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Dangers of The Middle Class Mindset · Earn Your Leisure

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Speaker 5: So it's important to understand before I say this. We
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Speaker 5: come from a working class environment, like you know, sanitation
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Speaker 5: workers and nurses and school teachers and you know, real
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Speaker 5: hard working people, people that saved up for a vacation
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Speaker 5: maybe once every two years, you know, working to send
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Speaker 5: their kids to college, different things of that nature, Right, So.
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Speaker 3: I want to preference it before I say that. Okay, no, no, no.
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Speaker 5: It's important. But there is a thing called middle class
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Speaker 5: mediocre mindset. I think I've coined that phrase. I haven't
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Speaker 5: heard anybody else say it, but you know, I was
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Speaker 5: just thinking about it, and it's extremely detrimental to your
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Speaker 5: success if you're trying to break out of it, and
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Speaker 5: you don't really realize it until you're out of It's
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Speaker 5: like the matrix. You never really realize you're in a
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Speaker 5: matrix until you break out of the matrix. Fact and
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Speaker 5: you know, nineteen keys that says something, and I actually
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Speaker 5: looked it up on YouTube, and it's actually true.
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Speaker 3: Where they did a research study where they took.
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Speaker 5: Flies and they put them in a jar and they
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Speaker 5: put a they put a cap on a jar, and
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Speaker 5: the flies obviously could only fly as high as the
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Speaker 5: cap the lid. When they took the lid off, they
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Speaker 5: still only flew as high as the lid, even though
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Speaker 5: the lid was off. That's interesting. But what's even more
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Speaker 5: interesting is that when they had children, their children only
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Speaker 5: flew as high as the invisible lid because they were
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Speaker 5: already programming. That's only as high as you can go. So,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's interesting, like so many different things, when
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Speaker 5: I think about it, and you probably don't even realize
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Speaker 5: these things happen. But you ever heard like parents tell
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Speaker 5: their children like you just want you just played yesterday.
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Speaker 5: You just had fun, Yesterdy just had a party yesterday,
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Speaker 5: Like you can only have fun one day out of
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Speaker 5: the week. You only have a party one day, Like
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Speaker 5: I had a family make I took my son to
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Speaker 5: dinner in the.
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Speaker 3: City for his birthday.
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Speaker 5: His birthday was on a Tuesday, and somebody said like, well,
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Speaker 5: why are you taking them to the city on Tuesday,
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Speaker 5: Like why don't you just take them on the weekend.
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Speaker 5: And I'm like, well, because his birthday's on Tuesday. But
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Speaker 5: that's the whole mentality of like, lo, let's just wait
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Speaker 5: to the weekend because we're working, and we get like
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Speaker 5: I say that to say, you really have to break
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Speaker 5: out of the middle class mindset because this is smely
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Speaker 5: detrimental and the most dangerous thing that America ever did
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Speaker 5: was create a middle class, because when you create a
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Speaker 5: middle class, you create some level of comfort because you're
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Speaker 5: not in poverty, right, You're not in poverty, so you
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Speaker 5: think that you actually are living in the American dream.
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Speaker 3: You're not. You're really not.
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Speaker 5: And it's like that mindset is so detrimental because there's
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Speaker 5: so many limiting factors that go into.
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Speaker 3: Play here right where it's like you got.
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Speaker 5: To wait to the weekend to do things and you
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Speaker 5: can only like you ever hear somebody say, like you
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Speaker 5: just came back from a trip, why are you traveling
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Speaker 5: so much?
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Speaker 3: Well? Why not?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 3: Why not? Why am I not traveling? Someone work for
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Speaker 3: like you know what I'm saying, Like, why am I not?
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Speaker 5: Try It's a lot of these things that you have
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Speaker 5: to be extremely careful of the kind of people that
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Speaker 5: you're around because these kind of limiting words develop habits
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Speaker 5: and your subconscious and then you feel bad about it.
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Speaker 5: You like you feel guilty about going on the trip,
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Speaker 5: You feel guilty about going out two nights in a row.
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Speaker 5: You feel guilty about going to the city on Tuesday,
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Speaker 5: Like you start to like rail it back a little bit,
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Speaker 5: like I'm doing too much, let me let me pull back.
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Speaker 5: But at the highest level, there's no limitations. And I'm
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Speaker 5: speaking from firsthand experience because I see it. So when
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Speaker 5: we in Dubai Abu Dhabi on a Wedday, nobody knows
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Speaker 5: whether it's Wednesday or Saturday or Sunday. It doesn't matter,
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Speaker 5: doesn't matter. It really doesn't. Nobody says, it's four o'clock
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Speaker 5: in the morning, what are you doing out? Nobody says
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Speaker 5: it's six o'clock you have to get up. There's really
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Speaker 5: no rules in life at the highest level. There's no rules.
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Speaker 5: Rules are only for middle class and poor people. Rich
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Speaker 5: people don't have any rules. They make their own rules.
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Speaker 4: So and we can argue that the middle class has
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Speaker 4: died and after Clinton left office.
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Speaker 5: Now, yeah, so it's extremely important to understand that. And
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Speaker 5: like I said, I'm not even speaking from a level
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Speaker 5: of like condescending, but I'm speaking from firsthand experience because
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Speaker 5: I've seen both both hands of it, Like this is
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Speaker 5: how I grew up. So now when I'm in a
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Speaker 5: different environment, but I always thought like that, but you
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Speaker 5: start to see it, you start to see things, and
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Speaker 5: it's like, damn, it's hard to even get people to
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Speaker 5: understand that the way that they're thinking is so small
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Speaker 5: and so limiting. So you don't even waste your time.
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Speaker 5: But for everybody that's watching it, you're on your pathway
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Speaker 5: the generational wealth. You're on your pathway to success, You're
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Speaker 5: on your pathway to becoming you know, a superstar in
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Speaker 5: the entrepreneur world. Whatever you want to do with your life.
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Speaker 5: So just be mindful of that, because a lot of
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Speaker 5: times you're limiting yourself based off of the expectations that
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Speaker 5: have been laid down from you, from your parents, your grandparents,
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Speaker 5: your friends, your neighbors. So just be mindful of that.
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Speaker 4: It's very important and a quick exercise, real quick so
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Speaker 4: it doesn't come off as elitist, because you know, I
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Speaker 4: don't want to end up on shade room, but nothing.
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Speaker 5: I'm hoping to end up on shareroom. I need we
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Speaker 5: need shade room. We need that. Five hundred dollars dinners
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Speaker 5: coming back. Now you understand us, five hundred dollars coming back.
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Speaker 5: Listen becoming the only thing they gonna listen to?
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Speaker 1: Bitty vibes?
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Speaker 3: What are we doing the only thing they're gonna listen to?
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Speaker 1: My man had a baby?
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Speaker 4: Anyway, Please write in chat if money was not an
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Speaker 4: object or issue, what are the three things you would
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Speaker 4: do spending your day on. It's very important to set that.
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Speaker 4: I remember when I set the decision to become an
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Speaker 4: investor and trader. I'm right, man, I just want to
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Speaker 4: be able to trade, not have to talk to anyone
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Speaker 4: regarding to doing business and be able to make money
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Speaker 4: out of the ether, and may have to bust my
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Speaker 4: ass to be able to get there. But that manifested,
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Speaker 4: I will tell you that the middle class has died.
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Speaker 4: Though even I know a lot of people are mad
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Speaker 4: about that quote from Grant Cardon And if he only
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Speaker 4: made X amount of dollars per year, did he want?
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Speaker 3: But the truth is too far?
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Speaker 1: If did he?
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Speaker 4: Though?
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Speaker 3: No, I mean some things you can't say. Some things
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Speaker 3: you can't say.
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Speaker 4: And see that's why I respect it. Okay, Now, if
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Speaker 4: we're gonna be honest, it's I got some energy, right.
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Speaker 3: Sixty four people on YouTube?
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Speaker 6: What they want is the truth is though he was right,
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Speaker 6: because if if it's not just about you, I don't
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Speaker 6: want you to make half a million.
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Speaker 1: Dollars to go blowing the blooms and Yaga and my care.
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Speaker 4: All that, right, But let's say, if you're going to
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Speaker 4: help five people in your family, how much does it
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Speaker 4: cost to help five people in your family and take
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Speaker 4: care of all yourself and be debt free.
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Speaker 1: There's a cost. So I want you, guys.
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Speaker 4: One of my favorite exercises of money master the game
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Speaker 4: how much money do you need to retire you and
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Speaker 4: three people that you love and give everyone that you
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Speaker 4: love a soft life, you know, because when I they
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Speaker 4: I don't even want mine to wash the dishes nothing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not.
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Speaker 3: No, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: That's not the part that is.
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Speaker 2: That was like, all right, maybe since I think the
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Speaker 2: word is shamed is what triggered mean personally.
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Speaker 1: Like being a great marketer? You don't think he did that.
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Speaker 1: I get now, I get the I get the marketing
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Speaker 1: part of it.
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, right, if you're in pursuit of that,
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Speaker 2: like everybody has a threshold, right, like when you're saying like, hey,
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Speaker 2: we got to prepare for where we want to go, right,
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Speaker 2: and so sometimes when yet in the grind I talked
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Speaker 2: about that on I think that was Dream Champs. We
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Speaker 2: were talking about when we're in that survival mode. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we can have the goal of four hundred thousand, we
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Speaker 2: can have the goal of fifteen million, but I got
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Speaker 2: to work on the day to day. I might be
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Speaker 2: in pursuit of it. Should I feel ashamed that I'm
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Speaker 2: not there yet? I don't think so Like that that
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Speaker 2: word I think is what triggered, Like if if you're
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Speaker 2: not there now great, you might.
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Speaker 1: Be in pursuit of Okay, yeah, we can't. Not the
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Speaker 1: people that's in pursuit of it.
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Speaker 5: You can't. You can't. You can't disrespect people. You can't.
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Speaker 4: I don't think he was saying it to disrespect, but
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Speaker 4: it did come. That's how he said it.
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Speaker 1: The tone, the tone, the tones.
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Speaker 4: What you say is how you say it, right, So ashamed.
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Speaker 4: I think it's a strong word. Like I personally haven't
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Speaker 4: hit what my personal income goal is ever, I'm mad
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Speaker 4: that I haven't hit it yet.
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Speaker 1: Meta write my check so I can hit it.
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Speaker 4: But I think we have to have realistic goals because like, well,
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Speaker 4: excuse me, unrealistic goals, because the truth is is a
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Speaker 4: person that is hit a realistic goal twenty five times,
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Speaker 4: it's not a good feeling to hit that goal and
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Speaker 4: be like fuck, I should have should have asked for more,
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Speaker 4: should have did more, should have pushed for more. I
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Speaker 4: should have been not only going off the metal, but
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Speaker 4: every top one thousand company on Earth at this same.
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Speaker 5: But then, what I also realize is that even like
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Speaker 5: being around billionaires and hanging around people that's extremely wealthy
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Speaker 5: non figures, the goal is never money.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the goal the goal.
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Speaker 5: Is creating something that is going to change the world.
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Speaker 5: The goal is creating, like you know, that's the goal, right.
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Speaker 1: So even or helping people create something.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so even the money, I think that, you know,
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Speaker 5: it's not really about money. That's why I wanted to say,
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Speaker 5: what the middle class mindset. It's not necessarily the money,
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Speaker 5: because you can still make a lot of money and
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Speaker 5: still have a middle class mindset. Right, it's liberating yourself
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Speaker 5: from the shackles of the oppression that was put on
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Speaker 5: you from people.
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Speaker 3: And it was, well, it depends in New York how
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Speaker 3: much does it cost?
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Speaker 5: Well, first before so for me personally, right before I
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Speaker 5: had any money, I was already liberated. I ain't have
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Speaker 5: no money, and I was I was already on that
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Speaker 5: type of time. I never had it real I was
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Speaker 5: always waking up whenever I wanted, I was always doing
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Speaker 5: I was.
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Speaker 3: I went to Asia with for thirty days. I wasn't
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Speaker 3: rich when I did that.
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Speaker 5: And it's like people were saying that at that time,
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Speaker 5: like I went to Asia. We went to Asia five
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Speaker 5: years ago for thirty days with a round trip plane
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Speaker 5: ticket and two nights in a hotel with no plan.
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Speaker 3: We wind it.
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Speaker 5: We went to five different countries and people were like, well,
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Speaker 5: why would you going to do that? You got two
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Speaker 5: types of people in this world. You got one type
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Speaker 5: of people that say why and the other type that
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Speaker 5: say why not? So they say like, why are you
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Speaker 5: going to do it?
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Speaker 4: Well?
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Speaker 3: Why not?
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Speaker 5: Because I'm going to die one day and if I
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Speaker 5: don't do it, then I'm never gonna have an opportunity
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Speaker 5: to do it. So instead of asking me why I'm
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Speaker 5: going to do it, ask yourself while you're not going
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Speaker 5: to do it. So that doesn't really take money to
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Speaker 5: kind of have that first money mine makes money. Money
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Speaker 5: don't make money, doesn't make the person. Your mind is
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Speaker 5: the most important thing period. Once you get your mind right,
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Speaker 5: then the money's just gonna come flowing because now you're
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Speaker 5: an abundance mindset and you're attracting it. You're attracting it.
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Speaker 5: But what you're doing with these negative thoughts and these
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Speaker 5: limiting thoughts is that you're actually blocking it. So it's
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Speaker 5: extremely it's extremely important for people to understand that because
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Speaker 5: I feel like a lot of times people don't fully
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Speaker 5: understand how their mind is so powerful. How and even
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Speaker 5: the things that you tell your children just be careful
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Speaker 5: how you speak to your children, because it's like you're
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Speaker 5: already instilling fear. You're already instilling different things in them
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Speaker 5: that you might not even be aware of, And it's
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Speaker 5: like they're already growing up with limitations and fear at
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Speaker 5: ten years old. At eight years old, this.
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Speaker 4: Is an interesting thought exercise. If you want to chat,
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Speaker 4: if you had to make two million dollars in three months,
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Speaker 4: writ out at what price point would you sell your products?
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Speaker 4: How many do you need to sell, and what's your
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Speaker 4: plan to get there? One of my favorite things to
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Speaker 4: do is reverse engineer. How do you get from this
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Speaker 4: point and what are the steps you need to take
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Speaker 4: to get back there? For me personally, when I was
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Speaker 4: an investing I was watching CNBC like crazy, and it
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Speaker 4: was Maria Bartoomo, Santinelli and everybody back in the day, right,
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Speaker 4: And I'm like, if they would just give the prices
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Speaker 4: and fundamentals, right. So that's when I started working on
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Speaker 4: the formulation that became the crystal ball. So I thought
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Speaker 4: you should be able to like know the fundamentals of
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Speaker 4: a company and give the price in like less than
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Speaker 4: thirty seconds, right, So everyone in chat two million dollars
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Speaker 4: three months. What is your formulation? But it all started
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Speaker 4: with the problem when I was watching CNBC in two
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Speaker 4: thousand and eight, the information wasn't that clear. And here
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Speaker 4: we today in twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, doing
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Speaker 4: this for you guys, for free at scale right, shout
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Speaker 4: out to y'all. But whatever you put into your mind eventually,
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Speaker 4: with Madam and for my Christians, I keep saying it,
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Speaker 4: how can you be a child of God and be
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Speaker 4: afraid to put your ideas, proclamations, products and services out
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Speaker 4: into the world and serve him? And he made the Moon,
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Speaker 4: Mountain Stars, Grass, grasshopp Man, go get that ship this
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Speaker 4: year two million dollars and three months. What's your plan?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: You know what changed my life. This is the last
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Speaker 3: thing I'll say about this.
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Speaker 5: You know what changed my life because even in social media,
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Speaker 5: I always tell this story, I want to do this
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Speaker 5: eight years ago.
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Speaker 3: What we're doing now, I wanted to do it eight
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Speaker 3: years ago.
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Speaker 5: But you know, it's fear, is self doubt, it's thinking like,
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Speaker 5: you know, what will people think of me? I have
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Speaker 5: five hundred followers and a private I had a private
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Speaker 5: page with five hundred followers. This no, this is just
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Speaker 5: this is just reality. Yeah, but you know what, you
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Speaker 5: know what, how many years ago was this when when
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Speaker 5: we started?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you have five hundred followers, that was like
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Speaker 3: six That was like six years ago.
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Speaker 4: Life could change in half a decade, Yo, life and.
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Speaker 3: That was like six years ago.
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Speaker 5: But you know what, I realized, I had an epiphany
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Speaker 5: that I'm going to die. Once you embrace death, you're
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Speaker 5: not afraid to lift. I would say that again, Once
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Speaker 5: you embrace death, you're not afraid to live because you
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Speaker 5: realize that we're all gonna die one day, and ultimately,
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Speaker 5: somebody's opinion of you doesn't matter. What people think of you,
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Speaker 5: don't matter, what people are gonna say about you, doesn't matter,
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Speaker 5: because it's like it's a very short period of time
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Speaker 5: that we have on this earth, So you might as
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Speaker 5: well just make the most of it. Because what's the
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Speaker 5: worst that could happen? The worst that could happen. It
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Speaker 5: just doesn't work out. But it's like if you never tried,
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Speaker 5: or if you never really went for it, now you
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Speaker 5: gotta live with regret, and regret is much harder to
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Speaker 5: live with than failure.
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Speaker 3: You can live with failure. It didn't work.
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Speaker 5: People fail all the time, but to live with regret
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Speaker 5: is much harder to deal with because you never know
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Speaker 5: what's gonna happen. So nobody wants to be on their
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Speaker 5: deathbed when it's seventy years old, eighty years old, ninety whatever,
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Speaker 5: and it's like, Damn, I wasted my whole life. I
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Speaker 5: really didn't do anything because I was afraid of what
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Speaker 5: my friend would have wrote on Instagram.
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