What Stops Most People From Getting Money and Power

0:00I'm just going to talk to you like a homie. You understand patterns more than anybody. Just from sitting down with you, I'm like this dude's a robot. >> [laughter] >> Like you know everything about If I hung out with you for maybe 3 days, you would know me inside and out. And you would know how I would work. You know where I fall short. I know people like you. So for if my question is I know people like you because they're very successful people. Anything I say, if it sounds disrespectful, just punch me right in the face. >> I'll round up. Is that >> Yeah, okay. Just don't roundhouse. >> Yeah. >> [laughter]

0:25>> So if that's the case, then doesn't it alarm you that we see many men that are tested with a lot of money and power and they end up not having a great ending to their career or life because it overtakes them. Not saying it's you. Not saying it's me. But since you've seen the patterns, what are you doing to stop you and your household from being extinguished by what is power and success?

0:51>> [snorts] >> So I would in some ways define that as a like a money-aholic. >> A money alcoholic. >> So if you if you think of like any kind of alcoholism, any kind of addiction, it typically is when the reinforcement loop for whatever the behavior is, whether it's drinks, drugs, it's swearing, whatever, gets in the way of your larger goals. And so if you can drink, but it doesn't interfere with your marriage or work or social life, then you're a responsible drinker. And for some people that might be way So to me, again, there's the medical definition, but I would say the way that I would see the behavior is that if someone has no zero interference. So it doesn't if it's not affecting their health. Now if it does, it doesn't affect anything else, but it does affect your health, then it's it's aversive to your long-term goals. But if you find a way, it's very difficult obviously because it does have aversive effects on your health, but just to use a simple example. Um, but if you found a way to drink that somehow didn't impact your health and you were able to do so regularly and it didn't impact work, life, marriage, whatever, then I would say that you are not necessarily addicted because it like in a in a negative way because nothing bad has happened. And it's not it's not taking anything away from you.

1:54If the pursuit of money, right, which in the Bible is the pursuit of money. Um that's the root of all evil, not money itself. Um If the pursuit uh or rather the love of, but whatever. Um uh If if that cycle becomes too reinforcing that you neglect your other duties that like your marriage or your kids or your health, then that is when this thing has become too powerful.

2:20>> Mhm. So then I I think I made a mistake by asking you like a Sophie's Choice, power or peace? >> Yeah. >> But if you were That was a terrible first question, by the way. If you're staying here, >> [laughter] >> thanks for bearing with me. >> I think if I said I reject the premise would have been a tough first response. >> [laughter] >> That would have just been a cut. Um okay, so then in your household, what is it that you envision and what is it that you Cuz like for mine is to love God and to love my neighbors. Is there rules or a regulation that you live by?

2:55>> I would say Layla and I have agreed on I mean a lot of things, but um a big one I think that's a credo of ours is leave it better than you found it. And so that's people, the earth. All the employees our company, all the customers, anyone who interacts with us, if we can leave them better than we found them or they found us, then we will be a net positive overall. And that means if we go to Whole Foods and grab food, then it means that we'll clean the table even if the you know the the table's dirty, we'll put the chairs back. Just very small things like that, but I think taking in aggregate over a long period of time.

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