Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison & Hitler

that is what all all of them did that's what napoleon did that's what hitler did that's what caesar did is this like taking tons of resources and focusing them on a very small point and taking lots of gravity and to kinda narrowing focus hey my first million pants this is producer ben i'm sub in this week because sean is out with some family stuff but for one question friday today sam and i sat down to discuss how to take over the world and things that i have learned from studying lives of great achieve and conqueror throughout history and sam and i just got to talking about history and great people in our own lives and what we've learned from them so it's a little bit of a more random and less focus one question friday but i think there's some really good stuff in it that i think you'll really enjoy so i asked you traits of conqueror and the reason i'm thinking about that is i just finished this like epic book it's like fourteen hundred pages long it's called the what is it called the i think it's the rise and fall of the third right have you heard of that yeah mh so it's kinda one of the seminal texts on hitler nazi use them yes and it's crazy and i was reading it and i was like this is nuts that the reason i read it was i wanted to figure out why would why would like a country you know be so comp with such bad things and i was like what on earth was about this hitler dude that like convinced all these people to do all these these bad things and so i learned and it was wild and i started and basically it all kinda came down to like he was in prison one time because he like tried to like basically was a glorified protest like i do he kinda like stormed the it was like storming the capital kind of like type of thing and he was arrested for it and in prison he wrote his book called mine comp and in the book he wrote like i've i've recently discovered that it is my obligation to lead the german people to greatness and he like dedicated his life to that and it was wild that there was like a decision to be made and like it was almost perfect execution i you know it wasn't in the end because he didn't achieve his whatever he was trying to achieve but like he got so freaking far so past what like what i ever would've have thought and at the time when when nazis came to or right before they came power they were the the freaks of germany like at the time they were like they had a lot of homosexual in their in in the crew which was like not looked on nicely you know at that time they had like a bunch of artists a bunch of like odd balls people who are like had a lot of anti social behavior like they dressed funny like people who are like who these guys are a joke who no one have take these idiots seriously and you know it changed quickly and so anyway i thought that i was fascinating about conqueror and like these types of people and like how on earth they they came to be and so i wanted to ask you like what are some common traits amongst those do you feel weird learning lessons from the life of hitler no because i i well i'm not necessarily learning a lesson that i wanna emulate like but that said i do think you can learn good lessons from bad people like that's you definitely can learn a good lesson from a bad person that there's no doubt about that like you can look and and and like i i mean everyone's bad in someone's eyes but like i can read about napoleon and learn about like war strategy and apply that to like business so i i can i can always learn good lessons from bad people but i do i just wanted to learn like why did we do this why did so many people go along with this crap so here here's the thing here's a lesson i learned from sean mister beast and hitler okay there's your head my but so here's a this so this was so fascinating to me so we're we're do this camp m thing and we're at cameron indoor stadium and they decide to do a half court shoot off between sean and mister beast for ten thousand dollars right and sean basically mister beast goes sean if you make a shot at half core i'll give you ten thousand dollars and sean goes well you give me ten grand and bitcoin he goes sure let's do it so yeah i think in the end told him that he could give him ten grand actually in pennies i don't know if he ended up doing that we're not but so they're going to go start shooting a half court and sean turns to the camera and does his c like he's joking around mister beast impression and he goes i'm about to shoot from half court with mister beast and which whichever one of us makes it first is gonna make ten thousand dollars right totally handing it up kinda of poking fun of himself right the funny thing is when we post the video it actually popped off when went viral on tiktok his little really yeah yeah that was one of our videos that is i think in the millions of views if not it's in the hundreds of thousands views on on r and on tiktok and what it realized in my mind what it what clicked to my mind when i saw that is oh like it's actually not that hard to figure out what you're supposed to do to be successful in this kind of stuff just very few people are willing to commit to the bit fully right like mister beast fully commits to the bit like he actually does that every time it looks at the camera i'm about to give a hundred thousand dollars away so these people if they he a cockroach or whatever he says right and he fully commits to it and hitler is the same thing like you go and you watch those speeches and he's ridiculous right he's just he's yelling he's screaming but he like fully committed to being hitler to like representing you know german greatness and and the arr race or or whatever but like he didn't care he ever thought he looked ridiculous outside of germany right like tons of people mocked and made fun of hitler he was very mock very easy to make fun of and you can easily make fun of mister beast thing he does sorry mister bi for comparing you to hitler but like the idea of just like throw away your shame and embarrassment whatever you're trying to do just fully commit to the bit and you're gonna be really successful i think that's very true dude i and i wanna talk about like other people and what they had in common but like the like i was like emotional reading this thing so basically joseph go is is a go ge is that he was like head of propaganda and this guy like if you google them him he looks like the most evil person on earth and he he's he was a horrible guy and he wrote in a journal throughout this whole process like he was journal like crazy so his book cited his journal and they tell the story of basically hitler has just killed himself and joseph go gi and his wife have i think five or six kids and they write in their diary and tell people they're like well we're gonna go and kill our kids right now then we're gonna kill ourselves because us and our children belong to the fear to the third reich and if the third reich won't exist we do not deserve to exist either and i like i was like that's just like the worst crime i mean i don't know about the worst because they did so many horrible things but the i mean they just went and killed their their children six of them all below twelve years old and i was like this is the power that charisma or whatever it was had over people that like they they went and committed i mean all they obviously we killed or not we but they killed five or six million people there it was horrible but like that act is even more intimate in some regards and i remember reading that i'm like holy crap i cannot believe that this person this evil guy got all these people to do this crazy shit it was that was one of the more emotional periods of that book yeah that's tough that's tough okay look let's talk a little bit like kind of military strategy and good strategy like let's let's pivot from the darkness a little bit so common attributes of great conqueror so one of the things that i think is interesting have you heard of blitz creek it basically it's a it's a german thing where it says like when they attacked they they kinda go all out for short periods right like the opposite of what world war one was wasn't it yes so it means lightning attacks or lightning strikes and the idea is it's these short quick like attacks before you know you shock the enemy and and go go faster than they expect what's interesting to me is that blitz creek is was sort of a marketing stunt it wasn't anything that the nazis talked about internally it's really something of was like an american invention to explain german success what the germans actually talked about was this word oh i can't remember the word in german but it essentially means gravity looking it up sc hunt and i and it means gravity and so it wasn't just that the attacks were fast although they were but it was actually like masked strikes so they attacked fast yes but they were able to sustain that attack and follow up on it for a long time which is actually the same thing that napoleon did so in the napoleonic wars before he came along people are stretching out their troops further and further to triumph their enemies and then he's like well if everyone's gonna do that i'm actually just gonna pack all my troops in the middle and then like punch a hole in the middle of their minds and i think like to go back to the amazon example like i think that has big applications in business as well of well haven't you heard the phrase blitz scale there you go that's reid hoffman right yeah yeah of it's not just going fast although the fast is important but it's that like focusing tons of resources on a a small focal point so i like to go back to the amazon example it's it's starting with bookstores right starting with just books like i'm gonna take tons of resources and just focus on this tiny place and then follow up on that victory i'm gonna win books first and then we're gonna follow up on that with with other marginal victor yeah yeah and so that was interesting to me that like so that is what all all of them did that's what napoleon did that's what hitler did that's what caesar did is this like taking tons of resources and focusing them on a very small point taking lots of gravity and to kinda narrowing the focus i i that was one interesting takeaway from me what else did they did they have that they did a lot of like conqueror which i don't i don't know even know how we would define a conquer but there's like the stereotypes of like a napoleon i don't know like what would a a good american leader example this would be but like whoever we describe it as what what what else do they have in common or even the business people like a edison or something yeah i mean so for me the number one you know you mentioned edison and the one i think i think of is total obsession right with edison the big thing that clicked for me was he was inventing so much that he was basically not eating he's super skinny super gone he wasn't washing his clothes he smelled bad he was barely sleeping he would like invent and tinker until he fell asleep at his work bench and then he like wake up in the morning and like start inventing again his family was worried about him and i was like oh man like substitute inventing for meth heroin and it'd be very clear that this guy was an addict that he was a junkie and i that's when it clicked for me oh all of these people who are super successful have addictive personalities it just so happens that they're addicted to something that is considered positive what's that way you think realize people how they born this way i think so and if you look at the numbers people who achieve a lot ceos you think that like they don't have problems of substance abuse right because these are highly functioning people but it actually turns out that they have higher rates of addiction and substance abuse than the general population when they study it and so i think they are born with this propensity to addiction and they're the kinds of people that like they could end up you know conquering a a vast european empire or they get hooked lot in them when they're like a teenager and end up a junkie on the streets right like they're gonna end up addicted to something let's just hope it's something pause dude have you read have you ever read heard of this book called the first rate madness i think it's called no so this author has this premise where he was like in times of like stability a non mental ill mentally ill leader is needed but in times of turmoil which includes like the american civil war or includes like someone who's was like trying to dominate and conquer or it includes like ml k you know trying to like during the civil rights movement is like a non or sorry a mentally ill leader during those periods is actually ideal and they tend to be better and the author explains like well first let's define mentally ill and it's like a propensity to like be addicted to drugs and alcohol or like huge bout of depression or in lincoln's case he actually tried to kill himself like two or three times before he became president or churchill churchill was like i've thought about killing myself a ton but i'm just too big of a sis in order to do it but like i and so and and he became out he was an alcoholic and so like they basically just talk about how the great great leaders during troubled periods majority of them have mental illness yeah and this is something again to go back to mister beast that you i don't i actually don't know if i i'll just say this and we'll see if i should cut it or not but i was talking with him and he was like yeah i can't really gamble because i'm kind of a gambling addict and he talked about like i don't know what i say that the name of the game highly addict crypto gambling site that he would be wage like tens of thousands of dollars on yeah man i i i well that's no secret though i people who are who get there they are and that's what i realized is that for for him youtube is another form of gambling right because like you put out the video and who knows how it's gonna do and then you get that dopamine hit of like oh this got fifty million views like it's very similar that variability the way that the algorithm can pick it up make anything go viral it's just it's just as gambling addiction put into something positive right and so i think that's very much exactly what you're saying that for a lot of these people in normal circumstances they can't just chill and be happy and be normal they have to be like running at such a high lovely they have to be running at a ten at all times and that's good i remember circumstances but not in normal circumstances i don't even wanna talk about mister beast that much because we've like kinda of like done that plenty but i remember at like eleven pm at night someone mentioned basketball and how excited he was to play basketball and jimmy he goes let's just go right now and we're like what dude it's like eleven o'clock no one he goes yeah yeah let's figure it out and as he said that his assistants were calling high school gyms trying to wake up like the principles and being like hey i'll give you five grand if we can come my basketball right now and i was like what no dude i don't wanna do that it sounds like hell but but he was serious he wanted to go do it yeah yeah it was weird it was crazy who who have you met besides him that you'd put in that category of these like obsessed like almost conquer types whatever whatever we're calling this this personality type who have you met that kinda has that gene other than him you i think you kind of have a screw loose in that way like look at the way you approach fitness like you have trouble dipping your toes into things yeah that's for sure and you've talked about your you're you haven't addicted personality as well and i do it but yeah i think i definitely am crazy i think though that i don't have the drive like i i am a little bit more self aware where i'm like no i don't wanna do that that sounds too hard but yeah i i am definitely crazy in in the obsession regard yeah yeah our software is the worst have you heard of hubspot see most see are a cobb together mess but hubspot is easy to adopt and actually looks gorgeous i think i love our new crm our software is the best hubspot grow better i'll give you one yeah you give me one do you know who tucker max is yeah so tucker max is this author he's my friend i haven't talked to him in a while but i used to be buddies with them and he's an author he wrote a i hope they serve be hell now he has a company and lately he's taking kind of like a fairly right turn or i don't know what you wanted to call it where he like writes these articles predicting that the world's gonna end and i don't agree with anything that he says about that type of thing i mean i agree that like okay cool prepare and be like self sufficient but i don't think the world's gonna end and and i disagree with so many of his point of views but whenever i hang out with him and i hear him talk in my head i'm like i think you are wrong i think you're wrong i think you're wrong and yet i find myself by like like fighting myself from buying into what you are saying even though logically i'm like no that's i don't believe that that's true for these following reasons but when i get around them i'm like dude you like are so confident you are such a good storyteller you have such strong energy driving you into one direction it's sucking me in and so i would find myself having to like pinch myself on like like dude did you guys snap out of it and tucker max has that hardcore and if you read his writing anything even it comes to his writing you'll read something and you'll say oh this is totally right and then i gotta go in like read something that's the opposite like oh well there are counter points yeah yeah i so i just thought of one that's a little like i guess off the wall his name name's alan oaks he was on circuit court of appeal who's one of the highest judges in the united states was on the shortlist to be on the supreme court for reagan but then didn't become a supreme court justice ended up becoming an apostle for the church strategic christ saints is now the number two person in the church is set to take over the church probably in a few years when i found interesting is i i think that was the first time i met him when i was like sixteen that i encountered true charisma and it felt different than i thought it would feel because when i talked to him he talked to me for like ten minutes unbelievably charmed me like i couldn't believe it but the impression i had coming away was wow i'm so smart because he was so good at i don't wanna say manipulating but like at playing on my feelings and just being like wow that's really interesting what you know and just kinda like getting me to feel comfortable and d information about myself and like focusing all his attention on me that i came away and i was like man i'm super special and i think that's what truly charismatic people do people think that it's like inward but it almost goes the opposite direction of like somehow they're able to make you feel like you're the special one and and then you like get like drunk on that almost totally i've been i used to work for this guy named john cops john ran this company called apartment list they bought my other business and i don't know how big they are now maybe it's like a hundred they've raised maybe one or two hundred million dollars of funding and like they're probably gonna go public or i i at that's what they have to do and this guy i was only twenty two when i work there and he would give these talks at the office and i'm like oh my gosh i believe that i am and we weren't even doing anything interesting it was just like a zillow competitor which is like not exactly the most sexy thing we're not saving the earth we're not going to the moon like there's nothing like it's just a cool money making scheme and a slightly better way to maybe find an apartment in some cities and i remember like hearing him talk and i'm like i am so we are we are democrat housing and like we are like i am so on board with this we are making people's lives so much better and like it we owe it to the world to do this and he has just shown me that it is possible and you begin to think that rules don't apply to you and you say it's us versus everyone which is a common tactic and a cult and you should always do this in a good company which is you have you and then you have the enemy and everyone's out to to on the enemy side and it's us versus them and you have to create that dynamic and also i felt with him whenever he would give these talks on a friday we we used to have this thing where friday at four he would give a talk and i remember taking like rules don't apply to us like yeah and i am and i've heard stories about travis ka at uber and i remember people it was like the same thing they were like breaking laws and they're like there there it wasn't these laws we shouldn't be breaking them it was these laws shouldn't exist and they are wrong and we need to prove to them that they are wrong you know what i mean and i remember hearing that and that you're just getting intoxicated with it yeah you know who's who's pretty good at this i i found the from camp m fm is sue your friends so yeah just like when i was talking to him i think he kinda brain raped me a little bit like why at the end i don't know i just at the end he just was like so interested in me and then i was just like did i just tell sue like everything about my life and like everything does that yeah and like and he won't tell you a thing about his no yeah i was like how is it like you're the multimillion millionaire like you have the successful business that you sold like you did done all this impressive stuff like we just spent twenty minutes talking about me and like you know everything about it and i don't know anything about you at the end of this how did this happen he's so good at i don't know yeah he's good at it so is ben levy sean's partner sean he's he's really good at that man ben and i always call ben shark but he's not actually a shark because he doesn't mean he's not gonna like harm you probably maybe i don't know i don't think so but he like he's so good where i'll have to stop myself about dude shut the fuck up i don't you don't need to tell guy all this shit like it's good to be private it's about some stuff and he's so good at getting stuff out of getting stuff out of you he's really good at that yeah so yeah those people they they are good at that they let's another guy is who i found myself getting like intoxicated with there's a couple people sam bank freed you know the guy from what's this what what the the you know big bitcoin what what's his company called f f what is it right f t x and me is all another one i think anyway f t x when i hear him talk i just think like oh you're right about everything like i don't wanna i like i can't have in a it's hard for me to understand anything than other than what you believe because you've just logically shown to me that this is all true even though i'm like you have to remind i to remind myself like this guy's is just a twenty nine year old smart guy which is cool and all but like it's just a guy he's he's just a dude he's still figuring out just like i am but i will hear him talk and them i bind into everything he's saying and another good person is malcolm glad well if you ever read a malcolm glad book you'll think oh everything you're saying is facts in reality a lot of it's just theories and he'll say this is just my this is just a theory based off of the data who knows if i'm right or wrong this is just an idea but i'll read his stuff and i think oh this is this is just how the world is and my takeaway from that is storytelling is so important it's so important i i think that malcolm glad is full crap most of his stuff is like it was little to no value anyone who asked me how to do storytelling i'm like just go listen to malcolm glad podcast and analyze every single sentence like it doesn't matter what you think of what he has to say i think he's is the generation most gifted storyteller teller and it's like not close dude so good he's so good he's unbelievable he's unbelievable he gets you intoxicated is what he does do you feel like this into and you feel like of course this is the answer what you were saying is true and i have to purposely go and seek out like other opinions to be like well you know i gotta remind myself this isn't necessarily true it might be but maybe not og has this good quote david og like a very famous copywriter and advertiser that the job of the first sentence is to get you to read the second sentence and job second sentence is to get you to read the third sentence and if you read glad with that lens that framework in mind he's such a master like the first sentence of every podcast is independently extremely engaging and interesting and it gets you to listen to second sentence which is itself extremely engaged in like every single sentence is a masterpiece that gets you to go into the next sentence everyone should read it everyone should read and listen to as much glad well as as they can do what's name of his pod i forget it's called something history revision history yeah it's good man and he does he does a really good job of voice inflection it it doesn't sound like it my voice is fairly aggressive his voice is like soft and welcoming and like warming and so his inflection aren't like when sean and i talk and then we like it down low and then we and we come right back up it's way more subtle yeah but and everything he says is like i was kind of a whisper but he's but but he like knows how to use empty space and silence and then he knows how to come back in and lead you down and he get you to come a little bit more and then he'll break it to you know what i mean like these things and i like i tripping it's called the slippery slope that's what i call same in the slippery slope is my name for that copywriting concept of the first sentence is to get you to read a seconds which is get you read a third that's a slippery slope i wanna pull you down that slope because the further i pull you along the more bought in you get and if you read like a tony robbins book he'll say like i'm about to tell you about one thing that's gonna change your life and he'll spend the rest of that chapter saying we're we're we're about to get to it we're getting to it soon but before we do i need to tell you why it's important and then like there's a reveal at the end and oftentimes that reveals a little bit anti anticlimactic but you're so deep down the slippery slope that you just you're you're bought in and so that's what malcolm glad does wonderfully he gets me to go down this slope and he pulls me down and a lot of the great dictators and ceos and these like leaders both good and bad they were awesome at being orders which is something we don't really talk about anymore but like obama was like that where i was like i heard obama talk and i'm like dude whatever you say yes i like this it's s productive almost like deduct it it's s inductive which the the root of all this is learning how to write well and how does story tell and then if possible how to speak how to speak it can can i talk about one more attribute that actually you and sean have done a good job with recently on getting me on me about is this idea of like bias to action so for me my favorite story about this is napoleon comes into command of oh the french army in italy and it's just been sitting there for months and the the reason is they have they don't have enough guns they don't have enough ammunition they don't have enough shoes they don't have enough clothes they're like horribly under supplied the morale is low and so the general for napoleon is like we cannot they're fighting the austrians we cannot go give battle to the austrians like this we're in a horrible state and napoleon comes in and he's like okay so today i'm going to take account of everything that's happening in this army you're gonna give me an accounting of exactly how many shoes we have well the status of everything and tomorrow we're gonna march to go fight the austrians and they're like this is a horrible idea like you should not do this this army is in no shape to fight and he's basically like yeah isaac newton an object at rest stays at rest and object in motion stays in motion and so like i don't care we're going to go attack and so they go out they attack they score cheap easy victory and then they're just rolling right and then they roll through italy and kick the crap out of the austrians in like a matter of weeks and so you know i've been talking to you and sean about doing better with how to take over the world and and getting bigger and i'm just like man i have all these problems i like i need more researchers any more writers because i have to do all this research to in both of you were just kinda like bullshit like no you don't just put stuff out like just put out more episodes what's wrong with you just put out more episodes and and so that's something i've been focusing on is like it's so easy to focus on all the inputs on like getting everything ready on planning on preparing and this biased to action of like no no every single day you need to be taking steps that have measurable outcomes that advance your goals forward you need to be doing and you need to have a bias towards doing those things rather than planning and preparing dude and a good example of that is like only six months ago or something so we were fairly popular sean for some reason because he's always a little disorganized his microphone wasn't working and he's like fuck i'm just gonna use my airpods and we're like alright fine and he pushes his airpods in and only one of them worked and the other one didn't even work it was for some reason that it was out of battery he goes we're just like screw it we're gonna record this shot with just your webcam at your one airpods so that airpods is gonna be your microphone and you're like how you could hear me talk he's like yeah let's do it versus waiting twenty minutes for taking get charge we're like no we can't wait we have to do it right now we have to go and i think that that is the way to go i i think that the world wants you to be vanilla the world wants to make everyone vanilla and they want you to be safe and that means planning planning and so so many people write on their goals for the day i bet you there's a of people listening they have one task today which says plan workout or plan you know like business like what how i'm gonna launch is biz like plan something it's like that's her to do and that's really just kind of a self masturbation like it's a it's a bullshit way to make you think that you actually are doing something when instead you should just start and figure it out along the way because virtually everything not everything but almost everything related to a project is reversible you so you should always start and so you should always just like just make it happen and always have a bias to action because it also is into right right dude have you ever sold anything on the internet no so like people have talk to me about like how do i do this how do i do that i'm like they're just whatever you do build it so you can get it live tomorrow and so then you can get just one dollar in revenue in the first five days because the second your phone goes ching because like i have this thing on shopify that goes ching every sale i get the sec the first time you hear that you're like oh i need to feel that again let's go let's go let's go let's go like it gets you amped up when do you hear that and so that's why whenever people talk to me they're like which platform should i use for my new blog i'm like it doesn't matter just go to sub right now and get and make your blog post live tomorrow and then the second you see traffic on the analytics you're like oh i like that that tastes good i like how that feels i gotta do it again i need more and you take another bite and that's why whenever people talk about anything they you wanna do i'm like if you're a n launch right away immediately immediately if you're like i have this guy named brett ad hoc who sold a company for two or three billion dollars and as the next company it's like a robot business and he's investing two hundred million dollars and like five years of research i'm like alright that's cool you're a proven hit maker like take your time and like perfect this thing but if you're like a rookie you gotta jump right in and get that taste of dopamine immediately otherwise it will never happen or just fades and you just aren't interested anymore so it's interesting what you're saying reminds me a little bit of like the difference between the greeks and the romans so the greeks like masters the and even one the old greeks rome and okay hear me out though because here's the thing the greeks were like much better academics in the romans they knew geometry they knew algebra they knew like philosophy right and the romans were basically dumb jo k they didn't know any of this stuff and it turns out that roman construction and bridges were actually much better than greek ones why is it because the greeks would sit down and try and figure out the geometry of the best way to build a bridge the romans did not the romans just went out and built a bridge and then it kinda crumbled and then they're were like oh what if we did this and then they rebuilt it and then that didn't work out so well and then over the generations they just went out and did stuff until eventually they had like the perfect way to build the bridge that would stand forever did they ever know the math behind it they literally never did they just went and tried stuff until they found the thing that worked best and that was what let them take over the world and so that just like backs up what you're saying of like you actually don't need to know why the stuff is working you don't need to know the math behind it you don't need to do to the research you just literally need to try stuff until you find out what works well john what i was gonna say i think you know two things i just heard was one and this is all kinda wrapping us back up to how this applies like podcasting i heard bias towards action which is just like go go go and i also heard like be very methodical with how you tell stories like my mo and glad ask so like let's just say you're starting your podcast today zero to twenty five thousand downloads by towards action twenty five to hundred thousand let's just say you're really dialing in the storytelling component of it and then but sounds like you're flipping back to okay just buy towards action go ago so like i don't know think could be helpful to go from like at this stage you wanna focus on just making shit happen versus being more methodical with how to actually level the podcast up that kind of stuff can can i use an example like danny miranda you were on his podcast a few days ago sam and i don't think he's figured out his niche very well he he needs to work on that he he he hasn't figured out yet but guess what he's in a really good position to figure it out because he just got started he's been doing great interviews he's super action oriented and he's gonna figure he's out the data and he's got the data right and now he can pivot and he can try different stuff he can think about different ways to position it versus the person who is just like no no danny is not doing it the right way i need to position my podcast perfectly no just start with action you can figure out your niche and exactly how to position your podcast later dude it's because because it's way better to execute a bad plan than it is to execute no plan and because you can change it you you can change a bad plate into a good plan in most cases as you go but you can't you know you're you're up shit creek if you're doing nothing all day yep