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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The #1 Investment You Need to Make in 2023

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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If you aren't going to invest in yourself, what are you going to invest in? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Think about it all the time when I have to make investments. What am I investing in right? I'm investing in the person

0:08.0

This is the labor my second year of law school my oldest brother died and

0:13.0

I went back home and I told my mom. Sorry that I wanted to quit law school

0:19.2

Right because I've been looking and I got offered a job to sell

0:24.1

Golf clubs in to Asia and it was $60,000 a year plus commission

0:30.6

That's a lot of money when you're going a hundred thousand into debt in a recession in the early 90s

0:36.0

And so I went home and my mom told me another great piece of advice

0:40.4

She said I'm not gonna let you quit. She said I go out well. I'm taking loans. I can quit. I don't want to take those loans

0:46.8

I'll find the money

0:48.4

I said, I know you can't find the money. You can barely pay for what we have and I got younger siblings that want to go to Harvard and Penn and

0:55.2

Columbia

0:56.1

So she said Dave if you're not gonna invest in yourself, what are you ever gonna invest in?

1:02.8

Right that man it still hits me because I think about it all the time when I have to make investments

1:09.0

What am I investing in right? I'm investing in the person

1:12.6

But you have to understand time intolerance or risk tolerance and after you have the time and risk tolerance factor

1:19.6

Take it in place then you have to look at the skills that you want to develop the knowledge that you want to acquire and

1:26.8

What inspires you?

1:28.8

It is a place that can teach you that you must be what you can be

1:33.7

There's so many things that you could acquire skills wise that are not just in the classroom and so many things

1:41.0

Knowledge wise that you can learn not just in the classroom

1:44.4

So if you have and understand your focus of skills knowledge and desire

1:49.6

Just apply it to how our education has changed the college experience has changed and you will realize there's areas

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