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The Playbook With David Meltzer

What would you tell your 20-year-old self? | #AskDavidMeltzer 12

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The best advice I can give to any 20, 30, 40, 50-year-old is radical humility. Be radically humble, the more you learn, the more you learn that you don't know. Ask for help. If you are asking just one person a day, "do you know anyone that can help me?" you will see exponential results. Back then everyone only had their church group, golf foursome, or small group of friends, but now most people have about 1,000 people in their network. Just by asking one person a day if they know anyone that can help you, you are expanding your network by at least 30,000 people a month. Be radically humble and ask for help. If you want me to answer your question on the podcast, tweet me @davidmeltzer, or email me a video at [email protected] of you asking me a question and I will answer it for a future episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The advice that I give by 20-year-old self is the same advice I give to my 30, 40, and even 50-year-old self.

0:05.8

And it's the same two words that I write on my nightstand.

0:09.1

And it's not gratitude, it's not thank you.

0:11.3

Although thank you is the most powerful thing you can have.

0:14.2

It's radical humility.

0:15.4

What I would tell my 20-year-old self is you don't know what you don't know.

0:19.6

What I've learned about learning, about accelerating and growing,

0:23.9

about exponentially living my life in compound interest,

0:26.8

and being more interested, than interesting,

0:29.3

is every time that I learn something new, every time I see pain,

0:32.6

not as a stop sign, but as an indicator, a turn signal,

0:36.2

that I'm going to move to something better, that a better situation,

0:38.8

or a better place exists for me with that faith that we talked about.

0:42.0

Every time I think about that math,

0:44.0

every time I think about exactly what we're supposed to be here

0:47.9

and what we're supposed to be doing,

0:49.5

I say to myself, just simply, erratically humble.

0:54.6

You don't know what you don't know, ask for help.

0:57.6

To especially today, man, when I was young,

1:00.0

if I asked for help, most people only knew a few people.

1:02.4

You got the church group, the card group, the golf group,

1:05.4

whatever the little groups were, four or five people.

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