I'm 46 years old, and if I could sit down with my 20-year-old self-year-old self-year-old and have one honest conversation, not some stuff that you'd read in a self-help book, but real things that I had to learn the hard way, this is what I would say. These are the 20 things I wish someone had told me when I was younger. And by the way, this episode is an answer to a question from a fan of the show.

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Number one, and it's number one for a reason, because it's probably the thing that will change your life the most.

And that's focus is the deciding factor.

Get that into your head.

Focus is the deciding factor, not talent, not luck, not connections, not anything else.

Focus.

When I look at the people who have one in life, in business, in relationships, in health,

the common thread is they never are the smartest person or the most talented person in the room.

It's that they could direct their attention at one thing and refuse to let go until it was done. They know how to separate the signal from the noise.

We live in the most distracted era in human history. Your phone is engineered by some of the most

brilliant minds and engineers on the planet to keep you from focusing, social media, notifications,

endless content at your fingertips.

All of it is competing for one resource that determines the quality of your life,

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