hello and welcome to a brand new video
video series from English anyone .
. com
. com I'm
I'm always telling students that if
if they want to get fluent in English
English faster they should stop studying
studying the English language what
what you really want to do so you
you stay excited and motivated is
is to study something you're interested
interested in in
in English so whatever that happens
happens to be focus on that thing
thing and you will enjoy learning
learning but also improve your English
English at the same time this
this video series is about business
business and entrepreneurship and
and entrepreneur is a person that
that builds businesses or comes up
up with ideas and gets people together
together to do something interesting
interesting so i will be teaching
teaching you about business as I learn
learn as well I've just joined a brand
brand new program that I'll be learning
learning online and i'll be sharing
sharing the successes and failures
failures and a lot of the lessons
lessons I learned along the way to
to help both of us not only improve
improve your English for people that
that are learning English but also
also for other entrepreneurs and people
people that want to learn how to build
build businesses i know there's a
a lot of information out there but
but hopefully working together by
by using your comments and your ideas
ideas and questions along with my
my videos while both be able to come
come up with some really great ideas
ideas and both everyone will be able
able to learn a lot this
this first video lesson is all is
is all about kind of my history but
but also business fundamentals and
and the way i changed the way i started
started thinking about business to
to start getting much better as an
an entrepreneur as far as how i think
think let's get to it alright
alright first of all for those of
of you who don't know who i am because
because many different people will
will be watching this not just English
English learners my name is Drew Badger
Badger and i'm the co-founder of English
English anyone . com I
I help teach people all over the world
world how to learn English but my
my job is really more of a problem
problem solver I
I teach students the language but
but what I'm really doing is helping
helping them build confidence and
and helping them connect with the
the english-language a lot more easily
easily but before I talk about anymore
anymore about learning English or
or teaching english i want to talk
talk in this lesson first about how
how i became interested in business
business in the first place I've
I've always been really excited about
about solving problems and if I see
see something that maybe looks a little
little bit weird or I wonder why the
the hell do people do something like
like that then I immediately start
start thinking of ideas and ways to
to improve it so in the same way that
that I'm thinking about how to make
make the english-language easier to
to understand for students i also
also think every day about why this
this company does this or why this
this group of people does that but
but all of these are examples of learning
learning to think in a different way
way and one of the best ways to try
try to solve a problem and create
create a lot of happiness and wealth
wealth for other people is to help
help them solve problems with businesses
businesses so I began doing that when
when I was younger one of my favorite
favorite examples is I used to throw
throw parties so to have a party or
or to make a party this is to throw
throw a party for profit back in college
college I had a lot of fun doing this
this I would talk to people about
about what kind of party they wanted
wanted and then i would get people
people together and we will get food
food and drinks and we would have
have better parties than the fraternities
fraternities were throwing back at
at school and I was able to make something
something fun that people were excited
excited about but also able to make
make money doing that so we can make
make bigger and bigger parties but
but one of the things I learned in
in college was really about how to
to think about business more clearly
clearly and a book that I found you
you know you kind of hear from other
other people about great business
business books when you are
are wanting to research business and
and this book was rich dad poor dad
dad by robert kiyosaki there's a link
link right down below this video it's
it's an affiliate link an affiliate
affiliate link means if you click
click on it and purchase the book
book then i would get a percentage
percentage about that and get a percentage
percentage of that sale so you don't
don't have to click on it if you don't
don't want to but this book changed
changed my life and I'm going to talk
talk a little bit about it right now
now when I was thinking about starting
starting businesses and trying to
to think about what i was really interested
interested in doing I
I kind of had the the typical way
way of thinking about business which
which is I begin with myself and I
I come up with an idea and I have
have to think very hard about how
how do i create a really good idea
idea because you see all these examples
examples of really cool companies
companies that create a really cool
cool idea and they make billions of
of dollars and you look at it you
you like and you think how am i able
able to do that how
how am i able to find some really
really cool idea and you begin with
with there with with this point with
with yourself and you get stuck and
and one of the things that I've done
done as a later example of how to
to kind of build a business the wrong
wrong way is I created my own book
book and my own publishing company
company for that it's a book for Japanese
Japanese children to help them learn
learn the alphabet and basically what
what i did is i first came up with
with an idea and it works really well
well in the classroom and as I said
said it's a way for Japanese children
children to learn the alphabet incredibly
incredibly quickly but I never stopped
stopped to ask parents if that was
was a problem that they really needed
needed help with and maybe sometimes
sometimes they people don't know if
if they have a problem and you can
can educate them and help them see
see why they could be doing something
something better but what I really
really kind of made the mistake of
of doing as I come up with an idea
idea because I begin with myself and
and then I make the idea and then
then I try to sell it to other people
people
people now
now if this is you then you are doing
doing the traditional typical way
way that entrepreneurs do things and
and we're probably not very successful
successful at it and I know because
because I've done it and even though
though you know the book is making
making a little bit
bit of money i went about it the wrong
wrong way i spent a whole bunch of
of time two years developing this
this book and working on it and testing
testing it out and doing all these
these things but I didn't get to the
the most important point about that
that and you'll notice like let's
let's say even for examples of videos
videos on youtube I can take a lot
lot of time and really focus on making
making a really great video that's
that's really helpful but there are
are other videos like a cat doing
doing something silly like this and
and it's got all the views and it's
it's amazing and you begin to learn
learn more about business and think
think about well an idea is important
important but really learning sales
sales and marketing are even probably
probably more important than a great
great idea because if you don't execute
execute to execute means to actually
actually do what you're going to do
do so I i still had this idea in thinking
thinking about starting from myself
myself and I come up with an idea
idea and begin working on it and then
then I try to look for people to sell
sell it to and this is a strategy
strategy of pushing something on to
to other people and it can make a
a lot of people very uncomfortable
uncomfortable because I know just
just like me other people that are
are experts or people that are really
really skilled at doing something
something they come up with an idea
idea but they they don't know how
how to sell and they feel very uncomfortable
uncomfortable about that and it all
all has to do with the approach how
how you begin building a business
business how you take an idea and
and actually do something with it
it
it so
so before I go any further I want
want to talk about the opposite approach
approach using an example from rich
rich dad poor dad from robert kiyosaki
kiyosaki the author and this example
example is instead of beginning with
with yourself and then making something
something and then going out to find
find people in order to sell that
that thing to those people this
this is an example of a story about
about doing the exact opposite listen
listen carefully many years ago there
there was a small town and they were
were having a problem with their water
water supply there
there were a lot of people in the
the town the town was growing and
and becoming more popular but they
they had a very small amount of water
water so the the town elders the elders
elders of the the kind of old
old people the people that know a
a lot they have a lot of wisdom and
and the town elders got together and
and they said okay to everyone in
in the town if you can come up with
with a really good way to bring water
water to the town we will pay for
for that and two people stepped up
up to this challenge to step up is
is to to try or to attempt to do something
something so two people in the town
town stepped up to the challenge the
the first guy he kind of took his
his belongings and he actually left
left the town after he said he was
was going to try doing try to try
try to solve this problem try to bring
bring water to the town so the first
first guy he just left he left the
the town the second guy he looked
looked around and he noticed that
that he had some buckets and he told
told people in the town you know what
what i am going to walk over to this
this other place there's kind of a
a lake nearby the town and I will
will bring the water i will carry
carry the water back to the town and
and he began he could start immediately
immediately he was really excited
excited and he had customers that
that work excited to to pay him for
for that water so he began walking
walking every day he would walk about
about maybe half an hour up the road
road he would get his his two buckets
buckets he would carry the water and
and then bring the water back to the
the town and he thought business was
was doing very well he was using his
his time in order to make money he
he was carrying the water back and
and forth and he had to do that and
and he thought he had a business now
now this was going very well for a
a time but then the other man came
came back he had been gone for about
about a few weeks maybe a month and
and the the man that was still carrying
carrying the buckets he was getting
getting really busy he had lots of
of business and he was using his two
two sons to also help him carry water
water from the lake from the water
water here back to the village so
so the other man came back and he
he had a business plan he had ideas
ideas about how he could create a
a system about how to bring water
water and he got investors these are
are other people that are interested
interested in his idea and basically
basically what he did is
is he got money from investors to
to build a pipe so he took the investor
investor money and built a pipe from
from the lake over here all the way
way to the town and he was able to
to create a system that will bring
bring plenty of water for very very
very cheap to all of the people in
in the town and what do you think
think happened to the guy that was
was carrying water with the buckets
buckets he thought he had a business
business he thought he had a good
good idea but well I think you know
know what happened to him he lost
lost out to the man that created a
a system the man that was able to
to take a pipe full of water and bring
bring it to the town the
the interesting thing about this story
story is that you'll notice kind of
of two fundamental things about business
business and that's what I want to
to talk about in this video lesson
lesson the first thing is that you've
you've got to listen to what people
people want you can come up with your
your own idea and you can begin with
with yourself but if you really focus
focus on listening and just listen
listen to what other people want both
both of these men were trying to listen
listen so both of them they heard
heard from the town if there's a real
real demand there's a problem people
people need water and people are willing
willing to pay for that so
so both of them are listening but
but the difference is that the first
first man decided to create a job
job for himself he wasn't in business
business because he didn't have systems
systems if you stopped caring the
the buckets he wouldn't have any more
more water to delivery wouldn't be
be making any money anymore but the
the other man who left and came back
back with investors and decided to
to build a pipe from the water over
over there back to the water in the
the town he can take a vacation if
if he wants to he can work on his
his business instead of working in
in his business or actually carrying
carrying the buckets so one of the
the first things I learned about how
how to build a business is first how
how to think in terms of systems because
because let's say you want to help
help a whole bunch of people just
just like myself now I want to teach
teach English to the world and I can't
can't do that by personally walking
walking up to every student and talking
talking to them and trying to teach
teach them individually but just like
like you are watching this video right
right here on you tube
tube a whole bunch of other people
people all over the world are able
able to watch the video at the same
same time other places around the
the world and that's amazing and YouTube
YouTube becomes the system for me
me
me so
so as I'm teaching you i'm able to
to use this system that can broadcast
broadcast my videos and other English
English anyone . com videos all over
over the internet and people can watch
watch them anytime even if i'm asleep
asleep so other people can learn and
and I'm able to create a system doing
doing that the other thing that's
that's important to remember about
about this story is that they listen
listen
listen so
so again the first thing number one
one systems trying to figure out how
how you don't have to physically do
do the work you are not the one that
that has to make all of the the choices
choices or do all of the things that
that make the business operating but
but the second one is really listening
listening
listening so
so what I'm learning now in this brand-new
brand-new course that I'm doing it's
it's called the foundation and it's
it's already begun changing the way
way i think thank
thank you very much Dane I appreciate
appreciate that day Maxwell he's the
the guy who kind of the co-founder
co-founder the co-creator of the foundation
foundation you can get a link to that
that down below this video as well
well and you can follow along with
with me as i work on that but the
the system part I understand but what
what I never really got until recently
recently was really listening it
it can be a really scary thought when
when you think about oh no like I
I have to come up with my own idea
idea but the truth is if you really
really listen to what other people
people are asking for they will give
give you all of the great ideas and
and you don't even have to worry so
so much about what am I going to do
do what am I going to do because the
the ideas are coming from other people
people and because they tell you exactly
exactly what they want because they're
they're telling you about their pain
pain or something they really want
want to become their aspirations that
that things they desire by not focusing
focusing on yourself focusing on the
the other people the people that your
your customer or you market and we'll
we'll talk more about that in a later
later video lessons but if you listen
listen to what these people are saying
saying then you really get a great
great idea about what you and
and how you can use your personal
personal skills and your problem-solving
problem-solving kind of way of thinking
thinking in order to help people solve
solve those problems so for this video
video lesson I want you to remember
remember two very important things
things about starting a business the
the first thing is that you shouldn't
shouldn't worry so much about starting
starting from yourself you can obviously
obviously you'll get to yourself later
later but it will if you think about
about yourself first it will stop
stop you from listening to other people
people even if you think you've got
got an awesome idea there's so many
many awesome ideas in the world but
but very few people are able to execute
execute remember execute means to
to actually do what you say you're
you're going to do so begin first
first with thinking about systems
systems and really listening and figure
figure out if you're interested in
in starting a business or even if
if you just want to have better relationships
relationships with people begin with
with this these we say you've got
got two ears and one mouth so you
you should probably be listening twice
twice as much as you talk so if you
you spend more time listening you'll
you'll get a much better jump on being
being able to start a business so
so you won't have to worry about what
what you're thinking about what your
your skills and your passion is for
for the moment just listen to other
other people so as i begin this journey
journey you can follow along with
with me in the next video lesson I
I will be talking about how i'm choosing
choosing a market so I'm not beginning
beginning with an idea i'm not beginning
beginning with my own passion necessarily
necessarily I'm beginning with the
the market and I just want to listen
listen and it's going to be maybe
maybe a little bit difficult for me
me because it's not something I'm
I'm used to for business in my regular
regular life I'm very good at listening
listening and I love talking to students
students and figuring out how I can
can help them learn but until now
now I've never been such a great a
a great listener in business and so
so that's one of the skills that I
I need to learn and you can learn
learn it along with me as we go through
through this video course so i'll
i'll see you next time in the next
next video lesson up till now if you
you have any questions about how you
you think or what you think I should
should be working on or other things
things you'd love to hear from this
this video series that to
to created with you you'll be following
following me along on a program as
as I learned to build a completely
completely new business from scratch
scratch this means i have no idea
idea what I'm going to do when i'm
i'm going to start a business and
and i will use you as someone to help
help keep me accountable and this
this means that if I just tell people
people that well i'm going to start
start a business but I don't do something
something like this I'm putting myself
myself out there i'm showing people
people that I'm serious about this
this and I can't fail because I would
would look awful i would look silly
silly if i say i'm going to do this
this and I tell everybody I'm not
not able to do that so in the same
same way that you should be doing
doing the same thing if you're an
an entrepreneur tell people that you're
you're going to do it and they'll
they'll probably end up helping you
you if you do or if you're an English
English Learner you don't sit in your
your room in practice you go out any
any tell everybody I'm going to get
get fluent English and then you'll
you'll be able to learn more from
from other people but also you will
will be inspired to keep keep trying
trying more because you're getting
getting support from other people
people
people this
this accountability and if you want
want to start a business or become
become fluent in a language because
because both of these things take
take a really long time to do then
then you need a lot of support and
and accountability in order to do
do that well i will see you next lesson
lesson I hope it's been an interesting
interesting a new kind of video for
for you i really look forward to making
making more of these and to helping
helping you learn not only just English
English but also how to improve your
your relationships and have a better
better business as well so i'll see
see you next time and until then think
think about systems and how you can
can help other people by listening
listening but to learn more about
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