MASTERMIND

Then I jumped onto the Internet bandwagon, back in 1997 when people didn't even know quite how to spell 'email' and 'Internet', because that's what I saw as the future. I was literally so into it that if Al Gore didn't claim he invented the Internet, it would be me.

I am a student of success and I'm always looking for the one thing, the holy grail for success. There's no silver bullet but the closest I have come to it is the concept of mastermind.

When two or more get together a third mind appears and that is collectively known as the mastermind. It is something beyond what the two can do individually.

A couple of foundational beliefs that I have about mastermind are one, I believe that who you hang around with and who you associate with and listen to will determine your destiny.

So when you, by design, actually hang around the winners in life, they will uplift. The rising tide lifts what? All the boats. ALL of the boats. You hang around with winners they'll take you with them.

Relationship is more important than skills. That's why I keep emphasizing, when you come to the mastermind, it's not only the content, and the ideas, the most important thing is the relationships that you actually have.

When you have great people together, great things happen regardless, because of who they are. It's nothing with me. But when you orchestrate it, when you actually design every day, every process... magic happens.

When approaching you, what appealed to me was that you are sort of a neutral body here, you are the Switzerland as the magazine publisher and founder. It has never been done before in this industry. Nobody has gathered leaders of this industry to brainstorm and share best practices from each other.

The mastermind is based on them. It is customized. We're not talking about 80 people or 800 people, there are ten of us so I can customize the whole mastermind based on their need. And we can make it industry specific.

What I do is prepare the others to take care of the other eight or nine people. You don't have to focus on what you are getting. Just come prepared to give, the getting is automatic.

You want to make a way that let's people raise their hand, so that you don't constantly have to badger people for the opportunity.

The closest I can come to explaining mastermind and the greatest benefit of mastermind is two words: accelerated growth. Whatever it is you want, you can get it faster, stronger, better, through the principle of mastermind.

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