Why Being New Has an Unfair Advantage

0:00If you seek to be good at something, then you have a tremendous deficit in experience and repetitions that people who are ahead of you or who have achieved what you want to achieve have over you. And so, the only thing that you have Now, you do have an advantage. You have a couple. Number one is that you will have more energy than they do, period. And so, your ability to work long hours, sleep less, and maintain high levels of focus while maintaining peak fluid intelligence is that it's peak. Use it.

0:28The second thing is that you have nothing to lose. And so, the thing is is people always fear being the new the new entrant. But when you have nothing to lose or you have nothing going for you, it also means you have nothing to lose. And that means that every position on the board always has an advantage because anybody who has achieved this big thing that you have was also once a 22-year-old who had nothing going for them. >> You're zero. Right. >> You can't get worse than this. >> You have unlimited shots on goal. And so, not taking the shot is like saying, "Life, I don't want to scratch off this lottery ticket." But the lottery ticket's free. Why would you not scratch it off and try it?

1:00And so, the first advantage you've got you've got energy. Next advantage you have nothing to lose. Third is you also have time and you have very low responsibilities. And so, you have not only the ability to uh to put all of your yourself into something, you also have no circumstantial things that are preventing you. Now, if someone is listening to this and like, "I'm 25 and I've got a kid." Cool. And? Which thing do you want to sacrifice? I'm not saying sacrifice your kid, but I'm saying like you're going to have some trades. Now, I take things to their logical extreme and say, "Okay, well, Bezos has kids. Bill Gates has kids.

1:31Warren Buffett has kids." This is just if you wanted to be, you know, business successful. It's like, "Okay, well, then that can't be a reason that I can't be successful." And so, whatever reasons that we usually give ourselves in the beginning for why we can't achieve something, you can almost always find not only just someone, but someone who's achieved world-class levels of success with worse conditions than you currently have, which then means it's absolutely possible. And then the only thing that it takes to get there is work.

1:57And so, um I I I just wanted to be very clear that if you are 20 you know, if you're 22 years old, like the world does not hate you. You're just not good at anything yet. Real quick, I'm going to show you the exact 10-stage roadmap from zero to 100 million plus that less than 1% of companies finish I've now done multiple times. And so, I can say with a lot of confidence that these are the stages as head count increases that you need to get through. And I broke each of these down by eight different functions of the business, what the constraint feels like, like what are the symptoms of it when you're going through it, and then what steps we actually took to graduate. And we've done this across software, physical products, uh service businesses, brick-and-mortar, all of this, and it works. And it's my gift to you. It's absolutely free. And so, the link's in the description, but you just go acquisition.com/roadmap, just enter your info, and it'll spit it right back to you, all free.