Hannah Hammond shares advice from a billionaire mentor: never waver on your values or lower your standards to please others. Staying true to high standards may mean loneliness, but it attracts the right opportunities and a tight circle of aligned people, which is more powerful than a large group of compromises.
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I just finished up sprints at the gym, but I was thinking about this on my car ride home. Per the advice of my billionaire mentor, don't ever waver on your values no matter what. That was his advice to me when I asked him how he did it, how he maintained, managed to build $1 billion in net worth, have an amazing marriage, amazing relationship with his kids, travel the world, provide a huge impact on so many lives, and be truly happy and fulfilled. And that is the advice that he told me. And so now I'm committed to living a life where I never waver on my values and I never lower my standards to appease other people around me who want to make me feel smaller, who want to dim my light. And you're going to get tempted to do this because most people do not live by high values. They do not live by high standards. They're so used to the lowest standards and the lowest values. And you're going to think that your expectations are too high. But don't ever never waver on them. It's better to be alone and have a very small, tight circle than to minimize yourself and to compromise on your values and what you stand for because you want to fit in with the crowd. And this is why they say it's lonely at the top. It's because as you rise and you become a higher value person, you will find that there's fewer and fewer and fewer and fewer people who are aligned. But the ones who are Those relationships are the most powerful relationships that you could ever imagine, and you will continue to have alignment in your life, and you will continue to attract what is meant for you. Please don't ever waver on what you stand for.
