 What's up guys welcome to my new series a quick lesson on leadership in this series I'm gonna take a public figure of the past or present and focus in on one lesson that they could teach us Today's person is a past Persian king and in his time ruled the largest empire the world had ever known His name is Cyrus the Great and he's most known for human rights Politics and military strategy The lesson he's gonna teach us today is on the importance of building strong Relationships and how to always have someone there to help you when you need it make sure you stay tuned to the end for a great book Recommendation it's personally one of my favorites, and I think you'd really love it Also, make sure you subscribe if you like content like this and want to see more in the future I want to teach this lesson by telling you a story the story goes like this One day in Babylon, Cyrus was holding a grand feast When one of his generals spoke out and criticized him for being so generous and open-handed with his well He told Cyrus that if he kept being this generous, he would reduce himself to poverty hearing this Cyrus then said if I hoarded all my wealth myself, how much money would you suppose I had at this time? The general named an enormous song After hearing this song Cyrus looked at one of his men and told him to go around to his richest friends And tell them that he needed funds for a great enterprise He said to have them write down how much they could pledge and seal the letters Then on the next day return to him with the general by your side The next day the general lost all color in his face when he saw the enormous sound that Cyrus's friends had pledged After this Cyrus then stated by making my friends rich first They in turn have become living treasures for me The reason I told you this story is to demonstrate that no matter what goals you have set for yourself If you build those bridges if you help others achieve their goals first Then when the time comes and it will come That you need help You'll find yourself with an unlimited amount of resources. I promised you a book recommendation at the beginning of this video so here it is it's called Xenophon's Cyrus the Great and Looks like it's written by Larry Hendrick He kind of written in a first-person point of view which I actually really liked. I would definitely recommend this book to anybody So if you really want to learn from one of the greatest leaders in history, make sure you check this book out I'll leave you with this tip Create depths of gratitude a debt of gratitude is one of the best debts that you can be owed But in order to create debts of gratitude you must first give if you enjoyed the video or found it Helpful make sure you subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don't miss any more of these series Thanks so much for watching keep creating and I'll see you next time