed because it's
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Now, we got some insider information about what happened with Kevin Millar.
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Kevin Millar, the third baseman, who was not the top five best player on that team.
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At that time, Manny Ramirez had come off the Cleveland Indians.
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He was playing with Joey Bell, those guys at that time.
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Kurt Schilling, and he had the blood on his leg.
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But everyone had given up because the Yankees are just going to come down and they have
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Kevin Millar, third baseman, not the top five best player on the team.
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Moral of the story here, you don't have to be the best guy in the company to rally everybody.
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Sometimes it's just the guy that comes in and changes the spirit.
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Before the game, this doesn't make it in the documentary.
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This is just insider information due to proper investigation that we have here with the
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Kevin Millar pulls all the players and says, listen, if we're going to lose, we're going
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Everybody does a shot of tequila before the game and they go out and he starts going and
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The journalist says, hey, you look like you're already picking Yankees.
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And he goes telling everybody and he's so loose.
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You know how Yankees always look so proper, you know?
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What if everybody on ESPN is going crazy and then 3-3 and then boom, they win 4-3.
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And the Yankees locker room, they're sitting there like, what the hell just happened today?
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This documentary is such a great documentary for you to watch with your team, especially
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if you're behind in your numbers and you try to make up the numbers and you try to inspire
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some people in your company to be a Kevin Millar.
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And this is the story of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Listen, if you're a bodybuilder, you exercise, you've probably watched this before.
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It's got to be one of the best documentaries of all time.
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Now, it tells the story of Arnold before he became Arnold and you will see glimpses of
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how this man who ends up becoming a governor of the state of California, he really learned
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how to debate when he was playing against these other competitors against Ferrigno.
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He would go and sit down and talk to his parents and how he would throw off his competitors
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And a lot of people think, well, this guy's just a muscle guy and he's just a big guy.
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You'll be entertained and you'll learn a lot about business and life as well.
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Number two, super mensch, is the story of Shep Gordon.
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You've got to figure out a way how to market and how to tell the story.
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Shep Gordon may be a person not a lot of people know in the regular day-to-day world,
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Everybody in Hollywood wished Shep Gordon was one of their friends or representing him
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You know, he wants to be a firefighter, I think, or cop or something like that.
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He moves to LA, stays at this apartment where all these celebs, Jimi Hendrix, everybody's
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Outside by the pool one day, he starts smoking weed with all these other guys.
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And he had people, artists that would say, throw chicken in the audience.
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Just some random guerrilla marketing creative ideas that nobody had ever done in Hollywood
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By the way, when you see how he talks, when you see how he's wired, very calm, very easy,
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And when he does parties in his house in Hawaii, you know who shows up on his birthday party?
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Names of names in Hollywood that went, oh my gosh, what's he doing here?
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I had a friend of mine, Byron, who did one-two party of his at his house in Hawaii.
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He says, Pat, Oprah Winfrey was at, everybody was at this guy's house at the party.
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Shep Gordon, documentary called Superman, made it at number two.
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Many of you who know me, you know how much I love Ayrton Senna.
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To the point where my youngest daughter's first name is Senna.
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See, Ayrton Senna was a guy who brought so much pride and love to his country, Brazil.
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When Brazil was going through the phase where this guy was winning championships after championships
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after championships, beating pros, beating all these guys.
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He was, at that time, the Michael Jordan of Formula One.
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He's going around a turn and he hits the tires on the side, the wall.
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He comes out and he tells all the people that are the officials, he says, that wall was moved.
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I'm telling you, that wall was moved six inches.
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How can you tell six inches apart when you're driving?
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When he died, 12 million kids in Brazil went to school because of Ayrton Senna's non-profit.
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12 million kids in Brazil, they went to school because of what Ayrton Senna did with his legacy.
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My challenge to everybody with this documentary is, watch how this man wanted to find out what the best version of himself could look like.
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He said, what can I look like if I give my best to this game?
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Whatever you do in whatever industry you choose, you've got to ask yourself, what can happen if I give my best in this industry?
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What is truly my upside if I give everything I've got?
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You're always going to end up breaking through the ceiling if you end up giving your best.
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Obviously, he's got a special place in my heart.
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All the Brazilian community, Brazilian value-tainers, you know how we have that emotional connection on Instagram and Snapchat when we go back and forth.
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I love Senna for many different reasons, but Senna's documentary is number one for mindsets that he had in life that I think can help any entrepreneur out there.
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