Okay.
So today we are going to talk about seven critical lessons learned from
billionaires, bestselling authors, and also just really accomplished
people.
So I've interviewed over 300 people on the leveling up, formally growth
everywhere podcast.
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The first one that comes to mind here is the most recommended books,
cause I always ask the question at the very end.
So on this podcast, I ask them about their story, how they're
growing, where they failed, just trying to get the stories so people
can kind of
figure out what they want to do with those experiences, and then
take them into their own businesses and then kind of go from there.
But at the very end, I'll typically ask them a couple questions, like,
what's your favorite book?
What are your favorite tools?
Things like that.
The most recommended book by far is the hard thing about hard things
from Ben Horowitz, and that book is really powerful.
I remember reading that book and I remember everything, every chapter.
I was like, yes, yes.
This video itself, this title - this actually started from me
writing a tweet, and I literally put the tweet out and I tagged Ben
Horowitz in it and he actually shared it.
That's the most recommended book.
And I highly recommend it too.
And actually this leads to my second point, which is, he has a
chapter in there called the struggle.
And the struggle is where, you know, you lose a big deal, you, you
lose a key employee, you have a bunch of people quitting on you,
you lose a bunch of, you lose, you know, maybe your office space or
whatever.
And it just, things are blowing up around you.
Right?
You just feel depressed.
You can't taste your food, you're not hungry.
You just don't know what to do.
Right.
And every single kind of high-performer or business owner
entrepreneur that I've ever met, they have gone through the struggle
as an example to that.
I had someone on the, on the leveling up podcast, his business
was called hirevue.
That's a Vue, and they almost went bankrupt 10 times before they
emerged as a company.
I think they've raised over a hundred billion dollars so far, and
they're doing really well now.
Right?
And they're doing the, they've really ascended to the top, but it
just got it.
They just kept getting punched in the face over and over.
When you go almost bankrupt 10 times, you would think after the
second or third, fourth time, fifth time, six time.
You probably want to throw in the towel, but.
You know, this person kept going through the struggle and he stuck
with it.
And that is what led to the massive success that he's had with his
business.
A lot of these businesses, when I, when I look at them, you know,
companies that have become really big, sometimes they get rejected by
venture capitalists, like, you know, 50 times, 60 times or so.
I think the idea of Disney was rejected maybe a hundred times or
200 times.
And look at where Disney is now.
Disney now owns ESPN.
Disney owns national geographic.
They own Marvel.
They own star Wars.
They own all these things, right?
They own ABC as well.
So Disney is legit because guess what?
They didn't give up.
They went through a struggle while Disney went through a struggle over
and over and over.
Number three here, it's ultimately how you react to the struggle that
defines whether you make it or not.
So you can either crumble and blame all the circumstances around you.
You can blame your bad luck.
You can blame, I don't know the bird in the sky that pooped on you.
Who knows the companies that actually make it happen.
Those are the ones that reacted well to the struggle.
They powered through it, right?
They decided that they were going to figure out a way versus like the
billions, let's just say millions, the millions of failures that you
haven't heard of before.
It's because they didn't have what it took to continue on to power
through to get to the next level.
Number four, you know, you're sure you can work hard in your business.
But if you don't work hard on taking care of your mind, if you
don't work hard on taking care of your body, and that, that includes
sleep too, right?
Taking care of your body asleep, having good energy.
you know, having a good diet.
you know, training your body, having a good metabolism, maybe a
good metabolism.
It depends.
But for me, I find that whenever I'm training, whatever, I don't
train my metabolism definitely slows down.
That all affects how you work.
If you decide to drink alcohol at the time, sure.
That's your decision.
If you decide, like when I see people smoking cigarettes in the
morning, God, I hope there's nobody that works for me to just smoke
cigarettes in the morning.
But when you smoke cigarettes in the morning, like that's a bad
habit that starts the day off on the wrong foot.
You know, having the right habits and working hard, not just on work,
but like your surroundings.
You have to make sure you take care of everything, right?
Because you lose your health, you're going to end up making bad
decisions because you're grumpier right?
You're not as effective when you're negotiating with people.
When you're, when you're in an intense conversation with someone,
you're not up to a hundred percent because.
You're not 100% body wise, energy wise.
Right?
Mind wise, number five, I really liked the concept around this, but
nobody really knows what they're doing.
Like, sure.
I have experienced, but a lot of us, we're still figuring things out
as we go.
Right?
I read this quote the other day from one of my friends on
Instagram, and she basically said, look, you know what?
We don't realize when we're growing up as a child, that as we're
growing up, when we look at our parents, that they're also growing
up at the same time.
Right?
My point there is that, look, your parents didn't really know what
they're doing.
They're kind of figuring out as they were going, you don't really
know what you're doing as a kid.
I don't say like totally like, you know, Oh, this is a license to just
kind of goof off, but what my point is, don't be so hard on yourself
and it's okay to not know what you're doing at times.
Just keep up the work ethic, keep working hard, keep working hard on
your mind, keep working on your body.
And that's how you know the billionaires, the high performers
get to where they are.
And similar to that, this is actually point number six over
here.
As long as you have that beginner's mindset, you understand that you
don't really know what you're doing.
You shouldn't get too high, but you also shouldn't get too low too, and
you shouldn't, like when people say you're really that good, you really
aren't that good, but when people are saying you're really bad,
you're really not that bad either, right?
You can just had this even keel, right?
an even line.
You're just like.
You're just cruising, right?
You, if you can keep that mindset and just be open to understanding
that, look, Hey, we're all kind of just figuring things out that's
going to help you have that beginner's mindset so you can
continually improve.
You'd be open to feedback and not be this arrogant person that thinks
he knows or she knows everything, right?
When I watch you on that show succession, the main guy, the
billionaire.
He's really stuck in his own ways, right?
He's also very arrogant with the, like, he thinks he knows
everything.
He's not open to the new tech.
Like he owns a newspaper company or a news company.
Right?
And he's not open to the new trends that are happening.
He's trying to, you know, desperately, you know, hold onto
his kingdom, but he hasn't evolved enough.
Right?
So you have to have that openness to, to be able to evolve.
What's interesting to me is we had, Howard marks.
Who cofounded Activision blizzard.
He came to our conference, the conference Neil and I do, called
the growth accelerator mastermind, and after he spoke, he sat down and
he was fiercely taking notes.
That to me, shows me a lot.
Right?
He's still open to, to learning, like he doesn't need to know this
stuff.
Right.
That's not, that's not his business too, but he's still there learning.
And I had another guy, Sonny Mordecai, he was there too.
And just guys, you know, he's on the board of the X prize, which you
should, you should check out.
He knows a lot of people.
He has a pretty big network.
But still, he was sitting there.
He was actively learning, trying to get better at his craft.
These are people that are very successful, right?
So the high performers, very successful people.
We had, you know, just all of these different types of people from,
from all different walks of life.
So number seven, your life experience has helped define who
you are and what really makes you unique.
When I think about what makes me unique is I spend a lot of time
gaming growing up and gave me, was actually cool at my high school
growing up because you know, everyone, you know, the people
played StarCraft, they played Counterstrike, you know, we played
Warcraft three together.
We played Dota, all these different games.
That's what made me into what I am like, I take those concepts into.
how I work with business, like everything to me is like, okay, how
do you plug something in together?
It's, it's, it's a puzzle, right?
How do you make the puzzle work if this doesn't work?
How do you make it work?
Right?
So that's my unique experiences, which has led to me saying, okay, I
have this business experience.
I also have this gaming experience too, and how do I combine it to
make it something stronger?
Right?
But that also defines what I'm aiming for longterm.
My point here is that you can combine your unique experiences and
intercept them.
Or maybe you'll have like three or four different things and combine
them, and then you have something that's really unique.
That makes you you, and then you have a unique perspective, which
other people think is really genius, but you saw it all along,
right?
Let me just, seven elements of kind of seven critical elements that
I've seen from high-performance.
After interviewing over 300 entrepreneurs, a high-performers,
billionaires, bestselling authors, even I think even like inventors
and even some actors as well.
So a lot of different people, right?
So let me know what you think in the comments.
Did you think I missed anything in terms of what you typically see
from high performers?
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