"I'm 37. Is It Too Late?"

0:00Layla, I'm going to ask you this question. I'm 37. Is it too late? >> You're literally about to turn 37. >> That's why it's so relevant. Is it too late? >> quite depressing that you're 37. >> [laughter] >> Let's just ignore that fact. >> [gasps] >> Um no, it's not too late. Like that's ridiculous. Um I think some of the, you know, most successful people on Earth started when they're 45, 50. Who was it? The founder of McDonald's? Was it him that was

0:25>> Ray Kroc? >> Ray Kroc, wasn't he like almost 50 or 40 something when he started? >> Mhm. >> Um I just think it to myself, you have so much life left. Why I don't know why people ask that question, actually. Is it too late? Too late for what? Like too late to live your life, too late to succeed, too late to have what you want. Yeah, exactly. It's like why does this prohibit you? Like you're not at the point yet where your health is like rapidly declining, either. So, like I don't really understand what that means.

0:52>> Let me give you an interesting frame on this. When you are 20, 30, 50, 100, you literally only have one thing, which is the present. So, there is fundamentally, as much as I made an argument very beginning of this that like you should go hard when you're young because you have a lot of advantages. It doesn't negate the fact that you should go pursue your goals with whatever condition you have. It doesn't mean, yes, there are advantages when you're younger. There's also advantages when you're older. Like you might have more experience, might have more wisdom, you might have more resources. But let's just assume for the purpose of this discussion that you have no resources and no experience because you wasted the first 17 years of your life. Great.

1:27Think about this. Are there 20-year-olds who start at 20 and then at 24 are crushing it? Yes. So, there's no reason that at 37 you can start at 41 you're crushing it. Like Like by saying it is too late is accepting that you will accomplish nothing between now and when you die. That's what it turns into. And so >> Right. So, as long as you believe that you're going to stay alive and you're going to do something with the time you have. You're going The time is going to get spent either way. You might as well will it building something that you want to build rather than basically running the clock out until you die.

2:00>> I also think it's you know you said this, but I think highlighting it is there are advantages to being young. There's also a lot of advantages to being older. So, I I mean I can think about when we our first 10 years of work you know, being in our early 20s when we started, like complete like you have so much energy, you have >> [laughter] >> I started the whole >> no pain. What? You started the whole live like that? >> [laughter] >> So much energy? >> Yeah.

2:24>> Um You don't have any physical pain. You don't have any ailments. >> [laughter] >> Um you don't have a lot of responsibility. So, like there's a lot of things there, but then as you get older you have way better critical thinking. You have I would say way better judgment. >> Emotional control. >> Way better emotional control, more patience. You're typically wiser. So, there's a lot of advantages and I think that as you get older you see ways to do things that um you can get things done with more leverage. Like you don't have to use yourself to get everything done.

2:53You see a lot I would say smarter ways that you can get things done in business. So, if I were starting, you know, and actually we have done this. I mean on our third business started it completely different than we did in the very beginning. First business is like did everything myself first. Didn't hire anybody smart for a long time. Like duct taped everything together with brute force. Um and then on our third business it's like, all right, hiring the entire executive team first. So, >> and I think that's just judgment. That's learning. That's understanding, oh, I don't have the energy to just do it all anymore.

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