Der Satz, der mein Leben verändert hat

0:00What's a sentence someone said that broke you? >> I don't think there has been a sentence that's broken me. Um, still here. So, um, like things that like bothered me, >> I would say. So, >> um, what is a sentence that bothered me? Actually, you know what? There was a term that bothered me. Um, it was one of the catalysts that got me into entrepreneurship, which is I was reading this self-help book, um, when I was on my self-help kick to try and, you know, figure out what I want to do with my life when I was 20 or 21. Uh, and it it said, uh, a lot of people are entrepreneurs and it was like people who just like reading and talking about business stuff but don't actually do any business. And I was like, [ __ ] [laughter] I was like, that's me. Uh, and I was like, I don't want to be an entrepreneur. Like that sucks. And so I was like, "Okay, well, I should change that."

0:54I think the things that really quote break us are they don't break you. They just make you aware of a deficiency that you've been ignoring. You're not bothered by things that aren't true. You're bothered by things that are that you don't like to look at. On a lighter note, uh if business didn't work out, you said your plan B was to drive Uber and strip. >> Yeah. >> What would your stripper name have been?

1:19[laughter] No idea. Maybe something exotic. >> I thought that was a funny one in the research. I I forgot about that story. Um >> well, I think what's interesting is that your plan B continues to improve over time. And so basically as you develop skills and so like all I had, you know, at that point was I had energy and I was in shape and I was decently good-looking. Um and so I was like, I will bet that someone will let me dance on some stage if I learned how to do that and I could drive Uber during the day. So that would give me, you know, I'd be able to earn 16 hours a day and probably earn pretty good money. And then I would, but the plan was never to do that forever. The plan would be to do that, save the money, and then take another shot. And so, you know, I see that as a short-term speed bump on the way to where I'm trying to go. Um, and again, I I you know, I I come from this perspective of like I don't judge people for how they how they make, you know, how they make their money. If you do what you want, you know, if it doesn't bother you and it bothers someone, like you can you can boil down most of the trolls on the internet into one statement which actually helped me a lot too, which was um you make money in a way I I would prefer you didn't like you do not live according to my preferences. Okay. And you don't live according to mine and that's okay.

2:33That's why you have your life and I have mine. And so I think trans like it's useful to have these translations uh because then it just kind of like makes a lot of the like many or most of these comments just boil down to like he does things that I would prefer he didn't do like okay do you think plan B's are mostly unproductive? >> No. So, you know, like the there's, you know, it's really interesting because there's on on on so many entrepreneurial things, you can like it feels like you can't have a middle take or like how do you feel about morning routines? You either got to be like, "Oh, you have to have morning routine. You have to, you know, do your dunks and affirmations and like you're you got to sharpen the axe before you, you know, cut the tree." And then there's the other people who are like there's zero zero routine like you just have to start working as soon as possible. I tend to be more in this camp, right? But it doesn't make viral clips unless you're polar on the on the belief. So like are you plan B? No. You have to only have plan A and go all in on plan A. And if you're not on allin then there's no like no plan B's, right?

3:31On the other hand, you can just make the argument that having a plan B allows you to go all in on plan A because you know you're not being irresponsible, right? Like I I think me getting over the hump like I don't think me having a plan B made me less successful. I think it just made me logical. Now you know what? So, so said differently, when I see many people really aggressively arguing on both sides of something, to me it means the thing doesn't matter at all. So, like, should you have a plan B? Should you not have a plan B? Well, if people have succeeded with a plan B and without a plan B, then it probably just doesn't matter. And if people have succeeded with a morning routine, without a morning routine, then morning routines probably don't matter.

4:15And so there's just so few actual variables that contribute to the outcome that everything else it just appeals to mysticism as I think it's just magic, right? It's like okay, there's there's this other ephemeral. This is why like I don't like the manifestation energy, whatever. And then to be fair, there's like all the people who are like, ah, you have to manifest your life. And then there's plenty of people who are like, no, you don't. And so I tend to lean towards the zero, uh, meaning if it can work without it, then we don't need it. So I tend to be a deleter by nature. So like what can I remove from my life? Um because I think it's it's it's a it's a more effective practice to think what are the few things I enjoy and then to improve my life remove all things that are not those rather than try and add things which is it's a very American or westernized thinking which is that we think to improve our lives we need to add stuff. Whereas from the eastern philosophy to improve your life you remove things you simplify.

5:08And I think I subscribe more to that. I think that's good for giving advice too because so many times people are giving advice to each other and it's always about adding something but it's more the more helpful advice is usually what can you take away in this situation to be more effective. >> You only have so many hours. You only have so many hours. There was um shoot what was it? There's a really interesting like if you if you did all of the practices that are recommended by some health association just like the government you did all of them. It's like you have to walk this amount of time. You have to do this. Like you would have there are more hours. You do not have enough hours in the day to do every health recommendation for to uh to prevent every one of the ailments that can occur in your life which just means you're going to die [laughter] and and like oxygen kills you one breath at a time because we are all rusting eventually. Like basically you're born and then you rust until you die. Just biologically speaking, you literally oxidize. You rust. And so it's just like we all we try and do these things to like stop one of the one of the hundred things that could kill us. And it's like fine, maybe we stop that one, but just another one will kill you. And so a lot of this just comes down to trying to fight off death. Um and so I think about death a lot. And I think that grounds me in life. Real quick, if you're 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 roadmap, 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 in 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 the most important part for you, what to do for each of 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 deconstrain 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 into business, see if we can help.

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