Improvement Pill here a couple of months ago I was at a conference for
entrepreneurs and the father of Caleb Maddix gave a speech on stage now I
didn't know who Caleb was at the time and I'm assuming most of you don't
either so I'll give you a quick rundown Caleb Maddix was born in 2001 and made
his first million at the age of 16 he actually started his journey as an
entrepreneur much earlier than that at the age of 12 when he published the
best-selling book keys to success for kids he's pals with some of the most
well known self-improvement legends like Tony Robbins Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Gary Vee just to name a few and there's even a video of him closing
a $10,000 deal on the phone when he was just 14 so just hearing all of this made
me very curious how is it that this kid was able to reach such high levels of
success at such a young age I mean seriously when I was 12 I was
still hanging out in the park playing tag after school back then I never
thought about my career or what I should be doing with my life not to say that
there's anything wrong with enjoying one's childhood but it really makes you
wonder how did Caleb Maddox become so successful and that's exactly what his
father Matt Maddox talked about on stage now Matt is a single father he and
Kayla's mother had some sort of falling-out early on in Caleb's
childhood so he was forced to raise Caleb all on his own which is an
extremely hard thing to do because well kids take up a lot of time you have to
entertain them and keep them busy or else they go crazy the problem was Matt
was a public speaker his job involved traveling around the world giving
speeches on stage and although he would bring Caleb along with him he still had
to keep Caleb busy while he was working so here's what Matt decided to do when
Caleb was only six years old Matt told him that if he could finish reading the
success principles by Jack Canfield which is a 500 page book he would get
$20 that's a lot of money for a six-year-old so needless to say Caleb
was extremely motivated and he finished the book in only a couple of weeks Matt
decided to keep this tradition and continued to offer $20 for every
self-improvement book his son read and it's this one action that caused Caleb's
reached the levels of success he now has at such a young age see the amount of
success we have in life is directly correlated with the quality of teachers
you learn from because if you think about it in theory it's your teachers
job to help you succeed in life that's kind of the point of going to school
right that's why we learn things like English and math and history because
this stuff is supposed to help you but the thing is it's the quality of your
teachers that ultimately determines how successful you become if you're learning
from average Joe schmo's who just happen to get teaching degrees the majority of
which teach from a textbook not from their personal experience all you're
gonna learn is how to be as successful as just another Joe Schmo on the street
if you want to outperform others if you want to be healthier wealthier happier
than the average person you need to learn from the teachers who are known
worldwide as experts in these areas who know how to do things better than most
other people you should not focus on learning from
your average school teacher or professor because for the most part all they're
gonna teach you is how to perform at an average level learn from the average and
you will become average learn from the successful and you will become
successful now you can learn from the successful in
a variety of ways you can watch their videos listen to their podcast but
personally I think the best way to learn is by reading their books more
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stay tuned