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Unlock Your Growth Potential: Leadership & Smart Strategies with Alan Lazaros · King Dems Podcast | Growth Mindset, Leadership, AI and Business Insights

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Years ago he got in a tough car accident.
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It got me to re evaluate my I started a little company called
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Allen Lazarus LLC. What you'll never learn in
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school, but desperately need to know.
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A global top 100 forecast and he embodies resilience, creates
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grind, execution, grind, and of course execution, which is
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something I stand for myself. Steven Spielberg, that dude's
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got a great body of work. Jaws, Jurassic Park, I can keep
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going. Indiana Jones, but we'll so
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obviously studios are going to trust Steven Spielberg to make a
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film more than Joe Schmo. But in the beginning he was a
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Joe Schmo. So you get to start from the
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bottom. We all do.
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You can reprogram yourself just like you can reprogram this
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iPhone. You can reprogram your belief
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systems. You can change what you say,
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think, do, feel and believe. Potential is something that is
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possible in the future if you do XY and Z in the present.
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Welcome to the Kingdom's podcast ranked in the global top 3%,
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where powerful minds share game changing insights on leadership,
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growth mindset and business success.
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Real life ladies and gentlemen, you once again, welcome to the
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King James podcast. And today I've got will be
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fighting out of Masi Chisett's United States of America.
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Big welcome the next level university hero he.
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Is the most unique intro I've ever had on a podcast thank you
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man I'm good I'm really good I'm I'm in a great mood and I'm
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eager to inspire motivate and educate 10 years ago he got in a
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tough car accident and got me to re evaluate I started a little
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company called Alan Lazarus LLC. What you'll never learn in
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school, but desperately need to know.
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And so I really appreciate what you do.
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I respect what you do. I respect what I'm doing.
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I think it's important because 30-40, fifty years ago, podcasts
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like this didn't exist. As a matter of fact, podcasts
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like this didn't even exist 2021 years ago, I think is when the
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very first podcast was ever created.
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So I'm great to be here. Thank you.
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I always say that gratitude is good attitude and of course,
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when a person shares their time with you, they share their life
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with you because the SI unit of measuring life is time.
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So let's get down to the guest introduction.
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I have prepped a really, really fantastic introduction for you
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because I appreciate you as well.
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What you do is highly, highly commendable.
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And you know, the real, they say recognise a real.
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SO please welcome today's guest, Alan Lazarus, an engineering or
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an engineer 10 entrepreneur, right.
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So who's journey from a near fatal car accident led to a
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global top 100 podcast. He embodies resilience, great
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grind, execution, a grind and of course execution, which is
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something I stand for myself and of course transformation.
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But with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer
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Engineering from WPI, an MBA and leadership roles at Lens, Taco R
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and TI Robot Sensator with over 20 million in revenue of Cognex
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over 3,000,000 plus sales territory, Alan brings a unique
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blend of data-driven rigour and heart centred coaching Saints
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found in Next Level University in 2015.
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He's produced over 2100 episodes, logged in 10,000 plus
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hours of coaching. And of course I say 10,000 hours
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is what it takes to master any field.
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So you can call him a Grandmaster if you will.
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And of course, he's inspired listeners in over 180 countries.
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Today he'll share his no BS approach and framework for to
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even peak performance in health, wealth and love while staying
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authentically aligned. Ladies and gentlemen, please
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make welcome not Alan Sugar, but Alan Lazarus.
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Aha, how are you Gala? I'm good, man.
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Yeah, yeah. Heck of the words.
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Alan Sugar is the richest man. But I think in America, all my
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books are Alan Lazarus is the richest man.
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I would say if you take health, wealth and love, I would say I'm
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very, you know, I'm very wealthy in those three.
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I'm very grateful to be and, and ultimately, thank you for the
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intro. It's interesting to hear not a
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lot of people open with my corporate stuff.
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You, you opened the podcast with my corporate stuff.
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I appreciate it. You obviously have been on my
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LinkedIn. Yes.
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And of course definitely I'm a corporate guy or would I?
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Yeah, I am a corporate guy being there done that global be crew,
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accounting firms, PWCKPMGS like you would always appreciate a
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person with a corporate background so or from me to you,
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it's a love and respect to what you've been able to build.
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It's a body of work. It is.
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It's a body of work that is the core value of mine.
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Your body of work matters. I appreciate you sharing my body
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of work because I think you think you need to know who
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you're talking to. I think over time it's, it's
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just like an asset. It's, it grows it imagine a home
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that you renovate and you improve and you renovate and you
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improve and you build it out and you renovate, you improve new
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kitchen, new dining room, finished basement.
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It's going to be of more value. I hope to be a high value man
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and I hope to continue to appreciate as an asset.
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So thank you for sharing the body of work.
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I, I don't think my work is everything about me, obviously,
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but I do think it matters. I think it matters a lot and I
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think we've lost sight of that. Yes, that's one thing.
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You know, I keep telling people, people have lost sight of
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respect and kindness. And for me, my core values in
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life are kindness, respect and hospitality.
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That's what I stand for, you know, and anybody who's had
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personal interactions and personal encounters with me will
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know yes. I don't just speak those values.
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I, I leave by these values. It's as difficult to be kind as
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difficult to be respectful in this age and time, right?
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But one thing I know for sure is when you're kind, when you're
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respectful people, even people that don't live up to those
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values at it. Of course, of course.
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I'm glad you have clarity on your core values.
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I've got mine over here, and I think that's a good lesson in
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and of itself. Already is mind is potential,
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legacy and rationality and I defined them.
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Potential is a deep belief in what human beings are truly
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capable of. That's my #1 core value is I
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believe in your potential. I believe in my potential.
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Anyone out there watching or listening?
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I believe in your potential and I do, I really do.
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I mean, human beings are capable of unbelievable things over
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time. The.
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Mind is is endless. Of course.
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Speaking of potential, I I really want to pick you up on
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that. I pick your brain on it, but has
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potential is something I, I talk about a lot and I tell my
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friends like, you don't want to get old and look back and think
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about the fact that you did not achieve your potentials.
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And I tell people this when you're young, people judge you
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based on your potentials, but as you grow older, people judge you
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based on your credentials. So potential versus credential,
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right? Where do you draw the line
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between judging a person based on potentials or judging a
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person based on credentials? Great question.
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Potential is something that is possible in the future if you do
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XY and Z in the present. So we all have the potential to
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achieve a certain goal at the end of the quarter.
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In 50-6 days, Q3 will be over. But how many of us will actually
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do it? And a good metaphor is I have a
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Next Level podcast accelerator programme.
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We've done 19 groups every quarter for almost five years.
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And we were doing a training yesterday, Group 19, there's 10
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in every group, 10 podcasters in every group.
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And we were looking at the podcast stats, 4 million
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podcasts have been produced. Of the four million that have
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been produced, a very, very, very small fraction ever make it
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past 10 episodes. Yes, a lot of people are not
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consistent. Yeah.
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And an even smaller fraction are still in production.
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A very small percentage of those 4 million still have have had an
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episode within the last 90 days and an even smaller percentage
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of getting to 100 episodes and an even smaller percentage have
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monetized their podcast. And so Kevin and I are very,
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very grateful at this stage because we started eight years
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ago and we bootstrapped this thing.
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No investors, just us reinvesting, reinvesting,
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reinvesting and we just had $100,000 our first $100,000
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month last month in July we work with.
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A hard listen. Thank you.
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Thank you. We work with 110 podcasters and
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business owners every single month everywhere from coaching,
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podcasting, we have a book club, we got all kinds of stuff.
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Now eighteen person team, I have 23 clients personally, we work
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with 110 podcasters and business owners.
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The reason I'm saying that is because of your question.
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Your question had to do with potential versus credentials.
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Both matter. Credentials are things you have
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already achieved and they matter.
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Potential is what inspires you and motivates you and gets you
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up in the morning. Credentials are what gives you
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the credibility to go and do things in a bigger, better way.
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Because what I've come to learn, I'm 36 years old now and, and
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when I was younger, you're right, people would base their
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decisions and the way they see me based on potential.
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But as you get older and older and older, you realise most
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people are not actually going to.
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We started a podcast, for example, eight years ago.
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Did the amount of podcasters I've met over the last eight
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years that are not podcasting anymore.
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A lot of success in life is staying power.
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One of the people I interviewed on the Business Growth
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University podcast, his name's Michael Burt.
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He says long obedience in the same direction.
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And can you stick with it long term?
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We all have potential. Not the same.
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I always joke, I'd say I'm never going to beat LeBron James at
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basketball. OK, that was not in the cards
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for me. However, we all have potential.
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But who among us is going to realise that potential?
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Who among us is going to go the distance?
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Who among us is going to stay committed long term?
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Who among us is going to overcome failure and adversity?
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And I think it's a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly,
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yearly rhyme. And to me, your body of work
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speaks volumes. Steven Spielberg, that dude's
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got a great body of work. Jaws, Jurassic Park, ETI can
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keep going, Indiana Jones. So obviously studios are going
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to trust Steven Spielberg to make a film more than Joe Schmo
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and but in the beginning he was a Joe Schmo.
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So you get to start from the bottom.
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We all do. Absolutely.
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You know, we all have to start from the bottom.
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Speaking of starting from the bottom, I remember when I
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started these podcasts, right? I always had to like send out
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our teachers, send out cold mails, you know, send out DMS to
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people. Please be on my podcast or it's
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amazing. I was said I think yesterday or
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two days ago, I, I, I looked at my e-mail, it's just so clogged.
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And I saw that there was a particular guy who's an
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executive, you know, in a company in your neck of the
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weeds. And I discovered this guy had
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sent me 3 mails, sent me the initial e-mail.
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I did not see it. The second one was a follow up
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and then the third follow up was what I saw as came to be on this
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podcast. And, you know, it just made me
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reflect like, wow, you stay long enough, right?
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Yep. You won't be the one seeking,
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you will be the one being sought after.
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Most people don't even have that.
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What I say grind the grind and of course the execution to stay
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long enough. That's why I'm so grateful to be
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here because in the beginning it was cricket.
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I had a lot to say and no one cared.
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So I don't take it for granted man.
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It's important now. Have I earned it?
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Yes. I did 11,066 coaching sessions,
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trainings and podcasts over the last decade, so I'm earning my
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stripes and I remember when no one gave a shit.
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So it's really important to never lose sight of that.
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It's a duality. You have to be really grateful
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for the opportunity and you have to be discerning for what
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opportunities you. Yes.
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You know, not all opportunities are actually caught up for you.
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You need to select what you you are actually, I would I say
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dispense your energy towards and I think, yeah, discernment is a
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very, very sound word to to describe that.
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You know, they say adversity is a blessing in disguise, right?
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And who better to embody conquering adversity than than
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yourself? You lost your father at the age
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of 2, and, of course, nearly lost your own life at the age of
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26. How did these, you know,
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setbacks reshape your own definition of success in life?
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Yeah, I think the first thing to understand about that is right
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now it's so unique because as I've earned my stripes, I'm 36
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now, and I come with a nice, you know, coloured shirt.
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And I've got awards in the background.
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I've got, you know, my body of work behind me.
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I have a lot of accolades at this stage, my e-mail signature,
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10,000 hours. But just like everyone else, I
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started from the bottom and now I look like a silver Spooner in
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some ways, right? I was born and raised in
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Massachusetts, and the United States is the largest economy on
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the planet by far. It's actually not even close.
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You look at the statistics. The numbers don't lie.
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Yeah, they don't. They don't had a lot of
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advantages in certain things, but I look like someone who
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started on third base. I couldn't even see the
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ballpark, man couldn't even see the ballpark.
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And here's my point. So I'll give the three
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advantages. I had three advantages and
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everything else was against me. And I'm sharing this not to talk
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about me, but I want the listeners thinking of their own
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situation because now I look like such a silver Spooner man,
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it's hilarious. Must be nice with all your
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degrees and you know it's you have no idea.
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So father died when I was almost 3.
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His name was John Mccorkle and I had a stepfather from age 3 to
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14. And my mom and stepdad not get
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along. And that's a very polite way to
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put it. And my stepfather left at 14.
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He took his entire extended family with him and 95% of the
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income as well. So we went from sort of boats
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and ski trips to I get free lunch at high school now because
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our income is so low, my mom trades in her BMW for little
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Honda Civic. We're not going to starve by any
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means, but we don't have cable and I don't know how I'm going
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to go to college because I can't afford it.
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WPI, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, It's kind of like a
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mini MIT in Massachusetts is it's one of the best engineering
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colleges in the world and it was $50,000 a year back then.
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That's a lot. Yes, dude, it was one of the
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most expensive colleges in the world.
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And I went from, I hope I get into.
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I can't go. I even if I do get in, I don't
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know if I'm going to be able to go because I can't afford it.
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So I bootstrapped my entire way through high school.
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I got straight A's through all of high school.
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I got what's called the President's Award signed by
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George W Bush. It's behind me right there.
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Yeah. And that's how few people get
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it. I have a letter actually
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underneath it right over there. It's behind my chair.
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I have a letter signed by George W Bush, actually by him because
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that's how a few people get it. And basically you just have to
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get a 95 or above GPA for all report cards for all of high
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school. SO4 report cards per year, 4
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years, 16 report cards straight. I got 189 in honours English and
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luckily it was weighted because it was an honours class and I
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never took honours English again.
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I was a big math in science guy, 89 in honours English.
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Miss Denzel, let's. How dare you.
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Poetry, man. Who gives that shit?
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I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
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All right. But anyways, so I got into WPII,
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got all the scholarships and financial aid, and I went and
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got my computer engineering degree.
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I graduated with high distinction.
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That was brutal. Computer engineering was brutal.
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And then I got my master's in business, and then I was off to
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the races in corporate. But the part I haven't shared
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yet is when I was 14 and my stepdad left, my sister moved
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out that year. My mom got in a fight with my
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Aunt Sandy that same year actually about my step dad.
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And then my Aunt Sandy ostracised us from that side of
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the family. So I kind of lost three families
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by the time I was 14. And so abandonment challenges,
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Luckily, my response to that socially, it was fawn.
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It was. So there's fight, flight, freeze
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and fawn. You become this chameleon.
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You're a social coward. I think we all have to live in
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two worlds. You have to live in the real
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world and the social world. The social world is the wedding
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photos, the real world is the marriage.
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And in the social world, I became a chameleon.
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Fit in, fit in, fit in. Don't stand out.
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Don't lose any more friends and family unconsciously.
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But behind the scenes it was aim higher, work harder, get
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smarter, aim higher, work harder, get smarter, aim higher,
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work harder, get smarter. It, it, the drive that I had was
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ridiculous. So kind of lose three families
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by the time I'm 14 years old and I become the Super achiever who
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is just prove yourself, prove yourself, prove it, prove
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yourself, prove yourself. And I think there's some merit
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to that. I I, I think that's good.
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You got to have a chip on your shoulder a little bit.
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Yeah, but you can't let the chip drive you forever.
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You have to evolve. And so then I got in my car
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accident at 26. My dad died in a car when he was
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28 in 1991, when I was 2 and I was 26.
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Head on collision. My fault.
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We talked about this in the last episode, and it was not a Fender
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Bender. This was hefty.
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This was, you know, 30 miles an hour, head on collision.
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Not good. Fortunately, no one was killed.
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We were very rattled, but no one was permanently injured.
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But that was my wake up call. That was the second chance my
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dad never got. And from that moment until now,
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that was 10 years ago, I've been on this mission and the mission
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is bringing personal development to the world.
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My first company, well, technically my second company,
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but my first company after that car accident was Alan Lazarus
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LLC. What you'll never learn in
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school, but desperately need to know.
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Because I was an academic man, I learned straight as Bah Bah, Bah
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Bah. And I was like, why didn't I
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learn anything about fitness? Why didn't I learn anything
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about nutrition and courage and vulnerability and character and
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proactivity? Why didn't I learn anything
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about productivity? Why didn't I learn goal setting?
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Why didn't I learn how to reverse engineer finish lines?
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Why didn't I learn about grind and execution and grit?
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Why didn't I learn anything that matters?
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Still salty about it. And so I was like, you know
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what, I'm going to start a company and I'm going to bring
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personal development to the masses.
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What you'll never learn in school, but desperately need to
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know. Good luck.
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Good luck getting speeches at high schools and colleges with
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that tag line. And I did, I actually got, I
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actually got several and I've been on that journey for 10
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years now. And that's when the 10,000 hours
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began. And I tracked in these little
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black notebooks everything habit tracking and metrics.
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And I'm an engineer, so everything's reverse engineered.
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And here I am 10 years later, 11,066 coaching session
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trainings and podcasts later, this will be 11,067.
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And. Seven.
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I love the number 7. Seven, baby, and it won't be the
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best, but it won't be the worst. I'm kidding.
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It probably is the best, honestly, because I get better
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each time. At least I try to.
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Yeah, that, that that's, that's a thing, You know, like every
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time you keep topping it, you keep breaking your own bracket.
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And like, some of my friends are tired of me saying, wow, that
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was like the best podcast I've ever heard.
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You say like it's like every new one is like the best one.
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Dude, of course it is. This is, this is supposed to be
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better than what I've done in the past.
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This is I am an accumulated compound effect of everything
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I've done up to this moment. So if I'm not speaking better
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now than when I was 26, obviously I've gotten worse.
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So it's very important to understand that everyone has
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potential, not everyone's going to reach it.
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And it's an asymptote. There's a mathematical
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asymptotic function where you get closer and closer and closer
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and closer to 100%, but you never get there.
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So I'm trying to reach 100% of my trip potential and I'm
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reaching for that every day. And I know I'll never be done.
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You're not going to be. You're never going to be up.
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I'm good now. Yeah.
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I don't need to work out anymore.
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I'm. I'm done.
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No, you're going to learn and grow and improve forever.
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And this iPhone, the iPhone 16 Pro Max, you think Apple's going
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to come up with it? You don't think Apple's like,
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you know what? I think we're done with iPhones.
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No, they're going to come out with the iPhone 17 Pro Max and
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then the 18 and then the 19 and it's going to upgrade the
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software and it's going to upgrade the hardware and it's
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going to get better. Getting better is the most
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important thing on planet Earth. The reason why we're not all in
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caves is because we got better. And unfortunately, you know,
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you, you never see. I mean, right now we're on
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Riverside. At one point Riverside didn't
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exist. We're on a Sony ZV.
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That camera didn't exist. We're on the Internet at one
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point the Internet didn't exist. We have the lights in our
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studio. At one point lights didn't
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exist. So what are we capable of?
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I always say this. I say cars were invented when
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there were only horses. Aeroplanes were invented when
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there was only cars. Rocket ships were invented when
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there was only aeroplanes. Imagine what else we can do.
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Dragons. You know, everything you see
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around you at one point was just in someone's mind.
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It's it's beautiful that continues breathing and drive
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towards improvement. And of course I say the only
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room that never gets filled up is the room for improvement.
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I've never heard that before. That's great, I'll give you
24:10
that. Light, I'll give you that light.
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The only, the only room that ever gets filled up is the room
24:15
for improvement. And that there's a proverb, you
24:19
know where I come from in Nigeria, It's a Yoruba proverb.
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It says the day we die is the day we rest.
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The day we die is the day we stop learning.
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You know, in life, there's no rest until we die.
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Never stop learning until the day we die.
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So until you accept that fact, right?
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I don't know, you just have to accept it.
24:46
Striving is good for you. I would say this, I say, Do you
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think Michael Jordan is happier now or back when he was
24:54
striving? People think, well, he's happier
24:57
now, No chance. He was happiest and most
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fulfilled when he was going for the championships.
25:06
Yes, that's a thing with human mind, right?
25:08
Like when you have something to look.
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Pursuit. To look forward to the pursuit.
25:13
That faith keeps you going when you you have those goals, you
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just need to create something new.
25:22
To to you and we've all seen people who retire and then they
25:26
start to lose their body and lose their mind.
25:29
I get depressed. Yeah I so my grandfather passed
25:32
away and my grandma and grandfather they were two like
25:36
most in love couple. My grandmother after that
25:38
declined drastically because she lost purpose.
25:42
She lost she lost her purpose. She she lost her mind.
25:47
If you don't use it, you lose it.
25:49
And I mean, you look at these cross fitters, it's these are
25:52
animals. I love it.
25:53
But they're not just doing it for fun.
25:55
They're competing for a something of meaning and a
25:59
value. These trophies, I could care.
26:01
It's not about the trophy, it's about the man I had to become to
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achieve it. It's about the goal, it's about
26:09
who you become. You know, it's the goal of the
26:11
goal. What's the goal of the goal?
26:13
The goal of the goal. So the goal is to get the
26:16
trophy. Great.
26:17
OK, to win a bodybuilding competition.
26:20
The goal of the goal is for the man I become to achieve it.
26:23
The goal of the goal of the goal is to reach my full potential.
26:27
The goal of the goal of the goal of the goal is to be fulfilled.
26:32
You're not going to be fulfilled unless you're reaching your full
26:34
potential. I am convinced of that because
26:37
your highest self is always going to be nudging you saying
26:39
Alan get your fit together. We always have to to go for
26:42
something. And you know, that's one thing I
26:44
always say at the end of the podcast, right to the audience,
26:47
always go for something in your life.
26:49
Always go for something in your life.
26:51
And of course, you know, before we hit that end, we know you
26:55
don't have so much time today. I'd love for you to talk about
26:59
re engineering because you're an engineer and of course you've
27:02
got that engineer's edge. So you have the engineering
27:07
training. And one thing I know about
27:08
engineers, their purpose is just one thing, problem solving.
27:13
And that solution mindset is an edge for you.
27:17
To So when you hear engineer, you think a couple things.
27:23
You think design, you think on purpose, you think mathematics,
27:32
you think root cause analysis, and you think about building
27:39
things, designing things, Bridges, infrastructure, phones,
27:45
engineers built this phone manufacturing engineers and
27:50
continuous improvement engineers and software engineers.
27:54
Engineering is about understanding why things are the
28:02
way they are, understanding how things work, and then setting
28:08
new objectives and then taking it apart piece by piece so that
28:14
you can rebuild it better. So if I took this phone apart,
28:19
some people would have no idea how it work.
28:22
Some people have an iPhone and they have no idea how it works.
28:24
Most people, actually. That was what I was.
28:28
Going to say. What?
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It is. They know their thing, whatever
28:33
their thing is. But this phone has a
28:35
motherboard, it has a processor, it has random access memory, it
28:39
has a hard drive, it has software, firmware, hardware.
28:44
It has connection to the Internet, it updates overnight.
28:50
It has access to a global marketplace of apps.
28:55
And if I take this phone apart and break it down component by
28:59
component by component, I'm going to understand it.
29:02
And when I understand it, I can find ways to make it better.
29:05
And that's what engineering is about.
29:06
Do that same shit with your life.
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I take apart my life in every regard.
29:11
I have picked myself apart in every regard.
29:15
Why do I think that? OK, interesting.
29:17
My past. Watch the movie of my own life.
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OK, Why did that happen? Why did that happen?
29:21
Why did that happen? OK, how did that work?
29:23
How does that work? Why did that happen?
29:25
You can reprogram yourself just like you can reprogram this
29:27
iPhone. You can reprogram your belief
29:29
systems. You can change what you say,
29:31
think, do, feel and believe. You can change where you invest
29:35
your time, effort and money. You can change the person's
29:38
places, things and ideas you surround yourself with.
29:41
And that's all I do in my coaching.
29:42
I I help people come to me for what they want, which is a goal.
29:46
What they really need is to reprogram themselves because
29:48
they don't understand themselves, others in the world.
29:50
It's like a self driving car that doesn't have an accurate
29:54
current location, doesn't have an accurate destination location
29:59
and doesn't have accurate data on the terrain.
30:04
So it thinks there's a road, it's really a lake and people
30:08
keep driving off a Cliff and then blaming the world when in
30:10
reality they think inaccurately. The majority of our problems in
30:15
humanity, I can give you the root cause right now.
30:18
We think inaccurately. If you think women don't care
30:24
about height, you're wrong. Statistically speaking, the
30:28
majority of them do. Trust me, I used to be short.
30:31
You think I look young. Now imagine me in high school,
30:33
right? If you think women don't care
30:35
about muscular men, you're wrong.
30:39
You're inaccurate. I can give you 1000.
30:42
We used to put leeches on our skin to cure illness.
30:45
We used to think the earth was flat.
30:46
Apparently there's some people who still do.
30:48
You're wrong. And, and the truth is, is
30:50
science and mathematics and physics and chemistry and
30:53
biology and Physiology and psychology and neuroscience,
30:56
these are sciences that help us understand the human condition.
31:01
All of AI is built on how the brain works.
31:04
Machine learning is built on human beings.
31:08
It's we understand ourself, others in the world.
31:10
We, we've learned how dolphins work and how their brains are
31:13
different than other mammals and prefrontal cortex and
31:15
dorsolateral and all this stuff. The point is, is you can learn
31:21
about yourself, others in the world, and when you do, you'll
31:24
think more accurately. And when you think more
31:26
accurately you can make better choices.
31:28
And when you make better choices, your life will be
31:30
better. Statistically.
31:32
No one's perfect, but I can make way better choices.
31:35
I'm 36. Do you?
31:37
I'm Allen version 3.6. Allen version 3.7 is going to be
31:42
way better, but Allen version 3.6 would wipe the walls with
31:47
Allen 2.6. Wouldn't even be close.
31:49
It would be comical, yeah. And then Alan 2.6 would wipe the
31:54
walls with Alan 1.6. When I was 16, I was an idiot,
32:01
right? And not statistically for 16.
32:04
If you compare me to other 16 year olds, I was probably very
32:06
bright compared to me now. No, absolutely last thing.
32:12
And then I'll get off the soapbox in in my speeches, I
32:14
always say everyone think of something really dumb they did
32:17
in high school and everyone hands go up.
32:21
Who else can think of something really dumb they did in high
32:23
school? And they're like every hand goes
32:25
up And I go, OK, you would probably never do that again
32:30
now, right? And they would absolutely not.
32:33
I said why? They said because now you are
32:38
more aware of the long term consequences of that terrible
32:42
decision. Why you've learned Human beings
32:48
are learning machines. When I first came into the
32:50
podcast space, I was so fucking naive.
32:54
I didn't know how it really worked.
32:56
Now I know how it really works. So now I can win.
33:00
It's like if you don't know the rules of basketball, you're
33:02
going to suck at basketball. If you don't know how to play
33:05
chess, you're going to suck at playing chess.
33:09
And so you have to learn the game of life.
33:12
You can't just learn chess and basketball.
33:13
You got to learn the game of life.
33:15
You got to learn the human condition.
33:16
You got to learn human beings. You got to learn what people
33:19
philtre when they say things. You got to learn the three
33:22
layers of the ego. You got to learn productivity
33:24
and goal setting and how it all works and motivation, intrinsic
33:27
and extrinsic. You've got to learn as much as
33:28
humanly possible in the direction of your goals and
33:31
dreams. Yeah.
33:32
Lots of food for fat. I'll leave it for the audience
33:37
to process. And of course, definitely we are
33:40
going to have you back for the hat trick, right?
33:42
I'm really intrigued to know what number that would be.
33:46
Butter, before I let you go, let me put you through the round of
33:49
fire. That's the quick fire round the
33:52
number 11 book every high achiever.
33:54
Personality by Steven Pinker. Steven Pinker interesting #2
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What's 1 morning ritual you never skip?
34:06
What's the biggest myth of our. Biggest myth about productivity
34:09
is that it isn't everything it is.
34:12
It is the base of success, it's the, it's the core of success
34:15
and people don't realise that. I always tell people something
34:20
TVT doesn't necessarily generate productivity.
34:24
Like if you're if you have a farm and you don't generate any
34:27
produce, you don't have anything to sell, you are your success in
34:31
the economy is based on what you produce in the economy and
34:33
people don't realise that. Yeah, What's your favourite tool
34:38
or favourite app for staying organised?
34:43
Go all shapes that. Is talent and of course, the
34:51
very last one. What's your ultimate mantra for
34:54
moving from I can't to I Will? Contemplating the alternative,
35:02
the alternative is be less. The alternative is regret.
35:06
The alternative is don't be able to say you gave it all you had
35:10
and did all you had with. I want to be able to say I did
35:12
all I could with all I had, and there was a time in my life
35:14
where I couldn't say that. Wow, you know for me I draw to
35:22
my faith my favourite Bible verses Philippines chapter 4
35:26
verse 13. I can do all things true crisis
35:28
strengthens me. I love I love that one like it
35:33
has always kept me going. I can't do all things like the
35:36
impossible is nothing. You know doubt me out your own.
35:38
Impossible is impossible and everything.
35:41
This iPhone was at one point impossible. 4 minute mile was at
35:44
one point impossible. The Internet and stream yard in
35:47
Riverside were at one point not impossible.
35:50
None of this existed at one point.
35:51
So what else can we do right? Speaking of Riverside, shout out
35:56
to Riverside. I, I love something about them,
35:59
right? They actually very much aligned
36:00
with a lot of the discussion points we've had today.
36:04
And that's about improvement. You notice they keep improving
36:08
the service offerings and of course, keep moving things
36:10
around, new tools, new AI features.
36:13
No shout out to you guys. And of course, we've come to the
36:17
end of the podcast today and well, shout out to you, Alan.
36:24
People you surround yourself with matter.
36:26
Goals you choose in advance matters.
36:29
People say it's about the journey, but the destination you
36:31
choose in advance matters. The destination you choose in
36:34
advance dictates the journey. I drove across the country in my
36:37
early 20s. That was a very different
36:39
experience than driving 30 minutes.
36:41
S Make sure you aim high, make sure you work on yourself belief
36:45
Make sure you stay humble. Make sure you stay driven.
36:49
Make sure the haters Dr you and motivate you.
36:53
Get out there and and see what you can become.
36:55
It's you, it's his love and respect.
36:58
And of course, to the audience, please do the right thing.
37:03
Like, comment, share and keep supporting the great work that
37:08
we're doing. And from me to you guys, please
37:12
always go for something into your lives.
37:14
Always go for something. And of course, my mantra is
37:18
conceive, believe, strive to thrive and of course achieve
37:22
until I come your way again as the out of trouble and keep
37:26
flying high. It says goodbye for me.
37:28
And of course, from Alan Lazarus, it's also.