hey tech later and welcome back to
another episode it is coffee time with
the tech lead I'm drinking coffee brewed
Starbucks code brewed today and the
reason is because I'm so successful oh
it's just not fair is it
why am I so successful and I know what
you're thinking I don't look successful
right you and me we seem pretty
relatable we seem like the same type of
people like you could probably be my
friend like my peer and that's just not
quite there I'm at a whole different
level I'm like pretty up there and
you're like down there and it just seems
like we're the same people were not
right what makes me so different than
anybody else that you meet right where's
my suit where's my Rolex watch where's
my Lamborghini right where's any of this
stuff none of it seems to show that I'm
successful and yet I'm telling you I am
and the message I have for you today is
to redefine your idea of success now I
don't mean that you can just redefine
success for me whatever you want
right like you can define success to me
in playing video games and you can
define yourself to be successful and
that's not what I'm talking about this
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tech lead get 10% off what I'm trying to
tell you is that our definition of
success our ideas are shaped largely by
the media and by the old age notions of
success you know in the old times people
did wear Rolex watches but nowadays
because of Technology because of the
advancements in our society we don't
need watches anymore you know people
just carry a phone and if you didn't
want to watch you probably wouldn't go
for one of those outdated Rolex watches
you might get like a Apple watch or
something like that like a digital watch
and you know where's the Lamborghini
well these days being eco-friendly is
considered pretty trendy right these
days a lot of people like to drive
Priuses Tesla's write electric cars and
even beyond that a lot of people maybe
they just prefer
traveling instead right they don't want
to be tied down with a car right I don't
want the maintenance and headaches of
trying to maintain a vehicle because
there's just no pride in it anymore
no one cares if you're able to maintain
the car there's just many other things
that people value far more than cars
these days right like a laptop people
think laptops are far cooler than cars
that's one of your most prized
possessions if you can only have one
thing laptop or a car you'd probably
want your laptop and cars have been
around for just a pretty long time by
now right they're just pretty old it's
just not that cool anymore a lot of
people I think younger generations they
view cars as just utilitarian devices a
lot of people just want use if cars or
something get around maybe boats are
cooler maybe motorcycles are cool
they're but honestly I think that none
that this is cool what people really are
interested in these days is maybe just
living a mobile lifestyle being able to
travel around having flexibility freedom
going out to nice restaurants posting
pictures of themselves having a good
time and that's really what it's all
about it's not really about what you own
so much anymore suits - right you know
in the old times in the banking world
maybe suits were commonplace and a suit
made you seem successful but these days
a lot of people they don't need suits
right you don't need to necessarily be
successful most people aren't doing that
and the other thing good looks now I
look pretty good in fact I look pretty
amazing but in the old times in order to
become a Hollywood movie star you had to
have good looks and I think that a lot
of agencies Hollywood movie studios they
would just be looking for the most
beautiful looking people well these days
it's not so much about beauty anymore
right it's more about how unique your
face looks and even beyond that you
don't necessarily need a Hollywood movie
production studio to get you millions of
views right you can just run a YouTube
channel you're going to get lots of
people to view you that way
people are self-publishing these days so
you don't need an agency to vouch your
appearances you can look like anything
you could look like a worm that's now
and you could still publish your own
videos and you can still make it big
these days so it's not necessarily that
in order to be successful it to be a
movie star or something you need to have
your appearances vouched for by some
Hollywood movie executive or something
like that who everyone wants to try it
you're gonna go try it and who knows
who's going to succeed
right you know golf is another example
it's one of those outdated sports that a
lot of the people used to do and they
made people seem successful these days
everyone's busy all the time who has
time to go play some golf and there's
far more interesting better sports
around these days what I'm trying to
tell you is this I think that a lot of
people are out there chasing the wrong
notions of success wrong notions of
wealth and they're getting into things
that they really have no business
getting into and it's just going to lead
them astray they are running in the
wrong direction right you see some
people they're trying to get suits and
they think that the more fancy cars they
buy if they go out and buy some really
fancy watch that is going to make them
appear successful and sure yeah maybe it
will make them appear successful in some
people's eyes but in reality the people
who truly have become successful like
myself you know I look at that and I
think that that all looks pretty shallow
pretty fake and there's not true success
and I think that one thing that
everybody needs to ask themselves is buy
your own standard what does success look
like given the modern capabilities right
do you want to be the type of person
who's just living in your own huge
mansion and you just live there the
whole time or do you want to be the
person who's just off traveling around
seeing the world staying in hotels here
and there right that could actually be a
far better more interesting lifestyle in
the old days people maybe took just a
few trips around the world and then they
would make those trips incredibly
luxurious maybe a fly first-class these
days maybe it's better to have a bunch
of time so that you can take a bunch of
trips just fly economy class and just
get a huge quantity number of trips and
just go all around and maybe invest that
money in something else something more
interesting right like say a nice hotel
room maybe nice food the nice
experiences same with a car if you're
out chasing after cars you may want to
ask yourself you actually even want a
car is that really going to be your
definition of success or if you were
truly successful and if you were out
livia mobile lifestyle maybe you would
be out living in Switzerland or
something maybe you don't even need the
car over there cars are actually pretty
dangerous whenever I go live in another
country like say Japan
I'm just taking trains all the time and
then come back to the US and I have to
drive for myself around other people who
have no clue how to drive I just feel
like I'm putting my
that risk there was a time when I was
gonna go buy a Ducati motorcycle and I
thought that this was going to be cool
it's gonna be luxurious gonna look so
cool and it's going to be great until I
realized oh wait I actually wanted to do
some traveling and then I just cancelled
that whole pre-order of the Ducati
because I realized that I didn't want to
go around driving some luxurious
high-end motorcycle I wanted to go take
a trip I wanted to go ride a sailboat
and do selling instead right in the
Caribbean you want the more interesting
things to think about is work is work a
part of success right and if you were to
look at some of the most successful
people out there you see like Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg Steve Jobs they all
continued to work even after they became
successful well even after they could
have stopped working but still is about
for them perhaps legacy perhaps about
seeing the best they could be and just
remaining relevant you know perhaps in
the old times if you were successful
like a rockefeller or something then
that was enough and you didn't have to
continue being productive you didn't
have to do anything because everybody
already knew you and it was good enough
to be one of the few people that were
rich and that alone made you famous that
alone gave you social status but the
funny thing is these days if you're like
a tech entrepreneur you build up a
business and then you sell it and you
get some money then that's it and after
that nobody really cares about who you
are what you're doing I've seen other
tech entrepreneurs they became big
became successful so they're companies
and then nobody cared about them anymore
a few years later people just don't care
anymore you know their stories where
people say that they're happiest is
really when they're building their
company when they're building something
working towards some dream just a bunch
of hope in the air people have a purpose
a mission they're working towards
something greater a better life even and
you know that could be part of the image
of success that's maybe what you want
the thing is that you can only sit on
the beach for so long before you get
bored before the Sun starts burning your
skin and then you don't want to put on
any more sunscreen because sunscreen is
just going to cause you skin cancer you
know it's just like at that point what
are you going to do so to wrap this up I
think that a lot of us are looking at
images of success we're being
brainwashed in a way by media into
thinking that this is what successes or
that's what success is right swimming in
the pool in a luxury hotel well then
maybe
successful for driving a Lamborghini
maybe that's what success is really all
about and you know I think that for me
none of these things are really truly
success when you get to the point where
you can actually go out and buy some of
this stuff where you can go out and buy
a Country Club membership in the golf
club you know you don't really want that
when you can get to the point where you
can actually go buy a yacht a sailboat
you don't want that either because it's
just going to be so much maintenance
you're not gonna want to be selling in
the same Harbor the same location the
whole time it's really just easier nicer
to just go rent sailboats and things
like that so I think that people are
just chasing the wrong things they're
chasing some visions some idea a notion
that doesn't really exist right it may
exist in your dreams in a few quick
moments here and there but in
practicality it doesn't really quite
work the reality is far more uglier
perhaps than just the notion of what it
is in your head and then what happens is
that you're chasing after these things
running in the wrong direction
working towards that maybe you were
buying cars right maybe you first buy
all the eat than the Jaguar and then you
get a Porsche and finally we get to the
point where you can buy a Lamborghini
you realize you don't even like cars you
don't even want a car so I would
recommend that you kind of think to
yourself about what success really looks
like I don't think that success in
reality looks like what you imagined it
to be all the glitz and glamor and the
suits and black ties and the hats and
the cigars you know that just doesn't
quite exist anymore if you want to know
what success looks like you're looking
at that right now that's me
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