Oasis Concert Leverage
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Sam Parr shares a pivotal moment watching an Oasis concert that changed his perspective on leverage and success.
"I remember watching a concert - it was Oasis. I was drunk in bed watching this YouTube video, and I remember the singer was outputting very little energy, yet there were 100,000 people in the crowd singing back to them.
I thought 'wow, that's leverage.' This guy wrote this song in his bedroom, and because it's such a good song and he has such an interesting personality, he's got 100,000 fans as well as 40 million views repeating back to him the words even though he's exerting little energy.
That's leverage - that's the ideal way to live your life. I was wasting it. I remember changing it around after I saw that. I thought 'I think I'm special enough to do something like that. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I know I have the ability to get there, but I'm wasting it by not leveraging myself.'
When I lived in Nashville, I was a loser, but I knew I had an 'it' factor. That's really what changed it - moving to San Francisco, meeting you and a couple other people normalized achieving goals."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.