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It's So Easy to Beat People Nowadays

Name: It's So Easy to Beat People Nowadays
Uploaded: 2024-11-24T02:30:31+00:00
Duration: 1 min 15 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this impassioned monologue, the speaker condemns today’s weakened work ethic, noting that people are constantly distracted by social media and unable…

24 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this impassioned monologue, the speaker condemns today’s weakened work ethic, noting that people are constantly distracted by social media and unable to commit to long‑term goals. He argues that the first phase of building a business should prioritize learning and perfecting the customer experience rather than chasing revenue. Using a hypothetical cleaning business as an example, he stresses that obsessing over customer retention—ensuring no client leaves—creates sustainable growth regardless of sales volume. The speaker frames entrepreneurship as a "battle of wills" that demands delayed gratification, tolerance of repeated failures, and a willingness to endure hardship, contrasting this with the perceived softness of modern workers.

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And I'm telling you from the bottom of my soul, it is so easy to beat people today. They are so soft. They have no work ethic. No one can stick with anything. Everyone's distracted. They're on social media. They're counting their fucking notifications because they can't stick with shit. They can't say no. The point of that first phase of growing the business, because you start making sales, is to get better, not to get rich. The point in the first phase is to learn, not to earn. If I started a new cleaning business tomorrow, the first year would just be trying to nail the model. I wouldn't be— I wouldn't be thinking about what we're growing every month. I wouldn't care. I would only be focused on how could we make this experience so that no one leaves. And that's all my obsession is, because I know that once that happens, whether you sell 1 customer a month or 5 customers a month or 10 customers a month, your business will not stop growing. And we will just keep fucking growing because I spent a year or 2 years or 5 years figuring out exactly what to do that delivered for my customer. And that is the work that no one will do. And that is That's why entrepreneurship is much more a battle of wills than it is a battle of intellect. You have to be willing to delay gratification for an extended period of time and eat glass, and that eating of glass is seeing how many failures you have until you get it right.