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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"Early. Two thousand this is in. I don't know sorry. Go ahead that. This is an accident. Nine he goes. It's as the real winners on the net. And it's like apostrophe net internet the real winners on the net will be firms of solar on products directly to consumers. Just look what happened to sony. Dell that's going to happen to amazon basin basically saying like you know people told us we were gonna. There's one of many things where people are going to fail. And he goes today. Amazon is one of the most successful companies and has revolutionize two totally different industries. And then you moscow did it at replied with just the silver silver medal with the number two on it like emoji with the second beat because.
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"Jobs got pissed. He's like you know. Do you have another offer on the table. If you've been offered one hundred fifty million dollars that you know that you're worth that and then the guy's like just positives bullshit like you're a liar. I don't forget this. We're not doing this deal and basically like walked out and then we tried to salvage the deal with any any tried to like make. All good is like steve. Jobs called him later. I don't trust you. i think you're a liar. You're over you overstated overplayed your hand. Basically and it was like we're not doing this. I love that is awesome. Who wrote that. what company. That is an awesome story. This guy hillary pull up his name. His name's ali. His twitter handles a part overnight. So epa ovalles of what went ended up happening is still happening. So it's what a baller story i think. Soon after that apple released itunes genius sidebar. It was a rip off of things. Facebook copied their thing and they sold the company for a loss within a year. That was sort of like the story. Drew the story of juiston going into they were talking about selling dropbox apple and steve jobs. Just start saying feature not a product your feature not a product. We just rip you off. And i mean in some ways steve. Jobs is right. I think that criticism is fair. Dropbox be irrelevant but at the same time drew house and went on to become a billionaire and build this great i. Actually i love stories for steve jobs as wrong because it was like a fucking astle like you know he fucked. That guy was the brilliant. Yeah but like. I was thinking the other day where he like. Had this quote where he goes to that guy who who was selling pepsi and he was like trying to sell sugar. Water your whole life or you wanna come and change the world. And i'm like part of me is like bad ass. That's awesome steve. Good job yeah so to sucks. Whatever you're doing is doesn't suck and i'm like dog. what you've just created is fucking anti-bullying if we hate if if i'm supposed to hate zuckerberg i should dislike you to like you're on the crack pipe on the crap. What's the difference and so it's like it's like it's the same it's like it's the same thing like so so anyway whenever i hear these stories about him being arrogant i'm like yeah you're bad ass you're awesome you're always right and then also like your dick shut the fuck up like i was is a ceos terrible because i couldn't do that right like imagine samuel hiring someone and you say like do you want to change the face publishing forever douche but you talk to most silicon valley. Ceo's they say something like that. I just could never bring these envious. I'm like oh. Wow you actually believe that you are doing something and then part of me is like him. You're full of it. I just read. This book called endurance. Have you guys heard of this book called endurance. It's if you ever feel like your life. Put it down sean. You know what it is. But i've the i've seen the cover the cover in my brain so basically in the early nineteen hundreds probably between nineteen hundred and like nine hundred five. It was called like the heroic era of arctic expedition so they had steam engines and heads combustible engines. But it was still. They still had sales and they didn't have radios. And so these guys would sail from england all the way down to antarctica at the very southern part of the.
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"Guy is tweet kind of viral about. He was trying to sell his company to steve. Jobs fucked up. Did you read this. What happened. I guess guy who was the ceo of i like which is kinda music discovery service like the early start up days. It was a popular service and apple. Wanted to apple's interested in acquiring them a perfect like apple would be my dream place to get acquired and they go and he gets to have a meeting with steve jobs and he sits in the meeting jobs. He's like. I started off a little rough. Because i was so nervous to be in front of steve jobs. But we kinda hit. on ruben. the presentation we hit our demo. Like i like the demo kind of went off the rails. I because the executive suite wifi was down and it's like a shed how we're not on the internet. How we do our demo. We're covered and steve ask questions while we were talking but we had great product answers and you could just tell he was digging it and so historians basically that at the end of the meeting he was like look like i think you guys are great and i think he build something something. Good here we'd like to buy your company. I'm going to talk to and we'll figure out you know any we'll take it from here. He'll he'll deal with the details and and then he's like the guy didn't want the meeting and right there you know. I was like that's amazing. You know like what. What range would you be thinking about for price for for an acquisition and steve. Kind of like the dial. The dial turns up a little bit. I constantly gets a little more serious. There's talking about price now is what's your revenue. And how much did you raise. What was the valuation last financing. And because i like you know revenue us like we haven't were pre revenue super small right now but you know we raise that a fifty million dollar valuation and we've added like thank millions of users since then i think he said fifty million users since then it was absurd number and steve jobs like we probably acquired for.
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"Should be one hour. You should have like this intro. You shouldn't one day talking about one topic. And then the people who want to hear. Neil the grass tyson. Don't care about brennan shaab or whatever else. Shares like lex. Friedman huge huge podcast channels created in the guys talking about the nerdy est of the ninetieth subjects in the most like monotone voice right. So it's like. He's not mr charisma. He's not talking about pop culture and like other top because he's not. He found the balance of doing. What's interesting to him in his normal personality. And i just think that's just like a better way to go then trying to say don't ask don't act like rogan's not human has the same insecurities. I wanna please people i want. Look oh wow bernie. Did really well. I should do bernie more often shit like that. Don't buy i don't buy that. You don't care i think everybody cares..
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"Like and then. I also get nervous. I'm like these people just want like money making schemes. Let's just give it to them like trauma. Three wise math entrusting. He's interesting because he goes you know he goes on. Cnbc talks crazy. Investing stuff and then he goes with cara swisher and he pours his heart out and he's interesting and he doesn't give a fuck you. Do you do a disservice. if you don't show the negative side of all this stuff at the same time because people will just blindly thing you know all the these guys have it all figured out and we don't. We're all miserable. Think you're not giving the audience enough cre- the people who really listens podcast. And they they know this is not money making schemes. We just we are shooting the shit about business or kind of business nerds. And that's what they like so it's not actually that they're looking for god. I came to this to find my next million dollar idea. That's the surface level thing and when you get through the door you realize that's not the second thing is it's just like this feeling you're having like what are people thinking this episode. I'm reading myself of that that question. That question doesn't come into my brain anymore. Why because who not at all. But i'm actively shawn's can be wearing red robes. He's gonna have dude he already does. He shows up to the podcast hepatitis. Exactly the nothing. I have rid myself. I'm saying i am trying to rid myself of that of that question right and it's coming up less and less. Why because two things. I don't wanna be that way. I don't want to sit here and be the dancing monkey performing on the stages just for their entertainment. I want to be here for my entertainment and like who are the people who are going to love this. Podcast the people who love what we talk about period. So if we're talking about something we you're interested in that they're always going to be into it and if we just keep that as the method right who are my customers. The people that love what i do that becomes the the most joyful way to do you know any kind of business or any kind of product because is just you pushed out and so then you don't have to worry about. What are they gonna want. Did they like me to the not. Like me is as good as this bad it. I liked it but are they going to think this. It's like those questions just disappear if you commit to who our customers. The people that i love what. I do so same thing for this. Who who our listeners. The people that like what we talk about period so then. I don't need if if i liked what we talked about that. I don't need to worry about it. And that becomes a very simple filter. That's internal and not like seeking. What are the people going to think about this. Yeah yeah and you. And i agree on a lot of stuff about how we feel about the audience. I guess sometimes. I think of it like i'm gonna do whatever the hell i want to do. And other times. I do think i'm here. I exist to serve others right so don't give a fuck doke of don't care about what people think. Yeah i what if i phrased it while i'm here to service other people or you know what i mean. It's a fine line. Andrew saying the services is being you. That's the service. The service is being you in public in public. Transparently know lately. Been watching the dave chapelle. Stand up comedy from net flicks rediscovered him and watch them all..
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"Read the next thing and in reality you kind of the answer. The answer is don't eat too much and he basically like real food mostly plants and not too much three lines you that is the answer and but instead of actually just sitting at it you want to be more complicated than that you would like it to be. Actually there's more. I need to go learn and fine and try and buy this. Get this app. That's doing intermittent fasting and then put this keystone drops in my drink. And then where a patch that measures my glucose monitor and like all these optimizations as i've actually spent so much of my life trying these different optimizations and i've really saying this is almost like a public service announcement if that's you if you've done a bunch of these optimizations you kind of endless endless path optimizing and you do get results. It's not that you don't get any results. But i've now found this other way. That's a lot more peaceful and a lot more fun and it's basically get rid of the underlying feeling of lack and doubt that you have that's causing you to constantly chase the next best method solution. Answer i i think that really resonates and one of the things. I didn't talk about was my routines and how that was making me miserable. Often routines are great and best practices are great but they ended up creating conditions under which you can have a good day and if you don't follow the conditions your brain starts saying oh it's not a good day because i didn't get that workout in or i didn't get i didn't do my cold plunge and do my tim ferriss tea in the morning. I didn't do my evernote journeys journal. I didn't use this app right. There's endless things and i totally resonate with that. Like one of the practices for me was like how do i not check my ring. How do i not check my blood glucose all these stupid things that are giving me their tickers. Yeah there you go there for life and tickers make you miserable look at a stock ticker look at. Kpi's look revenue day-to-day our to our and your miserable. You shouldn't have those for your life. Yeah i should say it's bad for business from say this this podcast and all of my content and everything i put out is optimizations hacks shortcuts ways to be better ways to better yourself. This constant curiosity about what are some other things. I could try to better myself. What are some of the areas. I want to be better. What are some ways that can be better. I'm like juggling these two things that are almost complete like opposition. And like you know. And i'm not perfect on it either. I still wake up. Swipe over and check the bitcoin price. Even though i know it's this roller coaster when it's red i'm starting my day off with like a tiny jab and what is green. I start my day off at this. This great little delight that i don't control and so now my first mood is up to you. Know the conditions can crypto prices or. Just silly sean what do you think what do you think people are gonna think of an episode like this. I'll be. I'll be curious. I'll be. Because i. Sometimes i get nervous about talking about this shit because i'm like i don't wanna pontificate too much. I don't wanna act like our way or my way or your ways necessarily better than any other way i get nervous about like having like a guru productivity vibe..
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"I didn't know that that was the technique but had figured out pretty early on that the way i could get better grades i wanted to have good grades but i didn't wanna keep studying. I felt like other peoples studied so much spent so hours in the library. And i just didn't find it didn't wanna do it and i was like well. Here's what i'll do. I'll basically quickly skim the material. And then i will lead a study group where all teach it to that group and in that process. I was like a horrible teacher for the first. Like our what i was doing because i don't know the material yet i actually don't even understand it. I barely remember half of it. But i remember half of it and i by teaching it. I remember that half. And i quickly figured out the other half. I didn't know and i just remember like that's how he studied for every final when i was in college and it was pretty amazing because i could study half the time other people because what they would do is they would try to just ingest it and just keep ingesting. Just keep reading and re reading and writing notes and rereading it and they would never try to articulate it off the top of their head to anybody else or answer a question you know in public with anybody else and so they never did that and they just tried to like solidify it in their head. But it never really. Did you know. I took way longer to do it. It's such a hack right to be able to summarize it in one sentence or have you know have a metaphor or whatever it is that helps you. Can you do that just by writing a blog. Post about it or do you actually have to speak about it. You could do that. I used to run this thing called the anti nba and it was a weekly book club and basically we would read a book a month and each week we would divide that book into quarters so we talk about a book every week.
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"No jeff bezos has not someone that you compete with a jeff. Bezos has often this celebrity world right jay z. That's not someone you compete with right. The people you compete with our people within your bubble like frank could be each other us three. Maybe there's other things that there could be other things that people are more. Also i guarantee you anyone who's on twitter for example anyone on twitter in business you know you in the morning brew guys like it doesn't matter if you like them or anything you're still in medic competition when i say sam post as a fit influence her you bet your ass. I work out harder. That day totally wasn't exactly he now values health. So that's that's good. If you want to be healthy. Hanging out with sam will probably make you healthier over time rights. That's a good thing. And there's so many different bubbles different world so for example if you live in san francisco the thing that everyone wants fundraising evaluation or who your investors are. If you're in new york might be about your wealthier our collection or your fashion in l. a. It'd be what a words have you one. Where do you get restaurant. Reservations athletes olympic medals chefs. It's michelin stars. Comedians at netflix specials. You name it so the way to figure out who your models are as well is actually to ask kind of an odd question you say who do. I not want to succeed right. And maybe it's deep within you right but it might be that guy on twitter who you're friendly with and everything's fine you kind of he bothers you or he's maybe a little ahead of you has maybe ten thousand more followers us. Don't want him to succeed. That's probably who you're in medic rivalry with and so the real question is how do you align with people who will lead you down a path of this mimetic copying. They will actually make you happy so spending time with people who are actually similar. Do and want things that are your thick desires right being healthy being safe gardening. Whatever that is and then the other question is how do you opt out and really. That's pruning you know. What do you read. who do you listen to. Who do you spend time with and you know. For example. i thought about for myself. I was spending all this time reading about warren buffett of idolized warren buffett forever. But when i think about what is warren. Buffet actually do in his day. He's a guy who can sit there and read all day reading annual reports. That's what is life has set up for. I would kill myself. Like i have no interest in doing that and i think i'd be very bored so i have to be very careful not to over index on warren buffett. The other thing you can do is you can opt out so you can say i'm gonna be dave chapelle. I'm gonna move to ohio. Where a redneck and you know in a small community or whatever for me..
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"And i've been doing it lately and it's obviously it's not a big deal known actually watches but it's made me not eat certain foods because i'm like i said i posted that i was gonna hit this weight and these people are expecting me to do it. I have to come with the results. So i can fill this. Make this story complete and get their attention. And is that unhealthy kinda. But i'm getting a great result. Think we gotta talk about this book. I read called wanting. Have you guys heard of this book. So you heard so. Peter thiel talks. Missus mimetic desire. You guys heard about this. Concept was rene girard or whatever and you can't fuck it. This is so dallas. Like david david articles about it and even then just too dense. It's too academic. I didn't get it and finally you know one of my friends. Who's like super into peter. Thiel gave me this book wanting and it was kind of a revelation for me so the idea is basically that you want the things that are modeled to you by other people so you know you meet a friend at a bar. You wanna beer a martini. Maybe you go. Oh maybe i do wanna martini right. So that's that's like the most generic example of like a meaningless thing. What about if your friend tells you. He just raised around from sequoia capital right. You start asking yourself. Why didn't i raise from sequeira. Why don't you know why does his startup have more emplaced mine does when i get that job title. He has a sailboat. Went on. I have a sail boat. When i have a rolex he moves to brooklyn. Why don't i live in brooklyn right. Basically when you surround yourself with peers you start competing with them. And you start wanting those things and i see this in my own group of friends You know when one of us buys a new car within a year. We've all bought a new car right. There's these waves or the other thing you see is mirroring. So let's say. I by tesla my friend might say i'm buying a classic mustang and i'm going to constantly talk about how much i love the rumble of the engine or working on it right. It's like this. Like counter mir so. It's super interesting because you don't actually want these things. These are not real desires. These are modeled to you and so in this book. They talk about thin desires so these are like extrinsic things coming from the modeling of others right so wanting a rolex because people you know that your peers value rolexes and then there's thick desires which are intrinsic that. Come from inside of you so you enjoy working in your garden. You don't need to tell anyone you don't post about it. It's not part of your identity. You don't do it to impress anyone. It's just you quietly enjoy and so i think the big thing is coming up with. What are my thick desires. What a real versus. What come from wanting to be like my heroes or my friends or or whoever it is. Because if you're not careful pruning this you will become this and if you spend too much time around people who want things that you don't actually want you will still desire achieve those things and keep going like. Yeah so i love what you're saying. Keep going so you read this book and there's the question of what are your models who are your bottles and what did you. What did you take away from this. So yeah i mean like are you. Jealous of.
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"Is that a. Is that a real story. By the way yes one hundred percent real mentioned the guy he runs a a. He runs the best gourmet coffee shop. At which a big university in vancouver. It's called bulldog coffee and i was like. Wow that's actually genius. You've basically got a capture you've captured market. That's smart but anyway what was going through ahead head after that is oh my god. What did i say like you know. Here's this person who heard where everything is saying. I don't think anything bad or overly personal but there is this sense of like. Oh there's a loss of privacy and not only that but you have be consistent. So if i go on this podcast and i say i'm about lines e now every time i talked to someone if i change my mind or i want to be kind of a chameleon and just be a different person or whatever like they almost like call you out or whatever so it's just it's it's very interesting and some of the other downside is that i'm sure you guys have had as consistency and commitment bias right so an example as i talked about the sugar free bakery thing i was doing and we ended up We were legally allowed to use a key ingredient in canada until it's approved so i was like okay after shut this down but i didn't shut it down for two months longer than i should have gone on here and made a public statement. Everyone hey everyone look. I'm doing this thing so it was like in a lodge a logical thing. There's this great quote by bill. Murray and it said if you think you want to be rich and famous try being rich i and see if that covers it and i think that that's really interesting and i i think like you want to be respected in your world. You want to be like in in film. You'd wanna be like the cohen brothers right where it's like. No one knows cohen brothers. Look like but if they're at the academy awards ballers and can get the attention and do whatever they want. And i think find do daft. Punk is all dude perfect dude. I was like they've got the best job because they don't even have to show up when they they probably make ten million each year just off these concerts the or whatever. The jonah is huge concerts. I'm like that even have to show up. they can be anyone underneath. that mask. Could be anyone totally. I think it's super smart. And i i don't know what do you guys think what sham you've shared some stories about being stopped in the street and stuff. Yeah i get sean. Do get stopped. I stopped probably a once or twice a week. I don't think our audience billion The the suburbs of california. So you know my my neighbors like average is seventy probably or something so. I don't think these guys are listening. But what's cool is like my trainer. He came to me the other day. And he's like. I met these two guys in the gym. Twenty one twenty two years old and they were telling me like oh dude. You had to listen to this. Podcast is. we're we're hooked on it and then we're getting so many ideas. We're going to quit our job. We're gonna do the stuff and they should. They're like what's what's the podcast. And my bro. That's my buddy. That's why i'm going there right after this. And i know way and so it's more these secondhand stories that have either a happen to me or be like kind of light map a little bit like i mentioned my cousin's name on the last podcast..
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"Check it out. Well okay so. I think when i talked to any young person and myself included i really glorified startups right. And i. i like to kind of turn these into like Analogies or whatever just so that easy to explain. And i was like oh you know a startup is really like a speedboat right. It's exhilarating. it can go anywhere but at the end of the day. you know. you're driving over waves..
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"Or anything and this one of those things right where you find a business that's using a legacy sales process via retail which we're going to keep i mean it's an amazing advertising mechanism and we love all the distributors and everything but at the same time it's like hey we can also sell us dec- awesome and it's such a simple insight that we don't need to be geniuses a even if we don't do as great as we think we'll still do fine we'll have a great business and if we do well we're going to blow the doors off it's a you bought. The business for seventy million dollars was the roughly. Roughly the annual marketing and advertising spend. That has created this business that you bought for seventy million dollars. Is it more or less than one million dollars. No it's like twenty thousand dollars. I mean you include include salaries. There's there's a few people in the marketing blitz call it if you include salaries maybe let's call it a one hundred and fifty two hundred grand. Why do you have a marketing person. If you're spending twenty thousand dollars so why does they do what they do. Lots of like. I wouldn't even call it influence her but like they do a lot of pr. Outreach and the company the company this company it's like it's like fucking carmax or something it's like you made it one time and then like what when i imagine a business like this. What are the people do everyday like. Do you have this. Is like for the hustle. I used to be like. Why do you have twenty five people here. You one email and you're like It just takes a lot of people to like email and have ads for us for us. It was redundancy redundancy because because it was a digital thing that people made every single day. I actually think you could run. The whole business with fifteen people are less but with arrow press you. You probably could do. Did you only need like tender five. Or how many people think there's sub ten employees. Wow and they're managing the distributors and making sure manufacturing is good and all that kind of stuff that's crazy it's a five or ten percent company for seventy million dollars. That's freaking awesome. That's so cool. Car mexes andrew. It's the chapstick lip bomb. Yeah this like this is like one of those. You i think you up here you call cruise ship. This is one of those things where it does. The same thing like you guys didn't create anything new after the initial thing right. no no. We haven't done anything explained this cruise ship investing framework. What what is this quick..
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"It's been around forever you you guys even sell anything. Do you even sell it online. Really other than amazon a little bit only three percent ills online right now so like it's a pretty like low stress like because you have built anything new or it's basically a aero presses is a coffeemaker that's been the same way since the beginning is that right. Yeah it's been around since. I think two thousand six. And it's like this. It looks like a pvc tube and you press down on you. Put some coffee in the bottom of it. You put some hot water and you press down and it makes a concentrated coffee and It's been around for a long time and it was started by the guy who made the aerobic frisbee. He's like a serial inventor so the neon pink frisbees from the eighties. Yeah it's it's an amazing product. Can you say what you bought it for. The deal was seventy million. And can you say how big it what what can you say about it. Was it for sale or this one that you were like. Let me see if i can if they're willing to sell so basically. The story is for five years ago. I was making coffee. I be using air press for years. We had one at our office. Someone brought in like ten years ago. And i looked down at it and i was like oh man. I wonder who owns this. So i started googling i realized that founders still owned it and his this eight year old cereal inventor who lives in palo alto so i sent him an email looked up his email on wall on norbert and i said hey can i come to palo alto it and you know would you ever explore selling and he said. I don't know if i want to sell. But i'm happy to meet you. And so. I flew down and chris and i spent a whole day with him. Just kind of talking about the business. And there's just so much love about this business. So what was he like. He's like this like really funny old guy. He reminded me a little bit of my grandpa. You know yet hearing aids he he just clearly loved inventing and coming up with ideas and he started walking me through all the different inventions and ideas that he had and things he wanted to make..
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"Hey i've got. I need you to go and do this. Or whatever i would like rage and i i was an asshole or ocd or something and then now being off of that. I'm not raging in getting frustrated that same way so it's really fascinating. All the addiction stuff just really flows through this. I've created basically three to windows in the day. So at exercises one exercise is beautiful because you have a very low urge to check my phone when i'm working out anyway so that becomes a full kind of like almost ninety minutes of not looking at my phone and i don't care what's happening and i don't care how sales we have. I don't care who's mentioning me. I don't care who's emailing me. Slacking me and so sam. I think you probably have the same. Where would you work out. I don't think you are checking your phone during it means nothing to me. I do look at it to mark down. What i'm doing but typically what i've been doing lately markdown notepad with my workout and then i transfer after the workout specifically so i don't touch my phone and listen to music while you work out because one of the things human talks about is you don't wanna dopamine stack so people work out to experience pleasure in dopamine but if you start stacking it you say i when i work out. I watch game of thrones and i get smoothie after and and the and you start to not enjoy the actual work whereas if you do it for intrinsic reasons you can actually train yourself to enjoy it. I hate that. Because i listen to music too and i like i love the like. That's i feel like that's music listening time. I'm the opposite. Where danielli that kind of like famous behavioral economist. He was talking about this thing where he just medicine. He had to take because he has really bad burns. You'd really bad facial burns and you have to take this one medicine all the time or apply this appointment and burned. It was like really uncomfortable and so he was like of trying wrestle the brain and convinced the brand through logic that this is a good thing for me when the brain is just saying you this. I don't like the way this medicine makes me feel. Don't take this. He's like just attached of really think. I really loved to taking medicine. So every time i take the medicine i would take it during the intro. My favorite movie. And i would watch my favorite movie or my favorite show. And he's like that helped me stick to my routine of taking the medicine actually get healthier and so for me. That's almost like working out. Where working wasn't something. I found super pleasurable. That's why didn't out for so long. Because it kind of felt like work. And so i ended retrain myself using music having a great trainer. Who i like hanging out with doing different types of workouts more sporty so that i would actually get pleasure from working out so i would actually like it so i stacked intentionally. I stacked things. I knew i loved onto workout so that i started to love working out because i only got to do those things when i worked out..
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"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"My bad habit. And i started listening to the superintendent. He goes he said something that really struck me he goes one way to think about. Addiction is a progressive narrowing of what gives you pleasure. So it's a it's a your narrowing the things in your life that that will give you this rush of pleasure show so andrew. When you dopamine fasted. You started getting pleasure from silence in the car from the sunset from fiction books. But before that it's like twitter was this cheap fast instantaneous guaranteed source of pleasure and so it was narrowed the number of places you were going to get that pleasure to like most convenient most. It also became more painful though more. Like when i first started doing was pure pleasure so fun and then over time it took more and more of a hit dissatisfied. You get numb. You build a tolerance right like you would with alcohol or anything else and of course you had to turn your you. Turn your experience into a thread which probably became one of your most early total one. This is the debate rate is do you want to engage like okay like obviously it's a good thing that we can all use. I message and use these devices like there are bicycle for the mind. There's all these amazing things you can do can meet all these amazing people but the question is how to use them in a responsible way so twitter i have a one way twitter client that i'm using so i don't actually see the results of my tweets right. Although in this case i'll admit i did. I did go and look but my goal is actually is fully screen time on every device can access twitter only the the api. Here's a good way to look at it. So have you heard of this person named earl nightingale so basically. He probably died in the sixties. Maybe he died in the seventies and he was famous in the fifties and sixties and he basically was almost like a tony robbins of that era but he was a little bit more well known as a writer..
My First Million
"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"I'm email checking stats stocks. If i went to the bathroom without my phone. I feel like i was gonna freak out constantly listening to audio books constantly. Listen to podcasts. No silence so. I just like hit this weird breaking point august. I where i woke up. I was like i'm not stoked together to bed. I'm not depressed. Objectively everything is fine. I'm like i'm just like have like an head-on yeah like i'm just not excited about anything so i said fuck it i'm just gonna what's that word you just said. That was a good one. It means like an inability to feel pleasure right like night. Nothing would get me pumped. Nothing would give me a hit like you know you're always going netflix. Like scrolling endlessly for the perfect thing. You just can't find it. That's how my life felt. And so i basically you know in the middle of august. I live in british columbia. It's super beautiful. And so i just said to my wife. You know what. I'm out for the next month. Let's just go off to our cabin. We'll you know we'll go on some trips. And i'm just going to totally check out and i said a couple of rules for myself. I was like no phone. No email no computer no podcasts. No phone calls no social media. No news i couldn't even read nonfiction business. Books rights has pretty extreme. And i put on my apple watch which has cellular so okay. If there's an emergency i can get a phone call. And i put my phone in a drawer and i just disappeared. I went up to my cabin and to hung out with my kids and honestly for the first like three or four days. If felt like there was like a bug in my brain. Like i was just like so something i couldn't scratch so you're able as being a huge asshole. I was like slopping my pocket every five seconds to checks off. I'd be sitting on the beach with my kids and i constantly be like. Oh i need to texas to a friend. I gotta i gotta take a photo of this right so is really weird horrible withdrawal but then after like three or four days. I was like holy crap. This is really interesting. I started reading fiction books and just sitting for hours enjoying sunset taking a silent. Drive doing all this stuff. And i think it's kind of like if you eat junk food all the time like your drinking coke and having burgers and stuff all the time and then you eat broccoli. It doesn't taste that good. Your brain is primed for like these extreme flavors and then if you switched to broccoli you know you don't eat those things for a month then. You broccoli broccoli orgasmic. It's amazing and so anyway. I did this for four weeks. And i was feeling really good and i came back to life like i kind of reintroduce myself into society and started going out and working and stuff and it was really bizarre like i would listen to. This song was playing in a cafe. And it'd be like the greatest song i've ever heard. I read some random article and it would be fascinating. And i just completely engaged with it and then problems i had to solve. That would have pissed me off. Seemed like no problem. When i was excited to solve them and i was kind of going like man. Why why did that work like. What was it about that. And at the same time. Like around. That i started listening to podcasts again. And i listen to this podcast by andrew. Cuban cuban lab which. I'm sure you guys have listened to. He's amazing he's He's coming on the podcast. Oh amazing that's awesome..
My First Million
"andrew wilkinson" Discussed on My First Million
"Because i was like pipe that content into my ears baby. While i'm falling asleep i don't want him. I don't even wanna fall asleep. Be entertained and pass out. I feel like aca rude where nobody could be too. Some travel never looked ready andrew. What's going on. Yeah what's up guys. New longtime no see. The you went off the deep end. It became a monk pulled a matthew mcconaughey. He do that. it was awesome. Yeah apparently matthew mcconaughey. Hey when he wanted to write his book he drove into the desert like four hours in the desert and he let he literally lived in shock for two months and wrote his book. Did you read it. I read that book are if you read it and you use matthew mcconaughey voice while you're reading it. It's actually pretty entertaining because it's good stories but also just stories about his life that like i'm not sure i care that much about matthew mcconaughey. Why wouldn't you just listen to listen to the audio book. Then if you wanted vote voice. I.
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Attacks briefly knock some podcast hosts offline
"Browns bean spreaker and captivate all subjects to eight to nile attack. The same attackers appear to have been involved. We were wondering why they targeted podcast hosts so we talked to them. You'll find that full report in our show notes and our newsletter today. A company called. Happy scribe is publishing automated transcripts of podcasters without the parent's consent of many of the publishers. We learned today. Cumulus media owner of westwood. One has its achieved more than one billion downloads. In two thousand twenty podcasting revenue grew forty percent last year to they say. They've made their bet on partnership arrangements with talent as opposed to going out and spending a lot of money on it or infrastructure the company uses spotify owned megaphone backtracks has launched a tool that monitors your head gesture movements. The tool requires the listener to be using airpods pro headphones investor. Andrew wilkinson says in a tweet. He's removing podcasts. From his phone because podcastone mostly people repeating ideas. You already agree with or talking about things that trigger anxiety. He's co founder of tiny capital which invests in ios podcast app castro podcast membership platform super fast and podcast producer. Righto media try and digital has released the latest podcast ranker's for the us and latin. America they're incomplete ranker's containing participating publishers only notably the ranker's don't include. I heart radio podcasts. Triton digital is being bought by the company echoing the open independent nature of podcasting and writing in the financial times fulmer spotify chief economist will page notes that major labels released one point two million songs in two thousand and twenty but diy artists released nine point five million songs the music industry. He says he's making more money but has more mouths to feed. Iv is a new podcast app. That offers a way to follow. Topics tags hosts or podcasts. Catholic part is also a new podcast for android with a great name. Mavi star homa smart speaker in spain from canada now incorporates. I've is podcast catalog. And i will be speaking at the rain. Podcast business summit with npr's. Brian moffatt tickets are free and available now from link in our show notes and our newsletter. Today and in paul cost us the journal has an interview with dominion voting systems. Ceo john pelos today. His company has filed three defamation lawsuits against tv networks. Saying his excellently. One hundred percent accurate and very handsome. Voting machines are perfect. Which of course they absolutely are and nassar's curious universe is the first podcast recorded on another planet if features raw recorded sounds from the mars perseverance rover
Marketing School
Why You Should Diversify Your Revenue
"Super committed to your success online. We've worked with them to a special offer just remarking school listeners. All you have to do is go to dream host dot com slash marking school to learn more and get your website online today. Welcome to another episode of Marketing School I'm Eric Su and I'm Neil Patel and today we are going to talk about why you should diversify your revenue. So let's think about this the when you first started your first business acs right or when you started selling CD's how did you think about your different revenue sources and when did you think about diversify? Let's start there. I didn't think of different revenue sources at that young of an age. But what I realize is just having all your revenue coming from one thing especially when it seasonal or could go up or down or you may have one or two hours whatever the reason may be is your income can get hit really quickly, and for that reason, you should diversify your revenue stream and even if you're an agency like. Mine or Eric's make Eric you have agency what services do you provide? Let's say paid media there's SEO conversion optimization etcetera. And do you have clients who pay you for all of those services though it's diversified? So yeah, there's a chunk that goes let's say fifty sixty percent goes to pay maybe another twenty percent thirty percent goes Seo and the rest is miscellaneous. Exactly. So even in your business, you can have multiple revenue streams like if you're legalzoom, you can charge people for setting up their corporation. You could also charge them for renewing their corporation. You could also charge them for adjusting the corporation or dissolving any corporation. You can also charge them for getting your website up because once you set up your company domain name a website, there's many different revenue opportunities, and that's how you should think about your business once you start generating some income, I do think would choose to hear your thoughts on this. Eric. But I don't think you should versa your revenue stream. If you're making very little to no money, you just need to get going with something. Yeah a mutual friend of ours Andrew Wilkinson runs tiny capital. Now, he actually started with an agency Meta lab and we talked about this on the leveling podcast a couple of weeks ago and I liked the way he breaks down. If you think about it, the agency is a great business or let's drop shipping type business are great launch pad or starter businesses to go with, and once you get it going, then you should think about diversifying. So when I get it, going you feeling pretty good. Maybe you're generating a healthy lifestyle for yourself. Maybe you're taking home a hundred or two, hundred, thousand a year where he can cover your expenses then. You should think about diversifying because the other thing I'm recalling right now is I think about my friends in the restaurant business and some of them right now I see them complaining on social media and they're not able to do anything right now and even if they make adjustments, they put all their eggs that one and I think it's really important once you get one thing working you take care of your own expenses. You start to think about other revenue sources. So when something like this happens were talking about the economy right now you feel insulated and you can be patient with the way you make decisions because if things start to like shit hits the fan on one thing, you're going to impact the entire time and you can't make sound decisions. Totally agree. So look right now whatever you're doing you know start thinking about ways. You can diversify your revenue stream and when you think about diversifying your revenue stream, would I want you to do is think about other very similar light items in which what can your existing customers or current customers also buy from you versus what new customers yet attracted by something new you ideally want stuff they are existing customer base can buy because that allows you to grow faster. Yeah. The final thing I'll add is Look one step at a time I think it's too easy to compare yourselves to the billionaires or you know the Decca millionaires out there and it's just look at your journey. It's one step at a time with again. Once you get yourself taking care of, then you can start to think about other revenue sources don't try to do too many things at once neal's guilty of that I've been guilty of that. Sometimes, we're still guilty of that but you know control what you can control, take it one step at a time and I'm not saying be lazy be short term. Have Urgency but long-term just
Marketing School
7 Alternative Ways to Promote Your Content in 2020
"Super committed to your success online. We've worked with them to a special offer. Just remarking school listeners, all you have to do is go to dream host dot com slash marking school to learn more and get your website online today. Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Su and I'm Neil. Patel and today we're GONNA talk about five alternative ways to promote your content in two thousand twenty saga I I? One is zest. That's Z. E. S., T., I S. so I mentioned this a couple of episodes ago, but zest is a little known basically promotion to especially. If you're doing marketing business related content, you can put your content out there i. think you can pan the CBC basis, but you can use promote your content number two most people. People don't do this and I. Don't know why I don't know if you do eric, but we've been using adds a lot recently for content, it works out really wellness, super cheap, and it drives a ton of traffic funny enough. We started driving pinterest at traffic to our content that has affiliate links, and we're getting a positive roi so cheap while I mean any ads are arbitrage I like. Oh, you're arbitraging, but that's like anything so anyway, but usually to fill. It links as hard to make a positive Roi right, but. Or so cheaper to say, this is great while number three, you can do to Boola out brain yet to boone out brain these. Are you know the little I? Guess content recommendations you see on the bottom of like CNN and all these other big website so those I've seen a lot of people may at work I personally haven't made it work before so anyway you can test it out number four and this one works like a charm i. do this all the time, but very few people cop me and I don't know why I push notifications same anytime. I have contact I collect. Push notifications, subscribers and I'll do blast out and I kid you not like I can get. Get seven ten thousand extra visitors to blog, plus just by being a push notification, and you can go to subscribers dot com to sign up for that, and then the fifth one fifth one would be twitter actually actually I don't think people utilize twitter, enough or just leave it at that, but I actually see the same people's promoted tweets over and over, and that does like the branding does affect me like I. Was Andrew Wilkinson from tiny Houston that you want to sell your business want to say like I. keep seeing it over time like that's kind of embedded in me now, so twitter ads I think it's definitely worth taking a look at number six is a bonus. If you're in SAS. Software or agency YOU COULD USE G to to promote your business capterra is another option that. These review sites basically give you an option to promote what you have going on or. Promoting content, but you're promoting your business, so that's a bonus that doesn't really fit at number seven. Another bonus doesn't fit for all of you. Is Start collecting phone numbers on your website like you know how you collect email? Start collecting phone numbers. We're starting to test out texting people whenever released new content and the click rates are through the roof, the unsubscribe rates and people saying stop the taxi also through the roof and. And early high, but after the first one that you said, the unsubscribe rate is drastically slowing down, so it gets better after the second third for tax and people like it, but sending him text messages every time you have new content we're finding that works really well. What are you using the tax because I know a Gary V's community? What do you use Tokyo Api integration I've devs. And how do you see the open? Open, rates and the UNSUBSCRIBE 's so whenever we ended up texting the open rates I. Don't know we twit. UTM codes in the links were able to e the click rates, but if I send out a hundred text messages were getting like sixteen, Seventeen Eighteen,