This YouTube video features Vishen Lakhiani recounting a personal, transformative conversation with a billionaire named Wayne in Dubai. Wayne advises that true success is having the flexibility to work only 18 hours a week (six hours on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) so life remains unplanned and free, which shifted Vishen’s worldview and led him to aim for that schedule.
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Transformation is an irreversible shift towards a greater understanding of the world. That's it. True transformation is sticky. It's like the chewing gum at the bottom of your shoe. You cannot get it off you. Now let me give you an idea of a transformational shift that happened to me recently. I was in Dubai, and a friend of a friend told me that I need to meet this man. His name is Wayne, and he's literally a billionaire, and he lives at Princess Tower. And he took me out to his balcony and showed me the view. And that was the view I was looking at. My God, this was the most incredible apartment I'd ever been in. This is probably the most incredible view I've ever seen. I live in Tallinn, Estonia, where the tallest building is like, three stories high. It's a medieval city. As Wayne was showing me this view, he transformed me in two minutes with the following conversation. Wayne said, vishen, you want to know what it takes to being a billionaire? And I said, what? And he says, Work 18 hours a week. So I'm like, what? And he goes, I mean that. You must work 18 hours a week. You must figure out how to make your work so automatic that you only work six hours on Tuesday, six hours on Wednesday, six hours on Thursday, Monday and Friday must be free. So I was puzzled by this. It sounded counterintuitive because we always think these people work ridiculous amounts of hours. Then Wayne continued, He said, true success is not knowing what you're going to do next week. I was confused by this. He said, if a friend calls me up and said, hey, come hang out with me in Tulum, I can say, no problem. I can hop on a plane Thursday night, be in Tulum, be back Monday night, and then get my work done on Tuesday. He said, true success is having that flexibility of life, is not having plans that lock you down. And if you can do that, you have so much freedom to think, to think big, to be creative, to think about how you can grow your business, that aim to work 18 hours a week. That conversation shifted me. In just a few minutes, I changed my worldview, and it was an irreversible shift. My goal right now is to work 18 hours a week.
