Sam's Wikipedia Pre-Reading Habit
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Sam explains his pre-reading habit and why he finds it helpful when reading biographies.
"When I read a book, I always read the Wikipedia of the person or the summary of the book, which definitely gives it away, but it makes it so much easier to know what to look forward to. If I know that he's been divorced a bunch of times, I start reading about his first marriage and I'm like, I know this is going to end and I could see the cracks already.
It's very helpful to have the blueprint of what the overall scaffolding of the story is. So then when you're reading, you're putting things in buckets basically and you know what else is to come. Versus you go in blind and then you're sort of at the mercy of did they hook me right away, or you might bounce before you get to any of the good stuff."
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.