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🗓️ 18 February 2022
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0:00.0 | You have to be able to do anything and everything of your capability in order to manifest or execute on a business plan that has never been done before. |
0:11.0 | This is the paper. |
0:14.0 | One of the things that I tell people that's confusing is work hard. |
0:19.0 | Right people tell you, work smart. |
0:21.0 | But what people don't do, and this is a good example of entrepreneurship, is entrepreneurship, they don't work long. |
0:28.0 | Here's the biggest problem that we have. |
0:31.0 | And everything we do is that we can go 10 years in a venture and be 25% of the way there. |
0:37.0 | And we start putting faith in what everybody else thinks that we're not successful, that we're wasting our time, never should have dropped out of Harvard, all the different things. |
0:46.0 | But if I'm focused in on, and this is what this person should do, focus in on, are you accelerating and growing? |
0:52.0 | Yeah. |
0:53.0 | At what pace am I accelerating and growing? |
0:55.0 | Because here's what happens. |
0:56.0 | You're 20 years old, by the time you're 30, everybody's against you and you're only 25% of the way there. |
1:01.0 | But you've grown and accelerated to get there. |
1:03.0 | Well, at the same pace most people within five years will be 50% of the way there. |
1:09.0 | Well, 99% of the people are going to quit in 10 years. |
1:12.0 | Out of that 1% that hang on the next five years, another 99% of those will quit. |
1:16.0 | And at 35 years old, you're putting faith in what everybody else thinks. |
1:20.0 | Here's the saddest thing. |
1:22.0 | At the same acceleration and exponential growth, you're only two and a half years from being 100% of the way there. |
1:27.0 | Where everyone thinks you're lucky. |
1:29.0 | Then you're only a year and three quarters from being 200%. |
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