Steve Vai's Top RULES: Cultivate Strengths for Success| 2 Minutes

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is Cultivate Your Strengths. Over to you, Steve Vai.

The thing that you're most comfortable with, that you do the best, because that's what you're going to do the best. You know, like me, I've got strengths and I've got weaknesses. Weaknesses. I don't work on my weaknesses. I ignore them and I cultivate my strengths. The level of achievement that we have at anything is a reflection of how well we were able to focus on it, because the only thing that's holding you back is the way you're thinking.

I love this message because I think too many people try to focus on their weaknesses and trying to round themselves out instead of focusing on what they're really good at and can be the best in the world at. Remember, if you want to have tremendous success, you have to do something that you can be one of the best people in the world at, and the only way to do that is if you go all in on your strengths instead of trying to round out your weaknesses. I get a lot of people running into me saying, "I want to start a tech company, and I'm wondering if I need to learn programming to be able to start the tech company." If you are not already into tech and already a programmer and already diving deep into that stuff, and have ambitions to be one of the best programmers in the world, then there's no point trying to learn it, right? Understand what you're really great at. If you're the visionary guy, if you're the business guy, then don't try to learn code. Instead, focus on being what you can be amazing at, and then partner up with people who can round out those weaknesses and help you build the ideal company. If you look at most entrepreneurs' schedule, you're probably spending only 20% of your time actually doing the things that you are potentially one of the best people in the world at, and 80% of your time doing stuff that really you shouldn't be doing. Instead, you want to flip that and be spending 80% of your time doing the work that you are amazing at, and only 20% or less on the stuff that you're not so great at. That's how you build a great company. So my question of the day today, guys, for you is: What are you the best in the world at and are going to start spending more of your time doing? Leave it in the comments below, and I'm going to join in the discussion. Thank you so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso.

I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.