- Over the years I have read thousands of books,
I've attended thousands of trainings and workshops.
But I can tell you without a doubt,
without any hesitation, the secret to my success
is the two mentors I have. My mentors made me rich.
The books that I've read they help,
seminars I went to, they helped.
But my two mentors, they are truly
my secret weapon to success.
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So the question is how does my mentor make me rich?
First of all, your mentor has absolutely no obligation
to make you rich.
You have to understand that first.
Come from their place. Your mentor is where
you want to be in your dreams and I think
most people sometimes they see someone online
unfortunately they see someone on social media
or they follow somebody and say, "Oh that's my mentor."
I don't believe in that.
I think you need to choose your mentor very very carefully.
I think who you learn from is much, much more important
than what you learn. Just like in martial art.
Who is your shifu? Who is your sensei?
Who is your instructor? It's much more important
than the style that you learn.
A true mentor is life changing.
So if anything you should think about,
look at the person, actually look at the person,
look at the mentor, look at the people you follow.
Get beyond all the fancy shit and the glam
and all the glitz and all that shit.
Do I resonate with this person, right?
Do I connect with this person? Do I connect with the mentor?
Do I feel like I understand?
Do I feel like our values are aligned?
I think that's very critical.
Who you learn from, it's you're gonna learn
from this person, this is, this is, you're gonna
be more like this person. Last thing you want is
you learn more from this guy you become
more of an asshole. Then what's the point?
In my learning beyond let's say you want to
learn business, you want to be successful.
Hopefully you're not just learning how to be,
Oh I'll learn how to make money from this person
from this mentor. Hopefully you're learning other things
beyond than just that one thing you want to learn.
Because I think a true mentor is someone who is
not just teaching you whatever, it's leading by example
as a role model. They're teaching you other aspects
of life. It's not just one thing
very linear approach, right?
So I think you need to be more selective
who you learn from and another thing you need to consider
is this that when I learned from my mentor,
never go to a mentor with a sense of entitlement.
I see this on YouTube a lot, right.
Just from the comment and all that,
"Hey Dan, I watch your video man, help me out,
I have a question, help me out."
Why the fuck should I help you out?
Not that I don't want to help you out
but you don't even get the basics of business.
Dude. Any business interaction,
the first thing you should ask is how can I add value?
How can I add value to my mentor?
Both are mentors that I have
I added value to their lives. I asked them,
"How could I help you?"
The first mentor I had if you watch any one of my work,
you know Alan. I worked for him
for next to nothing for one year.
The second mentor I pay him tens of
thousands of dollars to learn from.
I invest in myself. I'm not paying my mentor.
I'm not investing in my mentor. I'm investing in myself
through my mentor. You have to understand that.
So whatever that it takes,
you've got to bring value to the table.
Just because someone is successful
they're under absolutely no obligation
to help you succeed. When you don't even fucking help
yourself. You don't even understand how to deal with people,
you don't even know how to communicate value.
You want something for nothing, and
poor people always want something for nothing.
And this pisses me off, right?
You see someone on the street and say,
"Hey, can you give me some change?"
Why the fuck should I give you change?
Doesn't make me a bad person.
Oh Dan you're so mean. They're just, they're hungry,
or they're, you know just give them some change.
I have no problem giving people money.
I give people way more money if they're
performing something, they're performing some kind of music,
they're doing some kind of magic,
they're washing my windows. They're doing something.
In exchange of money, they're providing some kind of value.
Those people I always tip well.
It's the people that want something for nothing.
Oh, poor little me, please give me money.
Why the fuck should I give you money?
The world doesn't owe you anything.
It was here first. Nobody owes you shit.
Your families don't owe you shit,
the society doesn't owe you shit.
You want something, you gotta go fucking get it.
You gotta deliver value.
So same thing with mentor mentee relationship,
you have to think about what can you do for the mentor?
It's just like Kennedy said. Don't ask what your what your
country can do for you, ask yourself what the fuck
can you do for your country? Don't ask what the mentor
can do for you, ask yourself what can you do
for your mentor? What value can you bring to your mentor?
Do that first, and don't ask anything in return.
He or she is where you want to be.
He or she is already successful.
He or she has the wisdom that you want,
has the knowledge that you want. Add value first,
and then, don't suck up their time. Observe.
Like, don't like don't be so fucking stupid,
ask them stupid shit. Watch, if you're smart.
My mentors, both of them. First, Alan,
he never directly taught me anything.
He never said, "Dan, you do ABC and D." And like this,
where kind of the mentorship I'm giving you over videos,
it's a very direct reply. My mentor just carries on his
business, and I was observing, I was paying attention.
I was asking myself question. Hmm, why does Alan
do it this way? Why does he do marketing this way?
I was taking notes, I was reflecting, I was thinking.
That's what makes me different.
So, my mentor opened the door for me, and they both did.
But I was the one that walks through it. I was the one
that took what they taught me and implement it,
and created this success. Created Dan Lok today.
Very much, I molded myself a sculpture,
this person that's in front of you.
Doesn't happen by accident. So you gotta think
who you wanna learn from, and then
you gotta add value first. And that's how
my mentors made me rich. So go in there with
the right mentality. Not with a sense of entitlement.
Not a sense of obligation. From a sense of
you want to learn, be sincere.
Truly be sincere, and that one mentor,
that one mentor could change your life. So think about that.
If this the first time you watch my video,
little bit fucking intense. Good. Should be intense.
Fucking shake you up a bit, right?
Comment below, and before you do anything else,
watch my other videos. Maybe it give you that
other ideas, different insights so think about
your life a little bit differently.
Don't be a fucking loser and just go on YouTube
and watch the videos and all this shit.
Think about, think a little bit deeply
about different problems.
Think a little bit about deeply
what you can do for your mentor.
That's how you become successful.
Not just like, commenting shit,
and watching some videos, and you know,
hiding behind a computers. It's not like that.
It's about connection, it's about people.
You got it? Until next time, I'll see you in my Bentley.