Missionaries vs Mercenaries: Who Makes More Money

0:00a lot of people just like blow their workload for lack of a better term for the school games and then they're like okay I'm done now. It's like bro like that effort is how you do business for an extended period of time. Like you work that hard and then you just don't stop working. And I think the reason that people don't do it is because they're doing it to win not to help the community. Yeah. And so if you really believe in your mission then you don't stop because you're not doing it for you. So just a side note like that's that's in my opinion the reason the people who are missionaries versus mercenaries make the most money over the long haul is that mercenaries it's it's easy to satisfy your own bucket. Even though you know people's goals for themselves can get bigger and bigger when you have a goal that's so much bigger than any one person like Bezos where he's like I just want to make a store for everyone that just delivers stuff conveniently for everyone, right?

0:50He's a missionary, right? And Elon is a missionary. And so those guys build things bigger because it's not about the wealth. Of course they get the wealth along the way. That's an outcome. But they keep pushing past their own personal needs because they're driven by something bigger. So just a little self-check for anybody who and this is looking at you guys who have won in the games in the past and all of a sudden you took your foot off the the gas pedal.

1:13That level of effort as sustained rate is what makes you a champion. So How do you transition? [clears throat] I mean honestly I think you just get used to working at that level. I also think that what people don't do is they they gas themselves but they don't think how can I keep this input continued. So it's like if this input created $50,000 in MRR can I have somebody else take off two-thirds of the things on my plate and then we still have that same input. Like my team still does more input than most of y'all do.

1:45I'm going to say all of you. I'm just going to say it. I'm going to be a plan. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to generalize. Broad broad brush strokes. My team does more than you guys do. But I probably do less than you do. And so it's it's looking at the inputs from a macro perspective not from like your own work ethic. The work ethic you have to do now is like sure you have to learn the skill and then you have to transfer the skill which is the second step. And a lot of you guys don't get to that second step. You just say I can't do this forever and of course you can't cuz you're doing four people's work. But the work that you have to do is transitioning to getting somebody else to be able to do it just as well.

2:14Or sometimes it's two people or three people who do it just as much as you to do one person's work. And that's okay.