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What happened to these two brothers? #shorts

2022-11-22 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Business and entrepreneurship · mode: Personal story · tags: Lesson from a book

Ali retells a parable from MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane: two brothers in ancient Egypt race to build pyramids; one drags the stones by hand and dies of exhaustion, the other spends years building a crane and then finishes in no time.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Two brothers, two pyramids and a crane, from The Millionaire Fastlane

  • ★★ In a parable from The Millionaire Fastlane, two brothers in ancient Egypt, 4,000 years ago, compete to build two pyramids, and the winner is to get a lifetime of riches from the pharaoh. (fiction) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ In the pyramid parable, the first brother, Azur (as heard), drags the stones into place by hand and builds the bottom layer in a few months, while his brother Chuma lays no brick, spends all day in his workshop and says he is building his pyramid. (fiction) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ In the pyramid parable, after two years the bricks grow harder for Azur to lift, while Chuma, who had spent those years building a crane in his workshop, raises his pyramid with it in no time. (fiction) — 00:00:29
  • ★★ The pyramid parable ends with Azur dying of physical exhaustion a year later, while Chuma completes his pyramid and earns a lifetime of riches from the pharaoh. (fiction) — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Ali calls The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, the source of the pyramid parable, a fantastic book. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Ali closes the pyramid parable by saying that something lets us do more with less; the start of his last sentence is cut off. — 00:00:58

In the description and comments

  • ★ Ali Abdaal (channel): Answering a viewer who says the pyramid story is not true, the channel says it is a parable. — creator comment

Mentioned

Central: The Millionaire Fastlane

Also: Egypt · MJ DeMarco

Also centred on The Millionaire Fastlane: The Best Book I've Ever Read about Making Money · 15 Books To Read to Change Your Life · How to Invest as a Teenager · 4 Books You Should Read in 2023 · The 4 Best Books About Money - Part 3 📚

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