 Okay, so today's lecture is going to be about a topic that is extremely dear to my heart. This is basically the thing that brought me all of my success to this day. So I'm extremely passionate about it, and these are the three components to having massive success in basically anything. So this is like a three-step formula that I came up with about five, six years ago, and it started as like this idea. I didn't actually know whether it was true or not, but I tested it, and fortunately, I was correct, and that small hypothesis that ended up being correct is pretty much the basis of all of my success. So I would like to start by giving you an analogy for three types of cars. So the three types of cars basically represent the three types of people, and imagine this like an onion where you peel a layer and then another layer. So 95% of the people are the cars that are driving on neutral. So I put up this funny picture of a fat Nigerian kid trying to push a car because that's sort of the way I view most people when they try to become successful or just live their day-to-day lives not following the steps. So that's number one. Number two is people who are driving on first gear. So these are like people who are on neutral, that's like 90, maybe 95% of the population. That's probably your mom, your neighbors, your college teacher. Pretty much every person you know is driving on neutral. So they're just living their lives, not really doing anything special. Just sort of withering away, their health is slowly decreasing. They don't have any goals, they probably hate their wives or husbands. No many are depressed, many are overweight and dept. So you're basically looking at the human condition. That's like 90 to 95% of the population in our western civilized world. Now there's a second layer of people. These are people who are driving on what I like to call first gear. So these people are maybe like 5% of our society and that's first of all you guys if you're listening to this lecture. Because you're people who want to develop themselves, become better, you know you have goals, you have things you want to accomplish, you're reading books probably, maybe working out. So you're on a path where you're developing yourself and there's this illusion that if you just keep doing what you're doing, you're going to become successful. Now I'm very sorry to say but that is not true, that is an illusion. Because like 99% of people, probably 99.5% of people are missing the crucial ingredient that would put them on the full gear. So the analogy I use here is most people are driving on neutral so it's like they're either pedaling hard, they're working, they're trying to get their pension, they're watching TV and they think that complaining is doing something so they're putting out a lot of energy because people put out energy no matter what. So they're putting this energy but it doesn't amount to anything. They watch the TV and they get angry about the news so they get angry with their wife about some stupid thing about politics or they work and they bitch about their job. So these people just like they spend their energy on neutral, nothing is actually happening. Worse is that when you're too long on neutral, you're usually going to end up in a downslope which happens around age 30 or 40. So these people not only keep pumping the gas because they're working, they're in depth, they're fat, they hate their wives but they're also on a downslope so they're putting all this effort but they're on neutral so they're going back and they don't know why. That's 90 to 95% of the population people welcome to modern civilization. Now most of you guys I would guess roughly 95% of you guys so 95% of the 95% are driving on first gear so you're putting as much effort as the people on neutral but you're putting it in developing yourself which is nice you know you're reading books, you're working out you know you're doing stuff to progress but there's this illusion that you're actually progressing at one day, someday you're going to become successful you know but the only reason you feel like you're actually moving forward is because relatively to the people who are standing still or moving backwards, you're moving forward but that doesn't mean you're getting any closer to your dreams. You know if you drive in your car and the road is empty, you feel like you're driving fast but then if a Lamborghini passes by you like you're like okay so I was probably not driving that fast. So that's like 95% of the 95% which is pretty much most people in self-development. Now if you look at your life like truly look back at your life last year, the year before, the year before that, look at your income, how much has your income increased? I would say roughly 15%. Look at your health, how much did it increase? I would say roughly 15%. Look at your relationships, how better have you become socially? I would say roughly 15 fucking percent. So when you add up adding like 15%, 15%, 15% every year for like 20 years you would get an improvement of like I'm not sure about the number but I guess it's about 10 times. Now if I'm currently making like $4,000 and in 10 years from now or 20 years I'll be making like $40,000, that's nice but that's not nearly close to my potential because I know people who went from zero to like $100,000 a year a month within like a year or two and I know people who had a bad body like obese people who in two years became ripped. So why are you feeling you know it's good enough to improve by 15%, that's not good enough for me because I know I can do 15% a month, that's more realistic, that is your potential. So you could only improve by 15% but we will get to that later. So the last part of the population which is the 95%, the 5% of the 5% I think, that's like the billionaire entrepreneurs, the successful athletes, people who made it big writing books during real estate, you know the people who truly are exceptional and there's no jumps in life. I'm sorry, there's no sudden magical moment where your success is like suddenly appearing. I would not want that, that's like winning the lottery, I would not want to win the lottery, I mean if I would have won the lottery I would maybe took that million and put it aside or invested it but I would not want to choose to put my faith in a lottery. So what you're doing by improving by 15% every year and hoping to one day magically become a multi-millionaire or a famous athlete or a famous writer, you're basically relying on luck, on luck which frankly like one in a million gets. So these are not odds I would want to play on. So what you need to do is go to the next level which is driving on pool gear. So you're currently driving on first gear, that means you're pushing, you're pushing very hard, you're reading your books, you're working out, I'm honestly, I believe you that you're putting as much effort as you could but the people on neutral, I also believe that they're putting as much effort as they could but they're just driving the wrong vehicle just like you. So because you're progressing and they're not you think like okay so maybe I'm on the special scale, no no you're not, you're not because if your income is not increasing five times every year you're not doing something right and I'm not saying you could improve everything in your life like five times you know like the body and relationships and money but if there's one thing in your life that is important to you and you're not improving at least at least three, four, five times a year you're not gonna get anywhere man. So you need to get on that full gear and we're going to get to that right now because I will explain to you my three steps to getting from neutral to first gear and to full gear. So step one, finding your vision and drive. Your vision is basically your compass, imagine in the vehicle analogy that your vehicle is your vision is your destination. So when you are driving your car you should have a destination so you know where you're going and it's exactly the same thing with your life. So if you don't have an extremely clear vision of where you want to go how are you supposed to get there? I mean you might get there by accident but I mean how many people have become millionaires by accident? You know and the guys who did probably lost it all like nine I think the statistics say that 90% of the people who become millionaires by the lottery not only lose it all within a year but they actually are in debt. So you need to have an extremely clear vision. What I would do to find my vision is try to get very present. So I would go into nature or into a place where I feel the most relaxed and lively and happy but not like excited like calm happy you know and what I would do then is I would think of what future situation can I imagine myself in where I have this feeling. So for me my best feeling my most positive feeling is victory accomplishment growth being comfortable in uncomfortable situations that's what really does it for me. So for me my vision is an empire it started as a like being a millionaire and then I'm like okay so I can do that so now it's like not challenging anymore then it's like okay I want to be a multimillionaire but then I realized like why settle for multimillion? I want to build an empire so for me my vision is to build an empire so I have a very clear compass in anything I'm doing that says are you going in the right direction it could be people I'm talking to the way I'm spending my time my day-to-day decisions how hard I'm working what I'm focusing on the questions I ask myself every day it's all coming from your vision because your vision and your values are basically what changes your direction of of movement so once you have a vision and you have a very clear vision I would begin pumping up my drive so if your vision is like your destination your drive I want you to imagine it like that famous story about a guy who wanted to be a millionaire and he met a guru that is a millionaire himself and asked him to teach him how to become a millionaire so the guru said I want to meet you at the beach tomorrow and I'll show you what you need to do to become a millionaire so that guy said okay let's do it so he came to the beach with his his best suit all like tucked up looking fantastic and his guru was standing inside the the beach like knee deep and he's like come here and the guy's like what do you mean come in the water and he's entering the water and he's like knee deep and he's like dude I'm wearing my suit what are you doing he's like come closer let's go deeper he takes him all the way until his like neck deep his suit is ruined and now the guru suddenly just grabs his head bam like shoves him in the water and he holds him there for like half a minute and the guy's like oh he's trying to break free and he's trying to break free and he's trying to break free like that's all he can think of like I gotta get through I gotta get free and then suddenly he like kicks him in the balls and he breaks free and he's like what the fuck did you have to do why did you do that and the guru says you see that drive you had right now when you want to succeed as bad as you wanted to breathe that's when you'll be successful when there's literally nothing that will stop you no excuse that will stop you that's the point where you'll be successful not a moment before so your drive is your fuel and if you don't have a drive where let's say you want to become a millionaire and it hurts you it literally pains you not to become a millionaire you will not become a millionaire nobody became a millionaire because it was a nice something nice that they wanted you know everybody is like oh it would be nice it's not fun okay becoming a millionaire becoming a top athlete becoming a famous something becoming successful truly truly successful at anything is not fun okay it has its fun moments but it's hard work it's a lot of risks it's not anything that any sane people would do you know steve job said success the secret behind it is that you have to really really really love it because anyone sane would give up so the clear your vision the stronger your drive will be if i just won like a million dollars that's not enough to drive me to do what it takes but if my family is in need and i need a million dollars to help them or if i really want that car i want that Lamborghini you know i'll do anything to have a Lamborghini you need to be super specific why you want to be successful what do you want to get and i don't care if it's materialistic that's fine that's perfectly fine fine so the stronger your drive and the hungry you are the more chances you have of being successful now this is like an exponential curve this isn't like you know your linear curve or like you get a bit more drive become a bit more successful a bit more drive a bit more successful no no no until like the top 10 20 percent unless you're like in terms of drive and motivation one of the top 10 20 percent you're gonna get shit think of the actors going to hollywood how much money how many actors in hollywood are actually successful maybe maybe maybe five percent because it's about the five percent who really want it hey robbie can i add something yeah sure in the navy seals because it's the top top special force in in the united states to root out all the weaklings and the guys who really really want to join they actually drown you in the water and that gets rid of like almost 80 percent of the people that don't you know don't want to get drowned because that's part of the requirement that you have to get drowned so and then i was reading an article yesterday they came up with a list of like how to make money within a certain amount of time and one of the articles said if i stole your kid and you have 30 days to make a million bucks what would you do like the amount the list was like crazy like people came up with like a bunch of stuff but now if you ask somebody like if i if you wanted to make a million dollars what would you do like the the answers was completely different from when they actually had like you know like a real motive and their kid being robbed from them was like one of the biggest factors so i guess like what you said it could be family or anything objective so it's just like the motivation part i would get someone to abduct your child like if you want to be a million like i'll kill your child you're like thank you yeah that's a great opportunity um actually that reminds me um you know there's the uh yakuza there's like the mafia in america and that's like uh you know it's a mafia it's a nice mafia it's not anything too big it's like a small organization but in japan uh the mafia is actually in the government it's literally part of the government and they're legally allowed to take money from businesses the mafia in japan now you might ask yourself what's the difference between the mafia in america and the mafia in japan now there could be many reasons but there's one thing that i think is a really good improbable correlation for why the mafia in japan is so successful that's because if you want to join the mafia in japan you have to cut your finger off to show them that you really want it so if you're in the mafia in japan i would not miss with you because that's a tough requirement you need to be one tough son of a bitch to cut your hand your finger off to become in an or to be in an organization so i'm asking you would you cut your finger off to become successful i'm not saying you have to do it but i'm saying you'll probably need to reach a point where you would do it if you want to be in the elite because the elite you know we have eight billion people here in the elite that's like maybe like five thousand people you're not born special you have you you're not you have maybe some set of skills but any skill we have i can find you someone who's better so what drives you apart is how far are you willing to go to make it happen so think about it okay so yeah uh basically my equation for drive how i measure drive because people say yeah i'm motivated it's important for me people like to talk people talk so much it makes me want to puke it's like yeah it's it's important yeah i care about it yeah yeah yeah yeah and then it comes to like the part where it's like time to shut up and take action and they don't do anything they don't do shit so some people their level of comfort is like putting a lot of money so they put a lot of money but they still don't take action and then some people take maybe a bit of action but they don't really want to do it they just do it to say i did it so i have a very specific way to measure drive and that is how much are you willing to sacrifice how far would you go to make it happen and i can tell you i would die for my goals i would literally die if if if that's not as much as you care about it that you would rather quit your let's say you have a shitty job and you want to do something special if you don't have enough drive to decide i'd rather be broke trying to make it happen than stay in my comfort zone it's never gonna happen dude i'm sorry i mean you might change your mind later and then do it but at your current situation you have a hundred percent chance of failure because there's the guy next door who wants it so much more he'll do whatever it takes and you will not be in you do not deserve to be then it would be a very cool world a very cool world if you would have the opportunity to beat the guy who would do anything so i'm very grateful people say the world is not fair it's super fair everybody gets exactly what they deserve and what they deserve is what they are willing to sacrifice always always hey robby yeah it's funny that you should say it like that that you would be willing to sacrifice your life in exchange for what you're wanting basically people with really shitty jobs they don't really view their life really so work so much worth anything and i believe the more that of a higher opinion you have of yourself the more likely you are to achieve these goals like you're saying your life is worth more to you know what i'm saying yeah i'm thinking of like uh you know gandhi um who else uh gandhi there's uh mandela yeah definitely mandela people who unwarsed that unwarsed that yeah and um and doctor doctor uh martin luther king people who basically sacrificed themselves for what they believed in now i would even give a bad example hitler it doesn't matter if your goals are good or bad it depends how much you want it how much you're willing to sacrifice exactly people will follow you when you're that passionate so my personal examples of sacrifice um when i was 18 years old like 16 i really wanted to be good with girls i was very shy introverted and just started going out every day so i moved into this apartment by myself not knowing how i'm going to pay the rent but i found a way and when uh the guy who's like my idol the best pickup artist in the world his name is julian blanc when he said that he's coming to israel me as an 18 year old i didn't have any money but i put down $3 000 which is the exact amount that i saved my whole life that's what my that my mother put for me my grandma i put it that's all the money i had i was that um passionate for to pay all of my money at that point and lose any chance of getting into a good school anything just for having a weekend with that guy um and the most recent example obviously would be my current mentor matt poxius which when i saw that he is a millionaire a real life millionaire that i'm talking to i said hey man how much is your like i just want to talk to you what do i need to do he said it's a thousand dollars for an hour it took me exactly five seconds to send him the money i did not ask when how what am i going to get he said a thousand dollars for an hour i gave him a thousand dollars and that's all i had and then when he offered me to join his program and that's also money that i now didn't have at all i took a fucking loan and not only that i took a loan for three months because i said it's gonna happen either i do it you know i have him i have a millionaire who's teaching me so either i'm gonna do it and become extremely successful or or or i'm gonna fail sink you know i'm gonna be in a lot of shit if it doesn't happen but i know something that you don't know which is that if i'm in a shitty situation in in like the worst possible like something really bad like i'm i'm in a twenty thousand dollar debt and in israel twenty thousand dollar debt is like fifty thousand for you guys and for a 21 year old that's a lot of money if i'm in a fifty thousand dollar debt and i fucked up i know something that you didn't know because i've had the previous experience with sacrificing and i know that even if i fuck up and drown i trust myself to find a way to sink to swim to get back up so if i was in a situation where literally i was in fifty dollar fifty thousand dollar debt because i failed i would still win because i now have to find a way to get fifty thousand dollars like that so i trust my brain to make it happen that's why i'm so confident taking these bold decisions and then i said you know what let's up the ante let's move to a seven hundred dollar a night hotel i'm not making any money but let's do it anyway because now i have to make that money not like uh three months on today and you know what took me exactly a week and a half to start making over a thousand dollars a day would you be able to do that without these sacrifices without the risk nope no no one can if you already had done it before you could because you already did it but if you have never done it sorry if you want to get if you're right here and you want to get this much right now you have to be willing to risk this much falling that low you want to take it slow take it slow but somebody out there wants it to happen faster so uh that guy will probably get there before you and you know whoever gets there first he gets like 80 percent of the loot that's the law of nature so question ravi because uh you kind of have like the same methodology as dampenia kind of because he's he was saying like what uh he was willing to spend more than he could afford for the best of the best so i i really want a Lamborghini they're uh they're about 220 thousand dollars here and i have not even close to that amount but i can do like a down payment would that be smart to do so that way when i you know like if i acquired it i have it in my procession but at the same time i know that i have to work my ass off in order to pay for it because the insurance alone is going to be two grand a month and the fact that i probably have to pay at least another probably another four grand just just for like the minimum two percent each month then probably a down payment of like 40 thousand dollars would you recommend that at all yeah absolutely absolutely you know why because you're gonna die in 60 years anyway when i have a cool story to tell i mean you don't have kids you don't have uh someone to take care of fuck it fuck it what what's the worst that can happen so you have the the the fucking Lamborghini you know you failed you failed you only made like one thousand dollar a day or no it's a lot less like to me these numbers are funny saying like you like you're like oh no i'll need to make more than 200 dollars a day come on man i make 60 dollars a day see so you need to quadruple your income basically which is a joke can i just jump in here a second yeah sure why don't you why don't you up the ante again and take a loan from a loan shark instead of a bank you mean like a million dollars because they'll kill you if you don't make the money yeah that's like literally kill you um foreign money it's not my uh i mean i will eventually have to but yeah i don't know if i feel for a shark if you what i'm saying is that if you have a Lamborghini first of all uh people are going to treat you different you're going to make huge deals it's um a fantastic tool for positioning yourself your perception of yourself will change imagine how you'll feel about yourself driving a Lamborghini i'm going to actually go friday to look at the Ferrari and Lamborghini um see what they got so i mean i mean again worst case scenario you don't have the money so you have to give it away and now you're in depth so anyway you have to make the money and i have a cool story about how you own the Lamborghini for a few months i mean who can say that yeah so yeah i mean i mean i would go i would definitely go for it uh okay so so can we continue yeah cool um so the last sentence sort of sums it up very well you can only get as much as you're willing to sacrifice okay that is uh that is uh a very clear rule so next up uh build your work ethic so now you know you have that down you have the vision you have the drive now it's time to talk about work ethic so a strong work ethic is basically the difference between being successful or being a failure so it doesn't matter how much drive you have or um how well your vision is if you don't have a work ethic you know it's not going to happen because the work ethic is what separates the average person from you know Bill Gates or Warren Buffett uh a work ethic is like how committed are you to your work like how committed are you to being there every day putting the effort when you want to do it when you don't want to do it um so so work ethic is is not about working hard but it's about discipline and not letting your emotions dictate what's going to happen so um a person with a strong work ethic if he let's say wants to work out you know become like an athlete he will go every day to the gym you know he will eat the proper diet every day but a person without a good work ethic would always look for a shortcut and when you're busy looking for shortcuts somebody else is doing the work you should always keep that in mind that sentence when you're busy doing the sleeping doing the eating doing the um anything that's not related to your dream somebody else is getting there as you as you do like your thing you know so never be complacent this is a competition this is a competition it can only be so many one percenters in the world um so motivation gets you started work ethic keeps you going um motivation is is nice but um what we will really make it happen is consistency having good work ethic good habits because just having a good uh a motivation that's like relying on um that's like relying on the sun uh on the the weather being warm you know some days it's hot some days it's cold if you're reliant on like solar energy for example some days it's just cloudy and you're not going to move forward but when you have work ethic you're going to move forward like no matter what but at the days where you have both the work ethic and the motivation that's when you really fly these are the days you make like for sales or you know you break a new record so what you're essentially doing is very quiet it's like going every day to the gym it's very quiet you just you know walking to the gym doing your workouts and you're waiting for these days when you have that you know that spark and you just push like five times harder than you usually do so the gym is a very good um example of it because it's a very literal example of how someday you just come and you don't feel like it but you do it anyway and some days you come to the gym and you can just lift like a lot more like 20 more you know usually improve it by like 3 something like you just jump up you know to a new level so you have to be consistent you know and i would recommend you a book called the art of war ah sorry the opposite the war of art so the art of war is a book by Lao Tzu it's a a general it's one of probably the best books in history but the war of art that's like the opposite name that's about from a guy who's like a famous artist i think and he it's a really short book it's like a hundred pages and he just goes in depth about what he calls going pro so going pro is when you decide to do it no matter what and you can't go pro if you don't make the decision to do it every day no matter what so you can generally predict a person's potential by the work ethic so give me somebody with a good work ethic who's accomplished things before he has the credentials i'll trust that he'll probably make it happen again because if you just give him something else he's already done that effort before but give me someone who's like you know that guy who always starts things as things and never finishes you know he could come up with the best plan you know he's like hey man i know what i want to do with my life yeah it's this and and you talk to him like a month later and he's like oh i yeah i don't like it anymore of course you don't because you're relying on motivation you know you have to go pro do it every day if you want to like it that's the love so your work ethic is not something you do it is something it is who you are so people who are let's say have accomplished a great achievement in one area of their life they would have had to learn the tools and principles psychological motivation emotional to make big things happen which means that let's say a guy was obese and he made a full transformation in two years and now he's like super fit ripped i would give that guy a very good chance of being successful at anything basically let's say you want to be a millionaire i'm like okay he got from obese to to really uh ripped so not only neutral he actually got into like better shape than anyone else becoming a millionaire isn't much more different you know becoming good with girls come on more charismatic any any area of your life you know getting good at tennis it's like it's exactly the same process it's a different environment it's different rules but it's exactly the same process you know you just do it every day you keep learning you keep improving and if you did it in one place you'll probably do it in another place because it's the same principles of success which is being clear in your intentions not being dependent on outcome being present to the moment being consistent these are all things you sort of learn when you make a big things happen uh so your credentials are very important so if you've never accomplished anything big i would start with smaller goals and build up but if you know that you have a work ethic i would suggest going as far as possible so i know about myself for example that there's no amount of work that is too much for me i just finished yesterday a 25 hour work day that started like the previous day and it was 25 hours i slept one hour and now i'm here after like 18 hours of more work you know and i'm tired and my head hurts you know but i'm still here and when i finish this lecture i'm going to keep working you know so obviously that's not something i'm going to do for you know it's not like something i want to do long term but i've made the decision to do like a sprint so i'm sticking to my decision so it doesn't matter how tired i am i'm gonna do what i said i'm gonna do and that's the difference between somebody who's successful and somebody who quits um so when you deal with high level people and usually if you want to be successful at anything whether it be money fitness uh sports you have to deal with high level people either work for them have them work for you uh be partners with them they look for work ethic so anything less than a perfect work ethic they probably won't want to associate with you so if you have problem getting up in the morning getting on being exactly on time a few meanings and by the way khan or he actually put up like this beautiful uh picture which i actually believe in too that says like uh when you're early you're on time when you're on time you're late and when you're late you're fucking fired so i go by that i go by that rule and anybody who's late on me they're out there i will not work with them because i'm looking for someone who matches my level of ethic because having someone who is like late i view that as a mental weakness some sort of a retardation i would not work with someone below my level of work ethic why would i do that um so if you want to work with high level people make sure you have perfect work ethic because i think my work ethic is perfect at the moment because a work ethic is not something you can improve infinitely it's something that's like zero percent to a hundred percent zero percent means you'll never do what you say you're going to do and a hundred percent means you're always going to do what you said you're going to do so you can't go beyond a hundred percent maybe if you over deliver but that's uh that's about more about motivation so you should give your a very big focus on getting yourself to a hundred percent work ethic which means that there's zero percent chance that you'll be late to the meeting that you'll not do it because you don't have the energy uh anything like that and when you have a very perfect work ethic your brain will actually create motivation for you because let's say you decide you want to uh become ripped your brain knows from previous experience that anything you said you're going to do you actually do so your brain has proof that you can make it happen so it's no longer a fantasy or something you wish it's actually a goal and not only a goal something you know you're gonna it's gonna happen and since your brain knows it's gonna happen because it did it before it will give you all the motivation you need so it's not a struggle anymore it's actually fun okay so that wraps up building your work ethic that's like finding your vision and drive and building your work ethic these are the two steps that will put you in driving first gear first gear yeah but in order to go to full gear which is the secret ingredient you would have to recruit your mentor so that's the step that everybody gets wrong everyone gets that step wrong so it's no wonder that you know only one less than one percent of the people are successful because again this is not a coincidence this is a correlation only one percent of the people have mentors and work ethic and motivation and drive so the xeoam i put is declaring that you generally improve by 15 percent each year so when you don't have a mentor and i i really urge you to look back and actually see okay so last year yeah about 15 percent in money 15 percent in relationships 15 percent in fitness a year before yeah maybe even less but yeah about 15 percent but the question is whose 15 percent are you improving relative to when you have a mentor that's making a million dollars a month and you're making two thousand dollars a month and you're near that person and you're learning from him you'll improve 15 percent relative to that mentor so let's say that mentor is making a million dollars every year every month you should expect that within a year you'd be making about a hundred fifty thousand dollars a month that brings me to the 10x rule the 10 times rule of finding a mentor so when you want to find the mentor i would suggest finding a mentor who is not 10 times better than you but 10 times better than your vision so if your vision is to make a million dollars i would suggest that you find the mentor that makes 10 million dollars if your vision is to become in really good shape don't just find someone who's in good shape find a guy who's like an olympic athlete or ripped or ripped because again the question is whose 15 percent are you advancing on relatively now when you're looking for a mentor there is only one question that will determine whether you'll be able to get that mentor just let me just go back a minute one quick point i wanted to make is that when you have let's say a mentor that makes 10 million and you follow that person for oh sorry that's like the last point of it we'll get there later so so when you're looking for a mentor there's really one parameter that i use to measure whatever your chances of actually getting a mentor and that parameter is how much are you willing to sacrifice i don't know if it's cosmic rules if it's psychology if it's the mentor seeing something in you when you decide i will sacrifice anything to make this happen to get this mentor you tend to get lucky and you get that mentor or let's say in general you decided i will sacrifice everything to get such a mentor you would get such a mentor because in life like anthony robin says there's your shoulds and there's your musts your shoulds sometimes happen and your musts always happen so if your must is i will get a mentor and that's why i'm always using the analogy i will kill myself to make it happen then there's you're really not leaving any other choice it's a matter of time so if your mentor like let's say you you came up to some guy and and he wants to uh you know you you ask him to mentor you and he sees even by one percent that you're not fully there you will not give anything you will probably not take you as his mentee because why would he there's only one thing your mentor can gain from you and that's hunger because the wolf on the top of the mountain can never be as hungry as the wolf that's climbing up your mentor is most likely much older much more experienced he's been through shit he's gotten his goals he's your he's a mentor that means he he has anything he could want so it's harder to get motivation when you have anything you could have wanted that's why someone like you are invaluable invaluable to a mentor so he's not doing you a favor you're actually doing him a favor because he needs you to keep that fire that drive we're talking about you know step number one your drive is like your fuel the hungry how hungry you are will determine your success that is also exact applying exactly the same to a billionaire only that he needs even more hunger because it's in smaller increments now you know when you want to become financially successful for you corner for example jumping from 60 dollars a day to 500 dollars a day which is a joke that's for you like the the whole world difference but give you i'll give you like a month before you'll get bored and you want more so imagine if you're making billions how like what drive could you have to make more money unless you become like a philanthropist and maybe then you're driving to help people but even then you need that young guy that underdog that wolf that is hungry for the for to get that food because he you know people they they're like sponges they transfer the the energies from each other so if you're that motivated that you'll do anything and your mentor is is is feeling that vibe you're actually giving him fuel and in return for you pumping fuel into his Lamborghini you know that's his vehicle of as a person is letting you drive his Lamborghini so how much are you willing to sacrifice it always comes back to this question work ethic that's bullshit you know if you're willing to sacrifice everything you're willing to sacrifice sleep you're willing to sacrifice comfort so like you know you'd give anything so work ethic is out the window and you're getting a mentor if you're willing to sacrifice anything to get a mentor this whole talk is out of the window because you'll get one it's this is no there's no other option and I don't know many people who go by that philosophy of there's no other option and they don't get what they want I don't remember many cases of that happening unless that person gave up so any risk you take to get a mentor that's my philosophy is a good risk if your mentor wants a thousand dollars just for an hour pay it you know wants you to move out move you ask you to whatever it could be any risk you think you can take to get that mentor will probably be the good decision because even if you fail you followed your heart you know you you expanded as a person so if Connor if you get that Lamborghini you just expanded so it doesn't matter the outcome because you as a person just could ruple your potential of success because you already did that you bought a fucking Lamborghini and maybe you lost it but but you still did it so now you're like oh so I can take bigger risks nothing will happen and and what did we talk about I can't find the the specific sentence but we talked about your success is a direct measurement of how much are you willing to sacrifice so if you're smarter because you know that this is all bullshit there's no real risk so now you bought the Lamborghini and you lost it but now you know it's a game like nothing will happen I just did it you know Donald Trump was billion dollars in depth in depth and now he's like a bit a multibillion it's like it's a game so I'm not saying do anything dangerous but I'm saying ask yourself what is dangerous what is like a limitation that will cause me to have like that will cause me to have like a less interesting life and what is truly dangerous and the amount of things that are truly dangerous especially when you don't have kids that that's really like five percent of the things you're thinking of doing finally the last topic I want to talk about is when to move on so your mentor I like to imagine it like having a bird's nest and you're like the small the tiny baby bird and he's helping you grow you're near a small cocoon you know when the question is like when is the time to move on so I would give two situations where it's really good to move on one of them is when you feel like you've surpassed what your mentor has to offer so let's say you know that in that cocoon you will make like a thousand dollars a day but you're like maybe maybe maybe your mentor is like you know because he's helping you maybe he's also taking from you so you know that if you just do what he does but on your own the rewards will be much bigger but you'll try to have to fly on your own now so that's a good time to I won't say leave as in never come back don't don't talk to him but as in leave that safety nest you know because you're all you're mature enough to fly on your own and that is also a decision that will make you much more stronger as a person to let go of that mentor it's not easy it's like letting go of a loved one it's like it's like sort of a death the other thing I would suggest is like my Tarzan analogy so you want to be like Tarzan you want to be like the NASCAR cars that are drafting you want to draft on your mentor now drafting that is like when a NASCAR when there's like a racing car and there's like a racing car behind it and the car behind the the one on the front actually doesn't get the air resistance because the front car gets all the air resistance for it so you're basically moving you know behind your that person but that's what allows you to accelerate because you're not experiencing the same resistance so you can actually use it to build momentum and actually pass that person so try to draft on your mentor like try to see how can you use that momentum that massive momentum that your mentor has you know by building a millionaire or a billionaire or whatever how can you draft on that and then take that speed and now getting back to the Tarzan analogy holding that branch you know swinging getting to the next branch and then letting that go and just jumping to the next branch and then to the next branch but never letting go until you have another one in hand so stay with your mentor until you either found a better mentor or you know you can do better on your own because it's like a kid you know a kid needs his parents but at a certain age if he sticks to that parent the relationship will be corrosive so that pretty pretty much sums up the guide which is called the three components of massive success in anything I believe it's quite clear that if you make these three things happen get a massive drive have a clear vision have a great work ethic and find your mentor then there's really I would say none no percent chance of failure like you have a hundred percent chance of success so thank you for being in the lecture and I will see you next time