The Most Important Advice To Achieve Success

So what does self education have to do with your next level of income, happiness, joy and abundance? Welcome to the Dean Graziosi Show. All success starts right here. Hey, it's Dean Graziosi. Welcome to the Dean Graziosi show, where each week we go upstream to anchor in a foundation for success. Not the magical money machine, but rather the pieces needed to make it real, to make it everlasting, to shift, pivot and create strength and certainty in these absolute uncertain times. I mean, it's one of the craziest times in history. So why bring up self education during a time like this? Is because this is when you have the ability to gain the capabilities to go faster, quicker to that next level, to not be left behind, to don't feel left out, to be less uncertain and more secure. So what is self education? What is the knowledge industry, the knowledge business, the information age? It's really this. It's learning from people who've already been there. And I just want to share the importance of it because so many times people see someone successful and they think it's something that you can't. Like, it's not tangible, it's something you don't see. It was a gift. It was. Someone gave them a hand up, somebody lent them money. And when I really dig under the hood, what I realize is most successful people know the power of learning from those who've already been there. Listen, how many people do you know go through years of college? Now, I'm not talking about doctors and lawyers, but go through years and years of college, and when they're done, it's almost like starting over. My nephew, Tanner, he's like one of the most important people in my company. It's not because he's my nephew. He's amazing. But he went to school for five or six years taking business and marketing, and when he came to work from me, he said, I learned more in the first three weeks about marketing than I did in the last six years. And I mentored him and he got self education from me. I actually bought him marketing courses from people I admire. I made him read books about it. And within six months, he was one of the best marketers, direct response marketers, and understood it. Not because of his six years of school, not because of his degree, not because of the college debt he had, because he learned from someone who had already been there. And that is the key in so many areas of what you need right now. Listen, when I was young and wanting to go further, I was programmed like most of us are. I remember in high school, wanting more, desiring more. I wanted more money. I wanted to take care of my mom, who worked three jobs to make nothing. My dad, who my parents were split, but my dad worked his tail off at a collision shop every day, getting dirty and smelling paint fumes. I wanted to take care of them. But there was part of me that was so programmed that if I didn't go to traditional education, which I knew I would, I had dyslexia. I struggled in school. In fact, I hated school. I couldn't wait to get out. By 11th grade, I was out half a day and already working in my dad's collision shop, right? But I have to tell you, there was a part of me, most of me was like, man, everybody says you don't be successful. You don't live in the nice house, get the car, have the freedom. Without college, I'm kind of screwed, right? It was like, we're programmed. And I'm not knocking if you went to school, please knock, knock, knock. That. What I'm sharing, though, is a shift in our mindset, a shift in what really gets us the results, and that's specialized knowledge that we learn through self education, right? Just new terminology. And I just wish my guidance counselor would have said, hey, there's three choices, right? You can go to college, great. You can not go to college. And you can just maybe go in the blue collar world where you don't need a degree, where maybe you can learn on the job, right? Or there's a third road where maybe you can find a way to make some money while you self educate, while you learn from a mentor, while you read books, while you work as an apprentice, while you do courses and workshops and masterminds. Like no one ever talked about that kind of lane. Down the middle, my guidance counselor was like, school. Ah, heaven, and you'll live the perfect life. Or, ooh, no, blue collar broke, drink too much beer and kick your dog. Like, I'm not being rude. I'm just like, that's how it felt. And I have to tell you that I questioned. I always wanted more. Just so you know, I wanted to take care of my mom and retire my mom since I was really little, like 9 years old. I wanted to make money to stop her from working so hard. We all have those memories of what was the first thing that drove you to more, right? You have yours, I have mine. But I have to tell you, I didn't think I'd get there. And how lucky am I that I stumbled on self education? Gaining specialized knowledge And I realized now, I didn't call it that then, but I sucked at kind of getting a. Like if someone wanted to teach you how to ride, drive a bulldozer, right? I'm not the kind of guy that could take a class on it or read a manual on how to do it. I watched. And I had someone nice enough when I was building houses to show me I was getting self education. Someone who's so good on a bulldozer. I sat. I remember I was holding the heavy beam of the bulldozer while they were driving. I was watching them do all the handles. And I bet you three, four, five days I was watching how they did it and how they, like you know, when they push a bulldozer and the piles too much, you got to lift up and all these little shifts and changes, right? I watched them for three, four, five days. A week later, I was on a bulldozer. Within two weeks, people thought I was an expert, right? Same thing with a backhoe. I'm just giving you completely different scenarios. Same thing with a backhoe and an excavator. And then I built houses. I modeled this guy that had been building houses forever. I hired him on the first one. I told him I wanted to do them myself. He goes, all right, I'll teach you. I paid him to build my first house. When I was in my early 20s. I bought raw land, subdivided. I was building houses. I didn't go to school for building houses. I didn't know how to read architecture plans. I wasn't the smartest kid in school. But this guy had been building houses for 30 years and he took me under his wing and we built the entire house together. Every time he'd get off the ladder or get something or talk to his team, say, dean, come here, listen. The way I share with them, dean, let me show you this blueprint. See the way this looks here? See this L bracket goes here. Don't do this, do that, and make sure you're always. And I just, I absorbed it like a sponge, you know, I built one house with him. The second house we co built by the third one, I built all the rest of the houses myself with my own team, right? Because I got self education, I got specialized knowledge. The problem with general knowledge is they teach you all of it when really sometimes you could Google all the rest of the stuff. I just need to know how to build the house. So in today's world, I would pay for him to do that. I did. I paid for him to do the first one, right I would buy a course, I would buy a training. I want the specialized knowledge. I want to learn how to do real estate, specialized knowledge. I want to learn how to build houses, cut hair, do anything. Why would you get more general knowledge, overwhelm yourself or why would you learn through your own trial and error? That's the most difficult thing on the planet. And this is also the reason why Tony and I have been so obsessed with teaching people how to be in the self education industry, how to share your specialized knowledge with people who need it. Right? The guy, let me just tell you, the guy who taught me how to build houses, he didn't think to himself, I'm a house expert or I'm in the knowledge industry. He didn't realize it, but in today's world that's exactly what he should be doing. He could be doing a training, a course on how to build a house, how to frame a house, how to read plans. People want all of that. And that's why this is such an amazing time to be alive. So why am I sharing this today? A couple things. One, I want to encourage you when it's time to level up, go to your next level, stop thinking so much on how to do it and start thinking, who could help you get there? Now when you start going down the who road, it could be me on my own through trial and error. World's moving too fast to figure it out on your own. Who could also be school? Should I go back to college, get my master's degree? More general knowledge? Do you really need that? Or the who could be someone has already done what you want to do at the highest level and now they're offering a workshop, a course, a mastermind or something that allows you to start off where they left off. I encourage you to seek out self education, specialized knowledge in the areas that you want to grow. Don't try to figure it out on your own. In most cases, don't go back to school. Right. We need to go faster and quicker. And on the opposite side of that is be an investigative reporter and see what the knowledge industry is all about. That's why Tony and I created KBB and the movement of help. KBB stands for knowledge broker Blueprint. Really just taking your knowledge, brokering it to other people to impact their lives and get paid to do it. That's what it is. But that's where the world's going. Especially with these shifts. The knowledge industry is exponentially growing. People are at home and they're realizing the fastest way to their next level. Is to learn from someone who's already done there. So if you have a skill, a hobby, a passion, an expertise, I'm going to encourage you to share it. Share it with friends and family. If you don't want to make it a business, just give out. Like, give it to other people to allow them to go faster, practice. And the cool part is if you ever want to learn how you could turn that into a business, then you're definitely going to want to go to deanandtoni.com check it out anytime you want. Deanandtony.com, you can register for a two hour training with Tony and I that talk about the knowledge industry to kind of pull back the curtain on what him and I have been doing collectively for over 60 years and see if it makes sense. If you'd love to get the blueprint to help you be in the knowledge industry, great. And if not, that's okay. Again, that's@deanandtony.com, but if not, if you want to go to another level, if you have a desire, start reprogramming yourself. We've been taught that it's middle school and high school and then college and then ah, how's that working out for most people when only 27% of people who get a degree use it and half of them hate the job they have? Right? So start changing that to back to school on my own. How do I do it to who can help me get there? And go search it. Go find it. Find the person that's already done it. Listen, I love doing these podcasts with you every single week. Remember this, I do this for free. I do this because if I can give one of you right now just one subtle shift that points you in the right direction and it lights me up. So if you like what we're doing week after week, our podcast just grew to Right now We are number 23 in the world when it comes in the entrepreneurial category. 23 in the world. I have some amazing people on that list with me, so I feel really honored to be here. So if you're loving this podcast week after week, share it with a friend, take a screenshot, post it, tag me on Instagram and I'll repost it. Let the world know we're here because we're gaining some really great momentum. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of downloads every month. So thank you for that. And if you'd love to learn more about the knowledge industry, go check out what Tony Robbins, my dear friend and I have done with a two hour training@deanandtony.com See you next week. If you liked this podcast, make sure you rate it and also make sure to click subscribe so you never miss out. Remember, all success starts here.