You Don't Need Talent, You Need Reps

0:00You can change your entire bloodline the moment you realize that what you do next always matters more than what you did last. And so even though I'd read 14 books in a row, it doesn't mean that on my 15th book or your 15th book or your 15th video or 500th video, that what you choose to do after that can literally change and can overcome, can supersede everything that came before it. And I think if that's not an inspiring message, I don't know what it is.

0:29And so I I saw this I saw this tweet the other day uh by Chimp. So Chimp, what up? Maybe you'll see this. Um and I don't know if Chimp's a guy or girl. So I guess we'll see. But this is what he or she said. The past 9 years feels entirely wasted to be honest. I was 23, this year I turned 32. No job, no wife, no kids, no generational wealth like I promised myself that it would all be worth it. I just fumbled my 20s chasing imaginary numbers on the internet. What the [ __ ] So I read this and I think I think it hit me when I was I was scrolling on X.

1:12And the thing is is that like if you ask high school seniors which of them believes that they will be a millionaire by 25, it's over 50%. And to me that demonstrates a huge amount of delusion. People have no idea what it takes. And to the same degree, the fact that governments, you know, will give 100,000, 200,000 dollar loans to people who've never made money in their lives to earn a degree that has no earning power anymore at all is unbelievably irresponsible and arguably unethical because you're talking to somebody who barely barely has any life experience.

1:55And so when I when I when I think about that last line though I just fumbled my 20s chasing imaginary numbers on the internet. I can promise everybody who's listening to this that in every realm of human endeavor, there is a significant amount of volume that is required in order to unlock a new skill. The amount of volume is different by person. Some people learn fast, some people learn slow, but everyone learns eventually. And so, if you want to take the position that you will learn eventually, no matter how bad your genetics, no matter how bad your upbringing is, which is the position that I prefer because it's under your control, then you just have to do so much volume that it is unreasonable that you fail.

2:38And so, I see this and it's like I fumbled my 20s chasing imaginary numbers. To me, I hear that and I think like you don't have a wife. How many dates did you go on? And to be clear, maybe well, I said chimps. I didn't say the the the actual name of the handle. But like how many dates did you go on? Did you go on 10? Did you go on 100? Did you go on 500? Now, you might think to yourself, wait, well well, I can't even get dates. Then I would say, okay, how many girls did you ask out?

3:06One a day? Five a day? 10 a day? Uh well, oh, I I don't I don't leave my house. Okay. How many times do you leave your house a day? Right? Like all of these things can be solved with volume. And it's just that like it's just people radically underestimate how much how much how many how many repetitions it takes to get good. Like people saw the presentation that I gave at the at at the book launch and were like, oh, uh you know, Alex is such a natural.

3:31Like if I've posted some of my early videos, I do not sound natural. Like this is not sound good. I do not sound cool. I have I have virtually no achievements to my name now at that point. And so, what I one thing I will say in terms of having some level of confidence is this. Extrapolate your past success of any kind to your next success.

3:56So, what does that mean? So, I I tend and I actually think about this like well, I won't go in that direction. Um when I like if you were good at one subject in school, then it's like, "Okay, if I was good at that subject, then I can be good at all the subjects." And then once you're good at all the subjects, it's like, "Okay, why did I did pretty well in that grade, then I can do well in all the grades." And then once you do well in all the grades, then you you graduate and you're like, "You know what? If I did well in all the grades, I could probably I could probably do well at at at working out and getting in shape. I mean, there's no reason I I could apply all that work here and I can't apply that work here."

4:32And then all of a sudden you're like, "Well, you know, I'm not rich, but like I'm in shape and I did well in school, and so I can apply that work ethic and that thinking of just doing repetitions, doing the studying, doing the work that I'll be able to figure out this new job, or I'll figure out this new role, or I'll figure out this new AI system, whatever it is. And I think I can apply that to this." And so fundamentally, what separates humans from other animals is the ability to apply the transitive property.

4:57If A equals B and B equals C, then A equals C. That That transition is what separates humans from everything else on Earth. Just being able to say, "Oh, then A equals C if A equals B and B equals C." And so the idea is that we have generalizable skills. You can learn how to work hard at anything. And just about everyone here has worked hard at something. Maybe it was video games, maybe it was one particular course in one particular year for one particular teacher, but you have done something.

5:31And the idea is to take that something and say, "Because I did it that time, I can do it again." And to be able to consistently apply that and then what happens is you create this snowball. And so eventually, you you have this feeling that you walk in a room and you're like, "I am inevitable." I may not get it the first time, but I will [ __ ] get it. Because I will either die or I will figure it out. And I've got a lot of life left to live.

5:59So, if you're under 30 and you have no responsibilities, I recommend working as many hours per week as humanly possible. Because you will never be able to work this hard again. And the compounding effects of a few years of hard work like this can set you up for your life for decades. And this is what I think people miss out on. It's like we have this we have this crescendo. We have this early part of the skill gap. It's like why would we not want to shovel as much towards that as we can? Now, listen.

6:33I want to be very clear. If you want If you were like, I love my life the way it is, then you won. You're great. Like hallelujah. I'm I'm like I'm on your team. You've already won. Teach the world. All right? But for everyone who's dissatisfied with where you're at, and if you don't have these responsibilities If you're like, well, I have three kids. It's like, okay, then you have trade-offs. I mean, straight up. You've got trades. But if you don't have those responsibilities, and you do have the time, and you do have the energy, and you are not happy with the where you are or rather you would like it to be better, your business to be better, your career to be better, whatever it is, why not give this time and this energy? Because that is the time you have it.

7:12You will never have fewer responsibilities than you have now. And I think it's it's worth digging the well before you're thirsty. Because having to do that later, not to say impossible, just harder. And to be clear, some of you guys are in that position. You're like, dude, I got a wife and kids, and now I'm going to start my thing. Amazing. It It's going to be harder for you. Here's the plus side. You got more experience. So, you can be more strategic with your effort. That's the pro. You look at every, you know, pro athlete. It's like by the end of their careers, they're conserving their energy better. They make the right, you know, they strike at the right times. Their their technique is better, right? But they don't have the sheer power, they don't have the sheer strength they had, their quickness, the flexibility they had in their in their youth. And that's what expands people's careers cuz in the youth, like you don't have the experience, you don't have the technique, you don't have the but but you have all these other things. And that's what creates longer and it changes how people fight, how people how people do anything. And so, every every position has advantages and disadvantages. If you like this video and you're a business owner who wants to break through your current revenue ceiling, I just filled every lesson from scaling 10 businesses past 10 million and three businesses past 100 million into a completely free scaling roadmap that I've used to go from zero to one, zero to 10, and zero to 100 plus. And so, you can click here and you can check it out. Again, absolutely free and since you're a business owner, I appreciate you and enjoy.