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Learn Real-Life English: How to Invest in Yourself | Comprehensible Input — Transcript

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  1. 0:02Hello. Are you ready to learn some real
  2. 0:06life English with comprehensible input?
  3. 0:09Well, good. Because today we are going
  4. 0:12to talk
  5. 0:13about something that I think is super
  6. 0:17valuable for each and every one of our
  7. 0:22lives. My life and your life.
  8. 0:25Today we are going to talk about how to
  9. 0:28invest in yourself. How to become the
  10. 0:32best version of you that you can
  11. 0:35possibly be. Let's go. Okay, guys. So,
  12. 0:40this idea came to me
  13. 0:42from one of my subscribers. They wrote
  14. 0:43me on YouTube and they said, "Kyle, I
  15. 0:46heard you talking about investing in
  16. 0:49yourself.
  17. 0:50Can you please make a video talking
  18. 0:53about practical ways to invest in
  19. 0:55yourself?"
  20. 0:57So, practical ways means realistic ways,
  21. 1:00okay? I can't say, "Oh, just run 20
  22. 1:04miles every morning, okay? Or just read
  23. 1:07the biggest book ever and you'll be
  24. 1:08okay." No, we need things that you can
  25. 1:11do every day, small, easy things that
  26. 1:15stack on top of each other and with time
  27. 1:19will get so big that you won't realize
  28. 1:22how much you've changed. So, when we
  29. 1:24talk about investing in yourself, and I
  30. 1:27think I said
  31. 1:28in another video that the best
  32. 1:30investment that you can make is in
  33. 1:33yourself. And that's why this subscriber
  34. 1:36wrote me on Instagram. And you know
  35. 1:38what? I'll put my Instagram down in the
  36. 1:41description
  37. 1:42so you guys can come follow me there if
  38. 1:44you like. I use it as a personal
  39. 1:46account, really, but I would really like
  40. 1:48to grow it because then I can use it for
  41. 1:50businesses. I can write people and say,
  42. 1:53"Hey, would you like to collaborate with
  43. 1:55me?" Or, "Hey, can I come film in your
  44. 1:58restaurant? Things like that. So, I
  45. 2:00would really like to grow the Instagram
  46. 2:02because it's not as impressive as the
  47. 2:05YouTube channel right now.
  48. 2:07But, I would like it to grow. So, please
  49. 2:09guys, if you're interested in seeing
  50. 2:11that, come follow me on the Instagram.
  51. 2:13So, I said the best investment you could
  52. 2:15ever make is investing in yourself, and
  53. 2:18I truly believe that. Now, what do I
  54. 2:20mean by investing in yourself? Well, by
  55. 2:24putting time and effort into things that
  56. 2:28will help you to grow as a person. Okay?
  57. 2:32So, when we think of investments, we
  58. 2:35think we think of okay, I buy a house,
  59. 2:40and then people live in it, and they pay
  60. 2:42me money. Okay? So, my money grows.
  61. 2:45Well, real estate can be
  62. 2:48a wonderful investment, and real estate
  63. 2:50is what we call
  64. 2:52when you invest your money in housing,
  65. 2:55in apartments, in houses, in buildings.
  66. 2:58That can be a wonderful investment if
  67. 3:00you already have money. But, maybe a lot
  68. 3:03of you guys
  69. 3:04are starting from a place like I started
  70. 3:07with just normal parents, okay? My dad
  71. 3:11worked on cars. My mom never worked. And
  72. 3:14maybe some of you are starting a lot
  73. 3:16worse than that, okay? Because we all
  74. 3:19start somewhere different. The important
  75. 3:21thing is not where you start,
  76. 3:23it's if you are willing to put in the
  77. 3:25work to move to that next level. So,
  78. 3:27when we talk about investing in
  79. 3:30ourselves, I like to think about it in
  80. 3:32three different ways. I like to think
  81. 3:34about it like this. We really need to
  82. 3:36invest in three different things. Number
  83. 3:39one, our physical health, the health of
  84. 3:42our body,
  85. 3:43because our body is like our vehicle,
  86. 3:46our car, okay? It gets us where we need
  87. 3:49to go. And if If body's not healthy,
  88. 3:51you're not going to be able to do any of
  89. 3:54these other things. Second thing,
  90. 3:56money.
  91. 3:57Okay? Guys, there are little things that
  92. 4:00we will talk about in a minute. Little
  93. 4:02things that you can do with your money
  94. 4:04that will make your life so much easier,
  95. 4:09so much less stressful.
  96. 4:12You will feel safer and so much more
  97. 4:14enjoyable. Okay? They're simple, they're
  98. 4:16easy, and it doesn't matter if you
  99. 4:20work at a fast-food restaurant, like
  100. 4:23McDonald's, or if you're a doctor.
  101. 4:26Anybody can apply these money rules. And
  102. 4:30the last thing, which is the most
  103. 4:32important, I'm not going to tell you
  104. 4:33that yet. Let's talk about physical
  105. 4:35health.
  106. 4:56All right, guys. I am on a
  107. 4:59walking trail, a walking trail.
  108. 5:02People come here to walk, to run, or to
  109. 5:06ride
  110. 5:07their bikes. So,
  111. 5:09the first thing that I think is super
  112. 5:11important for
  113. 5:14your physical health,
  114. 5:16well, this is not my opinion. This is a
  115. 5:18fact, okay? This is true. You have to
  116. 5:21move. You have to move as much as
  117. 5:24possible. The human body is meant to
  118. 5:27move, okay? We are not meant
  119. 5:31to sit in an office chair for 8 hours a
  120. 5:33day.
  121. 5:34We are not meant to sit on a couch and
  122. 5:36play video games for 10 hours.
  123. 5:39I know some of you have done that.
  124. 5:41>> [laughter]
  125. 5:42>> I'm guilty, too. When I was younger,
  126. 5:44there were some computer games that I
  127. 5:46would play for hours and hours and
  128. 5:47hours.
  129. 5:48But, the point is our body is meant to
  130. 5:51move. Okay? And when I say physical
  131. 5:53health, guys, I want to just let you
  132. 5:55know I do not mean that you have to have
  133. 5:58big muscles like a bodybuilder.
  134. 6:00I mean you need to exercise
  135. 6:03in some way every day. And this is
  136. 6:05important because once you start to get
  137. 6:08those experiences and get the ability to
  138. 6:11go cool places and do cool things, you
  139. 6:13do not want to be the one in the group
  140. 6:15doing this.
  141. 6:16>> [sighs]
  142. 6:17>> I went to a Chicago one time with some
  143. 6:19friends and one of our friends who is
  144. 6:22overweight, very big,
  145. 6:25he couldn't even keep up with us. He had
  146. 6:27to keep saying, "Slow down, guys. Slow
  147. 6:29down." And basically he ruined
  148. 6:32the whole trip. So, you don't want to be
  149. 6:34that person. You've got to take care of
  150. 6:36your body.
  151. 6:37And you'll see, guys, that all of these
  152. 6:39things come together.
  153. 6:41And no one of these things is more
  154. 6:43important than the other.
  155. 6:45My thing that I like to do, guys, every
  156. 6:48day that I'm not working,
  157. 6:50I go out and walk. And if I can, I come
  158. 6:53somewhere beautiful.
  159. 6:55I go somewhere beautiful because I can
  160. 6:58breathe good fresh air and I can see
  161. 7:01beautiful green from the trees and it
  162. 7:04makes me think, guys,
  163. 7:06when I come out to a place like this,
  164. 7:08it makes me think thoughts that I would
  165. 7:10never think walking around in the city.
  166. 7:13For example, I was walking over here to
  167. 7:15film in this spot
  168. 7:17and I was looking at the
  169. 7:19the grass, the little flowers, and I
  170. 7:22thought to myself,
  171. 7:23there's so much more to life than we
  172. 7:26think about. Like, do you guys truly
  173. 7:29understand how a tree works and how
  174. 7:32incredible it is
  175. 7:34that those trees, they take in
  176. 7:37the chemical that we put out when we
  177. 7:39breathe, they take that in and they put
  178. 7:42out what we need to breathe. Guys,
  179. 7:45those trees are allowing me to breathe
  180. 7:49and I am allowing them to breathe. And
  181. 7:51there's so many examples of things like
  182. 7:53that in the world. Like these flowers
  183. 7:56and the bees and butterflies
  184. 7:59that pollinate them.
  185. 8:01It all works together, guys. It's
  186. 8:03incredible. [laughter]
  187. 8:04You start to notice the beauty of nature
  188. 8:07when you come out to places like this.
  189. 8:09So, that's good for your mind, but
  190. 8:12we're talking about your physical health
  191. 8:13right now. You have to move. Okay. Now,
  192. 8:17maybe some of you are saying, "Kyle, I
  193. 8:19walk every day. I walk to school. I walk
  194. 8:22to work.
  195. 8:23I walk to the store. I do not have a
  196. 8:26car, so I walk all day."
  197. 8:28Good. Your body is happy about that
  198. 8:31because that's what humans are supposed
  199. 8:32to do. If you already walk every day,
  200. 8:35maybe do some push-ups, okay? Start
  201. 8:37building a little bit of muscle. But
  202. 8:39really, guys, when you invest in your
  203. 8:41body, the older and older you get, it
  204. 8:43will give you a huge advantage in this
  205. 8:45life. Now,
  206. 8:46the second and most important thing that
  207. 8:50you can do to invest in your physical
  208. 8:52health, eat real food, okay? Now, once
  209. 8:57again, some of you guys in the countries
  210. 8:58you live in, you only have real food,
  211. 9:01okay? I'm so jealous when I see how the
  212. 9:04way the way that people in India, Asia,
  213. 9:08some parts
  214. 9:09some parts of Asia, some parts of South
  215. 9:11America eat. They eat rice.
  216. 9:13>> [music]
  217. 9:13>> They eat fish. They eat vegetables.
  218. 9:16Only real food.
  219. 9:18Now, if you live in the somewhere like
  220. 9:21the United States
  221. 9:22or a country like that where there's
  222. 9:24tons of fast food, processed food, fried
  223. 9:28food, guys,
  224. 9:30those are poison for your body. And I
  225. 9:33saw a documentary, guys, about a city in
  226. 9:35Mexico where they drink more Coca-Cola
  227. 9:39than water because it's cheaper to buy
  228. 9:42Coke
  229. 9:43which is what we call Coca-Cola than it
  230. 9:45is to buy water. And guys, soda alone or
  231. 9:49pop in the US, you will hear people say
  232. 9:51soda or pop. That's one of the worst
  233. 9:53things you can do to yourself.
  234. 9:55There's nothing in that that is good for
  235. 9:57your body. So guys, the rule that
  236. 10:00I try to follow is 80/20, okay?
  237. 10:05As long as 80% of the food that I eat is
  238. 10:09real nutritious food, it's okay if I eat
  239. 10:13a little bit of what we call junk food.
  240. 10:16Even though honestly guys, the food that
  241. 10:18I crave and when we say crave, it's when
  242. 10:21your brain is telling you, "I want that
  243. 10:23so bad."
  244. 10:24The food that I crave is real food
  245. 10:26anyway. I want a big steak. Okay, I want
  246. 10:30butter chicken. But guys, if you could
  247. 10:32eat less candy, sugar,
  248. 10:35drink less pop, and eat more protein,
  249. 10:39vegetables, healthy carbs like rice or
  250. 10:42potatoes, your body will be so much
  251. 10:44healthier.
  252. 10:45Okay? And like I said guys, there's a
  253. 10:47ton of other things you could do. People
  254. 10:49might say
  255. 10:51>> [snorts]
  256. 10:51>> breathing techniques or cold showers.
  257. 10:53This video is about simple practical
  258. 10:56things. So for physical health,
  259. 10:59walk more, eat better. Let's talk about
  260. 11:02money. All right guys, now we're going
  261. 11:03to talk about the second way to invest
  262. 11:06in yourself. And this one's important.
  263. 11:09Maybe you don't want to talk about this.
  264. 11:11Money. Now guys, a lot of people around
  265. 11:13the world have it in their minds that
  266. 11:16money is bad. Money is not bad. Money is
  267. 11:19like electricity, okay? Electricity is
  268. 11:22not good or bad. It's good if you use it
  269. 11:26to
  270. 11:27light up a house and, you know,
  271. 11:30use it in light bulbs. And it's bad if
  272. 11:33it
  273. 11:34shocks you and kills you, okay? Money is
  274. 11:38like that. It's energy.
  275. 11:40And if you use it for good, it's good.
  276. 11:42If you use it for bad, it's bad. But we
  277. 11:44would never do that here. And I know you
  278. 11:46would never use it for bad because you
  279. 11:48are somebody who's watching this trying
  280. 11:50to improve your life. So I know that you
  281. 11:52would only use it for good. Therefore,
  282. 11:54in your life, money is good. So guys,
  283. 11:57there's three things we need to think
  284. 11:59about with money.
  285. 12:00Save, invest, create. All right?
  286. 12:05Now first, saving. This is the basic,
  287. 12:08guys. Saving money means you take some
  288. 12:11money when you make it and put it away
  289. 12:13for later, okay? You do not spend
  290. 12:15everything you have. Now listen very
  291. 12:17carefully to this, guys.
  292. 12:19The person who works at McDonald's for
  293. 12:22very little money and the doctor who
  294. 12:25makes a ton of money,
  295. 12:27if they both spend all of the money they
  296. 12:30make, they're both broke.
  297. 12:33Okay? And broke means you do not have
  298. 12:35any extra money. The only difference is
  299. 12:38that the doctor looks like he has money
  300. 12:41because he spent his money on nice cars
  301. 12:44and nice houses, okay? But the truth is,
  302. 12:46if neither one of them saves anything,
  303. 12:49neither one of them has any real money.
  304. 12:51And by the way, broke is a really good
  305. 12:53piece of vocabulary. And that's what we
  306. 12:55say when somebody has no money. Hey, hey
  307. 12:59Kyle, do you want to go to the movies?
  308. 13:01>> [snorts]
  309. 13:01>> I wish I could, man, but I'm broke. I
  310. 13:03can't even buy a ticket. Okay, so how
  311. 13:05can you save money? Maybe you're
  312. 13:07thinking, Kyle, I hardly make any money
  313. 13:10at my job.
  314. 13:11Well,
  315. 13:12try and find a better job if you can.
  316. 13:14But if you are at the best job you can
  317. 13:16possibly find, don't worry about it. You
  318. 13:18can save. The rules are these. Pay
  319. 13:22yourself first, okay? Take 10% of the
  320. 13:26money that you make, no matter what,
  321. 13:28before you pay your rent, before you buy
  322. 13:31food, before you buy anything else, 10%.
  323. 13:34It's not that much, guys, and put that
  324. 13:36in your savings, okay? If you have a
  325. 13:39bank account, put it in the bank. If you
  326. 13:41don't, put it under your bed, hide it,
  327. 13:44because that savings is your future.
  328. 13:47Now, 10% doesn't sound like much,
  329. 13:49but when you do it every week,
  330. 13:52after a year, after 2 years, you will
  331. 13:54not believe how much money you have. You
  332. 13:56will have so much more money than you
  333. 13:58have today. And the best thing about
  334. 14:00savings, guys, is when something bad
  335. 14:02happens,
  336. 14:04which, hey, life happens, something will
  337. 14:07happen, you will feel so much safer
  338. 14:09knowing that you have money to help,
  339. 14:12okay?
  340. 14:13Something bad happened to my car and I
  341. 14:14had to have it fixed, guys,
  342. 14:16and it cost a lot of money, and I was so
  343. 14:19mad for days, guys. I didn't want to
  344. 14:22talk to anybody. I was so mad that I had
  345. 14:25to spend the money that I've been
  346. 14:26working so hard to save.
  347. 14:28But guess what, guys? How bad would that
  348. 14:30situation have been
  349. 14:33if I didn't have savings? Oh, it would
  350. 14:36have been terrible. I would have had to
  351. 14:37find a way to get to work.
  352. 14:40I would have had to call people, "Hey,
  353. 14:41can I have a ride?"
  354. 14:42But I had savings. So, even though I was
  355. 14:45mad about it, the situation was so much
  356. 14:48better than it could have been if I was
  357. 14:50broke. Okay, guys, once you have a
  358. 14:52saving, step two,
  359. 14:54invest. And investing, guys, is when you
  360. 14:56make your money work for you, okay? You
  361. 14:59send your money to a place where it will
  362. 15:01grow and grow and grow,
  363. 15:04and you do not have to work, okay, for
  364. 15:06the money, because the money is working
  365. 15:09for you.
  366. 15:11That's the difference between rich
  367. 15:12people and poor people, guys. Poor
  368. 15:14people work for money, rich people make
  369. 15:16their money work for them.
  370. 15:18Now, I can't tell you how to invest in
  371. 15:20your country. I can tell you here in the
  372. 15:22United States, the safest, easiest way
  373. 15:25to invest is in a stock, which is a
  374. 15:27little piece of a company, and the way
  375. 15:30that I would invest in stocks, and the
  376. 15:31way that I do, is buy a bunch of them,
  377. 15:34okay? A bunch of different companies all
  378. 15:36in one stock. We have something called
  379. 15:38the S&P 500 here in the United States,
  380. 15:41and that is the top 500 companies. So,
  381. 15:44when you buy one stock, one piece of an
  382. 15:47S&P 500, you are getting access
  383. 15:51to 500 of the best companies in the US,
  384. 15:54like Google, like Meta, like uh SpaceX
  385. 15:58now, like Tesla. You've heard of these,
  386. 16:00right? And
  387. 16:01for the last 80 years, guys,
  388. 16:04this has averaged 10% growth every year.
  389. 16:08So, if you put $10,000 in the S&P 500 40
  390. 16:14years ago, now it would probably be
  391. 16:16worth I don't even know, a million, over
  392. 16:19a million. So, invest, guys. And let me
  393. 16:22tell you one thing about investing.
  394. 16:24Don't just do it. Learn about it first,
  395. 16:26because your country is different than
  396. 16:28mine.
  397. 16:29Unless you're working and living in the
  398. 16:30US, S&P 500, guys, is the simple way
  399. 16:34that you cannot fail. Number three,
  400. 16:36create. So, guys, investing is great,
  401. 16:39saving is great, but the problem is if
  402. 16:43you have a job where you don't make a
  403. 16:45lot of money, like most of the people
  404. 16:47watching this, investing and saving is a
  405. 16:50great step. It's you have to do that
  406. 16:52step, but it will take a long, long
  407. 16:55time, okay? It might take you 20 years
  408. 17:00to invest and save enough to where you
  409. 17:02feel like you have enough money to live
  410. 17:05comfortably. And guess what, guys? That
  411. 17:0720 years is going to pass anyway. So,
  412. 17:10use it right. Invest and save, okay?
  413. 17:12But, if you are someone like me who does
  414. 17:16not want to work at a job that you don't
  415. 17:18like forever.
  416. 17:20If you have a job that you love, you are
  417. 17:22blessed. Be happy, guys. But, I don't
  418. 17:24want to work at my job forever, so I
  419. 17:26have to create. And what this means is
  420. 17:29making something to help people that
  421. 17:32they will pay you money for, okay? And
  422. 17:34this is the only way to make big money,
  423. 17:36enough money to where you get the
  424. 17:38freedom to do what you want when you
  425. 17:39want. And that's my ultimate goal in
  426. 17:41life, guys. And I want it for myself,
  427. 17:44but I also want it for my family because
  428. 17:46my whole life money has caused stress.
  429. 17:49It never brought joy because we never
  430. 17:51had enough of it because my dad did not
  431. 17:53know how to save, how to invest, how to
  432. 17:56create. He worked a job. He tried his
  433. 17:58best,
  434. 18:00but he was working for money. He never
  435. 18:02learned how to make money work for him.
  436. 18:04So, you need to think about what you're
  437. 18:06good at, what you know about, and how
  438. 18:09can you help other people,
  439. 18:11okay? Because the way to make money is
  440. 18:13add value. You do this by helping people
  441. 18:16with their problems. An example, a lot
  442. 18:19of people tell me
  443. 18:21watch what I'm doing here, guys. This is
  444. 18:23watch what I'm doing and use this, okay?
  445. 18:27If it works,
  446. 18:28okay. If not, whatever. I'm teaching. A
  447. 18:31lot of people tell me
  448. 18:32that they can understand me when I speak
  449. 18:35like this, but they cannot understand
  450. 18:38other natives when they watch YouTube
  451. 18:40videos or Netflix.
  452. 18:43And the reason for that is because
  453. 18:44natives smash words together and it
  454. 18:47sounds like a different language because
  455. 18:49natives speak in a way that they do not
  456. 18:51teach you on Duolingo and they do not
  457. 18:53teach you in in English books. So, I
  458. 18:57decided to help those people with that
  459. 18:58problem and create the native English
  460. 19:01Starter Kit.
  461. 19:02And what this is, guys, I break down and
  462. 19:04fully explain all of the ways that
  463. 19:07natives smash words together, how we get
  464. 19:09rid of certain sounds and phrases, and
  465. 19:12phrases that we use every day. And this
  466. 19:15helps to solve that problem by giving
  467. 19:17you the tools and the patterns that we
  468. 19:20use when we speak, and it will help you
  469. 19:22to better understand native speakers
  470. 19:24when they're speaking naturally. So, if
  471. 19:27that sounds like a problem you have, you
  472. 19:29could check out my solution to that
  473. 19:32problem,
  474. 19:33the way that I'm trying to help people
  475. 19:34with that problem,
  476. 19:36in the description below.
  477. 19:38And by the way, for everybody who's
  478. 19:39bought that already, I appreciate you. I
  479. 19:42really hope that it's helping you, and
  480. 19:45I'm also trying to improve on this. So,
  481. 19:48I'm trying to improve every day, guys.
  482. 19:50Doing my best. So, guys, you see what I
  483. 19:52did there? I identified a problem that
  484. 19:54people have. I tried to use my
  485. 19:57experience and the things that I know
  486. 19:58about to help them fix that problem, and
  487. 20:01I made it into a product that they can
  488. 20:03pay me for to help them with their
  489. 20:06problem. That is creating That is how
  490. 20:09you make more money than just from your
  491. 20:11job. But, an important thing about
  492. 20:13creating, guys, don't try and sell
  493. 20:15something to people
  494. 20:16just to make money. You need to focus on
  495. 20:19helping them.
  496. 20:21Because if you sell them something that
  497. 20:22does not help them, then you are doing
  498. 20:25bad. Okay? If you sell them something
  499. 20:28that actually helps them, and they feel
  500. 20:30good about it, then you are doing good
  501. 20:32for the world, and you earned that
  502. 20:34money.
  503. 20:35All right, guys. Those are my
  504. 20:37tips and rules about money. Now, let's
  505. 20:40talk about the most important thing that
  506. 20:42you can invest in you with. All right,
  507. 20:46guys. Now, for the most important thing
  508. 20:49that you can ever invest in, your mind.
  509. 20:53Okay?
  510. 20:54Now, your mind is your brain, but it's
  511. 20:56more than that. It's not just the organ
  512. 20:58of your brain.
  513. 20:59It's the things you know. It's the way
  514. 21:02you think. If you want to be successful,
  515. 21:04you have to think successful. And the
  516. 21:07truth is, naturally, I think most humans
  517. 21:10do not think successful thoughts. We
  518. 21:13have doubts, we have fears. We think,
  519. 21:15oh, okay, this person can make money,
  520. 21:18this person can be healthy and have an
  521. 21:20awesome body, not me. I'm not good
  522. 21:22enough. You have to work to change those
  523. 21:25thoughts, okay? Now, how can you invest
  524. 21:28in your mind? Well,
  525. 21:30one way that I invest in my mind very
  526. 21:32often is meditating, okay? Meditation
  527. 21:35literally changes your brain, and you
  528. 21:38can literally change the person you are
  529. 21:41by changing the way you think through
  530. 21:42meditation.
  531. 21:44Now,
  532. 21:45I'm not going to teach you about
  533. 21:46meditation in this video. I recommend
  534. 21:49reading Dr. Joe Dispenza's book,
  535. 21:52Breaking the Habit of Being You. Top
  536. 21:55five books I've ever read in my life,
  537. 21:57and I could listen to Dr. Joe for hours,
  538. 21:59guys. He's on YouTube, and I'm positive
  539. 22:03that you can find some of his talks in
  540. 22:05your language, and don't try and watch
  541. 22:07this in English, guys, unless you are
  542. 22:09super advanced, okay? Because he's going
  543. 22:12to talk about a lot of scientific words
  544. 22:14about the brain, and you really need to
  545. 22:16understand this if you're going to use
  546. 22:18it to change your life. Dr. Joe's
  547. 22:20teachings have changed my life so much,
  548. 22:22changed the way I think and see the
  549. 22:24world. Meditation, guys, huge. Next, and
  550. 22:27I'll probably make this the last thing.
  551. 22:29You must have to
  552. 22:32learn every single day. You have to
  553. 22:37constantly
  554. 22:38feed your mind. You need Your mind needs
  555. 22:42books like your body needs food, okay?
  556. 22:46And your mind needs good books like your
  557. 22:49body needs good food. Guys,
  558. 22:52I can't tell you how many books I've
  559. 22:53read, and so many people at my work,
  560. 22:57they say, I haven't read a book since I
  561. 23:00got out of school, and I automatically
  562. 23:02know that that person has zero goals,
  563. 23:05and that person will never change
  564. 23:08unless they start reading.
  565. 23:10You must read. Every great person
  566. 23:14throughout history was a reader, and
  567. 23:17that is not a coincidence, guys.
  568. 23:19They were great because they were
  569. 23:21readers, because they filled their minds
  570. 23:24with the thoughts of other great people,
  571. 23:26and that is what you must do. Because
  572. 23:28what a book is
  573. 23:30is the thoughts of somebody who has
  574. 23:32succeeded or done something great. And
  575. 23:34the best thing about reading, guys, you
  576. 23:36can find somebody who started in the
  577. 23:40same spot as you, and you can read about
  578. 23:43how they got to where they are now. I'm
  579. 23:45reading a book right now called The
  580. 23:47Power of Broke, and it's about a guy
  581. 23:49named Daymond John. He's very famous
  582. 23:51here in the United States. He created a
  583. 23:53clothing brand that made him rich, but
  584. 23:56he did not start out with money. He
  585. 23:58started out very poor, but through his
  586. 24:01creativity, through his discipline and
  587. 24:04persistence, he was able to build
  588. 24:06something and change his life and his
  589. 24:08family's life and future. And the thing
  590. 24:10about that, guys, I know where he's
  591. 24:12coming from, okay?
  592. 24:14He had a mom that worked very hard. They
  593. 24:16had a home, they had food, but they did
  594. 24:19not have much else.
  595. 24:21Okay? Now, I can identify with that, and
  596. 24:25I think many of you can identify with
  597. 24:27that, but he did not tell himself,
  598. 24:30"I'm just going to live like this." No,
  599. 24:32he said, "My mom works so hard, I'm
  600. 24:34going to change everything for us."
  601. 24:37And how did he get going, guys? He got
  602. 24:39going by learning, by studying the
  603. 24:41people who did what he wants to do.
  604. 24:43And another thing that I read in that
  605. 24:45book, guess what he loves to do, guys.
  606. 24:48Guess.
  607. 24:49To read. So, guys, that's the most
  608. 24:52valuable thing that you can invest in
  609. 24:53yourself with, good books. Now, you
  610. 24:56don't have to pay for them if you don't
  611. 24:58have the money saved up yet. I like to
  612. 25:00buy them so I have them. That way, if I
  613. 25:02meet somebody who I think needs that
  614. 25:05information, I can gift them the book.
  615. 25:07But, we live in the world of the
  616. 25:09internet and you can find most books
  617. 25:12online. You can find a lot of audio
  618. 25:15books where you can listen to them on
  619. 25:16YouTube or maybe you have a library
  620. 25:20where you can go and borrow a book and
  621. 25:22bring it back. It doesn't matter how you
  622. 25:24get your hands on a book, you must read.
  623. 25:27Reading
  624. 25:28is the most valuable thing
  625. 25:31that you can do to change your life,
  626. 25:32guys. So, my suggestion is find somebody
  627. 25:35who started in a situation similar to
  628. 25:38yours and they got to a place similar to
  629. 25:41where you want to be. All right? It's
  630. 25:44not all about money, guys. Maybe you
  631. 25:46want to help people. Read about Mother
  632. 25:47Teresa, okay? Whatever it is, there's a
  633. 25:50book out there for it. And you, my
  634. 25:52friend, if you want to change your life,
  635. 25:54you must consume that information. So,
  636. 25:57that's your homework, guys. Find some
  637. 25:59writing by somebody who lived a
  638. 26:02situation similar to what you're in and
  639. 26:05got to a place similar to where you want
  640. 26:07to be. That is the best investment that
  641. 26:09you can make in yourself today. I
  642. 26:10appreciate you guys so much. Really hope
  643. 26:13you enjoyed this video.
  644. 26:14And guys, let me let me say one thing
  645. 26:16about videos like this. Usually, these
  646. 26:18ones are the videos of mine that get the
  647. 26:21least amount of views, but I don't care
  648. 26:23because part of
  649. 26:25my mission is not just about making
  650. 26:28money from views, growing my YouTube
  651. 26:30channel. Part of my mission is touching
  652. 26:32lives around the world. So, if you're
  653. 26:34still watching right now, I think that
  654. 26:37something I said might have touched your
  655. 26:39heart.
  656. 26:40And that's why I do this. That's why I
  657. 26:42make these kind of videos even though
  658. 26:44they don't pay me as much because, once
  659. 26:47again, guys, I'm not always thinking
  660. 26:49about how can I make money. All right?
  661. 26:53I'm thinking about how can I change
  662. 26:54lives?
  663. 26:56How can I share what I've been through
  664. 26:58to help somebody else? And that's what
  665. 27:00it's all about, guys. Because once you
  666. 27:02get a little further in your personal
  667. 27:04story, you could tell the people, "Hey,
  668. 27:07I did this. This is what you need to
  669. 27:09do." And the ones who seriously want it,
  670. 27:12they will grab onto what you say, hold
  671. 27:15it tight,
  672. 27:16absorb it into their heart and mind, and
  673. 27:19use it to change their lives. So, guys,
  674. 27:22that's what I wish for you.
  675. 27:24If you're not already,
  676. 27:26start investing a little bit more in
  677. 27:27yourself.
  678. 27:29And then one day you'll be able to give
  679. 27:31back and help others. You can change
  680. 27:33your whole world for yourself and your
  681. 27:34families.
  682. 27:35It's possible. People have done it. I'm
  683. 27:38doing it. And you could do it, too. I
  684. 27:40love you guys so much. See you in the
  685. 27:42next video.

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