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Founders: #320 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2

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What I learned from reading Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden. ---- Founders Notes gives you the superpower to learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. You can search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast. Get access to Founders Notes here. ---- Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10 highlights from every book ---- (5:00) It was better for the world that he had known failure and suffered moments of self doubt. (6:00) There was something in Churchill's character that simply wouldn't allow him to give up. He was a dangerous optimist. (8:00) History likes winners. (9:30) The adventures and ordeals of those early years were essential to the making of a man who triumphed in the second world war. (10:00) At 40 he was largely written off as a man whose best days were behind him. (Churchill shares a lot of parallels with Steve Jobs) (10:30) He fashioned his career as a grand experiment to prove that he could work his will on his times. Persevering in that approach, despite repeated setbacks and often harsh ridicule of those who didn't share his high opinion of himself. (13:00) At the heart of this stor

[00:00:00] Churchill lost something in 1915 that he never regained. At 40 years old, youth begins to slip away from most people. But what Winston lost was not merely a matter of looks or energy. It was a spirit that had once seemed so vital and inexhaustible. A lively spark that had served him well from crisis to crisis. But it flickered and went out in 1915, and Churchill was never the same. He persevered in politics until his moment in the sun came 25 years later in 1940. But by that time, he was a harder, much less exuberant character. He had learned the tough lessons of a long life lived…

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