Abu Lahya breaks down how billionaires like Bezos and Musk succeed: focus and environment. He argues environment is the highest-leverage factor for performance, whether that's your physical location or who you work around. Experiment with different settings to find what maximizes your output.
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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, all sitting in a room and someone asked, what's the main thing that got you successful? At the same time, they all said focus. The other thing, and it was what's the highest leverage thing you could do to change how you're performing? Every person was like environment by far. And I've seen that as well by sometimes working in Dubai, sometimes I work in Nigeria, sometimes I go in France, complete different shift. It also, environment is your house. Sometimes you work with your family around you, sometimes you work by yourself. And then it's again, looking at how the environment looks like, what it makes you perform. Sometimes you just gotta test. Maybe you've never tried flying out by yourself to a country and seeing how that works, whatever it is, and see how you perform there. And then you realize, oh, I perform really well here, but I also compromise my family. Let me find an in-between. And then it forces you to push and achieve more. The extreme would be, yo, I need to live with Elon Musk, like I need to move to a new country and change the whole neighborhood and everything. I just go to a mastermind and just like spend 5 days.