Latest / The Empire of Wealth / I Met 87 Billionaires... Here_s 8 Things I Learned
Transcript
- 0:00Speaker 1: I have something I wanna teach you that I've learned
- 0:02Speaker 1: through the privilege of having access to the 0.1%. And
- 0:05Speaker 1: I feel like this knowledge has been gatekept. And there
- 0:08Speaker 1: are eight things that I've identified from these people that
- 0:11Speaker 1: I've met, that I've worked with, that I think you
- 0:13Speaker 1: can learn from today to make your life better. So
- 0:16Speaker 1: let's get.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Started.
- 0:22Speaker 1: The first thing I'm gonna teach you might sound obvious,
- 0:25Speaker 1: but give me a chance to explain it. Every failure
- 0:27Speaker 1: is one closer step to success. So Richard Branson, for example,
- 0:32Speaker 1: tells the story about how he launched Virgin Cola, and
- 0:35Speaker 1: he loves to tell how then, Coca-Cola came in and
- 0:39Speaker 1: squashed him. Took all the retail space away from him
- 0:42Speaker 1: by giving bags of money to the retail distribution outlets.
- 0:44Speaker 2: And that's it.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Virgin Cola came in and Virgin Cola failed. A massive
- 0:49Speaker 1: public failure. And I think the thing is, failure is
- 0:52Speaker 1: something at school you get taught is bad.
- 0:54Speaker 2: If you get a D, you're a failure.
- 0:56Speaker 1: You get drummed into your head in school that failure
- 0:58Speaker 1: is a bad thing in a system where you're not
- 1:02Speaker 1: rewarded for failure. But in the real world, I wouldn't
- 1:05Speaker 1: be the success I am today if I hadn't failed
- 1:08Speaker 1: many times.
- 1:09Speaker 2: I lost a million dollars building a business called Devoshard,
- 1:11Speaker 2: a comic business. I lost so much time and so
- 1:14Speaker 2: much money and I'm a guru in business. I failed
- 1:17Speaker 2: and I'm proud of it.
- 1:18Speaker 1: In fact, that comic book, is in my office on
- 1:20Speaker 1: display as one of my biggest achievements because I tried
- 1:22Speaker 1: it and it didn't work. It makes me interesting and
- 1:25Speaker 1: it makes it possible for me to succeed in the
- 1:28Speaker 1: future because the mistakes I made in that failure, I
- 1:30Speaker 1: take with me to the next thing. Failure is good.
- 1:33Speaker 1: How many businesses fail in the first year? If you
- 1:35Speaker 1: just said 90% in your head, it's also not true.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Failure has been framed incorrectly. 90% of businesses do not
- 1:41Speaker 1: fail in the first year. That is a lie that
- 1:43Speaker 1: you've told yourself is true to stop you starting something.
- 1:47Speaker 1: 23% of businesses fail in the first year. 64% of
- 1:51Speaker 1: businesses fail within the first three years. I am part
- 1:53Speaker 1: of both of these stats. I had a business that
- 1:55Speaker 1: didn't last more than a year, a gardening company, but
- 1:58Speaker 1: I made.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Loads of money before it failed. And I made so
- 2:00Speaker 2: many learnings.
- 2:01Speaker 1: From that gardening company I was able to go on
- 2:03Speaker 1: next and do a hotel booking business, which took three
- 2:05Speaker 1: years to fail. But in that time, I made money
- 2:07Speaker 1: and then it failed. Don't let failure be a bad thing.
- 2:10Speaker 1: In fact, lean into it. Accept the downside and go
- 2:13Speaker 1: for it anyway. The second thing I've seen in super
- 2:15Speaker 1: successful people, and it's deeply rooted in me as well,
- 2:18Speaker 1: we have developed a risk muscle. And it does take
- 2:21Speaker 1: time to develop it like any muscle, but risk is
- 2:24Speaker 1: a huge part of how we operate. An example, I'm
- 2:28Speaker 1: launching a drinks brand called Dream Brew. Every can sold,
- 2:30Speaker 1: we use the profit we generate to fund people's dreams.
- 2:33Speaker 1: And if you want to buy it, the link's down below.
- 2:35Speaker 1: This business, not only has it taken me a year
- 2:37Speaker 1: and a half to launch it, but it might not work.
- 2:40Speaker 1: I'm still going to do it because... All I think
- 2:42Speaker 1: about is you've got to put yourself out there. And
- 2:44Speaker 1: if you're not willing to take a risk to do that,
- 2:47Speaker 1: then you won't succeed.
- 2:48Speaker 2: It's similar to failing.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Like this might fail, but the risk to become a failure,
- 2:54Speaker 1: I'm also willing to do. I'm basically taking action, even
- 2:57Speaker 1: though I feel it deep in me, I don't want
- 2:59Speaker 1: to take risk. And what I've discovered, the more risk
- 3:01Speaker 1: I take, the luckier I get. The last thing on
- 3:03Speaker 1: the list today, I'm going to go through it in
- 3:04Speaker 1: more depth, is about luck. Because there's actually a really
- 3:07Speaker 1: interesting psychology around luck and hacking luck.
- 3:09Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about it right at the end
- 3:10Speaker 2: of this video.
- 3:11Speaker 1: But you have to believe that risk is the right move,
- 3:14Speaker 1: not no risk. Most people I meet on the street,
- 3:17Speaker 1: when I ask them their dream, who are miserable, are
- 3:18Speaker 1: people that are taking no risk at all. They're not
- 3:21Speaker 1: willing to take a risk. They're not willing to go
- 3:22Speaker 1: for their dreams. And they go for their whole life
- 3:25Speaker 1: ending up with regret at the end.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Of the journey, which is the worst thing to have, regret.
- 3:29Speaker 1: And every successful person I've ever met that's happy has
- 3:32Speaker 1: taken a risk and has a story to tell.
- 3:34Speaker 2: And often what's really interesting.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Is the psychology in humans is, Because we can project
- 3:38Speaker 1: the future unlike any other animal, we can see what
- 3:40Speaker 1: the future might look like. We use it against ourselves.
- 3:43Speaker 1: We project the worst case scenario instead of the best
- 3:45Speaker 1: case scenario. Nine times out of 10, ironically, the best
- 3:49Speaker 1: case scenario will actually win out. All you need to
- 3:52Speaker 1: do is learn to put your mind in the framework
- 3:55Speaker 1: of what's the worst that can happen. I started a
- 3:57Speaker 1: comic book business. I lost money I could afford to lose.
- 4:00Speaker 1: and I could get a job if I wanted, I guess,
- 4:02Speaker 1: or I'll just start another business. Worst is, people around
- 4:04Speaker 1: me judge me, and if those people are judging me,
- 4:06Speaker 1: they're not going to be my friends anyway, so I'm
- 4:07Speaker 1: happy to lose those people if they're going to judge
- 4:09Speaker 1: me for that, right? The next thing I've learned from
- 4:10Speaker 1: the top 0.1% is that they don't just focus on
- 4:13Speaker 1: building something. They make sure they protect what they've built.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Because as you become more successful, you create things that
- 4:20Speaker 1: are increasingly valuable.
- 4:22Speaker 2: A business, a brand, an audience, and.
- 4:24Speaker 1: A reputation that people trust. But the more attention you attract...
- 4:28Speaker 1: the more likely you are to become a target. Scammers, hackers,
- 4:31Speaker 1: dodgy links in your inbox. I've seen so many people
- 4:34Speaker 1: get caught out by the simplest of things. And that's
- 4:36Speaker 1: why I use Bitdefender Ultimate Small Business Security, who are
- 4:39Speaker 1: sponsoring this video and allowing us to fund even more dreams.
- 4:42Speaker 1: It protects everything I'm doing online, my emails, my links
- 4:46Speaker 1: and my logins, so I don't get caught out by
- 4:48Speaker 1: anything dodgy. And the best part is that it just
- 4:50Speaker 1: runs in the background. You don't need to be technical
- 4:52Speaker 1: and you don't need to think about it. It protects
- 4:55Speaker 1: you while you get on with building. And that's something
- 4:57Speaker 1: the top 0.1% understand. Your reputation takes years to build,
- 5:02Speaker 1: so you need to protect it. If you're building something
- 5:04Speaker 1: of your own, you can check out Bitdefender using the
- 5:07Speaker 1: link below. Now, the next trait I've seen in successful people.
- 5:10Speaker 2: Is learn to listen.
- 5:11Speaker 1: And I would say for the first five years of
- 5:13Speaker 1: my business life, 15 to 20, this was not a
- 5:16Speaker 1: skill I had. I was busy building a gardening company.
- 5:18Speaker 1: I was trying to build a hotel booking business. I
- 5:20Speaker 1: was telling people what to do all the time, but
- 5:23Speaker 1: I didn't listen to customers. I didn't listen to my team.
- 5:26Speaker 1: I didn't listen to general feedback. And I think I
- 5:28Speaker 1: had a worse business for it. And it was only
- 5:31Speaker 1: when I met someone called Helen Griffiths, who basically came
- 5:34Speaker 1: with me to a meeting where she did nothing but
- 5:36Speaker 1: listen for the whole meeting.
- 5:37Speaker 2: And I did nothing but talk.
- 5:38Speaker 1: And at the end of the meeting, she told me
- 5:40Speaker 1: all the body language or the psychology or the things
- 5:42Speaker 1: that people were saying when I was talking that she listened.
- 5:45Speaker 1: And when I listened to her, she could explain to
- 5:48Speaker 1: me All the things I missed, all the cues, all
- 5:50Speaker 1: the reasons that people weren't going to buy the services
- 5:52Speaker 1: I was pitching were all because she was listening, I
- 5:55Speaker 1: was talking. Learning to listen is a skill. You have
- 5:58Speaker 1: to be silent even when you think you've got something
- 6:00Speaker 1: to say. Simon Sinek always talks about this. It's like
- 6:03Speaker 1: great leaders, they speak last. You let everyone around the
- 6:07Speaker 1: table say their bit and then you speak. And it's
- 6:09Speaker 1: an important discipline if you want to be really successful.
- 6:12Speaker 2: If you're listening to this and thinking, I.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Need more help, or I'd like to do this with
- 6:16Speaker 1: other people, we're running the world's biggest business competition.
- 6:20Speaker 2: And basically, we're giving up to a million US dollars
- 6:22Speaker 2: away and free help.
- 6:24Speaker 1: So if this is something you're interested in, it's absolutely free.
- 6:28Speaker 2: The link's down below. Join.
- 6:29Speaker 1: It'll be fun and we'll help you make your dream
- 6:32Speaker 1: a reality. The next thing I've observed from really successful
- 6:35Speaker 1: people is they know how to pick their partners. And
- 6:37Speaker 1: I'm talking about your partner in life and the people
- 6:39Speaker 1: you surround yourself with. as well as the partners you
- 6:42Speaker 1: have in business. Let's be honest, Elon Musk's whole business
- 6:46Speaker 1: enterprise is built on businesses he found was being run
- 6:50Speaker 1: by successful, clever people. He didn't invent Tesla. He didn't
- 6:54Speaker 1: invent PayPal. He found people that were doing brilliant things
- 6:58Speaker 1: and he joined them. And there's nothing wrong with this.
- 7:00Speaker 1: I'm not throwing any shade on him. He will openly
- 7:02Speaker 1: admit that his whole business is built.
- 7:05Speaker 2: On bringing talent in.
- 7:06Speaker 1: He says, Have an inspirational story that makes talent want
- 7:10Speaker 1: to join you. And that backstory, that partner backstory really matters.
- 7:15Speaker 1: And to get talent to join you and get talent
- 7:17Speaker 1: to marry you and to get talent to allow you
- 7:20Speaker 1: to invest in the companies or be a part of
- 7:22Speaker 1: it all requires you to have a mindset that there
- 7:25Speaker 1: are people out there that know more than you.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Even Elon Musk will admit he doesn't know everything.
- 7:29Speaker 1: So how does he actually make rocket ships work?
- 7:32Speaker 2: He has talent. He partners with people.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Now, I'm not sure I'm going to use Elon Musk
- 7:35Speaker 1: as a reference when it comes to partnership as in relationship,
- 7:38Speaker 1: but I can use myself. I've been with my wife
- 7:40Speaker 1: 26 years and genuinely think I would not be a
- 7:43Speaker 1: success today if I hadn't met her, if she hadn't
- 7:46Speaker 1: helped me craft my skill of business.
- 7:49Speaker 2: She has supported me to take risks.
- 7:50Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, she supported me that failure doesn't
- 7:53Speaker 1: matter and she's never judged me. She's let me keep
- 7:55Speaker 1: reinvesting even now in what I'm doing here. to help
- 7:58Speaker 1: people with their dreams.
- 7:59Speaker 2: By the way, there's.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Also things we can learn from successful people. I learned
- 8:03Speaker 1: from Elon Musk how I don't want my relationship structure
- 8:06Speaker 1: to be. My priority is to make my relationship with
- 8:08Speaker 1: my wife work. And I do think it takes effort
- 8:11Speaker 1: to do that because the grass isn't green on the
- 8:13Speaker 1: other side, it's greener where.
- 8:14Speaker 2: You water it.
- 8:15Speaker 1: And if you get your partnerships right, both business partnerships
- 8:18Speaker 1: and life partnerships, you can get your whole life on track.
- 8:22Speaker 1: And it's so underlooked because in school, they'll tell you
- 8:24Speaker 1: to sit and do an exam on your own. That
- 8:26Speaker 1: getting an A on your own is success and getting
- 8:28Speaker 1: a D is failure. In the real world, everybody's successful.
- 8:32Speaker 2: It's doing it in armies. They're doing it in tribes.
- 8:34Speaker 2: They're doing it in communities. And you need to learn
- 8:36Speaker 2: to do the same.
- 8:37Speaker 1: The next trait I've seen from successful people is follow through.
- 8:40Speaker 2: You've got to have. grit.
- 8:42Speaker 1: I always tell people who want to be successful, wanting
- 8:45Speaker 1: it's not enough. You've got to need it. And successful people,
- 8:48Speaker 1: they don't just want it, they need it. Now, sometimes
- 8:50Speaker 1: they use their ego to fuel that need, and other
- 8:52Speaker 1: times they're solving a problem in the world. That means
- 8:55Speaker 1: I have to follow through. Now, purpose in life helps
- 8:58Speaker 1: you follow through, like my purpose. So if you can
- 9:00Speaker 1: leverage a problem in the world that bothers you to
- 9:02Speaker 1: help you follow through, it will help. My company, Fluid,
- 9:05Speaker 1: was not an overnight success.
- 9:07Speaker 2: It took me 15 years to.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Take that idea from a kitchen table to being sold
- 9:11Speaker 1: to price Waterhouse Cooper for more money than I'll ever need.
- 9:13Speaker 2: But it took follow through.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Even when I got bored, even when I found it
- 9:17Speaker 1: hard dealing with some companies, even when I was tired,
- 9:21Speaker 1: when I felt like I couldn't do it anymore, I
- 9:23Speaker 1: still got up and did it. Now I'll get some
- 9:24Speaker 1: hate on this video because I'm not saying you should
- 9:26Speaker 1: keep hustling no matter what. There's certainly times when you
- 9:29Speaker 1: should stop, but the majority of people succeed because they
- 9:33Speaker 1: didn't stop. And what I did, for example, when I
- 9:35Speaker 1: did get tired is I brought someone else in to
- 9:37Speaker 1: run the company.
- 9:38Speaker 2: But I didn't stop. I just changed the way I
- 9:39Speaker 2: ran things.
- 9:40Speaker 1: The next trait I've seen is all successful people are
- 9:43Speaker 1: willing to pivot. And probably the best story I can
- 9:46Speaker 1: tell you is when Airbnb launched. Brian Chesky basically couldn't
- 9:50Speaker 1: make the business work. This is a billionaire that couldn't
- 9:52Speaker 1: make the business work. So what did he do? Well,
- 9:54Speaker 1: him and his team started selling Obama reels. They went
- 9:56Speaker 1: to conventions and he sold cereal boxes and at the
- 10:00Speaker 1: same time also was asking people at the conventions where
- 10:03Speaker 1: they're staying, how much they're paying. So he pivoted a
- 10:05Speaker 1: little bit for a temporary period of time to get
- 10:07Speaker 1: money in and to also understand the market that he
- 10:10Speaker 1: would eventually tap into, which was people going to conventions,
- 10:12Speaker 1: not wanting to spend a fortune on hotels or no
- 10:14Speaker 1: hotel rooms being available. People then stay in people's rooms
- 10:18Speaker 1: or rent someone's house and And that's how he figured
- 10:21Speaker 1: it all out by pivoting a little bit. I've done
- 10:23Speaker 1: it too. When I first started building this platform to
- 10:25Speaker 1: help people follow their dreams, I originally did a podcast
- 10:28Speaker 1: and I did that for 200 episodes. And I got
- 10:31Speaker 1: a lot of knowledge from it that I put out
- 10:32Speaker 1: in the world. Most of you probably haven't seen it.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Then I pivoted to doing street content because I put
- 10:36Speaker 1: all this knowledge out in the world, but people weren't
- 10:38Speaker 1: taking action. So I had to go out into the
- 10:39Speaker 1: street and ask people what's stopping them?
- 10:40Speaker 2: What's their dream? Why aren't they doing it?
- 10:42Speaker 1: So what I'm getting to is pivoting generally is a
- 10:45Speaker 1: really important skill that for you to leverage.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Don't just keep doing something.
- 10:49Speaker 1: I know I said follow through earlier, but you have
- 10:51Speaker 1: to follow through on things that are going to leverage,
- 10:53Speaker 1: that are actually going to work, that are going to scale.
- 10:55Speaker 1: And that's why you need to learn the concept of pivoting.
- 10:57Speaker 1: When do you pivot and when do you stay on
- 10:58Speaker 1: the course you're on? I think a lot of that
- 11:00Speaker 1: is to do with market fit. Is what you're presently
- 11:02Speaker 1: doing working? If it's not, you need to pivot. And
- 11:05Speaker 1: all successful people do that. The next thing I want
- 11:07Speaker 1: to teach you is so obvious. There's no such thing
- 11:10Speaker 1: as work-life balance. There really isn't. I know it's not easy,
- 11:14Speaker 1: especially if you're watching this and culture is weekends off, blah, blah, blah.
- 11:17Speaker 2: But trust me, life will be so much better if you.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Work with friends, if you work with people you respect,
- 11:23Speaker 1: if you're enjoying the work and you're.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Not seeing it as, oh, it's Sunday, I don't want
- 11:26Speaker 2: to work today. On a Wednesday, maybe you won't work.
- 11:28Speaker 2: Don't let any framework stop you.
- 11:30Speaker 1: This work-life balance framework was invented by the people that
- 11:33Speaker 1: wanted you to go work in the factory.
- 11:35Speaker 2: So the weekends will be good. But don't worry, during
- 11:37Speaker 2: the week, you're going to have a shit life.
- 11:38Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter because the weekend's coming. There's no
- 11:40Speaker 1: work-life balance. And that's all successful people. That's the rule
- 11:42Speaker 1: they follow. You must change your mindset. There is no
- 11:44Speaker 1: work-life balance. Now, there might be times when you live
- 11:47Speaker 1: in what I call a wobbly stall. And some weeks,
- 11:49Speaker 1: you may need to give more attention to your business.
- 11:52Speaker 1: And other times, you might need to give more attention
- 11:53Speaker 1: to your relationships.
- 11:54Speaker 2: Mr.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Beast lived in one room and invested all the money
- 11:57Speaker 1: he's made back into his business. So all the things
- 11:59Speaker 1: I'm teaching you here all correlate.
- 12:00Speaker 2: If you think about all these successful people, Mr. Beast
- 12:02Speaker 2: takes risk. He's willing to fail.
- 12:04Speaker 1: He'll have no work-life balance. And you might think he's mad.
- 12:07Speaker 1: But I think he's having an amazing existence. Completely crazy existence.
- 12:11Speaker 1: Why would you not live it to the max? The
- 12:13Speaker 1: final thing I want to teach you is something I've
- 12:15Speaker 1: been talking about for decades. So please just be patient
- 12:18Speaker 1: while I try to help you understand this thing. Every
- 12:20Speaker 1: single person who's been successful, including me, had luck. And
- 12:24Speaker 1: I want you to have this in your pocket to
- 12:26Speaker 1: help you with your mental health. Because all the things
- 12:28Speaker 1: I've just taught you around successful people and what they
- 12:31Speaker 1: do will increase your chances of luck. It's not the
- 12:34Speaker 1: harder you work, the luckier you get. That is a lie.
- 12:37Speaker 2: It is a really awful lie.
- 12:39Speaker 1: Dangerous lie. In fact, I have seen it play out
- 12:42Speaker 1: the opposite. People work exceedingly hard and burn out or break.
- 12:48Speaker 1: I see working hard having more to do with failure
- 12:51Speaker 1: than success. If you take one big risk a day,
- 12:53Speaker 1: let's say you hire someone to help you, or you
- 12:55Speaker 1: bring in a co-founder, or you sell something to a
- 12:57Speaker 1: stranger that you.
- 12:58Speaker 2: Were embarrassed to do, take risk. That's how you get luck.
- 13:01Speaker 1: You have to increase your chances of luck. Now, there
- 13:04Speaker 1: are certain types of luck that you cannot control. Where
- 13:06Speaker 1: you're born, the harder you work, the luckier you get.
- 13:09Speaker 1: You get born in a certain country, you definitely have
- 13:11Speaker 1: a higher chance of luck because there's more opportunity. But
- 13:13Speaker 1: the truth is, even then, you can hack it. You
- 13:16Speaker 1: think of a boxer that was born in a ghetto
- 13:18Speaker 1: in New York, learned to fight in the streets because
- 13:20Speaker 1: he had a hard life, and then becomes world champion
- 13:22Speaker 1: because he had a hard life. And so luck is
- 13:25Speaker 1: something that definitely plays a part. You need to increase
- 13:28Speaker 1: your chances of luck. And hey, If you're lucky, you'll fail.
- 13:31Speaker 1: I always tell people your purpose is in your pain.
- 13:33Speaker 1: And if you're lucky, you'll have a lot of pain
- 13:35Speaker 1: in life because that will help you find your purpose.
- 13:37Speaker 2: I have pain. I wasn't helped at 15 years old
- 13:40Speaker 2: to start a business. It was so hard.
- 13:42Speaker 1: I spent at least 10 years learning it all on
- 13:44Speaker 1: my own because YouTube didn't even exist then. And that
- 13:47Speaker 1: pain causes me to do this today to help you.
- 13:50Speaker 1: So pain is good if you leverage it, if you
- 13:52Speaker 1: turn it into a positive. And therefore, good luck and
- 13:55Speaker 1: bad luck are both luck. I hope you found this
- 13:57Speaker 1: valuable today. I've actually written a book called Watch Your Story.
- 13:59Speaker 1: If you want to buy it, the link's down below.
- 14:00Speaker 1: If you've got any value, please let me know in
- 14:02Speaker 1: the comments. I really appreciate you.