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  • Doberman Dan: Win the Long Game (Persuasion Play Podcast #015)

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    Serious students of direct response copywriting know the name Doberman Dan.

    Dan started selling bodybuilding guides and supplements in the 1990s as a way to find freedom from his J-O-B as a police officer.

    That financial freedom didn’t come quickly, though.

    It took Dan some 9 failed businesses before he asked himself,

    “Why did I buy THAT thang?”

    …and then used the answer to build his own successful business.

    Doberman Dan was gracious enough to sit with me and share his story—and a few secrets—for this episode of the Persuasion Play Podcast.

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  • Your brain controls the Universe

    My daughter recently mentioned that a scientist visiting her 1st grade classroom told the students that their brain power couldn’t move the physical world.

    I disagree.

    Yes, the common concept of telekinesis is unproven. Science has not been able to measure any sort of change to large physical items when a person or group concentrates on that item.

    Balls don’t roll. Coins don’t flip.

    Those aren’t the changes that an average brain can influence…

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  • How to Stop Worrying

    Humans have the unique ability, so far as we know, to think abstractly about the future and make plans around those possible outcomes.

    Abstract thought is a driver for human growth and ingenuity. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to plan for the future. You wouldn’t be able to tease apart cause and effect. You wouldn’t have scientific advancements and would be forever stuck in a world of superstition.

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  • 5 Things to Learn in “Outwitting the Devil” by Napoleon Hill

    Andrew Carnegie was a business tycoon in the late 1800s… and the richest

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    Journalist Napoleon Hill asked Andrew Carnegie, “What makes for a successful life?” Image “Newspapers B&W (3)” by Jon S, Flickr, CC-By-2.0

    man in America.

    During an ‘afternoon interview’ —one that stretched into three days— journalist Napoleon Hill asked Carnegie,

    What makes for a successful life?

    With a twinkle in his eye, Carnegie invited Hill to research that exact question— (more…)