- Okay, so we're here at the entrance area.
There's like tight security everywhere.
People with guns, soldiers, it's incredible.
It's a once in a lifetime, no filming, sorry!
Yo, (greeting in foreign language), this is Max Berger.
We're here in Cairo, Egypt and in this video,
I wanna talk about you.
I wanna talk about your future and your decisions
because you're probably watching this channel
because at some point in your life, somehow,
you're not 100% happy, okay?
You're not a 10 out of 10 happy on the happiness scale
with what you're doing job wise,
with where you're going job wise.
You might be in a job that doesn't fulfill you 100%
or you might be studying something that doesn't
fulfill you 100% and you feel like maybe,
just maybe you're destined for something else.
But, one thing holds you back and that is most likely fear.
The fear of disappointing your parents, your friends,
yourself, the fear of failure.
The fear of the unknown, the fear of not 100% knowing
what you're doing, I'm literally shooting this on my phone
because I wasn't planning to shoot anything,
but this is coming from my heart because I care!
Because I thought just tonight is
a good time to talk about this.
And I wanna talk about two words here.
And I want you to write these two words down.
Open a notepad, write it down, like literally classical
with a pen and paper, write down these words.
What if, because what if are the most powerful,
painful words a person could ever ask
themselves in their lives.
Because at the end of the day, you're gonna die.
You're gonna be on your deathbed
when you're 60, 75, 80 years old.
And you're gonna think to yourself what if?
What if I had taken that opportunity?
What if I had taken that chance?
What if I had not cared so much about other people?
What if, what if, what if?
And at the end of the day, you want to ask yourself
as little what if as possible when you're dying!
Look, I'm in this extremely lucky
and amazing and grateful position that I am right now.
I can travel the world, I just saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers
playing in front of the pyramids
which is an absolutely bizarre and amazing event.
And I'm in that position, I could do whatever I want.
I can travel wherever I wanted, at whatever time I want.
I can go to the cinema on Monday morning, it doesn't matter
when or where, as long as I want it.
And it hasn't always been like that.
In fact, I've had my what if situation just like you.
When I was just in my early 20s,
I think it was 21 or 22 years old, I was offered
by Real Social Dynamics to fly to Miami,
work for free for six full months, okay?
I wasn't gonna get paid, I wasn't gonna do great work,
but at least I would be in a position where I would learn.
And it wasn't convenient for me at that time.
No, not at all, it was not convenient!
I had no money, I didn't finish university, none of that.
Would it be easy for me?
Not at all, I'm from Austria, I didn't speak English
super nicely, I've never spent a lot of time abroad alone.
Being on my own, not making any money.
Not having any guidance, it was
not at all a perfect time for me.
But I had those two words in my head.
I had that what if in my head.
I said, you know what Max?
If you go there and you fail
and everybody's gonna laugh at you.
Your cousins, your aunt, your mom, your dad.
Well they're probably not would've laughed at me,
but they would've been pretty angry at me if had failed.
All my friends, I would be so badly off.
But at the very same time, I wouldn't
have to ask myself those words, what if?
And that was worth it for me.
So you, think about it right now.
Is there any situation where you might ask yourself what if?
And can you really live with asking yourself those two words
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years down the road?
Ask yourself that!
Because at the end of the day, ask yourself this.
Look, you gotta work for at least 40, 50,
maybe even 60 years of your life, so ask yourself
the next following two questions.
Number one, what do you really want to do
for the next 40. 50, 60 years?
And number two, what can you see yourself deserve?
Not what you deserve right now because you might not
be ready for it yet, but what do you see yourself deserve
when you're really putting in the grind
and you're really putting in the hustle,
what can you potentially see yourself deserve?
Because that thought, if you put that thought
in front of you every single day, every single night,
every single sleepless hour where you're gonna sit there,
lonely, putting in the hours in front of your laptop,
in front of your phone, working and bringing your clients
or whoever it is that you want to bring value, true value,
what can you see yourself deserve?
I can for myself say I see myself deserve a lot of things
because I know I'm gonna work
very, very fricken hard for that.
Check it out, goddamn pyramids behind me.
This life is incredible, if you're willing to work for it.
And then there is the other thing, perfectionism.
We always think, oh it's not perfect yet,
I gotta figure it out perfectly
and I gotta start perfectly and it's gotta be all smooth!
Well let me tell ya that, as somebody who started
a lot of things, failed at a lot of things,
but who has succeeded every now and then.
It was never perfect, it was never smooth.
Look, I come from the dating advice background.
And every time I've talked to a very, very attractive girl,
somebody that actually intimidated me,
that conversation was never smooth at all.
That interaction was never perfect at all.
It was a bumpy road that was ups and downs
and I was an idiot and my jokes weren't funny
and I might have not been able to hold eye contact,
but at the end of the day, you don't need perfect!
You need five seconds of courage
to talk to that person and say hi.
To put yourself out there.
("Give It Away" by Red Hot Chili Peppers)
And it's the same in entrepreneurship.
You might not need five seconds of courage,
you might need five months, five years of courage,
but at the end of the day, it is always worth it.
(bleep) your perfectionism.
Go out and execute, figure it out along the way.
It's something I'm teaching my clients all the time.
Figure it out along the way.
Give value, be open for learning,
but figure it out along the way.
One of the greatest lessons I've ever gotten.
And you know what's crazy, many times people talk about,
where could you be in five years?
Where could you be in ten years?
Love it, absolutely amazing, but let's
take that idea even further.
Where could you be right now, watching this video,
probably holding your smartphone, maybe you're staring
into a laptop screen, where could you be right now,
if you had started five years from now?
Where could you be?
And the crazy thing is, what does it mean to be an adult?
Does being an adult mean staying in a prison of your mind?
Imprisoned by your own fear of what other people think,
of failure, of the unknown, or does being an adult mean
standing up for yourself, fighting for what you know
is true, for what you know you truly want?
Taking a calculated risk, getting some help.
Getting off your ego horse and saying, you know what?
Let me get some help, let me figure this shit out.
I might fail a couple times, but at the end of the day,
it's about consistency, it's about showing up
and it's about doing it even if it's not perfect.
It's about figuring it out along the way.
Part of being an adult means you're always learning.
You're not suppose to have the answer to everything.
You're not suppose to not fail.
Children fail, they fall down.
They might scratch their knees a little bit,
they get back up, it's fine.
But we adults, we somehow feel shame about failure.
We feel shame when we fall down.
But let me tell you yo, from somebody's who's,
hopefully somehow an adult, I'm 28 years old now.
Failing is perfectly fine.
I'd prefer the guy who's failing 100s of times,
but learns from it and keeps going.
I prefer that person over a person who may fail once
and say, you know what, I failed, I give up.
There's no honor in giving up.
There's no shame in failing.
Understand that!
So I can't tell you much more other than
you might think about that jump into the unknown
of becoming an entrepreneur,
of becoming a self-employed person.
Do it, 'cause what's the worst thing that's gonna happen?
You learn of bunch of really, really great lessons.
At the end of the day, you can look yourself in the mirror
and you can say, there is no more what if for me.
There's only an I did it!
If you wanna work together with me and my team,
if you want us to help you out,
check that link in the description below.
It brings you to an application form.
You fill out that application and then we'll talk to you.
We'll literally call you, it's an entirely for free call.
We'll look at your situation, where you are right now.
We look at where you wanna go with being self-employed.
With being your own boss, with living a life
full of freedom where you can travel
and do whatever the hell you want.
Jump on that call, this is my gift to you.
Don't be in the self-imprisoned state, all right?
Do something, it's fine if you fail, do something!
Thank you very much, I'm gonna go to bed now.
It's around midnight, gi gi.
(upbeat dance music)