- Alright, so today,
we're gonna talk about the number one habit
that you can cultivate to achieve success for sure.
For sure meaning 100% you are going to be successful,
whatever that means to you.
So what could that possibly be?
I'll make it very simple
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So (bell dings) what can you invest in?
Let's see.
You can invest in buying a car.
You can invest in buying a house.
In fact, growing up,
my mom's a real estate agent
and she still bugs me all the time.
She thinks houses are the best investment
that you can make.
Now the best investment you can make
is not necessarily houses.
It's definitely not cars
'cause cars are depreciating assets.
Now it's definitely not technology
in terms of buying stuff either.
It's in yourself.
Warren Buffett said,
"The best investment is in yourself."
That's something that nobody can ever take away from you.
So think about that for a moment.
If you spend time watching this video
and you actually learn something
and you take it away and you actually use it,
that's more helpful than watching cat videos on YouTube.
Not I'm not saying there's no time for watching
cat videos or dog videos
'cause I actually do that sometimes right now.
It's actually really funny to do that
but you gotta figure out,
how much are you actually going to consume for yourself
and then actually use it to make a difference in the world.
Or how much are you actually just gonna consume
for your own entertainment.
So for selfish reasons versus for selfless reasons.
Now when you invest in yourself,
think about this for a second,
I would say going up to high school,
the friendships that I formed,
learning how to deal with people,
learning new subjects,
even right now with business,
always learning new subjects,
learning new things about marketing,
those are things that nobody can take it away.
This is why my parents,
they knew tutors would give me a slight edge
in terms of my academics.
So when you think about it,
when you cultivate a habit of education, for me,
what I do is each week,
I'm probably spending at least five or six hours
listening to podcasts or audiobooks.
And it's easy for me 'cause I go to the gym every morning.
It's at least 30 minutes I'll run
or on the weekends, I'm at the gym for two hours or so.
But that adds up quickly.
Also when I'm driving or when I'm on the go,
when I'm at the airport, waiting in the lounge,
or getting on a flight, I'm also listening to things too.
So I'm getting better during downtime.
So think about all the downtime you have
and think about how you could dump in audiobooks,
think about how you can dump in podcasts.
That's super helpful.
Not to say there, just 'cause we have this technology,
don't read too,
'cause I actually just finished a book the other day.
The book had some diagrams in it
and I actually had to read a couple of things
a couple of times to understand it more.
I block out time, let's say, 8-9 pm,
I'm gonna read something, read a physical book.
So when you block out the time,
that means it's important.
In fact, going back to Warren Buffett,
one of the richest guys in the world,
Warren Buffett spends five hours a day reading,
because his job is figuring out how do you get an edge
around the markets.
And he understands his investments really well.
And here's the thing with education.
Don't try to learn everything around you.
Maybe when you're growing up,
you try to become a journalist,
but as you get older and older,
you wanna become a specialist.
So Warren Buffett focuses on investments,
but he only focuses on a couple of different things
that he understands.
He stays away from technology
'cause he doesn't understand technology.
So as you go deeper and deeper,
you're still gonna cultivate the habit of education,
but you're gonna focus in a certain area,
because if you try to do too many things,
you become nothing to anybody.
And nobody wants to become nothing.
So if you're feeling burnt out from learning, that's fine.
Take a break from it.
As a matter of fact, I would recommend,
talking about time blocks again,
maybe you take one or two hours out of your Friday
or out of your Wednesday or whatever, and just block it out.
Do nothing during that time
'cause that time is gonna allow you to think of new things
and when you think of new things,
you're gonna wanna learn new things too.
If you stop learning, you're gonna stop growing,
and if you stop growing, you're gonna start dying.
There's two different things you can do.
A venture capitalist, Mark Suster, said this:
"You can either learn or you can earn."
So if you're starting out right now,
some of you watching this might be starting out,
focus on learning.
That's totally fine.
And when you're ready to start earning,
maybe if you don't have any experience at all,
start working for free for a little bit,
and then you'll start to earn.
People'll start to pay you for your time.
This is all progressions.
You're learning first, and then you're earning,
you're earning more.
And it just takes a long time to get there,
and it's not a sexy thing to say, but it's true.
For anybody that's seen success,
it takes a long time to cultivate it,
but again, education is something that nobody can ever
take away from you,
and it's gonna compound over and over.
But if you start replacing that time with consuming.
We're talking just watching shows all the time,
going out there, partying all the time.
All that stuff's fine but you gotta consider
what are your goals in the long term.
If your goals in the long term are just to chill out,
that's fine, but the fact that you're watching
this right now tells me
that you're into making yourself better,
you wanna become successful, okay?
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So that's the takeaway around this.
I'm interested in learning what you're planning
on learning next, what book you're planning on reading next,
podcast, whatever it is, audiobook,
drop it into the comments
and let us know what you think.
Don't forget to check out the next video
and we will see you tomorrow.