The Old Adin Ross
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with a good friend of mine, Aiden, and talk about how he became a streamer, how he grew up in a broken family, and how he went on to become one of the most successful streamers in the history of streaming.
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but we'll talk about everything i mean i i praise this a lot as you guys know like
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this is the only person who like truly believed in me from the beginning i remember you got me
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the high speed internet you always bought me the new game you always let me stay home from school
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when the new game came out you just always believed in my shit for video games always
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like you always just like it's just crazy you always just believed in me why how like usually
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like every other parent would just call you crazy why did you kind of believe in me i mean i had my
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moments of like doubt which were just like you know very fleeting but the way you spoke about it
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was as if you read a book and you were telling me all about the book you read that is how you
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described your future in streaming to me and so it just struck me as what choice did i have but to
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you know but to support you yeah in doing that i really didn't feel i had any choice and uh
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drove me a little crazy at the beginning with the yelling and screaming and the neighbors i had
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to fight with um i didn't i didn't tell you half the stories of the some of the fights i got into
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in the neighborhood what happened oh just from the yelling and the you know the whole house would
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shake sometimes and the windows would shake and i don't think you had very good windows on that list
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no i didn't they were unscrewed and like yeah so you know my neighbors threatened to call the cops a
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lot one time i had to deal with the sheriff one time thought i was beating my wife and i said
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absolutely not that sound is not the sound of a man beating his wife that is the sound of a happy
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young 16 year old boy who's streaming that's crazy i didn't know you i didn't even know that
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yeah and then uh when we first moved into this place i forgot what happened something tipped me
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off that all the neighbors were going to come after me with pitchforks and like i remember that you had
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to board everything up and all that stuff i went to home depot i boarded everything up and it turned out
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it was a false alarm like the neighbor just wanted to give me like a welcome basket or something like
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that yeah but anyway all that aside um i you know i've been in business a long time thank you aiden's
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dad for raising such a good son he also raises me winking face what does that mean i don't know i'm
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gonna mute the tts but that's gonna be later on like where we can put on texas beach so people
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can donate money and talk it's cool yeah it's really cool um no yeah i think it's just it's crazy like
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to see like how everything planned out like you said i really didn't know i was gonna make it and
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i made videos to myself and i explained it and i broke it down to you how to kind of how i was
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gonna make it but the wild thing to me is just like you were the one person who just like okay let's
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my dad uh at that time you know like i remember you had to try like different credit cards yeah that
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was that right when you were about to take off is when i hit a real rough patch in his life yeah i was
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in between jobs and i remember there was this new high-speed internet that came to our town that
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you wanted to try it and it was like they wanted you to pay 600 dollars but let's but let's go back
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for a little bit sure do you remember like literally in eighth ninth grade i wanted to stream do you
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remember that or no of course the internet was just too bad like i wanted to stream as a freshman in high
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school yes and um i couldn't do it because the internet so senior year comes along the high-speed
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internet you're obviously your pockets are hurting right now because you're going in and out of jobs
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you tried three different cards they all declined until like last one finally worked we got approved
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we got the internet like a month like later and then i just took it so seriously i literally was
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like all right i'm doing this i'm doing that you know i i gotta i got a job and i got like some other
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equipments and stuff and you just helped me pay for the internet and then i just really took over
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like i i really remember that you were excited i think your upload speed was what 1.2 yeah but that was
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just enough right right the 1.2 upload speed was just enough to do it i found a way to do it
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shitty quality and then we slowly upgraded it and then it slowly upgraded and then i could make
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decent content then i would pull 12 hour streams and we would constantly have internet problems and
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just back and forth and we would lose pieces and all this crazy stuff and power would go out oh yeah
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the place we were at just powers would go out like the internet would just have issues we'd have to get
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an internet guy over all the time i'd like six different modems i'd keep swapping out um the point is
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there's no excuse you guys can make when you're coming up i was i had one gigabyte of uploads one
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megabyte of upload speed mgs of upload speed and i still made it happen you know there's a way to do
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it but um i was so dedicated back then and um it was crazy like you just watched me do it i remember
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there was a time where i drove you three and a half hours to los angeles yes we got the game that you
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needed to get we go back we got a soda and we drove three and a half hours eight hours in the car
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no data would do that just uh just so you can have that game early right like two days early yeah
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he got me 2k 15 early i remember nba 2k 15 early a few days early because we la obviously gets copies
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first you know we were in a town that's obviously not la a few hours away you literally did that
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three hour drive back and forth just to get me my game i was drinking the same kool-aid you were
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drinking i mean i was you know you had me believing and uh so i was i was behind you 100 but i i also have
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to admit i never dreamt that you'd reach this level this fast yeah it was quick it was really
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fast and um you know it's just it's crazy to me like how how fucking like quick it was yeah literally
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how quick it is and now i was just in high school two years ago yeah it seems like yesterday i was
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asking if you do it you got all your homework done you know i know that's so so fast that's crazy but
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it just i don't know like it's just i don't know so now you're like superman right so you're gonna
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use your powers for good evil fun bad you know i know you're gonna use your powers for good i know
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no 100 i think that uh it comes with a lot though there's a lot of responsibility now there's a lot
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of people's lives that obviously are intact with mine um there's a lot of negativity now like i'm not
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used to a lot of hate i get a lot of hate now i get a lot of controversy people don't all like me
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like i used to you know that everyone who watches me likes me you know now people hate me and people
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try to like discourage me some people watch you because they enjoy hating you i think people watch
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because they're so miserable with their lives right and they're so jealous for example like
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people would probably hate on this because they don't even have like a dad who believed who believed
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in them instead of maybe just like being like damn like look how like you know like appreciative and
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shit like some dads can be like i guarantee a lot of people in this chat are just so miserable with
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their lives and you know they just don't know what to do but they take it out on me if that makes
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sense well have you has any of these miserable lives people ever like turned around and like gone
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the other direction so that's funny you said that like i've i've one time took taken you know uh i've
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one time slid in people's dms and i would be like you know um like hey you know why are you saying
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you know that type of thing to me and they were like oh my god i just want to get a reaction out of
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you i love you you know um so it's ball busting sometimes it's just 100 and not everybody's
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miserable like the people that love me and that are always you know just spreading positivity towards
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my streams and stuff they're they're they're good people you know because they don't they don't have
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to latch on their pain onto other stuff like that's just how it is it's like i don't i'm not looked at
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as a human being by a lot of people i'm looked at kind of like as like a robot now like i'm looked at
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as somebody when he's not streaming let's yell at him let's throw fucking uh tomatoes at him and
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stuff and uh all this stuff you know but my my biggest uh thing is is i'm not just a streamer
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at this point i want to i want to find a way to kind of pave a wave and get into other industries and
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eventually acting you already know i want to get into boxing just all sorts of stuff i have this
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vision of you and i don't know if i'm wrong or right because wishful thinking that you also can
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pave the way for other people that have talent to you know get on the same path and you save them
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years in time to get on that path 100 and it just all it takes is there's so many people out
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there with talent for example um i really want you to start streaming and doing your stuff i feel
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like you'd be a great streamer like like just like is that an earthquake or is that your foot
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it's my foot tapping because i'm excited oh but um you know what i mean like i just i think there's
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a way to find unrecognizable talent like you know i want to find a way to do that and just put
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people on and help people as much as i possibly can i think that i've changed a lot of people's
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lives and i just want to continue to do that and uh it's just awesome when you know when people have
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this power a lot of people do bad things with it but i'm the one that you know i want to do nothing
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but good things with my my my uh my brand and stuff so yeah i think it'll pick up momentum i think
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the more people that you're able to bring into the limelight and to launch their own careers i think
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the more momentum it'll pick it's like a snowball going down a hill and you know what i'm talking
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about when you roll a snowball down hill it gets bigger and bigger and bigger 100 yeah before before
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you know you have a giant wake and like like this is your army almost it's like an army it's like an
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army but but what how come everybody who watches me doesn't like me that's the only thing that trips
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me out still why do you think um well it's a combination there's never one black and white answer
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for any specific question you know there's always it's always a mixture so i i've got to say it could
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be a little bit of envy jealousy yes could be a little envy could be a little jealousy could be
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like you said before people just trying to have fun and break your balls and don't really hate you
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um and then it could be some people just thrive on negativity i just i just sometimes wish i was kind
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of like i hate saying this because it sounds so ungrateful but sometimes i wish i was kind of like
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smaller so i could appreciate my come up more like i didn't appreciate me coming up more i was
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so sophisticated on numbers and growth when i was just really like a year ago having so fun in that
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little apartment playing my video game you know what i mean like i don't know like that was everything
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to me i think i know what you're talking about um when i had a big company at one time and i had 50
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employees and things were going along great and five years passed i lost all my employees all my
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partners and i was the only one there and every day i came into work considering i was just
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going to shut the office down but i stuck it out and stuck it out and i built it from zero back up
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to a big company again and i enjoyed rebuilding so you could constantly be rebuilding other things
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and you know yeah so you'd be that small fish in the big pond not always the big fish in the
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little pond yeah you have a lot of great ideas so you know i i think that's a way to have that
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best of both worlds you're right you're right you know it's like a shark you got to keep swimming
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or you die so um what would you say is the next big challenge for you out there where you would
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feel like you're starting from you know scratch again you know it's crazy i think boxing is okay
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i think just getting into like reworking my my physique my body you know getting into healthy
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because health is number one you know so i think just even whether it's boxing or not whether it's
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boxing shit is real or not me just getting my body right in general it's just like that right there
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is going to make me healthier and more happy you know just waking up knowing i'm you know i have
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muscles and i have a cardio and i'm in shape and stuff so there's a lot to be said i don't know if
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any of your people read any eastern philosophy teachings but there's three centers in your body
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there's your intellect there's your emotional and there's your physical and if all three are doing
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are doing work at one time that's how you really you know you get to feel everything right so it's
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mental you know emotional and physical and you apply all three with boxing would be perfect but
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another thing is that is like like now it's i like the way you're saying i like that but but now i'm so
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mentally drained because i'm constantly like like my life it's not like i'm not living my life for me
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anymore i'm like i'm like living my life for other people like completely i'm so drained and i'm so like
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like i'm so drained like i don't even talk to you every day i love to talk to you every day i'd love
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to be able to talk to mom call her up i love to be able to talk to my aunts grandmothers all that
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stuff but i i'm so mentally out of it now you know um with everything going on that like i want to just
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focus and i don't know because you're not i've been giving you this advice since day one you have to
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recharge your batteries you have to find your own cathedral you have to find a place where you go
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where you can recharge yourself this way you know when you get back into the streaming whether it's
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the next day or two days later you're fresh yeah and your mind has had a chance to meditate and just
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decompress so you don't do that no i don't you you're burning the candle at both ends like this is a
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candle you're burning it here here and you're lighting the candle in the middle right and it's
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just going to burn out instantly hey dad what do you uh what do you say to uh kids that want to follow
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their dreams and passion but they're maybe they're their parents aren't like you where you're so like
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believing in the beginning and stuff persistence um sincerity i mean this is what i read from you
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these are the vibes that you gave me that there wasn't there was going to be no stopping you so
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it's like why should i make your life harder you know it'd be a drag when i knew there was no stopping
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you so i saw the passion so definitely passion and devotion um there's nothing to me anyway there's
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nothing more wonderful um in business and in life than meeting people that are extremely devoted to
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whatever it is they're devoted to whether it's religion whether it's reading whether it's
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streaming whatever it is there's nothing like devotion nothing can break through devotion
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right so it's for these young people that are having difficulties with their teachers or with
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their parents not saying not not not saying this is an open path for you they just got to make it so
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clear that there's nothing that's going to stop them so they could either join you and help you
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or just get the hell out of my way kind of an attitude but i realize when you're dealing with
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younger people with parents they have to be respectful to their parents so find a way to be
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firm but respectful but so devoted like aiden i've never met a more devoted man than you
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to to to your business to your streaming so devoted didn't matter if there was if the roof flew off the
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house and there was no electricity you know you would pedal a bicycle and hook it up to the wires and
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make that generate the electricity yeah yeah i mean that's how devoted so definitely number one is
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devotion and sincerity and and and and results um to be able to show tangible results because
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a journey of a thousand miles starts with one small step so you put enough small little steps
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together and eventually you'll you know you'll you'll definitely get somewhere so they've got to be
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able to not only be devoted but to be able to demonstrate that they are making headway what they're doing
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so you so you think that measurable you genuinely believe that anybody in this chat right now can do
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it i believe that a high percentage of the people in this chat that are extremely devoted and amped up
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to do this can can find some success they've got to find their niche thing is too not to be too afraid
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of how am i going to find exactly what my niche is because that all happens naturally yeah everyone's
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trust the process everyone's going to find their own exactly purpose eventually it just comes to you
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so how come it comes to some people sooner like myself you think that's a tough question for me
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to answer why you know happens at different speeds is it just is just chance or what maybe part of it is
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luck like when i was highly successful in business at times i never felt like it was all because of me
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i also felt it was because of timing you know the timing was right and i met this one person that led me to
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this that led me to that and before you knew it everything opened up for me and then there were
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times no matter how hard i tried it didn't make a difference there were no doors were going to open
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so timing has a lot to do with everything in life got it