7 BUCKS to BILLIONS: How Dwayne Johnson and Others GREW Beyond Life's Challenges!

I complain a lot when I was young because I think Bill Gates took all the opportunities for the Microsoft, Steve Jobs, all these guys.

Because without the ability to influence and persuade, you can't put yourself out there into the world and be known for what you really are.

You go through school and at least when I did, people just focused on academics, achievement, different areas. One of the things that no one really ever taught me was like, having friends is really valuable.

What's up, Believe Nation? It's Evan. My one word is believe, and I believe in you. I believe you have an amazing gift inside you that I wanna see explode out onto the world. So to help you on your journey, in today's video, we're gonna showcase the 6 things that the rich people do that the poor people don't, and why you're still broke. Hope you enjoy. All right, rule number 1 is the rich believe in the law of income. Featuring Mark Cuban.

My best business is, you know, solve problems, reduce stress, make people's lives easier. 'Cause that's what we all look for, right? In school, you want to get through class, you want to get good grades, and you're looking for the best way to do that. When you start a business, you want to make your customers happy. You want to make it so that they don't think about going anywhere else. But again, you always got to think about your own consumer experiences. What is it about— what is it that you look for And that tends to guide you. Would you buy from your own company? You know, and you got to be honest with yourself because not all companies are going to be great. But my most successful companies understand that.

Rule number 2 is that the rich focus on opportunities, not obstacles, featuring Jack Ma.

This world today is full of challenges and opportunities. 2,000 years ago, full of challenges and opportunities. And I'm sure 2,000 years later, full of challenges and opportunities. There is always— it depends on how you look at it. Somebody look at this challenge as opportunity. Young people always say there's no opportunity. I complain a lot when I was young because I think Bill Gates took all the opportunities for the Microsoft, Steve Jobs, all these guys. There's no job, there's no great big stuff left for us. But I think opportunity always lies in the challenges, always lies in the complaints. If you can solve the challenge, you have you will be successful. The big challenge you solve, the big problem, the big opportunity you have.

Rule number 3 is the rich associate with positive, successful people, featuring Warren Buffett.

You will move in the direction of the people that you associate with. So I— it's important to associate with people that are better than yourself. And actually, the most important decision many of you make, not all of you, will be the spouse you choose. And you really, you want to associate with people who are the kind of person you'd like to be. You'll move in that direction. And the most important person by far in that respect is your spouse. I can't overemphasize how important that is. And you're right, the friends you have, they will form you as you go through life. And Make some good friends, keep them for the rest of your life, but have them be people that you admire as well as like them.

Rule number 4 is the rich are willing to promote themselves and their value, featuring Jordan Belfort.

Warren Buffett was doing a speech with Bill Gates about maybe 10 years ago, and he was asked by a college student, what can we do as students to make ourselves more valuable in the workplace? So you think Warren Buffett would say learn how to pick stocks, learn how to investments, you know, whatever he would say, right? Not what he says. He says, go out and take a course in sales and communication.

Yeah, he did Dale Carnegie, changed his life. There you go.

And that was the point, because he took that. He says, I took Dale Carnegie, changed my— without that, you know what he'd be without that course?

Yeah.

He'd be the richest money manager in Omaha, Nebraska that no one ever heard of.

Yeah.

And he met his wife that way, the love of his life.

Without the ability to influence and persuade, you can't put yourself out there into the world and be known for what you really are.

Rule number 5 is the rich are voracious readers, featuring Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett.

You know, I could always get as many books as I wanted. I could go to the library. Uh, you know, I had a grandmother who would, would read to us, and it was, you know, it was thought to be a great thing. So early reading, uh, lets you imagine all these situations and start to think of yourself, you know, could I ever run a business? Could I ever discover something in science? And I do think some positive reinforcement of, hey, you're clever, you can do these things at a young age takes you a long ways. And, you know, then— and this is a great time to be a curious person.

I like biographies in general. Biographies, I think, are really, you know, a really interesting read.

What you learn from them?

Well, I think you learn a lot depending upon, you know, whose life you're reading about. There are lots of lessons in there. I read Isaacson's biography of Jobs, which I thought was quite interesting, and I actually really liked his biography of Benjamin Franklin, who I would say is certainly one of my heroes. He seemed like a really great guy. Basically, I sort of was thinking about this when I was a kid and trying to find some meaning in life, like what's the meaning of life, you know. And I got quite sort of sad about it actually when I was a teenager. And then I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which basically said like the real, the real, you know, basically the universe is the answer and you just need to figure out the questions. So I think, you know, that's, if I can help kind of figure out the questions, then that I consider that to be meaningful.

What's your media routine? I just read and read and read. I probably read 5 to 6 hours a day. I don't read as fast now as when I was younger, but I read 5 daily newspapers. I read a fair number of magazines. I read 10-Ks. I read annual reports, and I read a lot of other things too. So I, I've always enjoyed reading. I love reading biographies, for example.

Rule number 6, the last one before the bonus, is the rich grow bigger than their problems, featuring Dwayne Dwayne Johnson.

When I was 24 years old, you know, I grew up in a world of wrestling, and I love wrestling. My dad was a wrestler, my grandfather was a wrestler, but then I fell in love with the game of football, American football, and I played that, and I played it till I was 24 years old. And when I was 24 years old, I got cut from— and I got released from my, uh, from the football team I was playing with in Canada. It was a CFL team, uh, which is the Canadian Football League. It's Canada's version of pro football. And I got released, and when I got released I had $7 in my pocket. I literally had $7 in my pocket. I had no place to live. I had to move back in with my parents at 24 years old, man. And that was a really sobering experience for me. I battled depression at that time. I didn't— I had no money, didn't know what I was going to do with my life. So that was my version of Hercules in terms of battling back from something big. And it also wound up inspiring me to— Well, get off my ass and, and get to work.

Now I've got a special bonus rule with Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest people alive. But before that, my question of the day is I want to know which of these 6 rules so far are you lacking? Which one is the reason why you're broke? I want to hear from you. Leave it down in the comments below. Thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself. And whatever your one word is. Much love, I'll see you soon, and enjoy the bonus clip.

But the students around me were really important as well, right? And both in high school and in college, I mean, the people who started Facebook with me and a lot of people who are still with me running the company today are people who I met when I was at Harvard, and some of them were my TFs at Harvard. Right? And, you know, when the professors were off writing papers, these were the people who actually taught me, and then we hung out and we had like social bonds and academic bonds. And I just, I wouldn't understate the importance of that. And I mean, it's very tied into my whole philosophy and the product that I spend my life building, Facebook, because we just believe that social bonds are critical. And one way that I think about the the value that Facebook is filling in the world is that, you know, you go through school and at least when I did, people just focused on, you know, academics, like achievement, different areas. And one of the things that no one really ever taught me was like having friends is really valuable. No, not that I didn't have friends, but, but like, although, you know, the movie might make it seem that I did. But that first girlfriend. But for sure, I don't think anyone is like It's not like, okay, third grade, we're going to like— now we're going to like teach you that like hanging out with people is a very important development, right? And I don't know, I actually think that that is. And I think that's part of the reason why sometimes people view Facebook as a waste of time. But I actually think it's this extremely socially valuable utility. And I know that I wouldn't be where I am today without that aspect of my life being as developed as the academic part.

Raise your standard.

Apple, at the core, its core value is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.

Not one drop of my self-worth depends on your acceptance of me.

I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated.

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