"What If No One Else Believes in Me?" — Transcript

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1. 0:00You get lucky by staying in the game
2. 0:02long enough for luck to find you.
3. 0:06You cannot beat someone who has already
4. 0:08decided that they will do whatever it
5. 0:09takes for as long as it takes. And so
6. 0:12that person, if anyone could do it, it
7. 0:15might as well be you.
8. 0:16At least that is how I think through
9. 0:18these things.
10. 0:19Because there's there's really only one
11. 0:21belief that you need to win,
12. 0:24which is belief in your ability to
13. 0:25figure it out.
14. 0:27That's it.
15. 0:29Start, and you'll figure out the rest.
16. 0:32Because sometimes you have to be the
17. 0:34only one who believes in you. And we are
18. 0:36rewarded as entrepreneurs and human
19. 0:38beings
20. 0:40for believing in ourselves more than
21. 0:41other people do.
22. 0:43Like that is that is the gift that we
23. 0:45get. And that is why entrepreneurs earn
24. 0:48disproportionately more
25. 0:51than others.
26. 0:52And not all entrepreneurs. In fact, the
27. 0:54vast majority of entrepreneurs make
28. 0:56less.
29. 0:57But
30. 0:59there are a select few entrepreneurs who
31. 1:01make significantly more. And it's
32. 1:02because they were able to stick with the
33. 1:04uncommon path for an extended period of
34. 1:07time long after it made sense reasonably
35. 1:11for them to stop, said no to imaginary
36. 1:14opportunities in their minds, and were
37. 1:16willing to make trades that other people
38. 1:17were not.
39. 1:19And so right now,
40. 1:21like everything that we want in our
41. 1:23lives
42. 1:24is a few trades away
43. 1:26from where we currently are. It's just
44. 1:28that the trades that we have to make are
45. 1:30trades that are so deeply embedded in
46. 1:32our belief system that we don't even see
47. 1:34them as possibilities.
48. 1:37And so one of my favorite quotes of all
49. 1:38time comes from Orson Scott Card. He's
50. 1:40the He's the writer of Ender's Game.
51. 1:41This is my adaptation, so paraphrasing.
52. 1:44We believe Sorry. We question all of our
53. 1:47beliefs except for those that we truly
54. 1:50believe. And those we never think to
55. 1:52question.
56. 1:53And so the reason that sadness is is
57. 1:55lack of options is means that we have
58. 1:57beliefs that we are that are so deeply
59. 1:59ingrained in us that we aren't even
60. 2:01cognizant. We are not even conscious of
61. 2:04the fact that we believe these things so
62. 2:06deeply because they are so embedded in
63. 2:08our reality that we cannot see reality
64. 2:10without them.
65. 2:11And this is why like a great amount of
66. 2:13my time has been dedicated to to
67. 2:15defining terms and defining words so
68. 2:17that I could try and see reality more
69. 2:19clearly.
70. 2:21And I think that if you see someone
71. 2:23who's able to consistently get what they
72. 2:25want,
73. 2:27it's because they're able to make better
74. 2:29trades or better bets than you are.
75. 2:32And so it is always worth learning from
76. 2:33anyone
77. 2:35who gets what they want
78. 2:37because you can model aspects of their
79. 2:39behavior and then more importantly
80. 2:41aspects of the weights that they put on
81. 2:44decision-making to predict outcomes.
82. 2:47Cuz the better you get at that, the more
83. 2:49you get what you want.
84. 2:51And if you don't have what you want,
85. 2:52then that is the skill deficiency. It's
86. 2:54that you do not see reality as it is,
87. 2:55you see reality as you want it to be,
88. 2:57which is not reality. It is distortion.
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