Best of This Week: March 18th

yeah i feel like i could rule where i know i could be what i want to put at all in in like a days on on a road travel never look bag hello and welcome to my first million best of the week edition this is ben wilson best of the week brings you some of the best clips from this week's episodes no new content just highlighting some of the great moments we've had over the past few days we have some great clips for you today to start off with we got sam and on recap the mister beast interview on joe rogan and talking about the power of betting on yourself you you saw mister beast one on joe rogan i don't know if you caught the episode at all i didn't i i just a couple of the clips where they said like what do you do at your money and he's like not much because i i used to have a roommate up until recently and we split our place for seven hundred dollars but i got a fancier place because someone broke into my house so i need these like some security but it's still like pretty normal of a house yeah i didn't see so i've seen one clip and it was basically the clip of like how did you make it on youtube it's a great clip right like it's what he say so he goes so he's twenty three now and he goes i started doing this when i was eleven and joe's like what eleven he's yeah he's like i came home and i he's like i started doing this and i was eleven and he's like i sucked obviously at the beginning he's like so he's like he's like look at me now i don't look cool now like imagine me at like twelve like i was like you know pi you know bib face sc awkward mum kinda guy and like here i am trying to like make videos and he's like back then also youtube really there wasn't a thing like youtubers wasn't like a thing twelve thirteen years ago you know so it's like he's like yeah i just was doing it because i liked it he goes i hated school he's like i never he's like in high school i just never even brought a book home like i said he's like i remember doing zero studying my parents got so mad at me he's like and then like when i turned eighteen he's like he's like basically so his his went it went in three phases he goes from eleven to thirteen i was trying to make videos but i was like super embarrassed because it were so bad and joe was like are they do they still exist he goes no i deleted my channel when i turned their because like i got like i don't like bullied in school a little bit i felt embarrassed so i deleted all those videos but i like started fresh again at thirteen and like whatever i kept going he's like so then from thirteen to like seventeen or eighteen i was just trying to make like videos all the time because my first video randomly got like twenty thousand views he's said that was the best thing that ever happened to me i got like this instant hit and i was hooked and then like it didn't happen again for a while but like that first one which was about like he like hacked some video game like here here's it beat this level in a video game or whatever he's like some obscure game and it just like people wanted to know how to do that hack so that's how i got popular right away or he's like that's how that video got popular and then i got i wanted to chase that that that feeling again so he's like i wasn't making any anyone he's like finally i got appointment where i making a dollar a day and he's like yes and he's like so i saved up for like a few months and i bought a microphone and i was like yeah like now i sound good like here we go and he's like i just kept doing that kept like making it a couple bucks saving it and then buy a camera or buy like you know like a a better computer so i could like edit the videos or screen recorder or whatever and so he just kept doing that for like six years he's like my whole goal was that by the time i graduate from high school can i like just making enough money doing this because i don't wanna do anything else his did not his number so it did not happen he's like by the time i he's like but the time i graduated high school i was making like four hundred bucks a month or something like that and he's like you know it's a three hundred four hundred bucks he's like so my mom gave me this ultimate ultimatum i'm just like you know you're moving out or you're like going to community college like you're not gonna do this video thing and so he's like fuck okay i he's like didn't wanna go to community college just like it's like the worst thing in the world just sitting there and listening to this lecture like it's not what i wanted to do it's like so i started skipping things like every everyday i would just go to my car and instead of going to community college i just edit videos in my car he's like i do that all day and i come home and my mom thought i went to school he's like and he's like that created a clock because now she was gonna find out like by the end of the semester i had zeros as my grades like she was gonna know that i did not go to create college i had to like i bought myself like one semester more of time he's like and in that time i pulled it off like i got to the point where i could self sustain i just moved out and then i could like do this like full time moving on my own he's like i said that's kinda like the progression of how i did it and i like how how is that how awesome is it exactly like a bet on yourself story where burn the bridge behind you right so so you know you we say burned the british i don't know why we say burn the boats like if you wanna take the island and you gotta burn the boats and so he burned the boats when he when he did that and and knew what he wanted to do right because like school's great school's not for everybody if you if you kinda know what you wanna do you're much better off i think competing in the free market on that thing then like competing for your teachers like love and affection you know with writing the essay sa they want grade as an a plus right like writing the thing they want you to write about in the format they want you to write in a way that we'll get them to give you the grade right like that's like that's like not a real market whereas you make videos on youtube you're competing in like a real market or you wanna be an athlete yeah it it's just that most people think that they're like gonna do something for life and they aren't willing to or they don't actually want to i think i think the the ra here is not is someone eighteen and capable it's do they actually love what they're saying they love enough that they're willing to dedicate ten or twenty years to it right yeah do you you what i mean are you actually do you actually have a thing you love most of don't do not my i remember my sister when she was going to college my dad was like alright well what do wanna a major in she's like i don't know he's like what's your favorite subject like what do you love to study she's like lunch like you know i just like not i don't have anything against any of them but like do any of them make me happy not really so what now what and like i think that's how those people's careers go it's like alright well i hate it but i don't love it but now what what i was supposed to be yeah so i think that's severity here is that he actually they that he liked something enough but anyway that's a good story i'll have to go and watch his podcast alright next up we've got a segment from the kanye west episode where sam shawn are recap the new kanye documentary on netflix and by the way if you haven't listened to that episode you need to go back and listen to it if for no other reason than to hear sean's incredible impression of don west kanye mom it's just spun on it's incredible but on this clip they're actually talking about knowing who you are and what you want to do and how that enables you to achieve more which which by the way a lot of people forget do you realize how much he produced before he actually got famous now that's gonna crazy artist it's pretty crazy like the big one was h of the o right and there was like there's like dozens more i can't think of anything off the top of my head but there was dozen more where you like wait you did that and he did it before he had his own thing yeah exactly exactly it's and he was great at it and he's like he talks me he's said like yeah people want my oh i can i i get one can i get i need a be give me a beat he's like and then then they hear my son like oh i haven't heard this where'd you get he goes that's my shit i use that for me and he's like he's like trying to like on one hand he needs to sell beats to pay for life but every time he does it's a step away from where he wants to be in a way like to be a rapper so he's in this hallway and the this guy's trying hype him up because he's like oh you got the documentary crew he puts his arm around him it's like the the the the managing director at at rockefeller records and he's like you know this right here kanye west he's the best rapper producer in the game best rapper producer in the game period and then kanye is like alec upset hey and he's like what and he goes why you guys say that man that's like saying on the best kid rapper in the game he's like quiet man i say you're the best rapper producer in the game because i'm just a rapper if i'm the fiftieth best rapper just say he's the fiftieth best rapper don't call me the best rapper producing the game that's whack all them a whack i'm not that i'm a rapper and like think about what's going on that moment right he's like fighting to get a record deal where most people are in desperation mode like they'll take what they can get and instead he's got this identity and the whole world is trying to pull them to just be a producer because that's what's in it for them like that's proven and that helps you know helps them make hits and you know why aren't you just happy pat you on your head say you're a great producer and he has this identity in his head so strong that i think ninety nine people out of a hundred in his position would just become a producer because the whole world was pulling in that direction there was a faster we success and the money was there and the success was there and he didn't have to grind as hard as he did to try to prove himself as a rapper but he had in and said no i'm a rapper and if i'm the fiftieth best rapper i'd rather be the fiftieth best rapper than the best rapper producer and i just it was such an example to me of like people will stay consistent with their identity and so you kinda gotta ask yourself like what is my identity like if i said sam what's your job sam what do you do right now my job is i pocket i just say what like who are what do you do for work what do you do for a living i'm a business person okay you're a business person so if all of a sudden it doesn't matter what hubspot offers you right like okay you're vest out your deal you that's great well let's say any company comes here you to say sam we'd like to make you the vice president of marketing operations at biggest company in the world and you're gonna get this and that you're not gonna do it because it's not consistent with your identity you're like i'm i'm a business person i'm entrepreneur yeah so yeah entrepreneur i can't be an employee if i'm an entrepreneur there's just not they're two separate things and like in the same way you if you're not gonna do heroin because you're not you're somebody who doesn't do heroin you don't even have to weigh the pros and cons of it it's just really not a discussion for you it's not part of who you are it's not like i'm trying not to do it it's not i just i don't do that i do do this and i don't do that and so those lines you draw for yourself are so important on identity and i would argue so there's this book called four eight power have you read it no but i've heard of it alright it's awesome so he's got those one chapter where he says you always have to reinvent yourself and it gives a bunch of examples about that and the reason why you wanna reinvent yourself is the person who you can't peg down typically can become the most powerful because there's something about changing yourself that it does a couple things first this whole act as if thing it's real so if you like act like you're gonna be an expert artist or something and you work hard you can eventually become that but you kinda gotta act as if second it kinda reinforces habit it so you be like no i'm a healthy person therefore i don't do unhealthy things and third it gives you this aura of mystery and people who have mystery surrounding them typically are powerful right and and and there's a ton of good examples about this like a really interesting and easy one because she does it so clearly is lady gaga so like oftentimes she'll reinvent herself so at first she was this like kinda just normal like white lady plane on the piano if you see her like when she's a little bit younger then she becomes like this weirdo person where she like puts meat on her body then she transforms and becomes she starts playing jazz with tony bennett you're like what the heck hey guys doing that what the hell is that now she's like just got done doing some acting and she was a great actor so like constantly reinventing himself i think arnold sc has done a really good job at that just con yeah you just you've gotta reinvent yourself consistently and kanye has done that where he's actually changed himself and i think inventing reinventing yourself you actually need to make the decision you gonna be like i am this now i am the exactly that's then choose that identity and after a while then you could be like alright great i that season was this season had a beginning in the middle and now it's come to the end what's the next season of me and you can actually pick and choose what those inventions are and i've when i read that when i a little bit younger that kinda of changed my perspective on things last up we got a clip from the andrew wilkinson episode that's another legendary episode i know i sound like a broken record but another one you should go back and listen to and on this one andrew sam and sean are talking about why some people are able to have just success after success hit after hit and what enables that and what it takes to get to that place andrew i you've reached this point and i used to be like did these motherfuckers do this where i remember i was doing a startup and it was so hard to get my one thing to work and then i would meet people who were like oh yeah so i have that past success then i have my current success and then here's my three side successes that i had this idea and we just started doing it and then i guess what the lines out the door and then this other one it's like kinda of cool we just started it you know like i accidentally you know my hand just fell on my keyboard and i accidentally wrote this app it was amazing it went viral and this the other thing that i just tweeted about and then this all coming together nicely and i just remember being like what what do they know something i don't know is there just like extreme luck component and i felt that way for many years five six years straight when i was pushing the bold up the hill with my startup and then i now have experienced exactly what the thing on that i was most else and i have no idea what's switched in between where like the last five things i've tried have all worked and all worked pretty much immediately and then that it doesn't matter how big or small like you know whether it's like the the podcast or the course or you know the my e commerce business or my the new milk road newsletter business like each of these has just worked straight away in a bigger way than anything i've ever done before with less work and less stressed than like the old stuff i used to do and i have no idea what changed well i have it kind of inkling but i i don't really know same if your thought about this or are you what i'm talking about and what do you think i know i know exactly what you're talking about and i completely agree you're on a role right now and what's your inkling i i have a feeling my my my my answer is it's kinda like a shitty it's like a mindset like abundance at attitude and being on being on offense versus defense but what's your what's your what's your inkling so my inkling is that i switched up my situation so like i was in one situation for a very long time like and it was a nice situation it was very nice situation but it was like where i was going to this office every day working with these people in this hierarchy with this boundary box of like what project or projects we can work on and like what success might look like and as soon as i got out of that and i was just me i was like oh okay so now that it's was just me that i have to look out for i guess i could just do a podcast i didn't have to have like this big venture billion dollar outcome i didn't have twenty engineers to go tell what to do i had no engineers so i just did what i could do with no engineers which was like i'll do a podcast i'll do of course i'll do i'll just try to get big on twitter let's see what happens and oh you know like five tweets go viral and boom got two hundred thousand followers it's like there's these things that i just wasn't doing before because i think before i had a really set thing of like here's what i need to do like here's the only way to win and i had like almost too much ammo i had like too many people at my disposal of too much funding too much everything and because of that i had a very narrow window of what could work and so i was just trying to come up with ideas that might work versus oh let me just try this because i i'm i just kinda wanna try it and then when once i got into i just kinda wanna try it and i didn't have i didn't have to worry about what other people thought or i didn't have to come in and manage anybody in that day and tell them what to do i didn't have like investors to go pitch two i just did the thing and then all of a sudden i feel like you know sort of like all the talents that in skills that i had been building up over the past ten years like finally got to just do them yeah but you think it's like dating or something though where like you you know you did a couple crazy girls and it's really exhilarating and then over time you're like wow that was horrible and there's pattern matching you're like okay when i go to a restaurant and a girl's rude to the waiter that's a no right and in the same way with business you go oh okay like i used to think i want to build all these kinds of businesses but those were ten foot hurdles i don't wanna jump ten foot hurdles i wanna jump one foot hurdles and so if you think about it all the stuff you're doing they're in your you know circle of competence and they're relatively simple x cute they don't require a lot of people they don't require funding i think learning that is like a fifteen year overnight success kind of thing where just click suddenly right and i'll catch myself occasionally getting pulled down rabbit trails of like cute oh what if i did this crazy you know drone ai start up whatever but then i always go back to base hits and there's this third component of of confidence and so i think that because of like my work i've bit more confident and i understand like well if i invest a dollar here i think i can make at least three dollars the next two years so like just understanding how machines like money making machines work investments but then also i think sean because that we get to hang out with we hang out with each other we hang out with andrew we hang out with our circle of friends we hang out with all the people we've had speak at our events we hang out with our podcast guests it becomes more normal like succeeding has become far more normal than not succeeding actually and not succeeding is just like oh yeah it's gonna happen but then you just move on and do the next thing and it's like and then inevitably it works so it's not if it's or it's not when it's if and i think that confidence has actually helped a ton where so for example now if someone wants to like real estate in a an an easy one because it's so predictable but with real estate you're like oh man i'm putting a hundred thousand dollars down on this house is a lot of money that's a you know that's six figures it's like well dude but it's gonna make twelve percent like well i don't know that and i'm yeah i know but it's gonna do that so you you actually wanna invest more so like that confidence of just knowing the motions and knowing the routine and process has actually helped a lot alright that's it for this week thanks very much for tuning in and have a great weekend bye i feel like i could rule word i know i could be what i want to from at all in it like a day's off on a goal travel never looking back