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0:0030 isn't the new 20. It's an excuse to take 10 years longer to accomplish the same thing. You can die when you're [music] done. Until then, keep going. In your 20s, you're young, you can [ __ ] around. It doesn't matter cuz life is long. Number one, that assumes that you're not going to die. If you're in your 30s, you know someone in your high school class who died. And it's not just the drug overdose people, it's the people who got shot, got in a car accident, had a weird brain cancer. I've had all of those things happen to people that I went to high school with. In one way, I think it's a little bit arrogant to assume that you're just going to live. Cuz it means you can waste your life. And I I wholeheartedly stand against that. The second translation around that that I think has hurt a lot of people

0:36>> [music] >> is that they can do what I would consider dead end jobs. And that means jobs that don't have any direct correlation to your personal growth. [music] Has nothing to do with pay. You can work for free and grow more than anyone else. This is not saying that you need to go into a season of earning in your 20s, but you do need to be setting yourself up for growth, in my opinion, if you want the big ultimate outcome. And so, most people that at least consume my stuff, they want to be better. They want to grow. They want to get in better shape. They want to have better relationships. They want to have a better business. They want to be, you know, bigger in every way. They want to expand. If you spend the decade of your 20s not growing and not investing in your skills and your education, if you do that in your 30s, you're going to be further behind than someone who starts in their 20s. You're going to be a decade behind. You know, nowadays, there's kids who are starting out their entrepreneurial journey when they're like 13. And so, when they're 23, they're Mr. Beast. He's young, but he's actually pretty old in business terms.

1:30Cuz a lot of people start their business journey in their mid-40s. And so, if they're 50 years old and started their business 5 years ago, Mr. Beast has twice the amount of time in the ring, under the bar, than they do. For me, I want to start my time clock on paying down my ignorance debt as fast as humanly possible, because the debt is a constant for everyone. All of us are trying to pay down that debt as fast as we can, and taking a decade, arguably one of the most productive decades of your life, and not paying down that debt, you just sit in such a deficit compared to your peer group. Some people might watch this and be 30 or 40 or 50 and be like, well, [ __ ] I took the wrong advice from the wrong guy. Guess what? You're going to die, it's not going to matter anyways. Big deal, whatever. The best time to do this was start when you were 10 and get born to an entrepreneurial parent who got you in their small business and invested in all of your education as a home schooled student and taught you all the ways of the of the Jedi.

2:18But you probably didn't have that. And so, the second best time is to start now. Because let's play out the alternative. How much does it serve you to just say, I guess I have no chance. Okay, die. There's nothing left for me to do. I will relinquish the remainder of my living days and years because I choose to lose. And that's a choice. And if you want that, that's cool. The idea of quitting simply because you're older, because you didn't do something, everybody doesn't do things that they know they should be doing now. And that's because you're always going to know more in the future than you do in the past. And so, it's a faulty premise to say that I'm not going to take action today because I didn't know something in the past. Everyone doesn't know anything in the past. But all you can do is take action with what you know today. And by taking action, you have learned. And so, you actually take one step to making your first payment on ignorance debt through actions, not words. I mean, I think a lot of people know the story of the 30-year-old barista. If you love that, then do [music] it. You know what I mean? Like, I have no judgment on what you do. If you don't love that and you wish you were doing something else, that's what I would say I have a problem with. Which is, [music] why are you not doing it? And I think diving into that, which is usually some sort of fear, some sort of anxiety, some sort of label that they believed that isn't true from someone else. And just trying to zone in on like, why am I not doing it? And taking two steps closer to it, not just like, because I don't know what I'm doing. Well, duh. Okay, neither does anyone. What are you doing about that?

3:40Just defining it to what actions are we going to take as a result just makes life a lot easier. What is figured out, man? It means that I'm going to read two hours a night on a specific subject until I feel like I can make a decision within 30 days on what I'm going to do. Great. That is something I can do and I can measure whether I did it or not. >> [snorts] >> Real quick, if you are a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift. So, my team and I put together the $100 million scaling road map, which is basically 200 hours of us looking over all the portfolio companies we've had and what stages of growth they went through and more importantly where they got stuck and how they got past it. And so we broke it into these 10 stages and we made this little kind of quiz thing where if you put in your business information, it'll tell you where you're at and most important part for you, what to do for each of the functions of the business across product, marketing, sales, customer success, recruiting, IT, human resources and finance. And so no matter what you're struggling with, someone else has already struggled with it and solved it. And so I'd like to give you this thing absolutely free. You can go to acquisition.com/roadmap, plug in your business information and if you want us to actually help you deconstruct the business and you're trying to scale, we'd love to help you out. On the thank you page you can just book a call with my team and we will look at the business, see if we can help and if we can, we'll fly you to Vegas and we'll do this in person live.