Simple Life Hacks That Will Change Your Future: Steal These Habits From Billionaires
Mel Robbins (host), Warren Buffett (guest), Guest (guest), LeBron James (guest), Interviewer of LeBron James (guest), Sara Blakely (guest), Narrator, Guest (guest)
In this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, featuring Mel Robbins and Warren Buffett, Simple Life Hacks That Will Change Your Future: Steal These Habits From Billionaires explores six Free Billionaire Habits To Transform Your Life And Future Mel Robbins breaks down six simple, no-cost daily habits modeled by billionaires and ultra-high achievers, explaining how anyone can adopt them. Drawing from Warren Buffett, Taylor Swift, LeBron James, Sara Blakely, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Jamie Kern Lima, she shows how reading, idea-capturing, sleep, bold outreach, creative wandering, and trusting your gut drive long-term success. Throughout the episode, she connects their stories to neuroscience and psychology, emphasizing how these habits build knowledge, creativity, resilience, and opportunity. The message: your self-talk and inaction are the only real barriers to using these same habits in your own life.
Six Free Billionaire Habits To Transform Your Life And Future
Mel Robbins breaks down six simple, no-cost daily habits modeled by billionaires and ultra-high achievers, explaining how anyone can adopt them. Drawing from Warren Buffett, Taylor Swift, LeBron James, Sara Blakely, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Jamie Kern Lima, she shows how reading, idea-capturing, sleep, bold outreach, creative wandering, and trusting your gut drive long-term success. Throughout the episode, she connects their stories to neuroscience and psychology, emphasizing how these habits build knowledge, creativity, resilience, and opportunity. The message: your self-talk and inaction are the only real barriers to using these same habits in your own life.
Key Takeaways
Read daily to build knowledge filters and faster decisions.
Warren Buffett’s 5–6 hours of daily reading created mental ‘filters’ that let him quickly judge opportunities; consistent reading in any domain compounds into expertise and sharper judgment over time.
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Capture ideas immediately in one consistent place.
Taylor Swift logs all lyric ideas into a single phone note, then later mines that library to build songs; using a dedicated notebook or notes app prevents idea loss and gives you a reusable bank of insights.
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Protect your sleep as a performance superpower.
LeBron James prioritizes 8–12 hours of sleep to maintain elite performance and stamina; sleep clears mental “junk,” consolidates learning, repairs the body, and dramatically boosts focus and resilience.
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Ask directly for what you want—make the call.
Sara Blakely landed Neiman Marcus by simply cold-calling and creatively demonstrating her product, instead of waiting at trade shows; most people lose opportunities by never asking in the first place.
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Change your environment regularly to break mental ruts.
Inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto’s wandering and Dr. ...
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Push yourself to build scary but vital skills like public speaking.
Buffett forced himself through a Dale Carnegie course despite a fear of public speaking, gaining a lifelong advantage; structured practice in feared skills expands your influence and confidence.
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Trust your gut ‘knowing’ even through rejection.
Jamie Kern Lima emphasizes that intuition is rarely wrong—it leads to either the next right step or the next right lesson; learning to act on that inner knowing, rather than self-doubt, is central to long-term success.
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Notable Quotes
“I just read and read and read. I probably read five to six hours a day.”
— Warren Buffett
“If I get an idea that I feel is a cool observation and a cool lyric, I just write it down. I type it into this endless notepad on my phone.”
— Taylor Swift (quoted by Mel Robbins)
“What I do to practice self-care is I sleep. I love to sleep. I have to get my eight hours of sleep, eight hours plus.”
— LeBron James
“Everybody in the industry after I landed Neiman’s came up to me and said, ‘How in the world did you land Neiman Marcus?’ And I would look at them, and I’d say, ‘I called them.’”
— Sara Blakely
“Do you listen to the nos or do you listen to your knowing?”
— Jamie Kern Lima
Questions Answered in This Episode
Which of these six billionaire habits is currently missing from my life, and what is the smallest action I can take today to start it?
Mel Robbins breaks down six simple, no-cost daily habits modeled by billionaires and ultra-high achievers, explaining how anyone can adopt them. ...
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How would my decision-making and career trajectory change if I consistently read and captured ideas the way Buffett and Swift do?
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What am I not asking for right now—personally or professionally—because of fear or self-doubt, and how could I ‘make the call’ this week?
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In what ways has my daily routine become so habitual that it’s dulling my creativity, and how could I deliberately ‘shake it up’?
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How can I better distinguish between self-doubt and my true inner ‘knowing’ when I’m facing big choices or repeated rejection?
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Simple life hacks and daily habits that you can copy from billionaires. Don't you wanna know what those are? Warren Buffett, Taylor Swift, LeBron James, Sara Blakely, Shigeru Miyamoto, Jamie Kern Lima. Now, you and I have six super simple, achievable daily habits that the billionaires themselves have told you work for them, and I guarantee you they're gonna work for you. (clock ticking) Hey, it's your friend Mel. I'm so glad you're here. We're gonna have so much fun today. Welcome to The Mel Robbins Podcast. I am always excited to be able to spend some time together with you. And today, I'm really excited for the topic, so I wanna thank you for taking time to listen to something that could truly help you be happier and improve your life. And if you're brand new, I just wanna take a moment and personally welcome you to The Mel Robbins Podcast family and say it is so great to have you here, and also a huge thank you to whomever it was in your life that sent you this episode. And today, what you and I are gonna talk about are the simple life hacks and daily habits that you can copy from billionaires. Don't you wanna know what those are? I sure do. And what I love about everything that you're about to learn, it's all free. And so, let's jump right in to number one with the first billionaire, who is probably... Uh, he might even be, like, the first well-known billionaire that everyone knew about. I'm talking about none other than the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett. When you do an episode about the habits of billionaires, you have gotta start off with the OG, Warren Buffett. And Warren Buffett is famous for being one of the most successful investors in the entire world. He's the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is also world-renowned for his philanthropic efforts. He is worth $145 billion. Aren't you curious to know what his daily habits are? Well, the first one may surprise you, and I want you to hear it straight from him. Warren Buffett did an interview with Professor Jeff Cunningham as part of this iconic lecture series at Arizona State University in 2015, where he describes one of his most important daily habits. Take a listen.
What's your media routine? (laughs) I just read and read and read. I probably read five to six hours a day. I don't read as fast now as, as when I was younger, but I read five daily newspapers, I read a fair number of, of magazines, I read 10-Ks, I read annual reports, and I read a lot of other things too. So, I, I, I've always enjoyed reading. I love reading biographies, for example. And you process information very quickly. Well, I have, I have some filters in my mind.
I just love that. He reads for hours every single day. No wonder he's so smart. No wonder he knows so much about so many things. And there's two other things I wanna point out. First of all, this habit, it's free. There is nothing stopping you from dedicating time every day to reading and learning. It's free to do. Go to a library, log online, and you can read for free. And the other thing I wanna point out is at the very end, did you notice? He says that this daily habit of reading every single day has created a filter in his mind. And one of the things about Warren Buffett is that he is known and respected for making extremely decisive and fast decisions, and I was really curious about that. And so, the next part of what you're about to hear him talking about is that his decision-making and the reason why he's able to be like, "Yep, I'm in, I'm out," it's not happening fast. It's actually happening because of the slow buildup of information that has now been filtering into his brain from the years and years of his daily reading habit, and this is how he explains it.
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