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0:00You've got connections. You've got money. You've got looks. You've got intellect or intelligence. These are all great. But you can beat all of these. You can beat somebody who has all four if you have one thing. Which is the desire to improve. The insatiable desire to improve. No matter where you start, if you have this, it's hard to beat someone who improves every second of every day without stopping, without giving up. And so, I have met people who have connections, money, looks, and intelligence. And they do not people who have an insatiable desire to improve, who do not stop. And so, if you think about it like this, if life were a race where at the end you die, so got to finish first, right? There are people who may start at different parts of that race. But what is not measured is the speed that you can move. And so, I don't know if you've seen these these clips that have gone viral in the NFL where they have like one of their wide receivers start like 20 yards behind a fan, and they have to race the length of the football field, and then the wide receiver will usually catch up, like talk to them, and then just speed right past them. And so, it's far less about where you start because that's where a lot of losers will define themselves. They'll define themselves by what happened to them rather than what they made happen. And somebody else may be here, but it only matters if you think that there's fairness. But I don't believe fairness is something that exists in the universe. And so, I don't hold it as an ideal that I proclaim must exist. But there's simply a starting point in a rate of progress. And the starting point you can't control, but the rate of progress you can. And so, control what you can control. If education is a change in behavior, that's what you do. If you become educated, you do something different after you learn something. Then intelligence is rate of learning.

1:39Which means that you can in a very real way influence, it's the rate of learning, the speed of learning. You can influence how quickly you move along this race independent of where you start. And you'll also note that the person here has no influence on what this person does. These two people are independent nodes. The only reason that this person gets upset is that they think it's not fair. And if you just eliminate fairness from your vocabulary and think only in terms of what do I need to do, then it eliminates a lot of the distraction that keeps you poor.

2:12So, if you call Recall from the very beginning, lazy people get distracted. They focus on distraction. And one of the biggest distractions is it's not fair. It's It's not fair. I shouldn't have to. I should get. I should I should it should things shouldn't. It's all shoulds. And I will tell you that should in my world view should not exist. 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.

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