(heroic instrumental music)
Yes?
(inaudible question from audience)
This is in my book by the way, yeah,
F.U. Money, you can get it.
Some people may be thinking, but then
there are, like, we are taught,
think even when we were growing up
people have a hard time delegating
because as a young kid when we're growing up,
when we go to school,
if you delegate what does that mean?
[Male Audience Member] Cheating.
It means you are, cheating,
you are lazy, you are no good, right.
You can't go home and tell your parents,
hey, mom and dad guess what, I just delegated my homework.
(audience chuckles)
(sharp whip sound)
Right?
Like if your Asian parents, like
(sharp whip sound)
right?
So, you're grounded!
Exactly.
So, we are taught, we gotta, you know, do everything
and be the honorable person
and take care of your stuff
and do this shit, right?
Lemme ask you a question,
this stuff is just stuff,
do you think you have a chance, a better chance
of going to Heaven if you spend your life
doing shit that you don't like?
Honestly, that's a question,
do you think you have a better chance of going to Heaven
if you spend your whole life doing shit that you don't like?
That's not the point.
I remember when I was going to college,
I never graduated from university,
but when I was going to college, that guys' college,
in U.S. Minister,
and at the time, I was,
first I was very entrepreneurial,
I was having, it's funny,
I was having these like smart kids in the class,
okay, and they're kinda geeky,
all geeky kinda kids, right,
and I would have them take notes and stuff like that,
I would help them to get phone numbers
from the other girls,
and would take those notes and would flip it,
sell it to the other kids and make money
and do this stuff,
and I was making good money,
and textbook, and all this stuff I was doing to make money,
and also I was delegating my homework to these kids.
That's when you know I'm an entrepreneur.
(audience laughs)
You know because I was having them do my homework,
do my essay, do my assignments,
and I would pay cause the money I was making
from selling their notes,
and I'd pay them back and do this.
Yes?
Not just that, like didn't your copyrighting career
begin right out of college?
Yeah right out of college I was doing
that as well as making good money,
but just from college alone, I thought hey,
you know, these kids, like they're kinda desperate,
they're kinda lonely, and they want to ask,
you know, they want a date and stuff like that,
and I'm like I don't care about rejection,
I'm like that guy wants to date you,
you wanna give him your number?
You ask enough they would say oh yeah sure,
and these guys think, like, oh my god!
How does he do it?
He's got some magic power.
No, I just ask a lot of people.
I'm just shameless, that's all,
that's all that is,
but what I'm saying is we are taught not to delegate, yes?
We're taught not to do that.
And that's why you resist,
because you're supposed to wash the dishes,
you're supposed to cook,
you're supposed to do all this stuff,
I remember, here's a big lesson,
a story I got from my mentor.
Now for those of you who know my mentor.
Dan Pena, with hundreds of millions of dollars,
and shared this with me in private.
One day, him and the assistant running out of cash
in Los Angeles, so the assistant took my mentor
in his Rolls Royce and went to the bank,
and the assistant walked up to the bank
to this machine and put in a card and pressed a few numbers
and when it comes out, and my mentor was shocked,
he said what is this?
Well it's called an ATM machine.
My mentor has never seen an ATM machine.
He said that's fucking cool.
(audience laughs)
You put in the card, money comes out, this is kinda cool.
Right?
And he just, he doesn't know,
his depth to a point, if you're so focusing
on the business, on a lot of things he missed out,
a lot of the typical life stuff,
with me it's the same thing,
there's a lot of stuff, ask Jenny,
where's Jenny, Jenny come up.
Round of applause for my wife by the way.
(audience claps)
Guys coming from my wife would be the best
cause you don't believe me,
cause she doesn't give a crap so she'll say it.
Now, just tell them like in home life,
there's like a lot of shit that I'm just an idiot.
Just tell the truth, whatever.
(audience laughs)
Seriously.
Is the mic on?
Yeah, Dan will just like eat dinner and lunch
and then after he finish, we just left everything there,
the chopsticks, our forks, our spoons,
everything there and just left it,
and then there's a day I was out
and when I came, I was just looking,
just asking like how come you don't like pack those things
at least put it to the kitchen sink or anything?
Have I ever cooked in the home?
Never.
When the light bulb burn out there,
I know how to change it?
No, you gotta let me finish the story.
Oh, yes please.
(audience laughs)
Don't interrupt me!
Sorry.
Ugh!
Okay, then I'm saying how come you didn't do this,
he's like, I don't know how to do it,
I was like, okay, so what if I'm away,
let's say I go on a trip or anything,
like, what are you gonna do?
He's like I was just gonna take the,
you know the dining table has 6 spot rings,
I was like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday...
Yeah, and then one week you're home.
How bout all spot are gone,
he's like, maybe around the, what's that,
countertop or anywhere.
And we have a maid that comes in and cleans up
the house and all that stuff, and that's all cool, but.
I mean, that's ridiculous right?
It is.
And I want her to share how ridiculous it is
that there is a lot of shit that I just don't know,
I don't know how to do,
I don't want to do them,
I don't like to do them,
and I'm very obvious about it,
cause my time is worth too much money,
and sometimes she says you're just using that as an excuse.
Right, right?
Then I just buy her some shoes
and she just like.
(audience laughs)
That's good, round of applause for my wife.
(audience claps)
And truly that's how I live,
it's kind of a bit weird, it's not the same,
but it's just the way,
I'm only good at a handful of things,
maybe four or five things that I'm brilliant at,
everything else I suck.
Like terrible, terrible, terrible,
because I've devote my life
mastering those two/three things, that's it,
it's like an artist, right,
they're only good in the crowd but they're so good
and everything else is an idiot.
That's what I'm talking about.
So, what exactly is delegation?
What, write this down, what exactly is delegation?
Tell me, what exactly is delegation?
Getting somebody else to do the work, yes!
What exactly is delegation?
Communicating your vision.
Communicating your vision, very good, very good,
now here is my definition, and it's very specific,
delegation is asking, what's the word,
what's the word?
Asking, not assigning, asking
another to do all, or part of a task you wish completed.
It's very key, all or part of a task you wish completed,
and you'll know why in a minute,
why it's a critical distinction,
delegation is asking another to do
all or part of a task you wish completed.
Okay.
Now, if you think about it,
all or part of a task.
What you don't give away,
so when you delegate a task
you're asking someone to help you.
Now, you can delegate to a person,
you can delegate to what?
- [Audience] Person.
Now can you also delegate to a company, yes or no?
- [Audience] Yes.
Can you delegate to a piece of technology, yes or no?
Yes, yes.
It could be a company, it could a person,
it could be a piece of technology,
it could be so many things.
So lemme give you an example,
so let's say it's evening and I don't have time to cook
and I'm hungry and I want to eat some pizza
and I called up the pizza delivery
and they deliver pizza to my house,
is that delegation?
Yeah, but I'm not delegating to a person,
I'm delegating to a company right?
An organization.
So that's okay, that's okay.
Software, now a days you can delegate a lot of things
to a piece of software that they could do things
easier, faster for you, without you doing it.
Hmm?
[Male Audience Member] Justeat.ca
justeat.ca there you go, that's another form right?
But what you don't give away is the responsibility.
What is it?
- [Audience] Responsibility.
So it is your job as a leader to make sure it gets done,
doesn't mean you have to do it,
but it's your job to make sure it gets done,
you're still in charge.
Who's in charge?
- [Audience] You.
You are.
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