 And you're like, man, I lost my friend to that group. And what happens, you'll find over time, 20 years from your 20s, when you get into 40s, you realize that people always let you down. I mean, your friends will come and go out of your life. And if you devote all this energy effort, this group of people, they will eventually let you down. They will hurt your feelings. You'll be disenchanted with them. You'll be like, I'm going this way. You guys are over here. I'm out of this group. So it's hard to see. And the only way to really devoid that is to have a group of close friends that are going to tell you the truth. They're going to speak the truth into your life and say, hey, man, this scoop's kind of crazy. So you kind of want to avoid that. The past few years, we've been so polarized in America. The political divide is very partisan now. We've got people on the left. We've got people on the right. People on the right hate the people on the left. Everybody wants to come to the middle. You can't get along. So being fanatic about political causes, too, eat up a lot of your energy. And it's so bitter right now in our country with the whole politics. And in your 20s, if you're taking time to spend too much of that, it's OK to devote time and energy. But you want to make sure that you're not neglecting your friends, the family that you have, or your career. It's very important to not neglect those things in your 20s. So find a good cause that doesn't consume you, but try to avoid the fanaticism. Number six, a mistake to avoid in your 20s is not completing a formal education. It's the golden time when you graduate from college. And hopefully you do that by the time you're 20, 21, maybe 22. It is the time to continue your education. You think, man, I just got through this. Because what will happen as soon as you get a career, as soon as you get a long-term relationship? If you have a kid, you get married, you start amassing some personal debt, or you get a house, you have these things now. You've got people that depend on you, rely on you. Going back to school to complete your master's degree is very difficult to do. When you've got to go and do that, then you've got to go to class a few nights a week, and then you try to do these projects. So I see a lot of guys do that like, man, I'm done. I got my degree. That's good. But in this economy these days, and I don't think anymore, I never, anymore I've had my own businesses. I've been entrepreneur. I've been very independent for about 18 years, but I had my own businesses for the past 10 years. I don't think in terms of I need a master's degree because it's gonna look good on my resume because I want somebody to hire me. Because the same thing, companies aren't loyal anymore, to you. But I think in terms of raising capital for a business that you like, because I'm sure you guys are sitting in this room are probably far more entrepreneurial than other guys your age that are not sitting here trying to figure out how to become smarter, stronger, faster, leaner, do better with people, have a more successful life. You guys are more entrepreneurial. So I think your formal education is a good experience, and now the minimum's like the master's degree. Used to be 20 years ago, you had a college degree that's good, but now if you don't get out and have a master's degree, you're not gonna capture anybody's attention, especially if you have a really good business idea. So I'm gonna say, hey, what's your education background? You say, hey, well, I got my undergraduate from this school, and then I went back and I got this master's degree. Let me share my business plan with you. It's a little more credence to it other than let me just, I got this really good idea. So it's helpful, but now's the time to do it, not to wait until your 30s, going back to school. Online degrees, the online master's really aren't worth the paper they're printed on. I don't know how Phoenix University, I don't know how their football team did this year, but it's kind of the same thing. If they don't have a football team, they're probably just a diploma mill. So I'll ask people, all right, I'm getting my master's, and where are you getting it? Oh, I'm doing it online. Great. So was it Phoenix University? They have a football stadium named after them, but no football team? Something like that. So finish your education. It's important. All the other stuff becomes very demanding, and education will be on the backburn, and it'll be a pain. Get it done, get it out of the way. That was number six. Number seven, something to avoid in your 20s is you get out of school, you get a career, you get a business to get going, and you kind of get lazy in your, being lazy with your associations. And that's really the people that you invite to come into your life, are the kind of people that you pursue in your life. And a key to most successful people that I know in my age is they always sought out somebody that knew a little bit more about them than a particular area. Let's say I want to go into the software business and I've dabbled in it before. Let me go find somebody that's actually started a software company and got successful to it. Been with it. This guy's got a trucking company. Let me go talk to him about what that's like. This guy was a real estate investor. Let me go talk to him. And you'll seek out people that are smarter than you, and they've been down the road a little bit more. And if you ask somebody who is successful, they'll say, man, how did you make all your money? And inevitably they'll say, you mean the first time or the second time? Because everybody who achieves some success generally loses their first fortune. Yeah, they may lose it to a family economy, a corrupt business partner. A lot of guys I know have lost their business to their ex-wife, their spouse. There's no women in the room so I can use the male gender for everything. Okay. So you can't be lazy. You always gotta be seeking out new people, seek out new friendships. You see somebody who's sharp, man, I like to hang out with that guy, invite him. Be the one who initiates. I know that if I wanna hang out with people, my guys, my buddies, I'm like, hey, what's everybody doing tonight? Let's get together, let's do this. Don't be lazy in that. Chasing guys, it's not a different thing. With women, don't text them. But if you have friends, be the one who initiates. Be the social ringleader. Be the one who puts people together. Be the guy that, hey, I'm bringing this group of people together. And you'll become the social leader on that. That translates into every air of your life. If you're able to do that socially, then you'll be surprised how well that translates into being able to bring people together in a business sense. You wanna bring some investors together. I've been doing this in my social life all along. I've been initiating this, bringing guys together. I learned how to invite a bunch of people to a happy hour and sit down and have a conversation with them, I've learned how to work the room. Now guess what? You get a business idea, you wanna get into business. That skill translates right in to being able to, hey, I can bring a group of investors together. I can talk to these guys. I know how to relate to them, I can talk to them. Cause all business is done on a friendship level. You gotta have a good idea, but the trust for somebody to hand over the money, or somebody to say, hey, I'm gonna come alongside of you, let's go make money, let's be successful doing this, is gonna come back to their ability to trust you, or they feel connected to you, and a social and a friendship level. So you wanna seek out wise menors. You don't wanna be lazy with staying in touch with your best friends, staying in touch with your family. Those family connections when you're older will become so important to you. You don't wanna neglect those in the 20s. Okay, pardon? 30 minutes. Good, excellent. So be the one who initiates with your family, with your friends. Seek out guys that are smarter, faster, stronger, wiser, more successful, and you'll take that stuff in. All right, the last three points. Number eight. Mistake to avoid in your 20s is not taking care of your body. Some day you will like, if I knew I was gonna live this long, what's the teacher say? If I knew I was gonna live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. So some day you will be 45 and you'll be like, I wish I wouldn't have done that. I wish I wouldn't have done this. So just to put a little even more commercial for being here on Saturday, probably the most important day of the whole convention would be, well, there. Those speakers come about health and nutrition. Mark, Drew Bay, Doug McGuff. Now I was just talking with Alex earlier about this, that if I would have got a hold of this stuff in my 20s, it would have been great. I've probably been running up until I stopped running about a year ago. I've been a runner basically for 30 years. And now I'm so surprised that you think that you're gonna have your knees forever, that when you squat down, you'll be able to spring back up. Not so, these things wear out. Your shoulders wear out, your hips wear out, things like that happen over time. So you wanna take care of your body. So we have this thing, what's happening now is it's never heard of boomeritis. That's the thing that affects the baby boom generation now. We got the aerobic craze that came along and everybody started running and jogging, doing aerobics, high impact stuff on your knees.