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Brad Jacobs
The blueprint for building billion-dollar empires
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How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs reveals strategies for scaling businesses rapidly. It combines practical advice with real-world examples to guide entrepreneurs and executives in achieving exponential financial growth.
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Mastering the inner game
Standing in front of a mirror and staring at your hands until they seem unfamiliar might sound strange – but for author and serial entrepreneur Brad Jacobs, who’s founded multiple billion-dollar companies, this kind of deliberate mental exercise is professional discipline. The ability to generate massive wealth starts long before a single dollar is raised. It starts with training the brain itself.
Jacobs views the entrepreneur’s mind as an asset class requiring rigorous, almost athletic conditioning. He calls this capacity mental synthesis – the brain’s evolutionary ability to combine distinct, unrelated memories into completely new mental images. This is how we picture what doesn’t exist yet so we can eventually build it.
For example, when Jacobs starts a company, he constructs a vivid, high-resolution mental picture of exactly what that business will look like in one year, five years, and ten years. He visualizes the culture, the scale, the profits with such intensity that actual execution becomes a process of catching up to the reality he’s already created in his head.
Maintaining this clarity requires what he calls a nonroutine routine to access flow states – moments of awe that trigger extreme creativity. The practice gets surprisingly physical. One technique involves “feeling the brain” – closing your eyes and visualizing a string running from the right side of your brain to the left, another from front to back, a third from top to bottom. You focus your entire awareness on the exact geometric point where those three strings intersect, using it as a fulcrum to trigger creativity and sensory awareness.
Another exercise, adapted from Qigong, is more expansive. You visualize the entire observable universe – all 546,000 billion trillion miles – compressed into a golden egg, known in Hindu texts as Hiranyagarbha. In your mind’s eye, you lift this egg to your lips and swallow it, repeating: “The universe is in me.” Esoteric, sure. But the practical result is a shift in perspective. When you contain the cosmos, a bad quarterly report feels significantly smaller.
Now, meditation alone won’t make anyone immune to chaos. Business is a series of problems disguised as opportunities, and losing your center is easy. When pressure mounts, Jacobs leans on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, or REBT, pioneered by psychologist Albert Ellis. The core premise: external events don’t upset you – what you tell yourself about those events does.
Most high-achievers suffer from what Ellis called stinkin’ thinkin’ – an internal monologue dominated by rigid demands. “I must be perfect.” “People must treat me fairly.” These beliefs are irrational because perfection is impossible and fairness isn’t guaranteed. When reality fails to meet these demands, anxiety and paralysis follow.
The fix is reframing rigid demands into rational preferences. Instead of “I must succeed,” the script becomes “I would prefer to succeed, but if I don’t, it’s not a catastrophe.” This subtle linguistic shift drains the toxicity from failure. A potential identity crisis becomes a problem to solve, allowing you to step back, re-center, and get back to work.
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What is How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars about?
How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars (2024) lays out the mental frameworks and strategic playbook required to consolidate fragmented industries into massive, tech-forward enterprises. You’ll discover how to rewire your brain for resilience, select the perfect industry for disruption, and execute complex integrations with military precision. This guide challenges you to use technology for profit while potentially shaping the future of human evolution.
Who should read How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars?
- Entrepreneurs seeking a blueprint for large-scale industry consolidation
- Corporate executives looking to optimize mergers and acquisitions strategies
- Investors interested in the mechanics of high-growth value creation
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