"Part 2:Joe Polish's In Search Of Heroes Interview Was Inspiring, Motivating and Positively, Powerfully Profound!" by Ralph Zuranski
Whatever you do, to listen to Joe's interview. It will blow your mind and blast your cheeks out of your seat. This is one of the most motivating interviews ever. If you want to know what you need to do to become a humongous success, LISTEN TO THIS INTERVIEW!
Ralph Zuranski: I know right now you’re coming up with a couple of new projects. You’re working with Alex Mandossian on the interviews that you’ve done with important people and people that have accomplished great things. What’s the name of that one?
Joe Polish: Well, I have a company I founded called "The Genius Network." I recently made Alex Mandossian, a fabulous guy, a partner in the business, because he brings so much to the table. He knows many ways to expand it and robotic methods to develop and reach new audiences.
Joe Polish: It is a process of me doing interviews. Now I’ll be doing them with Alex, with individuals that have written books. They don’t necessarily need to be book authors or speakers in the field of business, although our primary market is people involved in marketing and business.
Joe Polish: I’ve also interviewed famous athletes and people that I find interesting and have some unique skills, talents, abilities and insights on something that I think would be helpful to inspire people and encourage people and share wisdom with individuals.
Joe Polish: I do interviews with people that I’d want to talk with anyway. Because if you think about it, where do all great discoveries come from in life? They come from discussions with other people.
Joe Polish: Speaking for myself, everything that I’ve learned has come out of a discussion with another individual. That’s how I learn. It can be a discussion in the form of a seminar. It can be a phone conversation. It can be the 2 of us sitting down right now and just talking. It all comes out of discussions.
Joe Polish: I seek out individuals that I admire what they’ve done, and I have conversations with them. I ask them questions. And I’m very much a believer, and so is Alex in the Socratic method, where the question is far more important than the answer.
Joe Polish: I’m always saying, “Okay, what could I ask this person that would cause their brain to seek out something that I’d learn from?” People have enormous amounts of lessons, if you ask them the right questions.
Joe Polish: That’s true! That’s what we’re doing with the Heroes Program. The kids will be looking for heroes in their local community.
Ralph Zuranski: Joe, what is your definition of heroism?
Joe Polish: I guess it would be a big definition. Although to summarize my thoughts right off the top, I would consider a hero someone who’s an encourager. They inspire others. In the face of enormous obstacles they are able to communicate, articulate and lift someone up with their words, their actions and their mission in life.
Joe Polish: As nice as it is to have me as an interviewee in the Heroes Program, I don’t consider myself someone who I would think of as a hero. If people look at me as a hero, wonderful. I hope I do encourage and inspire others.
Joe Polish: I think the real heroes of the world, in a lot of ways, never are discovered in a famous sort of way. They’re doing little things all the time that nobody ever really notices.
Joe Polish: For instance, both of my parents are deceased. The people at the hospice center that took care of my father right before he actually died...those are heroes. Those are people that, day in, day out, are assisting in very sad, very horrendous circumstances for some individuals. And they’re there every day, doing what needs to be done to make life easier for people at the end of their lives. Those are real heroes.
Joe Polish: The people out there that are making the world a better place, protecting children, those, to me, are heroes.
Joe Polish: My mother is an example. She died when I was 4 years old. She was one of the first authors that taught children how to read using the phonetic method. Millions of her books have been sold and they’re still in publication 30+ years after her death. They’re still in circulation.
Joe Polish: So she taught millions of children how to read and continues to do so even after she passed away. She left a legacy. To me, my mother was a hero.
Joe Polish: A hero is someone who encourages and inspires. I want to be an encourager as much as I can. I want to seek out other people that are encouraging, that just offer hope. That’s what drives me and makes the world a better place.