Dan Martell - If you want to be rich, be lazy. Let me explain…

00:00:00.000 There's this philosophy that if you want to be rich, be lazy.

00:00:02.580 And if you want to be wealthy, be incompetent.

00:00:04.360 And here's why.

00:00:05.080 If I bought a restaurant and the chef quit,

00:00:07.380 do you think I'm running in the kitchen to be the chef?

00:00:10.560 Zero fucking chance.

00:00:11.900 What I would do is start calling recruiters to find me a chef,

00:00:14.880 to call my friends that are chefs,

00:00:16.040 to ask for a favor, to come in to be the chef,

00:00:17.820 to ask somebody else on my team to be the chef.

00:00:19.380 Because out of all the people that could probably cook,

00:00:21.360 I haven't cooked myself a meal in years, dude.

00:00:23.520 Why?

00:00:23.800 I am the most incompetent person as it retains to being a chef.

00:00:28.320 And oftentimes I see people because they can do the work.

00:00:32.540 Their immediate response when there's somebody

00:00:34.880 that departs from the company is to jump in.

00:00:37.300 And what happens is you then bottleneck

00:00:39.960 because there's no problem to fix

00:00:41.760 with the urgency that it would.

00:00:43.160 If I don't have a chef, I can't open tomorrow.

00:00:45.680 My level of urgency to solve that problem is now.

00:00:49.000 If I can be the chef, it gets punted.

00:00:51.520 Six weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks.

00:00:54.000 And guess what?

00:00:54.800 Subpar food, no leadership in the other restaurants,

00:00:57.280 the whole thing sinks.

Dan Martell - April 21, 2023