Warum ständige Verbesserung wichtiger ist als Talent

0:00Connections, money, looks, intelligence, those are all great. But you can beat someone with all of those things if they have only one trait. An insatiable desire to improve. No matter where they start, it's hard to beat someone who improves every second of every day without giving up. And this is why earlier I said ambitious people buy skills and they pay for those skills with time and money. And in order to have the time and money to invest in those skills, they have to take them from somewhere else. Because the thing is is that your resources are zero-sum.

0:34And this is something that a lot of people aren't comfortable with. Whatever you choose to spend your time on, you take from something else. Whatever you choose to spend your money on, you take from something else. And so most people don't have a resources issue, they have a priorities problem. You are choosing to say that other things are more important. And hey, I want to be real. If that stuff is more important to you, then amazing. You won at life, congratulations. But if you don't have what you want and you're spending money to proliferate a life that is not the one you want to lead, then you need to shift the list to invest the time and money and pull from those things that you don't want to put more in the ones you do. And you want to starve out failure. So think about this. One of the easiest ways to to have more money is to work more hours. You're like, how is that possible? Well, when you work more hours, it actually kills two birds.

1:23One is that you actually make more money when you work more hours. But on top of that, you don't spend money because you have less time to spend it. And so every hour of work is a net positive in two directions. So it saves you money you're not spending and makes you money. And so you want to find those little twists that you can make in your investments of time and money that are outsized. It's not just that you gain, you also stop the loss. I've always been willing to bet big on me. And so a lot of you guys are trying to like bet big on Dogecoin or some meme thing or like some get rich quick and I promise you the guys who have all the money know how to do it better than you. And if you have your last thousand or five thousand or ten thousand dollars that you're like, what do I do with it?

2:08Bet on you. Cuz you'll never sell you. You're a long-term hold, right? And so if you get better, you guarantee the win. And every investment you make compounds. You guarantee compounding because every skill stacks on top of other skills. Steve Jobs talked about how when he went to college and learned calligraphy, it was the reason that fonts showed up in the Mac later. And so he talks about you can only connect the dots looking back. You want to double down on investing more into you getting skills and I'll tell you something that you probably don't know. So, I spent ten thousand dollars and I only had fifty saved up after years of being a consultant. So I had fifty thousand dollars saved up. I was twenty-three years old. That was my life savings. I spent ten thousand dollars to get a gym coach. I joined a mastermind for gym owners. Fun fact though, I didn't have a gym. But I figured if I go to a mastermind of gym owners, I'm going to learn so many of the things that they made mistakes on when they started their gym. They're going they're going to have opinions on how I should lay out the square footage, what what locations I should pick, what model I should use.

3:11And so rather than say, oh I'm just going to find out all these failures on my my own and and take five times as long, I was like, I'd rather pay ten thousand dollars to pull five years forward into the present. And so I was able to get that first location up and profitable and outsourced by month nine. Now, some of the guys in the mastermind were at year five and still hadn't done that. I pay down my ignorance tax as much as I possibly can because the cost of you not being able to achieve your dreams, the price is ignorance and the debt that you pay is the distance between where you are and how much you'd be making if you knew how to do it. I I've told the story before but I think it's so it's it's something that's so ingrained in how I think in terms of how I price what I'm willing to pay in time or money. And before I tell that story, I move geographically whenever I see an opportunity to get around someone who's better than me. And so when I wanted to learn fitness stuff, I moved to an area where I knew there was other fitness entrepreneurs that I was like, well, maybe I'll be able to hang out with them a little bit and I'll learn a little bit there. And I went to a city that I didn't know anything about. I knew no one.

4:15And when I wanted to when I wanted to get in the gym space, I said, well, California is like the capital of fitness, SoCal. So I'm going to move out to Southern California because the best guys will be there. And if I can win there, I'll be able to win anywhere. And so I moved out to California without knowing anyone. Whenever I've had these big transitions in my life, it's not only being willing to bet with my money and bet with my time, but also bet with my geographical location. I'm willing to risk losing the relationships that I had to gain relationships that I need. And so 2025 for you might mean that you have to leave where you're at. And that could mean across town, but it could also mean across the country or even across into a different country. It may mean that you're going to spend take all this money that you used to spend here and spend it in an entirely different way.

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