Reading one to two books per week from successful entrepreneurs like Robert Kiyosaki and Tai Lopez can replace a personal mentor. The speaker shares his routine for extracting practical lessons from business books and warns against Instagram gurus who offer nothing in return.
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Yeah, um, so listen, it's gonna be a little different type video. You can see by the title, now I'm saying y'all been asking for these type of videos, like these whole like business or lifestyle, like personal development type videos. I promise y'all would do them. Uh, I was supposed to make a whole channel for it actually, now I'm thinking about it, but um, as you can see I did not. I'm just gonna put it here. But I was honestly just thinking right now, I was reading— actually just got this book. I just got a bunch of books actually, um, but I was reading that book and something really stood out to me. I just wanted to film me just, um, put y'all on game, right? So I don't know if y'all ever be watching all these YouTubers or these— or listening to these podcasts or like these interviews, all like these rich and famous and I'm not famous. I'm not famous to be ripped. Simba, Simba, I'm trying to help people get rich. Please stop. Why are you looking at me? I'm not— um, what was I saying? Dang, I lost my train of thought already. Oh no, but honestly, I ain't saying— first of all, when I start these videos, I'm gonna make a whole— I'm gonna make a whole business channel. Y'all don't get it twisted. But literally, y'all, I always be posting these books like on my story, like books I'm reading. I read like at least a book a week. Most of the time I read like 2 or 3. Well, 2. I never read 3 books in a week because I'll be in them thick books. Like, this is pretty— it don't look thick on the thing, but it's pretty thick. This is a solid, um, what are these numbers so small? 323 pages. Um, so they have a decent amount of reading material. And if you're not an expeditiously fast reader, it could take you a little minute. But, um, yeah, I'm not saying like I'm, I'm like the best person out here for this stuff, but I really do spend a lot of time on personal development, um, like reading. I watch a bunch of— like, I don't watch YouTubers. Like, y'all, like, even when I'm talking to other people, especially like YouTubers and stuff like that, um, they always be talking about like these YouTubers. I'm like, who is that? Because I don't really watch YouTubers like that, like those type of YouTubers. I watch people like freaking Grant Cardone. I'm going to just say the mainstream ones. Y'all know any of the other ones, but I really like the smaller channels, like the small business channels, the small financial channels, just because I feel like they're more real versus the bigger channels, like 100K, 500K, all that type of stuff. But what was I saying all this for? Oh, to let y'all know, I'm not saying I'm the best person out here for this type of stuff, but I just want to put y'all on game to what I know because y'all always be asking me because I always be posting books and stuff on my story. You always want— you want to know like what the heck I'll be doing, how I'll be doing this, how I'll be making money. Because I don't make my money from YouTube. Well, I make money from YouTube, don't even twist it, but, um, YouTube is not my main source of income. I do a bunch of different, bunch of different, bunch of different things. Um, but back to the whole point of what I was saying all this for is you guys watch these YouTubers, or you probably heard this before. Let me pop this up. I feel like holding this jaw. Don't fall, please don't fall. I'm actually begging you, do not fall. Is it stuck? We good? I think we good. But, um, let's fix this. Y'all always hear these people talking about, oh, you need a mentor, this, you need a mentor. Okay, phone, fall again, I promise you, I'm gonna throw you across the room. I don't got time for this. I'm trying to spit some game. Put you right here. Yeah, but y'all always be hearing about like these, um, people saying you need a mentor, you feel me? Somebody's trying to help you, which is 100% right. Hold on, somebody calling me. Let me, let me for a second. But, um, which is 100% right, don't get it twisted. You do need somebody's going to teach you what they know, right? Somebody who's already done what you're trying to do You need that. You really do need that 100%. I'm not saying you don't, but it's hard to find. Like, I personally realized, right, it's really hard to find, especially in person. Like, you got all these, these gurus on Instagram and stuff like that, and it's kind of hard to decipher which one's real, which one's fake type stuff. So like, I'm really wary of all that. And especially, you never want to go up to a person, right, just ask them for something. So like me personally, when people come to me for advice with YouTube, In the beginning, I used to respond to everybody. I would be like, oh, boom, do this, do this, do this, do this. But after a while, you start to realize you're giving out value for no reason. And not that, um, you can't like give up value for no reason. It's just that, um, what I found out— and I'm speaking from like a YouTube standpoint, I'm not speaking like a business or finances or stocks, none of that stuff— what I found out is that people are asking me such simple questions like, how do I make a thumbnail, right? How do I make a freaking thumbnail? If they expect to get all the answers from DMing me instead of spending 10 seconds, 20 seconds to Google it or watch a YouTube video that can teach you probably way more than me, because y'all know my thumbnails don't be nothing. But it just shows— it's not that I'm too lazy to respond to people, it's more so I don't like wasting my time on people who I don't see who would actually do something, you feel me? Like, if you're, if you're not willing to put an effort to go and research something, like actually put in time and research, spend hours and hours to research something, you're not gonna have the diligence or the, um, what you call it, the, um, discipline to actually do what you need to do to get to a certain place. So, um, I'm saying all this, but I still do respond to people that be asking me, how do I do this, how do I do that? It's just I gotta be in the right mood. I won't respond to everybody. Um, but that's just me personally. So I was saying all that to say— I keep going off on tantrums, y'all know that's me though— but, um, and you never want to go to somebody just asking for something, just asking for something from them without providing them any value. So I was saying all that to say, it's really hard— they're not hard, it's just difficult to, um, get a mentor that's making or that's doing something that you want to do when you're coming to them just asking, like, give me, give me, give me, give me type You're basically like a homeless person on the side of the street. Yeah, that was good analogy. But you're not homeless, you're not on the side of the street, you're in the DMs. All right, Simba, you going to keep making noise, my guy? Are you going to keep making noise? Ridiculous. Hate to see it. Um, but I have a shortcut for you guys. Well, what I have noticed was a shortcut, and I, I literally was thinking about it this morning, like in my meditation and stuff like that. And then I read it inside this book and they literally said the exact same thing that I got in my meditation this morning. It's very easy. Sorry, somebody called me. It just messed up my whole flow. I lost my train of thought, forgot what I was talking about. But let's just get into like what I was saying this whole freaking time. We don't all have access. Well, most people don't have access to like these great mentors and stuff like that, like in person as of right now when we're starting, when we're trying to learn something, right? My suggestion for y'all, and I literally saw this in the book, I've said this before, um, I've said it to a couple people before because I used to think about like, this is like a perfect— because people, I don't know, it's just, okay, I'm gonna just speak for myself. Sometimes I'm like, how the heck I'm supposed to get a mentor if I don't know these freaking people and they don't want to help me? Because I think for myself, like, I don't— I hate when people like come to me expecting something without having something in return. I'm not saying money or paying them, just providing some type of value. Like, um, this person, like, I would get excited if I saw somebody that's like, I see is really out here like dedicated, got some real dedication that's actually gold. If I tell them do something, they're gonna do it, they're gonna go stupid, they're gonna be rich, famous, give me 10% of everything they make, I'm gonna be freaking rich off everything they do. I would be excited for that. But, um, I hate when people come to me asking me for stuff um, when they're not providing any type of value, or they're not showing me they're actually gonna do this stuff. So I'm thinking in my head, I hate when people do that to me, so why the heck would I go out and try and get a mentor? And I'm technically in that same position of the other person, in my— things— that makes sense. I think it makes sense. I hope it makes sense. But, um, so I always be trying to figure out like ways around it, how I can learn from these people. Right, or technically be mentored from these people, um, without like feeling like I'm begging, you feel me? Um, and what I've gotten into really recently, and like I told y'all this, I've read this before, they said it before, I've thought this before, I've told a ton of people before, read some books, bro. Like, Tai Lopez was not capping, my guy. Tai— y'all remember that commercial by Tai Lopez, the one I don't know if he was white, um, Spanish, I don't know what the heck he was, but he, it was like he was in his garage talking about, look at my Lamborghini, but this bookshelf is more valuable. Like, I thought he was capping, you thought he was capping, but I'm so serious, y'all. Like, yo, I'm 100% serious right now. Like, get y'all some freaking books by people that y'all trying to be like, right? So this, this is an example, right? This book right here, Social Media Made Me Rich, is by my boy Matthew Loop. Right? Yeah, Matthew Loop. He's one of the— why'd I say loop like that? Matthew Loop. Loop. Why I sound like I'm saying loop wrong? Loop. Froot Loops. Froot Loops. Loop. Matthew Loop. I'm saying it right. Yeah, uh, but Matthew Loop, right? He— I said it again. Loop. I don't care. But him, he is like one of the top social media marketers in like the entire world. Like, Google him. Literally, he's mad smart. And, um, I'd actually seen this on Um, I watched this dude named Swaggy C. He does like, uh, trading, like cryptocurrencies, um, the stock exchange, everything like those type of tradings. Um, what's it called? And he has suggested this book and I bought it, um, because I just, I fell in love with reading. So I realized it's literally like being mentored by these people, like these millionaires, like freaking Robert Kiyosaki. Y'all know that guy? Y'all have— if y'all know him, y'all gotta get this book. Um, everybody knows this freaking book, Rich Dad Poor Dad. That's not even my favorite one of his books. My favorite one of his books is called Retire Young, Retire Rich. But it's a little like being mentored by these people because it's like they're writing down their faults, right? And this isn't really like a good— well, I guess it is a good example, but it's not because from the Bible, it's a lot more holy than these books or what the heck these people got to say. God's word is a lot more valuable or whatever. But just imagine. It's like these people's Bibles, right? So it's like, it's like Matthew Luke's Bibles. It's like freaking, um, Robert Kadoni Bibles. It's like John Maxwell's. It's like their life stories, or they're, they're literally teaching you, right? Like, you guys go to school and you guys get from— you guys read from a textbook. From who? Who's the author? Who's teaching this stuff? Somebody who knows it, right? So you— this is like real life textbooks, like, that you can actually use, because y'all know y'all wasn't using 'How would you put, um, 3 in freaking the grocery store?' Like they said in all them word examples or word problems. You wasn't doing x squared minus b squared for some freaking bananas in Publix. You wasn't doing that. But this stuff y'all can actually use. Like, I'm so serious. Like, I fell in love with reading like 4, 5, 6 months ago, and I just started reading. Oh yeah, I have mad books now, um, and I just read every day. And it's not a task for me. It's like I'm learning. And the stuff I'm learning from these books is like from people who's actually doing this stuff and this stuff works. Like, I've literally changed so much stuff. I've done so many things. I've been able to make so much freaking money from just the things I've learned in these books. And it's just a book. Now imagine if I got actually mentored by these people. But, um, yeah, I was saying all this to say, like, you don't really gotta go out and try and find yourself a mentor as of right now. Of course, later on in line, um, I've even— reading these books, I've even been able to connect with some of these people. Um, there's one dude named, um, what's his name? I've read one of his books. What's his name? Oh my God. But I, I got to get on like a call with him. I was, I was talking to him for like an hour and 30 minutes just off the strength that I read his book. Like, I really like this book. I was talking to him about it. He was giving me some more gems and stuff like that just off the strength that I read his book, you feel me? But, um, yeah, get y'all some books, bro. I should start pulling y'all the books. If you follow me on Instagram, my Instagram is @juver_, like, I usually post like what books I'm reading and stuff like that. Um, another reason why I do need to start this business channel already is simply for the fact that literally everybody keeps asking me to do it. And that's— I really love doing that stuff. Like, I like— a lot of people, um, come to me for like this type of advice, like financial advice, which is like, um, business advice in general. Um, and that's like always what I said— no, but not always. The past couple years is what I said I wanted to do, like later I want in my life. I want to be like a life coach, a business coach, that type of thing. I like how people grow their businesses and how people just like with money, like making money, because money is really one of the easiest things to make. Um, I'll explain that in a later video or whatever. But, um, yeah, it's gonna be fun when I start this business channel, for real, no cap. It's gonna be great. But until then, I'ma just drop some gems every once in a while on this channel when I'm not doing like other vloggy type things. Like vlogging. My cat's running around for no freaking reason. Um, but yeah, y'all can feel free to ask me comments and questions too, like comments y'all want me to answer in a video. Um, whether it's like business questions, um, investing questions, um, money questions, how to save, why you should save, what you should save for, that— just really ask me any question. I love this. I really love doing this type of stuff. Like, if you know me like a person, People ask me these questions, I can go on and on and on just like helping people if they're people that I feel like will actually listen to what I have to say. Um, not people that's just like not gonna do nothing I tell them to do or suggest them to do. Um, but like I said in the beginning, I'm not perfect at none of this. I'm not, um, the best at none of this. It's just I'm— I know a lot because I've studied a lot and I Learned a lot because I forced myself to learn a lot because I like learning so I can help other people like you. Um, but yeah, imagine a whole vlog talking about books. Am I the Black Tai Lopez? Where's my Lamborghini? All right, goodbye.
