The speaker would tell his 18-year-old self to cut social media and nightlife entirely, stop doing small tasks, and focus only on revenue-generating work. He now lives minimalist and screen-based, constantly asking how to build a sustainable business. Block out people who discourage intense work.
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If I could go back in time and talk to my 18 year old self, I tell him to focus instead of spending his nights on Snapchat, doom scrolling, talking to girls, going out, all of that. I wish I would have just told him like dude, sit at your computer and work and work and work and work. And when I was 18 I was probably working like six to 10 hours a day. But I really wasn't dialed in trying to push the needle forward doing revenue generating activities. Instead I would find work here, I would find work there and I would push the needle forward, but only very incrementally. Now, now I've deleted all the distractions out of my life besides my computer screen. This is literally all I look at all day long. And my phone so I can post and try and give you guys genuine value. And when I'm looking at that, I'm doing nothing but pushing the needle forward. How can I generate revenue today? How can I generate revenue 10 years from now? And how can I grow this thing to be the biggest thing and possibly be. And a lot of it takes out blocking out distractions and blocking out the people in your life who are trying to hold you back. Like a lot of people are going to say that you aren't who you say you are. There a lot of people are going to say that, you know, you shouldn't be be working as hard or you should have work life balance. Yeah, that's.