Wise Beyond Your Size - Wisdom From Proverbs

Hello, YouTube. Myron golden here. And I am here to do a video on Proverbs, how to be wise beyond your size. I don't know about you, but I know that I felt like in the past that, like, the thing that I have to do, my mission is bigger than me. And if you ever felt like your mission is bigger than you, how can you. How can you even learn? How. How can you become the person who can do the thing that feels so much bigger than your current capability?

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How do you be wise? How do you be wise beyond your size? It's really interesting. King Solomon was the wisest, wealthiest man who ever lived. And he wrote a book called Proverbs. And the word Proverbs means sayings, right? And so I'm going to talk to you about some proverbs that are really cool that I read when I was a kid. They used to make me scratch my head, like, what in the world is he talking about? What does this mean? So I'm going to read it to you, and you see if it makes sense to you, because when I read it, I was like, I don't know what this guy's talking about. And. And through study and meditation on the passage, I figured out what it meant. So. Proverbs, chapter 30, verse 24. King Solomon, wisest man who ever lived. If he were alive today, the money he had, he'd be worth, like, multiple trillions of dollars. Okay, here's what he said. Proverbs, chapter 30, verse 24. There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise. The answer are people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. The conies are a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks. The locusts have no king, yet they go forth, all of them by bands. The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in the king's palaces. Now, I don't know about. To you, but to me, that just sounds like. Like when I first read that, this sounds like a bunch of unrelated facts. Like, and. Or. Like, so what? So before I delve into what he's talking about, there, there are some great lessons for life, some great lessons for business. Let me help you understand one thing. We have to start out by understanding. It says, there will be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are wise, but they are exceeding wise. In other words, they're small, but they have big wisdom. Right? So before I do that, you have to understand that wisdom has some prerequisites, right? The word, the old Testament word wisdom would be our modern day word skill. So some people wonder, like Myron, why is your business called Skillionaire Enterprises? Because wisdom is skill. Most people think wisdom is high iq. They think wisdom is intelligence. They think wisdom is education. They think wisdom is smart. That's not what wisdom is. Wisdom is skill. So I'm going to break down to the prerequisites of wisdom, and then I'm going to tell you what wisdom is. And then I'm going to show you how to be wise beyond your sight. So first of all, you have to understand the first prerequisite for wisdom. In fact, I'm going to write it on my board here. Prerequisite number one, prerequisite number one is have a black marker. Okay? So prerequisite number one prerequisite number one prerequisite. So prerequisite means prerequisite. Requisite means a pre requirement. A requirement that you have to have beforehand. Okay, prerequisites of wisdom. First prerequisite of wisdom is ignorance, right? So ignorance is a prerequisite of wisdom. What is ignorance? Ignorance is the absence.

Of truth. So man, I could just go into a big long rant about truth, but I'm not going to do that right now. So ignorance is the absence of truth. When I was born, I was ignorant. I didn't know my hand, I didn't know my left hand from my right hand. I didn't know my hand from my foot. I didn't know my ear from. From my eyes. I didn't know. I didn't know anything. When I was born, I knew nothing, right? I didn't know anything about anything to know. When I was first born, right? I didn't know my mom from my dad. Hot from cold wet water from like fire. I knew nothing. But as you grow, my mom probably came in one day and saw me going, looking at my hand, slobbering all over myself. She's like, hand, that's your hand, baby. I said hand. Hand. She said, that's right, that's your hand. And I learned one word at a time. By the way, let me encourage you first and foremost for those of you who are like believing for some crazy reason that there's something you can't learn how to do, just remember that when you landed on this planet, however many years ago, you didn't know how to do anything. You couldn't walk, you couldn't talk, you couldn't go to the bathroom, you couldn't ride a bike, you couldn't use a phone, couldn't use a computer. Just taking inventory of all the things you've already learned to do should let you know there's nothing you can't learn to do. So I hope that makes sense to you. So ignorance is the absence of truth. Next. The next prerequisite of wisdom is knowledge. Now, a lot of people think that the Bible uses the word knowledge sometimes, and the word understanding sometimes, the word wisdom sometimes. Well, God doesn't want to sound redundant, so he just changes the word. No, the word knowledge is the accumulation.

Of truth. So knowledge is the accumulation of truth. And by the way, while we're talking about truth, I will go on one little Myron's my rant, and that is this. Everybody talking about your truth, my truth, his truth, her truth. There's no such thing as my truth and your truth and his truth and her truth. There's just the truth, and anything that's not the truth is a lie. Now, I know a lot of people don't like the way that sound, and I know it's not politically correct. I'm not running for office, and I don't really care if you vote for me. I'm just here to share some things with you that'll take your life to another level. Okay, so the truth is the truth, right? People say that's your truth. That's not my truth. I believe I can fly, and I'm going to jump off the top of the Empire State Building and disprove the law of gravity. No, you're not going to disprove the law of gravity. You're going to illustrate it. So the truth does not care about your ideas or your ideals, right? So knowledge is the accumulation of truth. And the more in line our understanding of truth is with actual truth, the safer our life really is. Okay? And if you think your life is safe by nobody warning you about all of the dangers around all of the corners and under all of the rocks just because people don't like talking about them, you are in the greatest of dangers. Okay? So knowledge is the accumulation of truth. And after knowledge. So here's what I mean. Like, I remember. I remember when I was in my 20s, there was this kid that taught me how to play a song on the piano. And then another kid taught me how to play two songs on the piano so I could play three songs on the piano. I remember where to put my fingers in, what timing, so I could play the songs on piano. So I had the knowledge of how to play these songs on the piano, but I had no understanding of music. So you can have Knowledge and not have understanding. Right? And if you have knowledge, you know, you have no understanding. You might be able to do a thing because you saw somebody else do it, but you have no idea why it works. So the next thing, the next prerequisite of wisdom is called understanding. Understanding is the assimilation.

Of truth. And assimilation of truth means I comprehend it, I make it a part of me. I understand how it works. So, like, knowledge is the accumulation of truth. I'm carrying, I'm collecting truths. I'm collecting all these different things about how life works. The sky is blue and the grass is green and the sun is in the sky. I'm collecting. I'm collecting, accumulating the truth. Understanding is. I'm assimilating it, I'm comprehending it. Oh, that's what that means. Oh, that's what that means. And that's what that means. Right? So that's. And then lastly is. Or not lastly. Yeah, the last one. Then you finally get to have the thing we're talking about today, and that's wisdom. And wisdom is the application of truth.

Application of truth. Now when we say application of truth, the application of truth. Now I'm doing the things that I know. I'm doing those things, they make sense to me. I'm like, oh, I get that. That makes sense. I'm going to do that, right? So that is what wisdom is. Wisdom is the application of truth. I'm carrying out the truth that I've comprehended, that I've collected. Now I'm wise. Now, if there is one more thing, it's the result of ignoring the truth, right? So, like, if you abandon the truth, that's called number five would be foolishness. Like, you are a fool. What's a fool? Someone who abandons the truth. Okay, so when you abandon the truth now, you're a fool. Now those are the prerequisites. So now you understand what this thing is we're looking for. I want to have. If I want to have, be wise beyond my size. I want to do something that's bigger. I want to do something tomorrow that's bigger than I am today. I want to be wise beyond my size. I want to produce results that maybe I don't have a degree for. I want to produce results that maybe I don't have any experience in. How do I become wise beyond my size? That's what this passage is that I just read to you in Proverbs a while ago. There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise. What are they first, the ants. Verse 24. The ants are a people, not strong. Verse 25. Yet they prepare their meat in the summer. So the first thing we learn, we learn the wisdom of contemplation from the ant. Why? Because they know how to prepare. An ant is saying, like the ant knows how to see what's happening, going to happen in the future, and they prepare themselves for today. They don't say, they don't show up tomorrow and everything's going haywire. And they're saying, wow, I didn't. What do you know about that? I didn't know that was going to happen. Ants are people, not strong, but they prepare their meat in the summer. So we learn the wisdom of contemplation for the ant. So if you study the ant, what you're going to learn is you're going to learn how to prepare for what's next. And it's so interesting that so many people live as if today is just going to be Groundhog Day and it's going to be just like yesterday. They make no preparations for tomorrow. But I heard somebody say one time, and I wish I could remember who said it, somebody said one time that you better spend some time preparing for tomorrow because you're going to spend the rest of your life there. Are y' all tracking? So. So. So the ants are people not strongly preparing the meeting. Summer. So what, what, what do we learn about the ant? Well, if we go back to Proverbs, chapter six, it says, go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise. Which having no guide or overseer or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer and gather. Gathereth her food in the harvest. What. What is that telling us about an ant? Here's what it says. Go to the ant, you slugger. Don't be lazy. Be diligent like an ant. You will never see an ant on a coffee break. You'll never see an ant on vacation. You'll never see an ant taking a nap. Ants are always moving, right? They're always figuring out how to get the deal done. And I don't know what it is about we humans, but we get a little bit ahead, and we want to take a break that lasts forever. Y' all know what I'm talking about. And so what you've got to do is you've got to get yourself to the place where. Where you are diligent like an ant. So go to the ant. I'll sluggard consider her ways and be wise. Okay, what way should I consider which, having no guide, which Means an aunt is self taught. An aunt is not going to wait for you to come by and teach them. They're not going to wait for you to come by and read the book to them. The ant is going to go to the library and get the book. The aunt's going to go to. The person who has an attitude like an ant is going to go to the library and get a book. Obviously, ants are not checking out books at the library. Okay? So the ant is going to. The person who has the attitude of an ant is going to get. They're going to get the book, they're going to buy the lessons they're going to do. They're going to do whatever it takes to learn the thing that's going to take their life to the next level. Which having no guide, an ant is self taught, having no overseer, an ant is self motivated. They don't need somebody to crack the whip. They don't need somebody to wake them up. They don't need somebody to come to give them an inspirational speech every day. An ant does what they're supposed to do because they're already motivated. Their motivation comes from the inside out, doesn't come from the outside in. They have no guide, they have no overseer, they have no ruler. We know also that an ant, the wisdom of an ant is that an ant is self disciplined. What does that mean? That means they do what they're supposed to do when they're supposed to do it the way they're supposed to do it. Watch this now. And they do it that way every time they do it. So that's the first one. The ant or people, not strong, but they prepare their meat in the summer. So we learn the wisdom of contemplation from the ant. The other thing we see about the ant is very different than human beings. Ants think positive when things are negative, but ants think negative when things are positive. You know what we as humans do? We think negative when things are negative and positive when things are positive, right? But the ant thinks summer all winter. The ant is thinking positive when things are negative. Like he's down below the ground maybe three feet, he's got six feet of snow above him if he's up north, right? So that's like 12ft between him and the sunshine. And the ant is thinking, well, yeah, the snow's up there, but it's going to melt eventually and eventually the sun's going to come out and I'm going to be able to go up above, right? So an ant thinks winter all summer. But an ant also thinks summer, all thinks winter, all summer. So when the things are going good, ants are saying, winter's coming, winter's coming, winter's coming. I gotta get ready. Winter's coming, winter's coming. And so when things are going good, you should be making preparation for the season when things are not going to be going as good. So that's the first one. We learned the wisdom of contemplation from the ant. What's the second one? The second one is the Coneys are a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rock. What is a cony? A coney is a rock badger. And when we were in Israel, we saw these rock badgers and these. These. We had. We saw these.

Rock mountains. They were mountains that were made out of rock and they had holes in them. And you see these little rock badgers going in and out of here. And it says, the Coneys, the rock badgers are a feeble folk, but they make their house in the rock. What does that mean? They don't have a way to protect themselves, so what do they do? We learn the wisdom of compensation from the Coney because they know how to protect themselves with things that are stronger than they are. They're like, okay, well, I can't protect myself against a wolf, but I can go into this. I can go into this hole and the wolf can't get me. I can't protect myself against the lion, but I can go into this hole and the lion can't get me. I can't protect myself from a tiger, but I can go into this hole and the tiger can't get me. So they learn how to protect themselves with things that are stronger than they are. And what we learn, the wisdom of compensation. What we'll do in our businesses is we will hire people who are good at what we're bad at. We won't just surround ourselves with a bunch of people who are just like us, right? When we understand the wisdom of the Kony, we'll get in a relationship, a husband or a wife with a person who compliments us, not somebody who's just like. Not somebody who's a copycat of us. And so what we want to do is we want to surround ourselves with people who are strong, where we're weak, who are good at what we're bad at, who play at what we work at. We want to surround ourselves with compensation.

You want to have preparation, you want to have contemplation, you want to have compensation. You want to protect yourself with things that are stronger than you are. Okay, you guys get it. And then the next one is the Locust have no king yet. They go forth, all of them, by bands. So what do we learn from the Locust? Here's what we learn from the Locust. We learn the wisdom of cooperation from the Locust because they all participate. This whole I did it my way. This whole I just. It's the Myron Show. I don't want it to be the Myron Show. Like, participation is the name of the game. Teamwork makes the dream work. Together all of us, everyone achieves more. There's no such thing as a self made millionaire. There's only team made millionaires. There's no such thing as a self made champion. There are only team made champions. There's. And you've got to learn how to participate and cooperate and be a part. Be a part of. Be a part of the greater whole. Like if you got a team. Like when the team moves, you move, right? If you're a part of a church, when the church is doing something, you're doing something. If you're a part of a family, when the family's having to get together, you show up, like, become one of the team. Together, everyone achieves more. And then the last one, which is really the most seemingly the most confusing one of them all, it says, a spider taketh hold with her hands and is in the king's palaces. What does that mean? What that means is.

We learn the wisdom of comp. We learn the wisdom of compensation from the spider because they know how to profit from what others have done. See, a spider can't build a palace, but a spider can live in one. And see what spiders are? I said compensation. I meant the wisdom of capitalization. We learned the wisdom of capitalization from the spider because a spider knows how to capitalize on what somebody else has done. A spider can't build a palace, but a spider can live in one. See? What does that look like for us? I can't invent the Internet. Al Gore already did that, right? That's a joke. Okay, I can't invent the Internet, right? Somebody already did that. But I can capitalize on the fact that the Internet exists. I didn't develop clickfunnels, but I can capitalize on the fact that Russell Brunson's team, they created click funnels. I don't have to be the chief cook and bottle washer, the one who figured out how to do everything and the one who knows how to do everything. I know how to capitalize on what other people have done. And by the way, in the partnership age, one of the most valuable, like all of this stuff, can you see how it all fits hand in glove? And so the way you become wise beyond your size is to apply the wisdom of contemplation from the ant. They know how to prepare the second one, the wisdom of compensation from the rock badger because they know how to protect themselves with things that are stronger than they are. We learn the wisdom of cooperation from the locusts and and that they all participate. And we learn the wisdom of capitalization from the spider because they know how to profit from what others have done. If you will apply these things to your life, you will be wise beyond your size. That's the proverb for today. I hope it helps you make sure you like comment share this video and thank you for watching and we'll see you on the next video.