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🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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0:00.0 | Every day I've lived by trying to be productive a minimum of 64 hours a day of productivity of value. |
0:07.0 | And I do it seven days a week because I don't believe in work. |
0:10.0 | I believe in activity I get paid for in activity I don't get paid for. |
0:13.3 | This is entrepreneurs, the playbook. |
0:15.6 | I sold legal research online, so there was a legal publisher who had a huge monopoly, West |
0:20.7 | publishing, and they just were taking their books and putting them online. |
0:26.3 | And it was a slow internet 93. Yeah. My mom thought I was a fad. So I, one other lesson might just |
0:32.2 | because your parents love you doesn't mean they give you good |
0:34.2 | advice. You should take their advice, appreciate it, and be grateful for it, but it doesn't mean |
0:38.9 | you have to take it. So just because someone loves you doesn't mean they give you good |
0:41.9 | advice. I ended up selling, which I made a million dollars nine months out of law school. |
0:48.2 | Highly focused on making money. |
0:49.8 | People ask me how I did it. |
0:51.0 | And I think this is one of the most valuable lessons I can give people. |
0:54.3 | I'm a productivity and accessibility person so I looked at and honestly connected the dots |
1:00.4 | backwards and said I'm 250,000 at plan right that's my comp plan that's why I took the job |
1:06.0 | because I wanted to make money I wasn't gonna be a real lawyer quote unquote like my mom said I had to take the |
1:10.5 | bar but I was gonna sell and I was gonna make 250 and I looked at it and said, |
1:14.4 | hold on a second, if these guys can make 250 work in eight hour days, I'm going to work 16 hours. |
1:19.7 | And if they're going to be average efficient, I'm going to be twice as efficient. So my 16 hour days become |
1:26.0 | 32 hour days. And then I'm going to practice being statistically successful by going on more |
1:31.0 | meetings and closing more deals. |
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