You Don't Need a Job First — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, Adam, I'm 22, want to build a
2. 0:01multi-million dollar business, should I
3. 0:02start now, feel forward and learn on the
4. 0:04way, or spend one year just building
5. 0:05skills, cash, and clarity?
6. 0:06To me, those are one in the same. Um
7. 0:09like you will build skills by failing.
8. 0:12So,
9. 0:13I would try and try and do stuff.
10. 0:17Just being real. Like, do stuff,
11. 0:19uh learn from it, and if you can make
12. 0:22money while you're doing it, great. I
13. 0:23think that for many people, one of the
14. 0:25the wild like
15. 0:26a huge leg up that you can have is
16. 0:28working 1 to 3 years in the industry
17. 0:30that you want to get into. Like,
18. 0:32I think there's just there's huge upside
19. 0:34there because you don't even know what
20. 0:35you don't know, and you learn so many
21. 0:36like
22. 0:37default ways of operating because when
23. 0:39you have to
24. 0:40>> [clears throat]
25. 0:41>> I'll give you an analogy. So, imagine
26. 0:43you've got
27. 0:44a pile of bricks, right? So, you've got
28. 0:47this pile of bricks.
29. 0:48All right, let's say that these bricks
30. 0:50represent, you know, stuff that you can
31. 0:52use to build. This is going to be a
32. 0:53terrible pile of bricks, but whatever.
33. 0:54Okay? And someone says, "Go build me a
34. 0:56building." Right?
35. 0:59So, you then try and assemble these
36. 1:03bricks in a in a hundred different ways.
37. 1:05And the thing is it's like, if you don't
38. 1:06have directions on how to assemble those
39. 1:08bricks, you're not going to know what
40. 1:10assembly is the correct one for a
41. 1:11building. And so, the thing is is that
42. 1:13if you have an ideal building in mind,
43. 1:15right?
44. 1:17Then there may be
45. 1:18a few ways that you can correctly
46. 1:20assemble the bricks to get a building,
47. 1:22but there's going to be way more ways to
48. 1:23not assemble the bricks to make a
49. 1:25building. And so, for me, I'd rather
50. 1:27just like kind of like if you're
51. 1:28building a building, like you're
52. 1:30building an IKEA desk, right? If you
53. 1:32don't have the directions and you have
54. 1:33the pieces, you might eventually figure
55. 1:35it out, but it's so much it takes so
56. 1:38much more time than having a model to
57. 1:40look at because you automatically know
58. 1:42you're like, "Okay, well, first thing
59. 1:43I'm going to do is I'm going to separate
60. 1:43my tools over here, I'm going to put my
61. 1:45screws over here, and then I'm going to
62. 1:45put my my blocks over here. Great." So,
63. 1:47it's the first thing. That's what you
64. 1:48do. And then after that, you're like,
65. 1:50"Okay, I'm going to look at this
66. 1:51picture. There's got these four legs."
67. 1:52And you're like, "Okay, let me put the
68. 1:53leg number Let me flip it upside down.
69. 1:54Let's put like one leg, two leg, three
70. 1:55leg, leg four." And you're like, "Okay,
71. 1:56it's almost looking like a table." But
72. 1:58if you have no idea and you've never
73. 1:59built a table before or you didn't build
74. 2:00anything before,
75. 2:01then it's way harder to do. And so
76. 2:03that's why I think I would recommend
77. 2:04make money,
78. 2:06earn, and learn.
79. 2:09One to three years. Like my first thing
80. 2:10out of college, and like college is
81. 2:11different now than it was then, but like
82. 2:13like I did college for three years, and
83. 2:15then I worked for two years, and then
84. 2:18the next thing I did is I still didn't
85. 2:19even start immediately. I then um
86. 2:22started as like an apprentice at a gym
87. 2:24cuz I wanted to get in the fitness
88. 2:25business. So I went to a successful gym
89. 2:26and I was like, "Hey, can I like work
90. 2:27for free? Can I mop the floors?" And I
91. 2:28was like a white-collar consultant. So I
92. 2:30went from making I think
93. 2:32I actually don't remember what I made. I
94. 2:33know I had $50,000 in savings. Uh the
95. 2:36reason it's like unclear is because I I
96. 2:37got paid on contracts. It was like very
97. 2:39lumpy. Anyways. Um
98. 2:42But anyways, I uh
99. 2:43he then basically started paying me
100. 2:45minimum wage
101. 2:46um to follow him around. But like an
102. 2:48amazing ROI for me because he was like,
103. 2:50"Oh yeah, like email marketing." And I
104. 2:52was like, "What's that?" And he was
105. 2:53like, "Oh, it's this whole thing,
106. 2:54right?" And again, YouTube wasn't really
107. 2:56like around the way that
108. 2:58when I started doing this. Um and so I
109. 3:00had to had to learn the hard way. So
110. 3:02that being said, hopefully that helped
111. 3:04uh for Adam in terms of thinking about
112. 3:06what to do.