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Do you want to learn a new skill?
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Do you want to learn a new language?
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Or maybe you want to learn how to start your own business,
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or you want to learn sales and marketing and
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many different topics in business.
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Now, today I'm gonna share something with you
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that has profoundly changed my life,
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and that is how do you learn properly?
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I believe there are only three main ways that you can learn.
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The first way is learning from yourself.
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People call that the school of hard knocks.
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Learning from your own mistakes by trial and error, right?
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Where you make enough mistakes that you will learn from it.
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And that's perfectly fine.
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Now, a lot of people learn this way, and the problem is
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it is very, very costly and it takes a long time
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for you to learn anything, but if you are
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persistent enough, if you're determined enough,
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and if you are resourceful enough,
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you could figure things out on your own.
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In fact, comment below, have you ever tried
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to learn something, it's just, no one ever taught you,
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but you just kinda figure things out on your own.
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But it took a long fucking time.
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And you made a lot of mistakes and
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maybe even cost you a lot of money.
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Comment below if you've ever done that before.
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Now, that's learning from yourself, which is fine.
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There's some pros and cons.
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The pros is, you can learn from yourself,
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there's no barrier of entry, you can learn it
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any time you want and it is free, right?
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Learning from yourself.
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The downside is, it costs a lot of money, sometimes it
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costs a lot of time, and it's like the saying,
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if you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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Right, it's very, very true.
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So, learning from yourself.
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The second way that you can learn
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is learning from your peers.
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Learning from your peers.
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So, learning from the people, kind of,
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around you, maybe the same level.
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Now, the problem is, learning from your peers
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is sometimes you learn the wrong fucking thing.
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They kind of, they tell you about this, tell you about that,
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they have an opinion about everything, and because
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they're your peers and you like them they like you
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and you listen to them, then you thought, you know what?
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Yup, I guess that's the way how to do it.
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Comment below you had this experience, right?
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You learned from your peers, you listened to them,
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and it's like, oh my god, that's like the worst advice ever.
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And you implement those advice and eventually took action,
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and you're like, that's exactly, like, that doesn't work.
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That's not how things work.
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Now, the biggest problem with learning from your peers
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is this, I want you to imagine this, okay?
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Let's say you want to learn how to speak Chinese, right?
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You wanna learn how to speak Mandarin because China
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is booming, you wanna learn a new language, okay?
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And you and your friends get together.
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And you don't know how to speak Chinese,
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and he doesn't know how to speak Chinese either.
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So, imagine this.
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You're both locked in the room.
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And you're locked in a room for 30 days.
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And I say, okay, I'm gonna come back in 30 days.
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Now, chances are when I come back, what are the chance
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that you knowing how to speak Chinese after 30 days?
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Zero.
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Why?
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Because you don't know, and he doesn't know.
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How could you have two people who don't know something
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and suddenly, when you put them together, suddenly,
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magically, they will know it.
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No, that's not how life works.
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Now, that is little bit an extreme example,
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but it's not so extreme.
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Think about this.
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In terms of success, in terms of creating wealth,
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in terms of creating, like financial success in business.
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A lot of people, a lot of you,
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you take advice from your peers.
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And they tell you, hey, you shouldn't do sales this way.
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You shouldn't get your customers this way.
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You shouldn't grow your business this way.
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You shouldn't invest your money this way.
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You should invest in this way and that way.
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The problem is, you and them, you are the same level.
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You don't know what you don't know.
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How could they possibly teach you?
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And why the hell would you listen to them?
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When you're at the same level.
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Two people who don't know something getting together
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and now they learn from each other?
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Can you see?
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It is a mess.
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It is a disaster, right?
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It's just back and forth, back and forth, lip service.
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The third way that you can learn, which I believe
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is the most powerful way to learn, which is also
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the way that I have learned over the years,
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why I'm able to accomplish what I've accomplished
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at a young age instead of age of 50, 55, and 60.
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And that is learning from a mentor.
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Learning from someone who's been there
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and done that and continues to do it.
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Imagine if you are an athlete.
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You want to learn how to play basketball.
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Yes, you can learn from yourself, yes, you can
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kind of play basketball with your friends.
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But if you want to be a professional, guess what?
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You need to get a mentor, need to get a coach
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to show you exactly what drills you need to practice
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on a daily basis to get better.
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What are some of the exercises that you have to do?
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The coach, he's watching you, he's correcting you, right?
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He's shaping you, he is molding you.
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He's helping you to get to that next level.
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That's the power of a mentor.
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I am where I am today, yes, I have
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made a lot of mistakes, absolutely.
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I have learned from other people.
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My peers, yes.
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But, I am where I am today because of my mentors.
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I learn from my mentors.
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Partially what makes me a mentor to so many people,
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millions of people worldwide is because I'm a great student.
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I'm a great teacher because
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I'm a very, very dedicated student.
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I'm always coachable.
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I'm always, always hungry for knowledge and for more.
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More insights, more distinctions, just more perspectives.
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I'm hungry for that.
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So if you've been following me for some time now,
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and I can see your comment on social media, on YouTube.
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And you asking me, Dan, can you be my mentor?
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Dan, can I attend your workshop?
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Or can I learn from you, can you help me?
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I have created multiple programs that could help you.
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I've got many, many ways that I could help.
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But you see, on social media, watching a video
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from me, that's not mentorship.
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Because to me a mentorship there has to
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be that interactive component into it.
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So you think you're learning a lot, which,
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I have millions of followers on social media
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where they're learning a lot from me
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just watching my video, but then that's the outsider.
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My insider, more inner circle students, the ones that
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are my private students, they are learning from me.
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I'm a mentor, I'm a see through to them.
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So if you're serious, very serious, not interested,
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but you're committed to learning and
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you really want me to be your mentor,
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not thinking about it, not someday, but today.
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Click a link here or somewhere here and
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go on a seven week mentorship with me.
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By the end of the seven weeks, I promise you,
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it'll be the best decision you ever make.