Der wahre Preis von mittelmäßigen Mitarbeitern

0:00How are you going? I just want to say quickly we've flown 14 hours from Sydney to be here four of us mates we've been following you for years and all my bloody questions have been answered by your team without you having been bloody in the room. Is anyone else the same? >> [laughter] >> Can we just give everyone a big clap for that? Thank you man. Like I really mean it like it means a lot to be here. >> Let me pause you there. Real quick for everybody. The biggest gift I can probably give you in terms of breaking a belief is what you can see or demonstrate more than what I can say and maybe some of you guys met the team and was like I understand why they make a lot more money than my team does.

0:38Right and so it's like oh well if I had this team I could scale my business it's like yeah. That's the point. >> [laughter] >> Like it just took me a really long time to realize it too and so I promise you that the best talent you have is in the future not in the past. Go ahead. >> Yeah so to your framework there with being severely under priced but my question for you actually is cuz I got so much to execute from your team is actually here and here. It's like um the more ambitious I've got and the more successful I've become the more numb I've become.

1:08>> Sure. >> You know with that so if you had a KPI for your soul >> Yeah. >> what would they be and how you tracking? >> I would knowing me cuz you probably consumed enough of my content to know that I would probably not be like this is how I define my soul. I would say that when I look back on the days that I remember and enjoyed the most I had three things that occurred which is that I worked out with people I liked I ate with people I liked and I wrote something down and if I do those three things I tend to have good days and so for me my goal is is is a lot simpler which is how do I maximize the number of days in a row that I have that have those two things occur.

1:46And so I think soul can be incredibly amorphous and really tough and that's when like manifestation and synchronicity and and vibrations and energy and all these words that people throw around that no one can define. Um well, I mean, they try to define them. They just fail. Uh Anyways, um I just try to observe uh uh define things by the observable universe because everyone can agree on these things. And so, for me, I know the days that I can say "This day was a good day. I can rate this above average. Fine." Um subjectively. And from there, how do like what are the things that occurred with the highest frequency on days that I subjectively rated good? How do I maximize the likelihood that those things occur? How do I do that on a consistent basis? And then what happens is if you define creativity as uh mistakes that happen while copying, um which is how it happens in nature. Um that's how creativity and innovation often occur. Like you keep iterating, keep trying to copy something, and then you [ __ ] up your own copy, and then it ends up better, and you're like, "Holy [ __ ] I cut the potato a little bit too thin, and then it crisped up, and now I have potato chips. This is awesome, right?" Um if you do 100 days in a row of your best day, you will then also add nuance to that. So, cuz it used to be just work out, eat healthy food, and write something down. But then I had other days where I was like, "Well, these days I didn't just eat healthy food, I ate with people I liked." And so, it starts adding to that little framework for yourself.

3:09Um and I think for me that has maximized my enjoyment. And I'll give you a quote from Shervin, who's now our president, which is pretty cool. Um he said in his 20s, um he cared about the destination. Uh in his 30s, um he cared about the journey. In his 40s, he cares about the company. And so, I think that that has been a really good framework, also, because like for anybody here, and I won't judge you for saying this, like fine, I'll I'll I'll hedge it a little bit. Are there days where you hate your business?

3:37Okay. Most of the heads nodded. I think that you decrease the likelihood that those days occur if you surround yourself with people you really like. And so, even though you might hate what happens in the business, you might love the people you do with, and I think that takes a a of the a of the shittiness out of it. >> Awesome. Thanks, man. >> If you are a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you like, I'd like to give you a free gift. So, my team and I put together the $100 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 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 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 invite you out to Vegas and we'll do this in person live.