Chapter 1: Education.

“The largest selling point and competitive advantage made available is YOU.”

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“If you asked me to summarize the concept of personal branding in one word, I would simply reply with “You.””

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“Your personal brand is not something that you created, rather is what you are continuing to create.”

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“They are not their forms of media; their media are extensions of them.”

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“Personal branding is very real indeed. The moment you come to understand how to utilize this concept, this idea, and this philosophy, your future will forever change.”

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“Personal brand and company brand are two separate entities that should be built correlatively.”

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“Every single person from your past either has a perceptual belief about you of which could very well no longer be accurate, or has forgotten about you entirely.”

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“Nobody wants to be forgotten as it is against our instinctual behavior and represents a lapse in impact.”

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“You have unknowingly been building your personal brand from the time you had no control over most of the aspects of your life.”

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“This is not only about keeping an image but concerns developing the understanding that every action in your life has a deserved reaction.”

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“Personal branding, by my estimation, is the world's oldest form of branding.”

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“Most religious texts are composed of recounts about people, and if all people have personal brands, that means that we have been studying personal branding all along!”

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“Personal branding came first and if it weren’t for industrialization, the market would have never allowed for the creation of massive enterprises.”

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“Fame without influence is like fuel and oxygen without heat. A fire needs all three to burn.”

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“It is possible to go from a nobody to somebody. Sure, it requires work and takes time, but the smallest of efforts will all eventually add up and compound.”

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“I'd make the argument that in many cases personality takes precedence over promises.”

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“Other people are the oxygen, the idea that drives them is the fuel, and the person driving the ideas is the heat.”

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“Is it the policy itself that elects the politician or is it the politician who can properly convey the policy?”

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“When there are moments of consequential challenges, policy is going to take priority, but in periods of comfort, it's less about logical thinking and more about emotional ballot-casting.”

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“I was 100% obscure and no one outside my school and classmates knew me. I had no credibility, no social proof, nothing. In a relatively short amount of time I was able to generate awareness around my name and give it power.”

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“My very first podcast was recorded on an outdated smartphone that was gifted to me by a friend.”

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“Fame is impartial to the cause. What you are looking for is influence.”

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“Fame is also relative. You could become famous in your industry or famous to everyone.”

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“Outside of feeling good about yourself, what is the purpose of becoming famous?”

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“Influence is represented by trust and the ability to get someone to take action or change the way that they think.”

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“Without influence, fame is useless and without a degree of fame, influence has no reach.”

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“Influence is established with action and service, and is validated through edification.”

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“Reputation and influence are separate subjects that just so happen to harmonize.”

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“Influence itself is impartial, but the aftermath of that influence is not.”

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“Influence is the heat to the fire that is your personal brand. Without it, there is no depth to your reputation.”

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“When an influential person walks into the room, everybody's attention gathers toward them.”

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“Influence is characterized by creating a sense of confidence and trustworthiness.”

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“Someone does not have to fully believe in the thing you're talking about or telling them to do if they trust your intentions or expertise.”

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“Concentrated Influence allows you to direct banked attention towards achieving a particular goal.”

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“A positive track record vindicates you of third-party concerns and validates your ambitions and capabilities.”

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“Obscurity is the enemy of success and the more attention you have, the more comfortably you can monetize it.”

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“The larger your personal brand becomes, the lower the objection rate falls.”

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“No consultant or therapist will ever know you as well as you know yourself.”

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“Define who you want to be, understand your desired outcomes, and reverse engineer the steps to get there.”

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“Proving others wrong while proving yourself right is one of the most primal feelings.”

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“There must be intention behind building your personal brand. No one does anything without a reason.”

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“Your driving intentions or forces may change and that is okay. When significant shifts do occur, reevaluate where you are and identify how you will need to adapt your strategy.”

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“A widely known personal brand gives you the overhead to talk about the things you care about, spread awareness, spark and progress movements, and is conducive to doing good with low cost and high efficiency.”

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“Building your personal brand is a wonderful vehicle for acquiring wealth.”

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“You will be told “no” less, while the market of opportunity appears to grow.”

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“It’s not necessary to be famous to generate revenue by way of your personal brand.”

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“Defining your ambition makes reverse engineering other notable figures who are farther down the path of their careers more straightforward.”

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“Possessing an awareness of who you are outside your career is a piece of the puzzle that driven individuals often fail to figure out, although it is the one thing that takes no money or external resources to obtain.”

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“Open up Pandora’s Box and put your entire being onto paper. It might not be fun, but understanding all sides to you, good and bad, will serve you well in more ways than one.”

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“If you’re aiming to open an art gallery, begin with one stroke of paint. If you want to become an author, writing the first sentence is all it takes to set the groundwork.”

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“Rapport is trust and a person’s connection with another human. It begins growing or being destroyed the moment a stranger comes in contact with you.”

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“If you think about a person’s ambitions for their personal brand, what one may aspire to achieve could be small in the mind of somebody else, while remaining equally huge to another.”

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“By putting yourself into the public’s view, you are positioned in such a way that often one-sided relationships begin to develop.”

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“You will potentially have millions of people who know and trust you, but you may not know they exist.”

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“When rapport is built, what started as a follower relationship is transmuted into a fan, and then into a loyal supporter.”

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