92 - Career Lessons Arnold

The Connection | 2021.08.23 | Issue 92

I recently finished reading Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography,

Total Recall

. His life story is incredibly inspiring, but I think most people will take away the wrong lesson from how he approached his career.

Arnold's vision of success was grounded in the success of another body builder: Reg Park. Park won Mr. Universe, then leveraged that success to go to America and used his platform to catapult himself into Hollywood movies. 

Sound familiar? 

Here are Arnold’s exact words: 

"I could become another Reg Park. All my dreams came together and made sense. I’d found the way to get to America: bodybuilding! And I’d found a way to get into movies. They would be the thing that everyone in the world would know me for.

"I refined this vision until it was very specific. I was going to go for the Mr. Universe title; I was going to break records in powerlifting; I was going to Hollywood; I was going to be like Reg Park. The vision became so clear in my mind that I felt like it had to happen. There was no alternative; it was this or nothing."

There’s a specific piece of this advice Arnold got wrong -- and when you study his behavior, you realize he did the exact opposite!

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