Braucht man wirklich einen Mentor?

0:00Do mentors matter? >> So to I'll explain what I'm thinking through. So to answer that question, I think it asks what is what is required to win? And is a mentor required? No. But there are certain behaviors and actions that will increase the likelihood of success if you can do those actions faster. then you will have a higher likelihood of winning and higher of a higher likelihood of winning faster.

0:34All of humanity has been built on us standing on our forefathers shoulders and taking what they learned. We don't have to figure out how light bulbs work. I have no idea how the internet works, but I know that it works and there's somebody who can figure it out. And so we just start where they kind of lay off the baton and then we pick it up from there and we and we run the next however many and then we die and we end the next guy. And I think you don't need mentors, but you need to learn from people ahead of you.

1:03And so I think in models, not mentors, what can I model about their behavior so that it can change my behavior to increase the likelihood that I win faster? And so everything that I do, and I feel like pretty, this is a pretty strong statement, everything that I do ladders up or down to behavior. And so you've probably noticed it when I talk about training and employees, when I talk about advertising, I just want to increase the likelihood that a stranger takes that desired action. That's all I'm trying to do. And when we get into behavior change, it removes a lot of the surface level fluff that I think confuses the vast majority of people.

1:41And so I'm always afraid to go on podcasts where somebody is like really heavy in like manifestation and like energy and frequencies and like whatever the hell. And they'll say things like, "I manifested this meeting." And I'll be like, "You didn't. You're uh you have content that did well because you produce content on a regular basis." And then your EA reached out to my EA. That reach out is what initiated this, not whatever vibes you were setting out into the universe. Now, some people might say, "Yeah, it was also the vibes." But I would bet that if they made the content and did the reach out, I would still do it. Which means that those are the core things because if we've removed those, if we just did the manifestation and didn't make the content, the reach out, I would not be here. And so, one of these works, one of these doesn't. And so, that is what has allowed me to try and extract the essence from the mentors or heroes ahead of me. I I consume a tremendous amount of Elon, Basos, Zuck, anything that I can find uh that they put out or that they're interviewed on, I try and consume it. And the whole goal is I want to think about their decision-m process as it relates to what they did and try and apply that to my context um in terms of behavior. And so that has been just like the big the big big big zoom out for do I need a mentor?

3:02No, but you need to learn stuff. And so whatever way is the fastest way for you to learn things, do that. And so I'll tell this story because I think it's it it like do you need one? No. No one needs one. You could you can literally just do all of these things through trial and error on your own and you will figure it out. Time is obviously the one thing that is the the big question mark. And I think part of that is a question of how valuable is your time to you? Not in a micro example, but could would I pay in time or money to move forward five years and not make five years of mistakes. So, when I started my first gym, I didn't actually start the gym because I quit my job and I drove across the country and I showed up at a guy's house that I Googled on the internet who said he was good at running gyms. His name was Seven Figure Sam. All right?

3:41And so, he was a gym guru. And so, I showed up at his actual gym unannounced. And I was like, "Hey, I'm here to be mentored and learn." And he was like, "Uh, I'm working. Um, I really don't know who you are and uh like maybe we'll talk tomorrow or something." And I was like, "Okay." And he's like, "Where are you staying?" And I said, "I don't know. I haven't decided yet." He's like, "What do you mean?" I was like, "That's my car. I just drove here and all my stuff's in there." And he's like, "You have nowhere to I was like, I figured I'd just figure it out when I got here."

4:10And so he offered me to stay at his at his house that night, which is unbelievably generous and maybe my salesmanship got him. You know, who knows? >> Um, but within a few weeks, he had a meetup of all the gyms that were kind of like following his little system for how he ran his personal training studio and and boot camp. and I got to go as a 22-year-old and I paid to have access to this community of gym owners. And they were all going around talking about what was going good and what was going wrong uh in the business. And when it got to me, I was like, "Well, okay, so I want to open a location and this is kind of what I was thinking about my model and this is what I was thinking about price points." And they were like, "Wrong, wrong. Here's why that's not going to work. Here's how that's not going to work." And I was like, "Oh, uh, okay.

4:50Well, this is where I was going to buy equipment." They're like, "Don't buy there. That's retail. You can get it from secondhand over here." and it's literally a tenth of the price. And I was like, "Oh, that's awesome. Okay, great." I was like, "Well, I was thinking about getting this type of thing." They're like, "No, girls will eat on that and they'll fall." Like, I've had two girls do it. Don't worry about it. Like, you're end not going to use it, but you can get sandbags. You can use them all the time and they're super cheap and if you have to replace them, you can, but you can use them for like hundreds of exercises. And I was like, great, I'll do that. And then I was like, okay. So, I was thinking about this kind of square footage for my for my facility. They're like, dude, you don't need all that. You can cut that in half. And I was like, okay, we'll cut that in half. And um I was like, I'm willing to pay two bucks a foot. And they were like, "No, never go over 150." And I was like, "Okay, never go over." And so, like, in a matter of a day, I got to take like all of the knowledge of all of these guys of the mistakes that they had all made with their gyms, and I started my first gym just on their backs.

5:40And so, how much was that worth to me? Years. And so for me, I have always been willing to pay in whatever currency was required to get knowledge that I don't know. Real quick, I'm going to show you the exact 10stage road map 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 headcount 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.

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