My name is Evan Carmichael, my one word is #Believe

and I believe that Entrepreneurs will solve all of the major problems in the world

So today's message is BE PATIENT, over to you Simon Sinek

Entpresso music playing

(Simon Sinek) I talk to so many smart, fantastic, ambitious, idealistic, hardworking kids

And they're right out of college, they're in their entry level jobs

And I'll ask them "How's it going?" and they'll say, I think I'm going to quit

And I'm like "Why", and they'll say to me, "I'm not making an impact."

I'm like, you know you've been here eight months right?

They treat the sense of fulfillment or even love like it's a scavenger hunt

Like it's something you look for.

My millennial friends, they've gone through so many jobs

They're either getting fired, I mean, it was mutual.

Audience laughs

Or they're quitting because they're not making an impact, they're not finding the thing they're looking for...

or they're not feeling fulfilled; as if it's a scavenger hunt.

Love, a job you; find job from, is not something you discover.

It's not like "I found Love, here it is" I found a job I love...that's not how it works.

Both of those things require hard work.

You are in love because you work hard every single day of your life to stay in love.

You find a job that brings you ultimate joy because you work hard every single day to serve those around you

and you maintain that joy

It's not a discovery

But the problem is the sense of impatience

It's as if an entire generation is standing at the foot of a mountain

They know exactly what they want; they can see the summit, what they can't see is the mountain

This large immovable object.

That doesn't mean you have to so your time

That's not what I'm talking about.

Take a helicopter, climb, I don't care. But there's still a mountain.

Life, Career fulfillment, relationship, are journeys.

The problem is...

this entire generation has an institutionalized sense of impatience

And do they have the patience to go on the journey, to maintain love

to feel fulfilled

or do they just quit and on to the next. Dump and on to the next, ghost and on to the next

(Evan) Am a big fan of modeling success.

Am a big believer that you can shortcut your path to success by finding what other people have done

to achieve that success, learning from them and applying that to you own life, to you own path to get there faster.

I love finding shortcuts, I love finding hacks

I love finding all the productivity tools and team and everything you can do to climb that mountain faster.

but to Simon's point, there is still a mountain

There's still a lot of work that has to go in. It's working smart and working hard.

It's not just one or the other to go an accomplish your goal.

If you look at my YouTube Channel as an example since we're watching here all together

You know, I've made 5000 videos for this channel; 4000 of them are public and a 1000 plus of them are not.

They're practice videos, they're demo videos, they're test videos

I sucked at the start, go back and watch my first video and look how bad it is.

Somebody recently left a comment on one of my videos that I recorded Five years ago and she said...

Oh my, Evan look how far you've come, five years later, you sound and look different in so many good ways

And that's awesome to hear and also really frustrating.

You know. I am mostly the same Evan that I was five years ago.

My belief system, my values, maybe I've learned a little bit more, gained a little bit more experience.

But why am I so much better now on camera than I was way back then?

Well it's because I practiced.

What I had four, five years ago, compared to what I have now, the difference is 5000 videos

You know, that 1000 videos that haven't been published.

Those trying and errors and failing and on those thousand videos

that never go released are more than what most people ever create

Most people who start a YouTube channel, they'll make 3, 4, 5, 10 videos and quit.

cause it's too hard, cause it's too challenging, cause they don't want to climb that mountain.

Cause they don't want to put in the work.

Well here's a thousand videos that never saw the light of day and 4000 more that are going.

Now, can you get there faster than me, sure.

I'm looking at Alex, I'm looking at Lilly who's been helping me on some of the videos.

They are already better than when I was when I first started.

They're already better than I was making a thousand videos in. You can get there faster than me.

You can model success. Maybe you also have, just more natural talent.

You can rise up the ladder faster than other people around you.

If you have more natural talent, if you model success, if you have a deep passion for what you are doing. You can get there faster.

But it's still a long road.

You still have to be patient. You still have to put in the work.

And I think that's what people often get too frustrated by.

Because they want the immediate result. They want the immediate success and if they don't get it,

then they quit.

And so understand that if this is a deep passion of yours, if this is something that you want to commit

potentially for the rest of your life to doing because you care about it so much

then expect to suck at the start, expect it to take a long time

expect to work on trying to improve your efficiency and productivity and

skills and resources to get there as fast as possible.

But expect to be committed, stay patient,

'cause if you are, whether it takes you 100 videos or 5000 videos or more

the equivalent in your industry, you'll get there.

So the question of the day today is, I'm curious about your reps.

I'm curious how much are you putting into your business.

How much are you practicing daily, to get better at whatever skill it is that you have that you're bringing

I'm curious about your schedule

Leave it down in the comments below, I'm excited to see what you guys have to say.

I also wanna give a quick shoutout to Laytina (*Laynita)

Thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book:Your One Word.

It really really means a lot to me and I sincerely hope that you are enjoying the read.

So thank you guys again for watching, I BELIEVE in you, I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is

And I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of Entpresso.

Entpresso music playing.

(Malcolm Gladwell) So a bunch, a group of really brilliant Psychologists in the field of Expertise Research

have sat and tried to figure out,

how long do you have to work at something before you become really good...right.

And the answer seems to be, it's an extraordinarily consistent answer,

in an incredible number of fields, and that is, you need to have practiced, to have apprenticed,

for 10,000 hours before you get good.

So every great Classical Composer, without exception,

composes for at least ten years before they write their master work.

Mozart

I mean, he's composing at 11, but he was composing

garbage at 11, I mean, he doesn't produce something great until he's like 22 or 23.

(Inaudible) No. 9 I think, '71

If I asked you, how long did it take you, when you were doing this job before you felt comfortable and good at what you were doing...

(Interviewer)10 years at least

(Gladwell) 10 years, and the same with me; when I; And it's an incredibly consistent finding

And it's really important because it says that we are far too impatient, with people.

When we, when we, when we assess whether someone has got what it takes to do a certain job

we always want to make that assessment after six months or a year or, and that's ridiculous, you know.

The kinds of jobs we have people do today are sufficiently complex

that they require a long time to reach mastery and what we should be doing is setting up

Institutions and structures that allow people to spend the time and effort to reach mastery

not judging them prematurely.

(Seth Godin) Patience, is for the impatient.

That in fact, when you're getting started and your in-laws are making faces at you

and you're not sure if you're going to be able to pay the rent.

And you don't know why you are living in Brooklyn to begin with

and you're gonna have to move back to Florida

It's easy to say "You know what, I need to go faster to pick up these scraps and pick up these scraps "

And sometimes what that does is it gives you the foot up to get to the next level but sometimes what that does

is, it just makes you a scrap collector.

And that one of the things we see when we look at the work of people who have put

really big ideas into the world, who have built online platforms right is

is that they got there by being patiently impatient or impatiently patient (which ever one you want to juxtapose)

That if you look around at the blogs you read or the people you respect online

or the organizations you wanna work with, the myth of the overnight success is just that; a myth.

That, you know, the much vaunted Twitter was a failure, complete failure for two years, nobody used it.

And if they took the mindset that, well if it doesn't work in two weeks we gotta go do something else

you never would have heard of it.

(Reed Hastings) You know China is a very special place and if you look at the big Tech companies

Apple's done very well, Microsoft hasn't lost too much, I think, you know, Google's lost a lot

So it's quite a bit of variation despite all three of those being talented, long term oriented companies

And when you look at Apple, one of the amazing things is, when they did the iPhone

uhhh, they negotiated, talked and built relationships for 6 years before the iPhone was allowed to come to China

so, from 2005 to 2011

and that took a lot of patience, and now, that's one of their largest markets in the world for the iPhone.

And so what we take away from that is a sense of great patience

So it may be soon that we have a license to China or it may take a couple of years

but we're gonna be very patient

And we're looking forward to a time, you know, a decade or two decades from now when the Chinese

middle class will want to embrace the kind of content that we have.