someone recently asked us what are your
favorite success book recommendations
and maybe even some of the books that
inspired video influencers yeah we're
going to talk about it in this video bam
hey what's up Sean here Hi Benji and
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online video and today we just wanted to
briefly talk about just a couple of our
favorite books based on a question that
we recently received yeah and this is a
thing books is a great way to gain
insight and resources on things beyond
what you can experience so that's why I
love books you know like it's always
open up my eyes and the books I'm gonna
be recommending today aren't really
specifically about video they're just
books that give you great principles
that my first book is four hour work
week now the basic idea of four hour work
week is how to how do you fit in more
work into less time because this is a
thing especially with video and adding
it to your business you already are
working your business right so how do
you add that extra little bit of video
when one you're not a videographer and
to you don't really have time beyond
your 40 hours so that book is going to
give you a lot of great principles to be
able to do that and that's why I feel
it's a great book to read when you're
trying to fit in videography into your
business or just you know add more stuff
to your life such a great point yeah four hour
work week by Tim for Ferris and and that
is a question we get a lot how do you do
YouTube stuff when you have a full time
job or how do you fit it in your
schedule mhm optimize your schedule more
yeah and that book will help with that
as well as even just optimizing your
productivity because when you're a
youtuber it's about so much more than
just the one video yeah or just just
shooting videos it's about optimizing
your channel and writing emails to
people to collaborate with and it is a
full time full career that's
multi-faceted multi-dimensional and even
if you're not treating it as a full-time
career even if you're doing is a hobby
you'll benefit from that so i definitely
recommend and then the other thing too
in the book is talking about outsourcing
right and Tim Ferris talking about
businesses are fully outsourcing
everything but there's little things
that you can outsource and
in the beginning you typically are going
to do the work yourself but you know
what if you have the means and you have
the resources you can start outsourcing
right away what I mean by that is if you
know a buddy or you have somebody that
has a videography business why not hire
them to take over this part of your
business of video so that book is great
about not only how to do that but the
best way to do that in my opinion my
first recommendation is actually a book
that we both love it's called crush it
why now is the time by cash in on your
passion hashtag crush it hashtag crush
it and hey and if you're watching this
video and your hair is talking about a
deuce of favor and tweet @GaryVee and
tell them that we're recommending this
book and how much it impacted and
influenced us we actually met i think
around the book and we were running at
about the same time you know it's a
great book but what it more than
anything what it does is it paints a
picture of basically how you can build a
career around your passion and it really
influenced my thinking back and i
believe around 2010 2009 when it came
out still relevant today you know still
almost more relevant today and so
definitely a good book to chuck check
out and it gives you a formula to go
through as far as creating that content
and it would definitely so relevant for
youtube but also if you expand on to a
blog and so crush it by Gary Vaynerchuk
yeah in addition to what you just said
he also talks about how to do that
through social media specifically so
that's why we feel probably both of us
that it's relevant even more so for for
video influencer viewers because it
talks about how to do that with the
tools that we utilize most you know
whether it's YouTube or some other video
platform or you know twitter facebook
Instagram everything book number three
is think and grow rich now this book is
actually fairly old yeah I'm like I
don't know when it was written but i
think is a beginning part of the 20th
century and this is a thing the reason i
love that book is because it gives you
basic principles on how to be successful
in life in general that especially in
business and even in video so that's a
great read I've read that book I think
about four or five times
listen to it almost 20 times I love that
book so that's a great book if you want
basic principles and you just want to
get pumped up about whatever you're
doing Think and Grow Rich have you read
that before I have ready okay you know
mindset is so important right because if
you can change your thinking you could
change your life yeah and it's a super
famous book one of the best-selling
books of all time but great book to
check out and then lastly number for a
book that i love is actually called the
secrets of the richest man who ever
lived and it's actually about King
Solomon who lived in the Bible and that
when you look at the historical figure
of him King Solomon you look at you know
his assets his house or his you know the
temple he lived in the way all the
different things they actually shape say
that he is the richest man Oh is ever
lit oh yeah yeah which is crazy but then
what it does is it the book actually
just breaks down principles from his
life the reason I think it's so
important is because it talks about at
one of the chapters i think is on
negotiation in about how he was good at
negotiation one of the chapters is how
he was all about having the right people
in his life so that you didn't have a
negative influences in his life but he's
surrounded by people who believed in his
dream one of the chapters is about how
he he himself would continue to keep his
dream before him and you know write it
down so just so many cool things small
bite-sized chapters and helpful for just
overall growing as a person never read
it but i might happen to pick it up good
book so hey so thanks so much for
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