REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 145. Q&AF： The Dichotomy Of Critical Thinking And Vision, Opening First Business & Working With Family & Friends

00:00:00.000 what is up guys it's andy priscilla and this is the show for the realest sake about it 0.98

00:00:22.580 lies the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality 0.97

00:00:27.260 you guys all thought i fucked it up didn't you i think you thought you fucked it up i did 0.99

00:00:31.280 i'm not gonna lie it took me i had a little joe biden moment 0.79

00:00:35.840 oh man the closest you've ever been though i picked it up though i picked it up and i closed 0.85

00:00:43.280 hard i went hard in the tank oh shit so what do we got today we got q and af q and af baby all 0.95

00:00:52.440 right so before we get started on the q and af i'd like to remind you guys uh to please pay the 0.97

00:00:58.820 fee okay i really appreciate all the support you guys show the show uh we don't run ads for the show

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00:01:08.900 uh you support us if we don't do good don't support us and i'm totally cool with that so um

00:01:14.520 what we got guys you guys know how this works i got three questions for andy um and as always guys

00:01:20.920 email your questions in to ask andy at andy for seller.com um and the questions can be about

00:01:25.560 anything as always we always appreciate your questions they're awesome so keep sending them

00:01:29.260 in um so i'll ask andy three questions if you're uh ready we're gonna go fire for fire for fire

00:01:34.400 i'm ready let's get it in so question number one all right so we've talked about this a lot critical

00:01:39.960 thinking right it has been intentionally removed from our society right and people's ability to see ahead

00:01:46.000 to think critically is at an all-time low how exactly do you improve the ability to see further

00:01:52.040 ahead like how do you how have you worked and improve that skill of critical thinking and seeing

00:01:57.760 you know two three years ahead like how do you do that well you're talking about two different things

00:02:02.340 one you're critical thinking and you're talking about vision all right um both of them are very

00:02:08.840 similar uh but they're also different as well so when it comes to critical thinking you know we are

00:02:14.860 all used to and indoctrinated into uh you know here's the way it is and then take a test to make

00:02:23.060 sure that our answer matches what they say is the answer and that's how we've all been raised one way

00:02:27.960 or another whether it be uh you know true like it doesn't matter what your version of the truth is

00:02:34.760 um it's still that way of thinking right remember this do this and that's why i struggled in school i

00:02:40.960 always struggled in school because i thought for myself like it never made sense to me uh when i

00:02:46.340 was in college that i'm taking an entrepreneurship class and here's this person teach me about how to

00:02:51.060 be a successful entrepreneur who doesn't own a business when at the time i did own a business 0.98

00:02:55.240 and then i see him driving away in a 19 fucking 81 shit box yeah like i can critically think my way to 0.98

00:03:01.720 say hey this might not be the best person to fucking learn from yeah um so i think it's important 0.99

00:03:07.820 important for people to question everything i think a big thing of critical thinking is to ask 0.87

00:03:14.320 questions um for example like what's going on in the world right like you know a lot of people they

00:03:20.400 look at one side or the other side but they refuse to look at both sides you know a lot of people feel

00:03:26.120 better when they're when their biases are confirmed versus them being uncomfortable with new information

00:03:31.760 it might conflict with those biases so i think it's important to be open to all sides of the story

00:03:38.860 and to realize that you know there's not two sides to the coin there's three sides to the coin

00:03:43.480 right there's the heads there's the tails and then there's the actual side right all right and that

00:03:47.820 stands for the same idea you know there's their side there's their side and then there's somewhere

00:03:53.340 in the middle is the truth right and i think it's important to remember that in in almost every

00:03:57.800 situation but especially with what's going on in the world um you know in terms of seeing what's

00:04:04.280 going to happen a lot of that comes from experience right like you're you kind of have to just think

00:04:09.180 unemotionally completely not get upset about what's happening not get emotionally invested

00:04:13.760 but but see things for what they are all right a realistic viewpoint of the truth and this is why we

00:04:21.660 call the show real af you know this is about a realist perspective yeah separate your emotions

00:04:26.480 pull your emotions and your personal beliefs about the way things should be and and pull that away

00:04:31.540 and look at what is all right and then look at the actions of people versus what they say right that's

00:04:38.580 a big thing too a lot of people want to believe everything that that people say whether it be in

00:04:43.780 their business or business relationships or the government or the media or whatever we all want to trust

00:04:48.900 people it's human nature so we have to admit to ourselves that the truth is uh not everybody's worth

00:04:55.060 that trust yeah so it's very important that you watch people's actions um versus listening what

00:05:01.560 they say but when it comes to seeing down the road and seeing what's happening i think having a very

00:05:06.860 good knowledge of historical facts is a good place to start because the truth is history does repeat

00:05:12.620 itself so um you know it's sort of like you know you you're sitting you're sitting on the beach right

00:05:20.760 and you're watching someone and there's a hole in the beach and they're running and you know that

00:05:26.340 they don't see the hole right and then they fall in the hole yeah okay and you see that happen 400

00:05:31.780 times well eventually when you see this person start running 400 yards away you already know what's

00:05:38.080 going to happen at the end you know what i'm saying so there's an there is a there's aspects to being

00:05:42.980 able to see what's happening and and one of them is experience one of them is uh non-emotional

00:05:49.080 critical thinking one of them is finding the facts and making decisions based on the facts not based

00:05:54.540 on how you feel about the facts um which is really the biggest problem that's going on in the world

00:05:58.940 right now in my opinion uh but yeah i mean thinking critically guys is a very important skill to

00:06:04.580 practice you know and a good way to to see if you're thinking critically is to ask yourself am i

00:06:10.080 thinking emotionally or am i thinking logically is this a fact or is this something that i'm making up in

00:06:16.940 my head is this feeling yeah is it a feeling is it a story i'm telling myself and you could save

00:06:22.080 yourself a lot of hardship emotionally by becoming a critical thinker because when you're a critical

00:06:28.380 thinker you you don't let yourself get sucked into other situations that would get you into a highly

00:06:33.860 emotional state and by the way um this this is not something that you master in one day this is a

00:06:40.260 lifetime mastery program on this i mean there are still things that i see on a daily basis

00:06:44.540 that make me fucking angry and i think it's important that we you know we all do our best 0.92

00:06:49.880 to not to contribute to the division you know so that's critical thinking you know like i'm thinking 0.98

00:06:54.640 okay i have a voice people are watching what do i show everybody's seeing this anyway do i really

00:07:01.020 want to pour gas on this fire or do i want to uh let people see for themselves on their own and then

00:07:06.880 me be a voice to help guide them towards unity instead of more division so so there's a lot of ways to

00:07:12.940 think about it and and you know however you think about it in those situations and however you want

00:07:18.640 to represent yourself is your decision but i think it's important for you to consider

00:07:22.960 the impacts of your actions right like are we just hyping people up causing more division or are we

00:07:30.700 you know because like there's a balance there right like no it has to be yeah like people do need to see

00:07:34.900 these things for sure but does it need to be jammed down their throat so hard that we that we create a

00:07:40.060 backlash towards i don't i don't think shot is doing this like oh look look at this yeah that

00:07:44.200 makes the other sounds like yeah yeah right and so so i think thinking critically about and taking a

00:07:49.600 step back and taking a pause about what's going on um really could serve the world right now yeah you

00:07:54.940 know and i think everybody needs to uh get away from the emotional thinking and we do we're seeing

00:08:00.440 it right now right like let's just be fucking honest um a lot of people didn't like trump because 0.87

00:08:05.240 they didn't like the way he behaved or because somebody else told them okay that's right and 0.90

00:08:09.240 that's not critical thinking no critical now you have a president who is legitimately hurting you 1.00

00:08:14.040 your fucking income your fucking future your kid's future and putting us in danger by some of the shit 0.99

00:08:20.880 that he's doing and so what would you rather have would you rather have a little bit of discomfort 1.00

00:08:25.660 on your emotional state or would you rather have real pain in real life because that's the decision

00:08:29.960 that you made right um and that's the importance of critical thinking you have to be able to look

00:08:35.780 at someone and say you know what i don't like everything this person's about but at the end of

00:08:39.180 the day uh i'm not here to like this person i'm here to get them to do a fucking job right and like 0.96

00:08:44.380 them or not we were doing pretty fucking good no we weren't doing pretty good we were doing 0.88

00:08:47.880 fucking amazing yeah it's the best the country had ever done for sure so that's an that's a non-arguable

00:08:53.740 fact it's a fact not a feeling so it is what it is but yeah critical thinking long time 0.96

00:08:59.520 investment that you need to make uh being able to see down the road that comes with experience as 0.93

00:09:06.040 well as your skill development on critical thinking awesome that's fucking fire all right 0.95

00:09:11.140 question number two so you you and chris right in 1999 you were 19 years old right what made you

00:09:18.160 guys start s2 like like what that's the question yeah that's the question like like i mean there's

00:09:22.960 many other businesses that you guys could have gotten into maybe right like what led you into s2 like

00:09:28.180 what made you and chris say okay let's do this well first and foremost we wanted to be entrepreneurs

00:09:32.900 yeah okay um i knew that i was not the kind of person who could uh quite honestly just being

00:09:44.040 honest like take direction at that time in my life i couldn't i was not coachable yeah okay i was 0.80

00:09:49.140 stubborn as fuck and that's a good quality to have as an entrepreneur by the way it's not a negative 0.97

00:09:53.360 especially in the beginning you have to be stubborn and you have to be fucking rigid uh so i didn't 1.00

00:10:00.260 want to go get a job i actually thought all my professors were fucking idiots and you know for the 0.99

00:10:06.860 reasons i described in the last question like i've always qualified who i want to learn from 0.99

00:10:12.580 and i've always looked deeper into their lives like to to qualify them yeah you know i don't just

00:10:19.260 listen to someone uh like a lot of people do now because they post on their story one time you know 0.99

00:10:25.580 they booked a private jet like i yeah right like i'm looking for the motherfuckers that haven't flown 1.00

00:10:30.960 private in fucking a decade or haven't flown commercial in a decade i'm looking for motherfuckers 1.00

00:10:36.180 that have the real juice behind them to do whatever they want to learn from right i'm not looking for 0.99

00:10:41.160 guys who are just getting it going trying to flex their shit um so i look harder and deeper and i 0.97

00:10:46.720 always have into who the fuck i learned from and um i knew because of that like i'm gonna have to 0.98

00:10:53.620 pave my own way because there's no way i can make enough money working for someone else to live the 0.97

00:10:57.760 life that i want to live and i knew that very young when i was fucking eight nine ten years old my dad 0.95

00:11:02.340 sort of beat that into me uh so that contributed right i wanted to be an entrepreneur um and we didn't

00:11:08.980 really know what we wanted to be an entrepreneur in so our first our first line of thinking was we knew a

00:11:15.060 guy uh who who ended up becoming my friend uh later on in life who owns some tanning salons and

00:11:21.920 uh we said well hey he's fucking killing it let's just open some tanning salons you know that's like 0.80

00:11:27.440 a lot what a lot of entrepreneurs do and this is very dangerous and i'm gonna explain why in a second 0.74

00:11:31.320 but we didn't know what it took we didn't know anything about the business we just want to make

00:11:36.980 money yeah right so we didn't care what we had to do so we went and we tried to uh look into tanning

00:11:43.220 beds and you know the first tanning the tanning bed at that time was 30 grand we only had 12 grand

00:11:47.520 so we only had twelve thousand dollars that we had saved up from painting the stripes on parking

00:11:51.680 lots uh we both worked at that job together so then uh you know we we got the idea from a

00:11:59.700 supplement store from this this guy who had made an independent supplement brand which at the time

00:12:04.880 was very rare it was only this gnc and vitamin shop and like those kind of places there was no

00:12:09.140 independence wasn't a thing so we decided to do that and the reason we decided to do that was

00:12:14.440 honestly out of ignorance and passion for us we like to train like we like to train we knew a little

00:12:20.420 bit about nutrition we knew a little bit about training it was something we were interested in

00:12:24.660 and passionate about so we just said fuck it let's do that and honestly um looking back that was a 0.99

00:12:31.400 terrible way like because dude now i've spent the last 25 years trying to sell shit that people don't 0.98

00:12:37.000 really fucking want you know what i'm saying yeah and and it's weird because everybody and their 0.95

00:12:41.560 brother sees what we do and they're like i want to start a supplement brand bro listen i'm not saying 0.95

00:12:46.420 this because because the chances of you catching me at this point are almost zero okay uh just

00:12:52.340 logistically it's probably you're 25 years ahead not only that uh it would take you a hundred million

00:12:58.360 dollar capital investment to even fucking be on the and then the cost i mean it's it's it's a bad 0.98

00:13:03.700 thing to chase okay like you should be focusing on your own shit um but i have all these people 0.99

00:13:08.640 every day reach out and they're like dude i want to start a supplement brand i want to start a 0.97

00:13:11.580 supplement brand i want to start a supplement brand you know they think that you put powder in a 0.83

00:13:15.340 fucking bottle it's two bucks and you make 50 bucks that's not how it works like dude the margins 0.99

00:13:20.240 are very slim they're not high uh it there's there's a whole lot of shit that goes in it if you want 1.00

00:13:25.880 to be successful very very tough business uh but and anybody who's in the business is shaking 0.99

00:13:31.520 their head right now like holy fuck dude i know what you're talking about because it's hard as 0.97

00:13:34.520 fuck and so uh you know but we made them we made that decision you know we were kids we weren't we 0.99

00:13:41.940 were stubborn we thought we could do it uh turns out we were right but it wasn't without a long time 0.99

00:13:47.460 struggle you know what i'm saying our first store um we opened we had to go around springfield missouri

00:13:53.700 and try to get someone to lease to us uh which was a challenge in itself because we were just kids

00:13:59.420 and we didn't have any credit and we didn't have any money and you know nobody was backing us nobody

00:14:02.960 was co-signing or anything like that so we had to go out and convince people like you know hey man

00:14:08.380 believe in us type shit you know what i mean and we found one guy who was willing to um allow us to 0.76

00:14:14.440 rent the space uh it was a thousand dollars a month and he wanted to hit the first year he wanted up 0.98

00:14:20.120 front in cash because he was certain that he wasn't going to get the lease followed through on

00:14:24.340 and uh well fuck that's everything you guys had it was yeah it was every dollar we had so so we got 0.87

00:14:29.620 the space then we had to come up with the money for the product and the build out and so what we did 0.97

00:14:34.060 there was we went and got credit cards and we financed the the build out and the first round of

00:14:39.780 product our first order and stock of the store was only ten thousand dollars um and it's funny because 0.99

00:14:45.540 now i get it like people used to come in the store right when we opened they'd be like fuck are you 0.90

00:14:48.980 guys going out of business yeah i'm like no man we just started starting yeah and like i would get 0.90

00:14:53.780 insulted but now i like look back at the photos of what our store looked like yeah and i'm like 0.91

00:14:59.120 well fuck no shit they thought that like i truly didn't get it like i i didn't understand why they 0.99

00:15:03.320 were asking me um so you know our first day we sold seven bucks uh the second day we sold zero the 1.00

00:15:10.740 third day we sold like 23 bucks and took us eight months to have a day over 200 bucks it took us five

00:15:15.720 and a half years six years to get our second store open our first three years we made zero dollars

00:15:20.580 the next seven years the most we made was 695 per month i made a total of 58 000 my first 10 years 0.90

00:15:26.680 in business and it was a fucking grind you know and um i learned almost everything valuable about 0.93

00:15:32.820 running a company like this size uh then and you know i learned what it meant to sacrifice i learned 0.99

00:15:39.240 what it meant to grind i learned what it meant to be fucked over and looked over and talk shit on and 0.93

00:15:43.860 and and i learned what it meant to just execute and and not listen to anything and that's really what 0.98

00:15:48.920 it came down to um and so you know we got 10 years in and we weren't really making money and we started

00:15:56.460 talking about uh you know moving to a different business or selling the company or closing it

00:16:01.580 and because we still weren't making any money and i remember we both started looking at other things i

00:16:07.640 started looking at uh this carpet cleaning situation which didn't that's a whole nother that's a whole 0.98

00:16:13.780 that's a whole podcast honestly because i was about an inch away from being andy the motherfucking 0.89

00:16:19.100 carpet cleaner for real and uh you know we went around and looked at these alternative careers 0.91

00:16:24.920 because we weren't really getting it done and we both came back together and we're like dude you know 0.99

00:16:30.000 like this shit this all this other shit sucks like you make a little bit more money which you know 0.99

00:16:34.620 we make a lot more money but because we weren't making any but uh you know we we were both like dude 1.00

00:16:40.480 maybe maybe being rich isn't what we're meant for maybe we're just meant for helping people

00:16:46.860 and we had the conversation about you know the customers over that 10 years that first 10 years

00:16:52.800 in business who would come in you know and they'd sit with us and we'd talk to them and they would buy

00:16:58.340 product and you know we would give them information and help them and they would leave and then they

00:17:03.920 would come in you know uh a couple months later or six months later and because we had a little hourly

00:17:09.140 employees right you don't always see the same person when they come in but but you would maybe 0.97

00:17:13.580 not see them for six months right and then they would see you and they're fucking a different person 0.97

00:17:17.340 like they've lost like 100 pounds yeah they're they're giving you a big hug they got tears in their 0.72

00:17:21.800 eyes and i chris and i had a conversation we're like dude you know we should just try to replicate

00:17:26.920 that as much as possible and when we switched our mindset from trying to make the business grow

00:17:33.340 to trying to provide uh an amazing experience and result for our customers you know that's when

00:17:40.620 the magic started happening and it just never stopped because we we reinvest and we recommit to

00:17:45.060 that every single day and so our mission here in our companies whether it's any of my companies

00:17:50.160 whether it's that's our tequila brand that we that i'm investor in or anything i'm involved in

00:17:55.060 um my superpower is that i can stay super focused on what the customer is there for and do that better

00:18:03.160 than anybody else and that's that's the thing that i think people should hear when it comes to

00:18:08.000 business so whatever you choose whatever you pick whatever you decide you want to be in on make sure

00:18:13.800 that your focus isn't on yourself uh it's on your customer all right and if you can focus on your

00:18:19.180 customer uh or your patron or whoever you know is coming in your restaurant or whatever it is you

00:18:23.820 decide to do to provide the very best possible solution for them uh so that you know and that

00:18:29.660 starts with asking them why why are they here right what are they what are they expecting you know if you

00:18:34.640 own a restaurant that's a different thing than if you own a supplement brand or you own a gym or you own

00:18:40.380 a finance company but at the point the point of the matter is the best companies are very clear on why

00:18:47.300 the customer is there and then they pour as much into that as they possibly can and allow

00:18:53.480 the customer to go out and do the marketing for you because you've done such a great job it's no

00:18:58.800 different than me talking about the fee at the beginning of the show where i say hey if we do

00:19:03.760 good share it if we don't don't share it because i don't deserve it right and that's how i look at

00:19:08.820 business as a whole you know so it really doesn't matter what you pick uh as long as you pick something

00:19:15.000 i think that you're passionate about that you're interested in and even if you're passionate and even if 0.96

00:19:19.320 you're interested you are going to have multiple days a month where you're like fuck this really 0.95

00:19:23.680 sucks what did i get myself into how like dude even today like even even this at this point in my 0.99

00:19:29.200 life i still have days where i'm like fuck dude this is so complicated this is so i can't even unwind 0.99

00:19:34.900 this if i want to you know like it's overwhelming to be an entrepreneur and to have people depend on you 0.96

00:19:40.660 and and so it's important to have passion for what you do and my passion nowadays is really simple

00:19:46.000 like i want my customers to to change their lives i want people who do 75 hard to get control of

00:19:51.300 themselves like i have um i want my my people here to build careers as best as we can and so when i

00:19:57.220 take my focus and pour it into everything else all the rest of the shit just takes care of itself 0.50

00:20:01.860 you know what i'm saying so that would be the main lesson that i would tell anyone who is just 0.65

00:20:08.280 thinking about starting a business understand that if you make it about you it'll never be about you 0.99

00:20:13.180 if you make it about everybody else it'll be about you that's fucking fire yeah that's fire 0.95

00:20:18.180 geez two for two right there guys okay so question number three so what what are your thoughts on 0.97

00:20:26.340 working with family members right so like you know the the person that submitted this question they

00:20:32.720 own a business they're thinking about hiring their father is one of the managers for that business

00:20:36.120 what are your what are your thoughts on hiring your close family members um i think most people

00:20:42.840 have to be careful uh because most families are pretty petty from my observation uh in my family

00:20:49.200 we settle things so we beat the fuck out of each other physically and then it settles yeah and that's how

00:20:55.780 we do things we're very old school like sal and i get in a fight probably once every 12 months

00:21:00.180 legitimate fist fight um chris and i get in arguments we don't get in fights but uh you know

00:21:07.980 five minutes later we squash it and we say all right good we're moving forward yeah and that's

00:21:12.540 how we do it and most people just aren't willing to do those kind of things yeah uh so they argue and 0.99

00:21:18.160 they hold grudges and they and they fucking act like little bitches and and and create cancer inside 1.00

00:21:23.560 the office so i think it's important uh to really evaluate your communication level and your 0.99

00:21:28.980 communication comfort level when working with your family like dude i don't care who you are if you're 0.92

00:21:33.980 related to me or not you're gonna get the fucking bear once in a while yeah you know i'm saying like 0.99

00:21:37.900 when you fuck up i'm gonna fucking let you know and that's it and i'm also gonna put my arm around 0.99

00:21:42.380 you afterwards and say hey you understand why i did that right and a lot of people can't do that you 0.99

00:21:47.060 know they do this passive aggressive shit where they like try to freeze you out or they try to not 0.92

00:21:51.320 talk to you and they think they're like being real you know like oh i'm showing you bro you're just 0.98

00:21:55.760 taking money out of your own pocket you know like if you're gonna work with family members this is my

00:22:00.140 advice make sure they bring something to the table that you don't have this goes for any partner a lot

00:22:05.500 of people want to build a business with a partner because it's like right yeah oh dude me and you

00:22:09.400 we're gonna be rich we're gonna be friends it happened to work out for me and chris uh but now

00:22:13.880 without a lot of fucking work and a lot of challenges and a lot of understanding and a lot of like 0.97

00:22:18.100 understanding where the fucking line is like him and i know the line like i know when he's had enough 0.99

00:22:25.660 of me yeah and he and he knows vice versa and you know what we might not talk for a day but but then 0.98

00:22:31.260 we might come back in the next day and act like everything's cool now sal and i are a little

00:22:35.080 different because we grew up beating the shit out of each other and neither one of us are intimidated 0.95

00:22:39.020 by each other yeah which is pretty stupid because we're both pretty imposing dudes and every time we 0.89

00:22:43.500 fight we both get hurt yeah but uh you know it's it is what it is it's how and we made a pledge last 0.96

00:22:50.100 time that we weren't gonna do this anymore but i mean we still had a couple moments where it's like

00:22:53.600 it almost went there and i'm sure it will maybe one time again you know some other time i hope not

00:22:58.440 because i definitely don't want to get hurt again yeah but the the point is is you've got to be

00:23:03.480 really comfortable having direct conversations you know uh ed my let's a business partner of mine we've

00:23:08.420 had some very direct conversations with each other uh at the end of the conversation you know

00:23:13.420 and and dude those are hard right like ed's one of my very very best friends in life like

00:23:20.200 sometimes he's got to tell me some shit that i don't like to hear sometimes vice versa and guess 0.86

00:23:25.040 what when you know it's within the interests of the common goal it's okay but a lot of people in 0.98

00:23:30.300 business man they forget that they forget that there's a mission they forget that there's something

00:23:33.940 bigger than both of you and a lot of people are in business for the wrong reasons they're in business

00:23:38.220 because they want to be the ceo or they want to be the boss or they want to flex on instagram look 0.95

00:23:43.200 dude most people ain't built for that like they're just not it's hard as fuck to be in charge of of 0.96

00:23:48.840 of that much shit yeah it just is and like anybody out there who's doing it successfully you have my 0.93

00:23:57.420 respect dude because it's hard it is hard and most and the average person cannot understand that 0.96

00:24:04.100 unless they are that so that's one of the reasons i like arate so much because uh in our group everybody's

00:24:09.820 an entrepreneur so like i was on the phone with one of my guys uh adam uh who run who does all my jet 0.97

00:24:14.920 charters you know what i'm saying who's by the way the best guy i've ever used good dude for fucking 0.98

00:24:20.240 anything yeah everything's always fucking uh that the i's are dotted and t's are crossed uh what's his 0.97

00:24:27.060 instagram anyway i want to give him a plug it's uh adam the jet guy i think adam private jet adam private

00:24:32.480 jets on instagram dude you guys you guys who are in that situation where you're getting to uh

00:24:38.140 want to have someone who can arrange your travel this guy does it all he takes care of every

00:24:42.780 fucking detail it's it's painless uh and you know it's expensive but it is that it's an expensive 0.86

00:24:49.600 thing yeah but i just want to give credit because like i was on the phone with him earlier today and 0.99

00:24:53.360 we're having talks just as like buddies like yeah fuck this is hard i'm like i know bro it's fucking 0.98

00:24:57.440 hard and like you know so it's important to surround yourself with people who understand because when 0.96

00:25:02.720 you vent you don't want to be misunderstood yeah you know so uh i don't have an opinion plus or minus

00:25:09.500 on the partner thing with family i think most people fuck it up because they try to take all 0.97

00:25:13.660 the credit and they want all the fucking glory and they want all the money and they want all of it 0.98

00:25:17.140 and you have to realize that being in charge of a company is not where you get all of it it's where 0.96

00:25:23.300 you get the leftovers you know i'm saying like so you better build a company that's strong enough

00:25:28.240 and and hardy enough and and successful enough uh that the leftovers are substantial you know and

00:25:35.700 so think about that like it's just the reality of being in business so uh for those of you out there

00:25:43.080 thinking about partnering with your friends or your family because you think it's going to be this

00:25:46.720 really fun thing um understand that unless they bring a special skill okay or a complementary skill

00:25:54.140 it's probably not a good idea because you can do it on your own uh you know one of the things about

00:25:59.120 chris and i that makes it work we just so happen to have different sort of skills right um he likes to

00:26:06.980 run the back end i like to run the front end uh i'm capable of running the front end i'm not capable 0.95

00:26:12.060 of running the back end and vice versa yes 100 yeah so like i couldn't sit there and do all the shit 0.90

00:26:18.280 that he does every day i would go fucking insane yeah you know but he also doesn't want to get up and 0.97

00:26:22.600 and do all the shit i gotta do right you know and uh so it works and that's what i would look for in 0.93

00:26:29.500 a partner i would look for someone who brings something to you to the table of the greater good

00:26:34.400 of the project that you don't have and you know if it's not natural maybe it's time to have a

00:26:43.280 conversation with that person like here's how i see the roles because not having a clearly defined

00:26:47.860 role is really what gets people in trouble like when you got two guys who are both trying to be the ceo

00:26:52.520 both trying to wear the pants yeah bro that's going to cause big problems um and usually they

00:26:56.960 both want to be the ceo because they both want the credit for being the ceo i'm going to tell you right 0.99

00:27:01.160 now being the ceo fucking sucks okay you got to make all the hard decisions you got to do all the 1.00

00:27:07.080 shit nobody wants to do you got to eat all the shit for other people's mistakes you know i can't tell 1.00

00:27:11.780 you how many times people fucked up shit here in the company and i gotta eat it you don't say 1.00

00:27:16.040 personally that's my name and like dude there's a whole lot of things people never really think about 0.99

00:27:20.140 uh so you know that's most people i'm going to say this and it's going to make people mad but it's

00:27:26.460 the truth most people that think they're entrepreneurs are actually great intrapreneurs 0.98

00:27:33.040 meaning they would be a fucking superstar executive they would be a killer fucking right hand man 0.99

00:27:39.940 a woman you know what i'm saying yeah and there's nothing wrong with that because those people get 1.00

00:27:45.040 fucking paid yeah but like that the difference between that and that next level is massive and 0.99

00:27:51.860 it's none of it's really that great that's just the truth um it's not what these fuckers on instagram 1.00

00:27:58.800 make it seem like where they're like oh dude here i am you know they they fucking charter their jet 0.99

00:28:03.260 one time a year and they're you know like it's just like dude why are you telling people this shit 0.99

00:28:07.760 this shit is a fucking grind i've been at this for 23 years people should be told the truth 1.00

00:28:12.160 so they understand what the fuck they're in for because there's a whole bunch of motherfuckers out 1.00

00:28:15.940 there listening right now uh who think that there's something wrong with them as an entrepreneur 1.00

00:28:20.740 a business owner because it's hard like they think oh dude i suck at this or oh dude i'm no dude

00:28:26.020 everybody sucks at it it's just a whole bunch of people on the internet pretend like they don't

00:28:31.420 okay so do some research in them what what company do they actually build what how much revenue 0.86

00:28:37.380 do they actually do what how many people do they employ is their brand recognizable do you see it

00:28:42.900 everywhere you know are they doing real things like because there's a lot of people who aren't doing 0.89

00:28:47.540 anything other than just fucking uh pretending to be wealthy and then taking your money to pay them 0.99

00:28:54.800 to teach you how to be wealthy there's a whole bunch of those fuckers so you know unless they're 1.00

00:29:00.060 building something real or they built something real i wouldn't fucking listen to those people at all 0.99

00:29:04.820 like at all yeah like a professional coach like a person who's a professional coach and that's all 0.99

00:29:10.360 they do yeah fuck that guy you shouldn't be listening to him you should be learning from people who run 0.98

00:29:15.300 actual companies who are in the fight who are in the battle who are in the mix at the right at this time 0.99

00:29:20.920 so that you can learn what's actually happening because we live in a

00:29:24.880 um in a environment that is changing at such a rapid rate that if you're not learning from

00:29:34.380 someone who's in the fight the same fight you're in uh you're you're not going to be able to adjust

00:29:40.000 and adapt and learn the skills properly because it's too fast so it's very important that you guys 0.98

00:29:44.760 are like you know learning from people who have actually done shit and are continuing to do shit 0.97

00:29:49.940 in this time frame and i know that's a little off topic but it's a perfect fucking point yeah i think 0.99

00:29:54.720 it's a very important part because our point important point because um you know the fake shit to me i i see 0.98

00:30:01.920 it becoming more and more prevalent like not less so you know be smart enough to look into those 0.92

00:30:06.840 things if you see me with someone if you see me with a picture with a picture with them i can 0.99

00:30:11.960 promise you they're doing something uh you don't i don't go to bullshit i don't fucking associate with 0.97

00:30:16.460 bullshit if that's your litmus litmus test if you see me with someone i promise you they're doing 0.99

00:30:21.980 something okay and you can learn some shit from them so um yeah that's awesome yeah just think about 1.00

00:30:30.080 it man think about it like instead it's just the same thing we talk about critical thinking 0.97

00:30:33.760 take the emotion out take the emotion out is that person still a good business partner

00:30:38.460 do they bring things you don't have do they bring capital do they bring experience do they bring

00:30:42.400 skills are they willing to play a different role than you want to play those are questions to ask and 0.88

00:30:46.860 think about that's awesome man that's three for fucking three yeah well we're balling hey man you 1.00

00:30:52.220 know what you get your balls kicked in for quarter century you're gonna know some shit 0.98

00:30:55.500 so uh you know i hope that helps you guys so is that it that's it man all right guys well if you 0.98

00:31:04.480 like to show if you learn something if it gave you perspective uh please share the show uh i really

00:31:10.040 appreciate all the love you guys have been showing especially with the pro america shows um as you

00:31:14.820 know i'm passionate about that something that really matters to me it should matter to you too

00:31:18.880 because without freedom and without our personal autonomy we don't have anything we don't have the

00:31:23.260 ability to build we don't have the ability to create we don't have the ability to become wealthy

00:31:28.300 and successful and provide for our families and our friends and our employees so if you're an

00:31:35.060 entrepreneur and you're not in this fight for freedom uh get in it went from sleeping on the 1.00

00:31:40.200 floor now my jewelry box froze fuck a bowl fuck a stove counted millions in the cold bad bitch 1.00

00:31:46.400 booted slow got her on bankroll can't fold doesn't know headshot case closed 1.00

00:31:52.240 close

REAL AF with Andy Frisella - September 27, 2021

145. Q&AF： The Dichotomy Of Critical Thinking And Vision, Opening First Business & Working With Family & Friends

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REAL AF with Andy Frisella - September 27, 2021

145. Q&#x26;AF： The Dichotomy Of Critical Thinking And Vision, Opening First Business &#x26; Working With Family &#x26; Friends

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145. Q&AF： The Dichotomy Of Critical Thinking And Vision, Opening First Business & Working With Family & Friends