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I'm 18 years old.
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I'm 18 years old.
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I make a little bit over $350,000 a month profit.
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As of this morning, I just hit 111,000 followers.
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I have a community with over 40,000 members in a custom software,
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which is rated 4.91 stars out of 5 stars from over 1,100 reviews.
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And one of the most common questions I get is,
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Undress, each of those individual things you've done are usually things that it takes people decades to learn.
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And you've done every single one of them together before you turned 18 years old.
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How?
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And it's because there's a list of specific things that I did
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that 99% of people don't do and would never even think of doing that can allow you to achieve in one year,
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like it did for me,
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what it usually takes other people decades to achieve.
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First thing, this is gonna be the theme of this entire video.
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And it does not mean what you think of me.
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It's finding your edge.
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You have to understand, there's only two ways really to get rich in this world.
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Number one, you either do something that other people are not willing to do,
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Or number two, you learn a skill that other people do not have.
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Those are the only two edges that you can have in this world.
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So let's start with doing things that other people are not willing to do.
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And the first rule that you need to understand
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and you need to live by for this is you can no longer be influenced by your parents
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or anybody else for that matter.
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From this point on, you are completely alone.
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And the reason why is because if you want to be exceptional,
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you need to be an exception.
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You not do what everybody else does.
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Now, this is a caveat that does not mean be a little fucking cunt to your parents because,
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and this is another very common issue,
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if you're a teenager or a young adult and you live with your parents and they pay for your food,
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they allow you to stay with them.
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You would not have a bed without them.
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You'd be homeless.
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You're basically a fucking toddler.
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Like obviously they can tell you what to do.
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They can tell you to do your dishes and do the chores and everything else because they basically control you.
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And that's your fault because you have not achieved success yet.
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But now let's get a little bit more tactical.
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There are natural barriers in the world
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that most people are not willing to cross that if you were willing to cross them,
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you naturally have an edge over them.
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For example, if you look at a lot of the embarrassing ass videos that people post on social media,
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or them walking up to people and doing street interviews,
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or them speaking on stages,
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most people are way too scared to do any of that stuff.
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And so naturally, if you're willing to do things that other people are not willing to do,
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for example, those embarrassing videos on social media,
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yeah, you might think that they're retarded,
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but you naturally have an edge because you've immediately put yourself into the 1%.
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That's one natural barrier.
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Another very common natural barrier is work ethic.
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Most people are not willing to work 16 or 18 hours a day.
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They are not willing to sacrifice their friends and their family and everybody that they know to achieve their goals.
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And so if you are willing to work harder than anybody else,
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you have a natural barrier that you can cross that again,
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puts you in the 1% in terms of doing things that other people are not willing to do.
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Third example, and I'll use streamers for this, take shock value.
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If you're willing to, and again,
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disclaimer, I'm not telling you to be racist or anti-symetic or any of the that are just bullshit.
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If you're willing to be like a streamer who says a lot of racist shit or really bad shit,
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again, you're willing to do things that other people are not willing to do.
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And so you're a lot more likely to blow up.
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Most people are too scared to do that because
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if they post one video of them being racist or whatever
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and it does not blow up Well great now you're unemployed for the rest of your fucking life
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And if you do not figure out how to go viral you will be starving on the streets
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But then you have the occasional guy like a clav
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or something who figures out how to do it Is able to actually monetize it
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and make a lot of money with it and get views and fame and everything else Because again,
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he's willing to do things
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that nobody else is willing to do easiest thing I can
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recommend is Number one do not be some dopamine infested motherfucker take a notebook,
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sit down and ask yourself,
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what am I willing to do that other people are not?
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I guarantee you there is something.
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I'll think of an example that a lot of people might have,
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for example, if you're willing to work out for let's say four hours a day or five hours a day,
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that is a natural edge.
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You could take that and you could be like,
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great, I wanna be a professional athlete.
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I wanna compete in bodybuilding shows,
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whatever it might be, if that's something you're willing to do.
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Another example, you could be like,
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great, if I can be in the gym for four or five hours,
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that means I have four or five hours where I could record gym content for social media.
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Most people who do gym content go to the gym, maybe what?
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Two hours, four times a week.
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So if you're able to naturally be able to post four times the amount of content that they do,
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again, that is a natural edge.
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That is a barrier you were willing to cross that they are not willing to cross.
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So you have your advantage.
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That is number one.
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Number two is a unique skill.
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Now, what you have to ask yourself for unique skill is what is something
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that is a massive industry or pays very well,
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or is essential to a business or a company or a corporation that is not taught in school.
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The reason why, if something is taught in school,
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that means that there are hundreds of thousands,
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if not millions of other people who know that same thing.
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And so now you're competing against millions of fucking robots to try
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and be 10% better than them so you can get paid a lot more.
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Everything is about finding your unnatural advantage,
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your delta, find the weak points in the system of things that are not widely taught,
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but are very monetizable.
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And the easiest way to even think of this is what are industries that move extremely quickly?
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Because if you know that school does not move quickly
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and the educational system has been the fucking same for hundreds of years at this point,
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everybody knows it.
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If you find an industry that moves very,
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very quickly, the school system is not able to keep up to date with those things that are developing.
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So think of a couple of examples right now.
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What is one extremely fast growing industry?
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The first one that pops in my head is AI.
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How much is AI taught in schools or in colleges?
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Not at all.
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Even though everybody knows how powerful it is.
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Even though everybody knows it's about to replace millions and millions,
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if not billions of jobs.
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And everybody knows this.
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Literally companies like IBM publicly stated 30% of their employees could be laid off for AI.
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Klarna, I think replaced 50% of their employees with AI.
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Fiverr, which almost everybody knows,
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last year in 2025 replaced 30% of their employees with AI.
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So everybody knows that power of AI and how many billions and trillions of dollars worth of market value it's replacing,
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but it's not taught in schools.
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So there's a massive Delta between the size of the industry
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and how fast it's growing compared to the amount of people who actually know it.
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That Delta, that difference right there is where you make a lot of money.
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That's your unique skill.
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Another example, social media, the transition to short form content, right?
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Over the past couple of years to a lot of people,
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it's like, oh, well, it's really obvious.
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Everybody's doing it.
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Well, guess what?
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Is it taught in schools?
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No. So there's a massive Delta there as well,
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where there's all these people consuming it,
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billions and billions of people consuming short form content.
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It's not taught in schools.
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And so if you can figure out how to do it effectively,
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you can blow up faster than anybody else.
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Another example, if I haven't given enough sales,
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which is the vehicle that I chose.
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If you look up the statistics,
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it depends on the study,
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but about one in every 14 employees in the United States is in sales.
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How much about sales and psychology and persuasion do they teach you in school?
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Almost nothing yet.
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That is one in every 14 employees in the United States of America.
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That's a massive Delta between all these people who have this job and nobody being taught it.
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And so if you start to learn it on your own,
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again, that is a natural advantage.
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That is a skill that nobody else has.
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So it's unique to you.
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And if you're thinking, oh,
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well, one in every 14 employees are in sales,
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they all have that skill.
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They do not have the skill.
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They're fucking shit at it.
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They just don't have anything else to do with their life because they're fucking useless.
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And so they go into sales.
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They don't know anything about it.
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They never get any training and they're shit.
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And so if you learn it,
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you have this natural advantage,
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this delta between the size of the industry that you're going after
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and the rate of growth of that industry compared to what?
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To how much it's actually taught in schools, in the educational system.
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And so then what you're probably wondering is, well, great.
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Now there's all these different skillsets
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that have these massive deltas between the size of the industry compared to how much it's taught.
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Which one do I pick?
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And this is where it comes back to finding your edge because you have to ask yourself,
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if you love speaking with people,
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for example, you have no social anxiety,
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then what is something that would be really, really good for you?
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Sales, maybe social media, going out onto the street,
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doing fucking public interviews, whatever it might be,
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because you have a soft skill,
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a natural edge in that domain.
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If you're somebody who loves math,
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for example, is very technical,
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loves operations, love understanding how systems work,
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then maybe you could get into a skill like operations for a company.
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How much is operations for a company and systems and AI tools taught in school?
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Zero, fucking zero.
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Maybe when you go into the master degree level,
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or maybe some very specific undergrad degrees and college diplomas,
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but in the majority, it's not taught whatsoever.
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Yet that is a massive industry.
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A company could not grow without good operations,
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without good systems in place.
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And so if you love mathematics,
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you love systems, you love understanding how things work technically,
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then rather than becoming a fucking software engineer that's underpaid because there's so many of them nowadays,
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then maybe you go, holy shit, let me understand operations.
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Let me understand AI tools and how they actually work.
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And then that becomes your natural advantage.
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The skill that you have that nobody else has.
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And so the second part of your fucking Buddha journal meditation is take out a piece of paper and write down,
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what are the soft skills that I have?
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Do I like talking to people?
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Do I have a lot of stamina?
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Do I love math?
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Do I love figuring out ways to be lazy?
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Even that is a soft skill.
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If you like figuring out ways to be lazy,
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you better get into fucking AI.
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Because if you don't get into AI,
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you're gonna be working like a bitch,
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like a fucking slave for your entire life,
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except you're not gonna be making any money doing it.
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So you might as well learn how to be efficient using AI
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so you can make a lot of money and still not have to work that much.
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Because then step three of this process is if you have something
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that other people are not willing to do and you have a unique skill and you combine both of them,
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you are guaranteed to succeed.
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You literally just have to do it for long enough and you will succeed.
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It is a guarantee in life.
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If your unique skill is social media,
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for example, because you love being outgoing,
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you love looking at analytics, whatever it might be.
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And you are willing to do it for six hours a day.
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When you get home from school,
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you're willing to stream for six hours a day, whatever it might be.
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You have a natural advantage in both of those things.
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And if you do it for a long enough period, you will succeed.
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This has literally been my formula for me.
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What did I do?
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I looked, what's my unique skill?
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Great.
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I'm good at talking to people.
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I don't enjoy it.
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I'm very introvert, but I'm fucking good at it.
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And I can read people insanely well.
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Then it was like, great.
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What am I willing to do that nobody else can do?
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I'm willing to drop out of high school and run away from home when I'm fucking 16 years old,
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I have the thing that I'm willing to do and I have a unique skill.
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And I fucking went at it until I became the number
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one rep in the largest P2C sales training company in the world.
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I was doing $40 million a year.
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And I was out collecting that team eight versus one by myself
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when I was 17 years old because I found my unique edge.
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Then after I dominated that and I was making all the money I could have ever dreamed of,
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then I went, great.
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What is another thing I can dominate?
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Just because I like fucking SideQuest.
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Well, social media.
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Are people willing to do that?
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Are people willing to post themselves online?
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No. People don't put themselves online.
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Most of it's just because they're fucking embarrassed like a little pussy about their friends judging them.
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Great, so now I have my skill.
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Now, what is something I'm willing to do that other people are not willing to do?
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Coming back to the same idea,
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I'm willing to work harder than anybody else.
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I'll record content for 16 hours in a day if I have to.
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I don't give a fuck.
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And number two, I'm willing to actually be myself.
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I'll say faggot online.
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I do not care.
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Most people are too scared to do that because then they're unemployable.
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Well, guess what?
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I don't need a fucking job.
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So sue me, I don't give a fuck, right?
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So you find your edge of what are you willing to do
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that nobody else is willing to do and you find your skillset and then you fucking push it.
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And then guess what?
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Seven months later, 100,000 followers.
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Then moving on to the third thing,
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I was like, how can I build the best product possible?
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It was already great.
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It was reviewed, I think like 4.8 stars out of five stars or something like that from like 500 reviews.
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I wanna make it even better.
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What is the edge that I have?
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Let's figure it out together.
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What skills do I have that other people do not have?
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AI.
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That is something that I sat down and I fucking mastered it.
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And I spent dozens and dozens and dozens of hours learning it.
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What is the other unique skill that I have?
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Well, sales.
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That's the fucking unique skill I had from the beginning.
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So I can teach that better than anybody else.
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What am I willing to do that nobody else is willing to do?
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I'm willing to put my own money on the line to hire a development team to build this software with me,
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even though I don't know if it's gonna work,
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even though I don't even know if people are gonna like it.
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And I'm not gonna find that out until I've already spent tens of thousands of dollars.
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So then what do I do?
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I put it all together.
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I build that custom-made software that leverages AI,
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gamification, everything else with this team,
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again, doing things that other people are not willing to do.
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And now if you look at the reviews, I'll pull it up.
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We have 40,000 people, 42,000 people in our group,
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and we're rated 4.91 stars out of five stars from over 1,100 reviews.
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Again, because I'm willing to do things that other people are not willing to do,
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and I have skills that they do not have.
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So I hope this video was helpful.
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I promise you, get the notebook,
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do the little Buddha meditation writing shit,
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and if you do it properly, your life can change.
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Context & Background
The speaker in the video shares an inspiring story about achieving remarkable success at a young age, illustrating how to excel in life more rapidly than most people. He emphasizes the importance of finding your unique edge—doing what others are unwilling to do and acquiring specific skills that set you apart. His insights can be transformational for English learners who seek to enhance not only their language skills but also their overall confidence in communication.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- "You need to find your edge." - This phrase encourages self-discovery and differentiation.
- "You are completely alone." - A reminder of personal accountability and independence in learning.
- "You have to cross natural barriers." - This highlights the necessity of overcoming fears and hesitations.
- "Be an exception." - Inspires learners to strive for excellence rather than conformity.
- "Willing to do what others won't." - Encourages boldness in pursuing challenges that lead to growth.
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To maximize your learning experience from this video and improve your English speaking skills, follow this practical shadowing guide:
- Watch the Video: Begin by watching the video in its entirety to grasp the speaker’s tone, intonation, and articulation.
- Listen Actively: Pause the video after each phrase and repeat what you hear. Focus on mimicking the speaker's rhythm and pronunciation to improve your English pronunciation.
- Use a Shadowing App: Utilize a shadowing app to practice speaking along with the video. This will allow you to engage in 'shadow speech' and reinforce your learning through interaction.
- Record Yourself: After practicing, record your voice. This will help you identify areas that need improvement and measure your progress over time.
- Repeat Regularly: Consistent practice is key. Make this shadowing exercise part of your daily routine to enhance your English speaking practice effectively.
By following this guide, learners can employ the principles from the video to not only enhance their English speaking skills but also to boost their confidence in public speaking and social interactions. Understanding the value of doing what others may fear will not just improve communication but enrich personal growth.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
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