 Listen, the bar has been set so low to be successful in North America that it's not even funny. And when I mean by low, I mean this. Because of what's been happening in the last 20 years with our educational system, what's been happening with helicopter parents, what's been happening with more people demanding help from the state, people are pretty much living as kids in adult bodies. And the bar has been set so low that most people, they just show up for a paycheck. So they do. They show up for work for a paycheck. And for you to excel in whatever you want to excel, simply showing up early, taking responsibility for things that are not yours, adding extra initiative sets you apart from like 95% of the people out there, if you really think about it. So like scan your scenario right now, whether you're in an enterprise company, whether you're in a startup, whatever situation you're in, just scan around and ask yourself, out of all the people, your colleagues, how many of them are actually putting in hard effort and going above and beyond, showing up early, working smarter, taking more responsibilities, adding value as opposed to subtracting value. Now the mindset for the last 20 years has been this, handouts, give me, give me, give me, as people expect, right? They expect that successful land on their plate because they went to school. They are expecting things because, you know, their parents told them, don't worry, everything's going to be okay. They're expecting things. And that's when I state the bar so low because it is so fucking low. It's actually ridiculous when you look around and I'm just primarily talking about North America because that's my experience. It's so low, man. Like I don't know how many times I can repeat this is literally if you show, if you fucking show up and do extra work and add value, like sky's the limit on what you can do, you set yourself up right away. Right away you're different. Right away you're adding value. Right away Seth Godin talks about your purple cow. And so regardless of what situation you're in, it doesn't matter what situation you're in. It can be relationships. It can be business. It can be climbing the corporate ladder, which I don't recommend, you know, there's a good pro verb. You put a ladder against the wall, you climb the ladder and you realize it's a wrong wall or you're climbing up the mountain and you realize it's a wrong mountain. And most people, they're going towards goals that it's not their own goals. It's primarily goals of others that they have imposed onto themselves and they believe it's their goals. In reality, they're living somebody else's lives. And it's really good to audit yourself to figure out if you're living someone else's lives and to snap out of it and start fucking living your own life. There's only one life to live and that's your life. No one is walking in your shoes. No one's living in your shoes. You have your own shoes. You become the director of your movie. You become the script writer of your movie. You figure out what the fuck you want to do in your life as opposed to other people figuring out what you should do in your life. And so going back to the bar is so low. It's fucking low. And I think the next 10 years is a golden opportunity for you to do whatever you want to do. I mean, golden, golden. You see the issues what's happening in politics. You see the issues what's happening in uni. You see the issues what's happening with people just complaining in victimhood mentality. Yeah, you can join them, pretend you're a victim, not even pretend people actually think they're victims and be sucked down to that evil, evil depressive state or you can do the opposite. You can become proactive and you can go out there and just give a little bit more. I'm not talking about killing yourself working 100 hours a week. No, none of that. I'm talking about showing up a little bit early. I'm talking about taking responsibilities aren't yours, adding value where you can add value, not waiting for instructions. If you see something that could be fixed, fix it. If you think you can do it better, suggest it. These small things they compound over time. This obviously doesn't happen overnight. The context is key. It matters where you are in your life. For the most part, the more you can give, the more value you can add in anybody's life or organization, you win. Let's say you become some, you now evolve from a commodity into a very important resource. There's a big difference. That's what people don't understand. Most people are commodities. They're easily replaceable because there's an X1000 of them. If you can evolve from being a commodity to a resource that you're so important, primarily in the knowledge that you have, the wisdom that you have, the experience that you have, no one's going to replace you, man. This compounds year by year by year, network by network by network. Next thing you know, you're going to blink like, how the fuck did I get here? How did I get here? I have all this in front of me, that's right. You look back in hindsight, all the small details that you put in. What's that Buddha saying or whoever says, 10,000 steps starts with a single step. Start your single step today. Add value. The bar is so fucking low and the rest is easy, man. If you guys have any questions for me, leave a comment below this video and I'll be making more of these videos. I've been off grid, busy, really fucking busy with a bunch of cool shit that I'm doing, but I've been trying to make more of these short, small videos like this. Talking about business, talking about mindset, talking about relationship, talking about whatever comes to my mind. If you do have suggestions for me about some videos, leave a comment, man. Nothing's off the fucking table. You know me. All right, guys. Talk to you soon. Oh, yeah. By the way, I almost forgot. Listen, subscribe to this channel. That's it, man. The more subscribers we have, share this video too, right? The more subscribers we get, the more impact we can have and obviously you know the YouTube algorithm. If you share this, more people will see this and let's help some people out. Talk to you guys soon. Peace.