Hello and welcome to Ways to Change the World. I'm Christian Gury Murphy and this is the

podcast in which we talk to extraordinary people about the big ideas in their lives

and the events that have helped shape them. My guest this week is the actor, writer, bodybuilder, politician Arnold

Schwarzenegger. He is in this country promoting a new book that he's written called Be Useful,

which contains his seven lessons for life, the seven

lessons that he says he applied to become very successful in life both as a

athlete and then as an actor and then as a politician and he's sharing them for the world.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, welcome. I mean you've done a remarkable book that is sort of a book about helping people find the best version of themselves.

Who taught you?

I was very fortunate to have a lot of mentors.

You know, so as I grew up, I had people when I was 15 years old that told me that I could

be Mr Austria or Mr Europe or Mr Universe that gave me they encouraged me and gave me kind of the power to believe in myself and

it was Mr Austria-Couid Manor,

if it was Reg Park, that I saw on a screen,

as playing Hercules, a British fellow from Leeds.

There was Mr Universe in 1951, 59, or 58 and 65,

three times Mr Universe, and he became my hero, and when I read about his training and his career,

it was literally that it created a vision for me and so he became kind of a mentor.

Then when I came to America he was Joe Weeder who was the publisher of the Muscle magazine so with that it

brought me over there and then later on in the political arena Ronald Reagan and

Nixon and guys like that and then later on and I promoted Special Olympics amid

Nelson Mandela and then as he became another hero of mine and mentor and

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