Video game addicts have it easy in business

I don't know about you guys, but I was a raging video game player growing up. I would literally just play video games all day, day in, day out. I don't know why my parents let me do this, but I would just play video games non stop. And all I could ever think of was like playing video games. And that was literally where all my time went. I had no social life growing up. Like, I. I just didn't fit in. I was bullied a lot and I. I just played a ton of video games. My favorite video games were, I liked arc. It was like this video game about where you like, you would freaking tame dinosaurs and build forts and stuff. And it was like 24 7. So it's like somebody could go and like destroy your entire base that you just spent like months on. And I just love that. I don't know why. I just love that I could put months into something and then just have it all disappear in the span of like 30 minutes or 20 minutes. And so I played games like that. I would play Forza, that was another big one. I played Call of Duty, Call of Duty. I was pretty big at playing a lot. I would play different games, like World of Warcraft. Trying to think, what else did I play? I played some League of Legends. I played like a bunch of different video games. And then honestly, for a long time, I love playing Roblox. I don't know why it was just. Or I do know why it was because it was fun. Like that little bit of a grind. It didn't take as long to beat the games. And so I didn't have to like play for months to get sufficient, like efficient or good at a game. I could just play for like a couple hours. And I was like already like top 1% in the game. So I played a lot of video games in my life. And quite frankly, I attribute this to a lot of the riches that I had. If you have a video game addiction, listen up. Or if you've had a video game addiction, listen up because I'm going to talk about how I was able to use that as my superpower and, and that addiction was able to allow me to make millions because I was able to take those traits in that personality that I had into turning it into making a lot of money. When I first was like growing up, like I was good at baseball and I was good at video games. Like that's pretty much all I play. That's all I did with my life. I was not good at girls. I was not good at any of those things. And if anything I felt like a loser, to be honest with you. I felt like I wasn't talented at anything because they felt like, I mean baseball was kind of like a little, it felt a little bit useful. But when it came to like video games, it was like, it felt useless. Like I was like doing nothing for the good of society. And if anything I was just like, I was, I don't know, like I just, I, I didn't feel good doing it, but it was just fun and I was able to become good at it and it was fun feeling good at something. But I started to realize that I had like a, like an obsession when I was playing video games. And like the summer would come in like high school, I, I would do nothing but play games. And I love that. Like I would wake up 6am, play video games all day, go to the bathroom like and drink tons of water, eat goldfish. I would have a giant ass gallon thing of goldfish, munch on that all day. And then I would play until like 2am, go to bed, wake back up at 6am and I, it was like an unhealthy obsession with playing video games. Like that is all I would do. And it was for the sake of like, of trying to be better than all my friends to beat all the games I was playing and to just like, I don't know, like, I just always would see like little micro goals and I would just like try to beat it and I try to always like beat the games I was playing. And so it was this like unhealthy obsession. Like, and it was honestly ridiculously hard to quit. Like I just, even during college and then even when I got out of college, when I dropped out, when I started building businesses, it was super unhealthy, this obsession that I had. But this obsession taught me a few things about myself. It taught me a few things about life and a business and, and living a dream life. And then now instead of like trying to win all the cool stuff in gta, I've just made my own life. Gta. I travel, I live in cool houses, so I drive cool cars and I'm able to travel and just make a ton of money and live my own dream life and I don't have to go clock in an office somewhere instead of playing like GTA and the video game I just played in real life. And it's honestly way more fun playing it in real life once you start doing it. So I had this unhealthy obsession where I would literally play video Games all day. That's all I did. I had nothing else matter in my life. Girls didn't matter. Life didn't matter. I was awkward as I was introverted. I would just play video games all day. And you may resonate with that. Like it was just for me. It was like I always wanted to beat the game. I always wanted to like, I remember very vividly when it came to like Call of Duty, I wanted to unlock all of the different skins and I wanted to become like a top level player. Like I just love getting like a 271 kill kills and then like not dying at all or only a few times in the game. It's just like just owning noobs in the game and just beating everybody. And later when I started building, like when I started to want to make money and realizing the impacts of money and, and seeing that like when I played video games all day, I couldn't pay my bills and I was gonna be evicted out of my apartment or you know, my social life was drowned, like draining. Like I always wanted, like I had girlfriends, but I just couldn't like the relationships weren't healthy and stuff and I just couldn't have a good form of relationship and my health was deteriorating. All these like side effects and consequences that came with video games, I had to start stepping it up and like start taking business seriously. And it honestly like I didn't have a hard time ever making money. And here is why. Like I, like I made 10 grand a month, like I would say quickly, it probably took me like a year or so, but I was able to get to that and consistently persist doing it because of the skill set I adopted with playing video games. And what I realized is that I was able to like in that same exact fashion of like trying to understand the, the hacks or the skill sets or learning every single process of unlocking all these skill skins and Call of Duty. I was able to do that same exact thing with business when it came to building a YouTube channel. I would just look up how to make videos and get more views, how to make a video. And then once I started making videos, I started getting views. I'd be like, okay, where's the information? Like where's the strategies to get more views? Okay, when I started getting views, how do I make products, how do I sell things, how do I get affiliate deals, how do I get sponsorships, how do I get brand deals, how do I build more channels, how do I hire people, how do I get other people to do these videos for me? It was the exact same thing. And instead of me getting skins and unlocking skins or getting insane kill death ratios in the game, instead it became about making like unlike. It became about, how do I unlock this skill set? Instead it became, how do I get this many more views? Instead it became, how do I hit $10,000 a month? And as soon as I set instead of the target of, like, how do I unlock skins in Call of Duty instead and focus on how do I make $10,000 a month with my business, I then that's when everything started to unlock. That's when I started to obsessively chase after how to get to $10,000 a month. And then when I actually focused on making 10 grand a month, it happened really quick. It happened in the span of just a few months when I started to believe that I could. I could make ten grand a month. The issue was, is at first, like, when you're playing Call of Duty, you're like, oh, I can't. Like, you're like. At first, you're like, oh, that's easy. I'm gonna start, like, I'm gonna unlock all the skins, no problem. Then you start playing, and then you realize how hard some of these skins are, like, to get all the gold ones or all the diamond ones or whatever, how hard it becomes to actually unlock all these things. You're like, oh, whoa, I have to get good with the smg, I have to get good with the shotgun. I have to get good with all these different guns, and you have to, like, they all require different optimizations to be good at it. For the snipers, you want to play longer maps or get good at quick scoping when it comes to the shotguns, you want to play close maps and you want to, like, play these high intensity ones. And in the game modes, where it's, like, easier to kill people with the shotgun so you can unlock them and you have to, like, you get. You hit this pit of despair where you realize, oh, this is way harder than I thought it was. I thought it was like, at the peak of Mount Stupid, you're like, oh, this is easy. You hit this pit of despair, and you're like, oh, this is hard. But then that addiction of, like, these slight unlocks and these little, like, you know, dopamine that we get whenever we unlock a new skin and we finally hit that goal that we try to do, all of a sudden it's like, okay, cool. Next. And then as soon as you unlock all the skins and you get all of them, you feel absolutely nothing. It's the funny part of it. You get to the end of, like, unlocking all these skins in the games, and you feel absolutely nothing. At the end of you going and spending hundreds, thousands of hours to unlock these things, and you feel absolutely nothing. The same thing with money. Like, I'll tell you this, it's like, it's. It's a club that you get a part of, and then once you're part of the club, you realize that it's not that special. But when you're outside of the club, you're like, I'm missing out. I don't have all the cool guns. I'm not that good yet. Like, I need to get all the cool guns, and then I'm part of the club. And then once you're part of the club, you're like, oh, it's not that special. It's not actually that unique or that cool. And then you're like, okay, I want to get into the $100,000 a month club. And you're like, yeah, this is pretty much the same thing. Like, it's cool. You get to go to, like, spent. Stay at expensive hotels and travel around and stay at insane resorts and meet incredible people. But you realize when you get there, it's like the. The fun was when you were grinding, when you're addicted to trying to find every single tactic or every single little way of getting to that. And the same thing happened with video games. It was like, I would like. The addiction to trying to find the way to get this thing that other people didn't have was incredibly. Like, that was the. The. The means to an end was the chase of a means to an end. And the same with business. Like, as soon as I started to focus on the addiction of getting really good at these skill sets, like, of. Of yapping, of communication, of copywriting, of. Of marketing, of sales, of offers, of fulfillment, of customer support, of CRO, Of. Of becoming a leader of management and realizing that each of these skill sets unlocks new levels and helps me get to, like, greater levels of wealth and greater levels of income. And that's the fun part. That's where I became insanely passionate about business. When as soon as I started viewing it in the lens of It's a Game and like, knowing that me recording these videos better changes more people's lives or get some more views and makes me more money, that's where it becomes fun. Like, I get addicted to the feeling of, like, how can I perform better? How can I get insanely more talented at this skill set. So, so then I can help change more people's lives and impact more people. And that addiction to video games transformed my life, turned me into a, an insanely more high leverage person. It became fun. Like building businesses is like, became the most fun that I ever had because I just purely focused on this addiction of becoming better at things. And I, I leveraged like that because when in these moments when it felt tough and it felt hard and I was like, oh, I don't want to work or do all that much time, I would reflect to these times of playing video games and the brain rod of just playing video games and, and trying to consistently get better at said thing and just throwing at the wall over and over and over again and not making progress and finding little things that would make me insanely more efficient at doing said thing and becoming way better at getting the skins. I realized that I was able to do it for pixels on a screen. And when I realized I could do it for pixels on a screen, I realized I could do the same exact thing for life, for business. And instead of it being pixels on a screen, it's numbers on a screen. That's really, that's really all it changes to is instead of trying to unlock skins, you just try to buy material things, have better memories and experiences, but then try to get more numbers on the screen ultimately is what we're chasing at the end of the day. But that optimization and knowing that money at least unlocks like cooler things in life and like you can actually do things with your life, it makes you more memorable and it actually provides more value to society. And that became the drug, like how can I transform my people's lives? How can I like, become a more valuable person in life? How can I become a significantly more incredible at whatever it is, the things that I am doing and working with more and more insanely talented people and becoming a more leveraged person, a more talented person, someone that's able to do, you know, things that I would have thought were impossible otherwise. That's when it became fun. That's when everything started to unlock. And that addiction, instead of it being, like I said, the pixels on screen, it became money and actually changing people's lives, lives. And now helping like hundreds of people make tens of thousands of dollars a month online feels far superior. More serotonin, more, more, more better to myself than just unlocking all the skins in a video game and helping people and, and seeing the actual impact it has on lives became way more fun and way more thrilling and way more Exciting. And so the thing we have to realize though is that video games are short term pleasure. That is the one thing we have to realize and it has long term consequences or long term sacrifices that are being made when we're playing video games. In the short term it feels good. You feel like you're making progress in lot like you feel like you're making progress. You feel all the dopamine, your brain receptors are going off saying this is good. But me having this addiction for years, like, I'll be honest, I was playing video games hardcore from the age of like probably 13 to about 22, 23. So almost a decade. I started to see the long term consequences of my decision of the short term pleasure and the short term sacrifice. Like the short term pleasure that I was optimizing for. Yes, I was having fun. Yes, it was a good time playing video games. But over time it started to eat away at my soul. Seeing that people that I care about were getting older and I was growing apart from them. Seeing that I had bills and I had responsibilities and they weren't getting done made me feel awful inside. Seeing that I. Knowing that I had the talent and knowing that I had a skill set and the ability to transform so many people's lives with the person that I am, the person that I can become, ate away at my soul. Knowing that I was optimizing for this short term dopamine over the actual like good that I can provide to humanity ate away at my soul in all honesty. And it. There was a certain point where I reached where I was like, enough is enough. Like I remember girlfriend broke up with me, I had no money, I was like living somewhat of a decent life, but instead I was playing video games. I was kind of fat, I was kind of chubby. And I would look at myself in the. I looked at myself in the mirror. Girlfriend left. I went and did this little trip to kind of get away from things. I got home and I looked at myself in the mirror and I thought to myself, am I really going to let video games get in the way of my life? Am I really going to let this unhealthy obsession that doesn't even provide anything to humanity? At least with business. It's like I'm changing people's lives and I'm like transforming things and I'm like, I can buy my parents a house or something like that. Or like, like there's like actual change that's going on to real people in the world instead. Focusing on just like getting skins in the game or Getting some freaking pixels on a screen to look show up as different pixels on a screen, is that really worth it? And that's when I realized I needed to change. And I applied that addiction to my health. I went from weighing 150 pounds to 180 pounds of pure muscle in the span of like three months. I went from stuck around like 10, 20 grand a month to where now I'm able to make 300, 100 to $300,000 a month. And now I'm trying to get to a million dollars a month. And even in there was another period of time too where I was went from like making a thousand dollars a month to $10,000 a month. There's a few of these epiphanies that I had, but. And then I'd relapse, go back to playing video games. I'd get comfortable again, get addicted to playing video games. And then I would be like, what the is my life again? And then I came to the realization over and over again the lesson of I need to get addicted to things that are gonna be long term pleasure, short term pain and sacrifice over short term pleasure and long term pain and sacrifice. Because ultimately I wanna live a full life. I'm young, I'm still in my mid-20s. I don't wanna sacrifice my entire life. Another decade going by of just sacrificing this gift and ability that was given to me from God and given to me to, from all these mentors and all these people around me to transform so many people's lives that I'm not gonna let that go to waste. At a certain point, I was like, enough is enough and I'm not gonna waste anymore. And so just know that you yourself, watching this video, you have these gifts inside of you. You have been given so many gifts. You have the ability, you have this, you have this gift of addiction, you have this gift of, of depression, you have this gift of anxiety, you have these gifts of, of pain and suffering. And just like you have this gift that you're given of your life is right now, whether you view it as a gift or not, and just understanding that this is a temporary circumstance that you're in and that these things that you were given as a gift is fuel, is talent, is skill sets, is the ability to go and change your life. Don't let these gifts go to waste any longer. How much longer are you going to let these gifts go to waste? My thought, my, my opinion, take that Xbox, take that PlayStation, take that gaming PC, delete all the apps, throw it all away. Sell it. Go sell those things and go do what you know you need to do. Go to the gym, go start that business. Go do the things that you know that can transform your life and apply these things that you have learned to an actual benefit of good to society over just this sacri. Like, just this selfish thing of trying to get pixels on a screen. Is it really worth it to get all those pixels on a screen? That's what I had to ask myself. And so what did I do? I honestly got rid of my Xbox. I don't even know where it's at, honestly. I got rid of all these things. And then I just focus on business, I focus on getting rich, I focus on building relationships. I focus on my personal mental health, I focus on my physical health, I focus on my nutrition, I focus on my relationship with my family. And I applied these things like video games were a gift to me. Video games get showed me a version of myself that I can possibly become. And with that gift that I was received from these video games, from these addictions that I had, and then instead applying it to a better good, to humanity, and something that is far more valuable and far more superior, then my life changed. And everything became all rainbows and sunshines and beautiful pores and lounge chairs next to the pool and palm trees. So that's what I got. You got that. You got that superpower too. If you've been playing video games or whatever your life circumstances is, it's a superpower, not a curse. Thanks for watching. Thanks for letting me brainwash you guys into being successful inside of these videos. And I'll see you guys all the next one. Peace.