Roosevelt's Boxing Blindness
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A story about how Theodore Roosevelt became partially blind from a boxing match in the White House that he tried to keep secret.
"Roosevelt was a crazy person - he liked to box and was a man's man. There's a story where he would invite people to spar him in the White House. He would make people box with him, including professionals, and they would spar.
One time, a guy - I think it was his aide or a partner - damaged his eye during a match, leaving him blind in one eye. During the boxing match, Roosevelt said 'Hey look, we can't tell anyone about this. No one could know that we were fighting here, otherwise I'm gonna get in a ton of trouble.'
So he didn't tell a lot of people, but he was blind in one eye. After that incident, he switched from boxing to judo and jujitsu instead."
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.