Stop the Show, Start the Work, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO144
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Summary
In this episode, I address a common misconception about entrepreneurship and financial success that is often peddled on social media and in the media. I explain the difference between the real entrepreneurial culture and the fake entrepreneurship culture, and why you need to understand why you re not getting the results you re looking for.
Transcript
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what is up guys you're listening to the mf ceo project i'm andy i'm your host and i am
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the motherfucking ceo guys this is your first time listening this is friday fire sometimes
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it's called thursday thunder and that depends on if this comes out on thursday or friday i
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thought i'd explain that because it's very confusing listen today i've got something very
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important to talk to you about you guys see all these things on the internet okay most of you are
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entrepreneurs or you want to find some sort of financial success or success somewhere in your
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life or you wouldn't be listening to this podcast and i want to address something that is is very
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look around on instagram for a minute okay and what do you see go to the entrepreneur hashtag go
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through the entrepreneur hashtag what do you see you see fucking text messages going off in the
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middle of a podcast no i'm just kidding uh rookie move what do you see you see people who have
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no experience because they can't have experience because they're 22 fucking years old
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all right posting pictures of lamborghinis and private jets and rolls royces and blah blah blah blah
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all the material shit hashtag entrepreneur and you know you know i know and i know i do that same
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shit too i post my lambos i post my fucking rolls i post when i fly private you know why because it's
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cool shit but i earned that shit okay the difference between myself and these motherfuckers
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who are out there showing everybody what entrepreneurship supposedly is is that i've
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been doing this for 18 fucking years okay i didn't buy some 997 dollar program from some
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fucking turd on the internet who's never built a goddamn thing and couldn't run a fucking snow cone
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stand in real life you know all we hear about when we look around on instagram and through the
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entrepreneur the new entrepreneur culture is the grind the hustle the struggle how much struggle
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could you fucking have at 22 years old okay everyone likes to believe they know what these words mean
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and that they live them day in and day out but when you ask to see the results they throw their hands in
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the fucking air and say oh you know i don't know why i'm not getting that result yet oh you know i
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don't know why i'm not there yet oh i don't know you know i'm working on it bullshit you know exactly
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why you're not there you're not there because of one of three reasons one you're either working a bad
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plan okay your plan is shit you're trying to sell a shit product you're trying to scam people into buying
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your product you're trying to sell something that's not really sellable that there's no demand for
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you're uh you're working down a road that has no real fucking payoff and you're trying to scam your
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way to look like you're hustling point number two the second thing it could be is you don't you
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haven't you might be working a great plan but you haven't worked it long enough and this is very
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common because right now it's become a millionaire in 12 fucking months from your mom's basement by my
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program it's uh become a millionaire in 12 months uh selling fucking uh ankle socks from the side
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vendor street and buy my program and i'll show you how to fucking do it okay it's all these fucking
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stupid fucking internet things oh let me sell you a 900 program on how to sit on the beach and fucking
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uh make millions of dollars get the fuck out of here with that shit okay good plans even if they're
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great plans take years to develop they take years to materialize okay my first three fucking years i
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didn't make a dollar my next seven years after that the most i got paid was 695 dollars the most i got
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paid not hey that's my worst paycheck the whole time no that was the fucking maximum i got paid so for
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10 years fucking straight i didn't make more than 695 dollars now does that mean that you have to go
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10 years of not getting paid no it doesn't because we live in a different era now we live in an era
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where things can accelerate much more quickly all right but the point of what i'm trying to say is
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you have even if your plan is fucking great you've got to put in the fucking time and it's got to be
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active patience aggressive patience and if you don't know what aggressive patience is go back and
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listen to the podcast on aggressive patience essentially what that means is you have to
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understand that it's going to take time but you also have to do every fucking thing that you can
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during that time to make sure that you're successful patience and and leisure are often
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confused as the same thing they're not the same thing patience is not sitting back with your feet on
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the fucking desk drinking a fucking corona patience is understanding it's going to take time but in the
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meantime doing every fucking thing that you can okay and the third thing is that you you understand
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why you're not getting where you want to be is that you're not doing the fucking work that you say
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you're doing and that's most of you most of you say oh i hustle i grind i work my fucking ass off blah
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blah blah blah blah but are you really no you're not you're not working as hard as you say you are
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you're not doing all the shit that you could be doing and yet you complain about where your results
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are it can only be one of three things working a bad plan haven't worked a good plan long enough
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or you aren't doing the shit you say you're doing that's it that's all it can be any other thing that
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you say no matter what it is is total bullshit okay and for like i said 95 of you it's number three
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that's the issue you're not doing the shit that you claim to be doing you might work one or two
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days a week you might stay up late one night a week you might stay up late two nights a week but
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you motherfuckers aren't staying up late every single night working on your plan you're not putting
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active hours every single day to improve you're not doing the personal development that you need to
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do you're not reading you're not studying you're not learning for people who have already done it
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you're doing that intermittently and wondering why the result isn't there well the result isn't there
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because you're not doing it with all your fucking energy okay and this leads to the main issue of
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what i want to talk about here guys is that everybody all human beings all of us have the tendency to
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choose the easy path as opposed to the one that we know is going to be fucking hard it's our nature
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it's the path of least resistance but guys the path of least resistance is the one we take
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because we're afraid of the fucking work and the problem with that is this that's the path
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everybody takes when everybody takes the path of least resistance there's no fruit at the end of it
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because it's all been eaten up it's the low-hanging fruit mentality when you go through and you have
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the shit that's easy there's not going to be much of it there and you have to understand that that is
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what leads that's the main thing that leads to a life that is full of regret disappointment frustration
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and and just total disappointment at the end when you're getting ready to fucking die
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okay it's you choosing the path that everyone else chooses for either one reason or another either
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because everybody's doing it because some of you motherfuckers are sheep or two you think that's what
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you're supposed to do because everybody's doing it or three you're afraid of the fucking work
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but guys i'm going to tell you right now it's a stone cold ironclad fact that the greatest reward
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lies along the path of most resistance okay it's not a situation of luck it's not a situation of magic
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it's a situation of what you are willing to put yourself through to find the result that you're looking for
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what are you willing to go through what journey are you willing to endure because the people who
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are willing to endure the most fucking pain are the ones who are going to produce the best possible
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results it's a fact it's not something that can be argued okay and we're going to have these little
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wieners on the fucking post say oh i don't know you know what about this guy who struck it rich doing
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this and this and this and they and they tell these fucking stories of people who have somehow
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seemingly easily made millions and millions and millions of dollars guys first of all those
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fucking stories are glorified lies every person who has developed a product or developed something
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has gone through innumerable obstacles innumerable iterations innumerable frustrations and
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failures to get to that one product that seemed like an overnight success it could have been
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fucking years and likelihood it is years but what you choose to see is what's nice and pretty on the
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outside you don't see all the shit that we put ourselves through as entrepreneurs you don't see the
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late nights you don't see the fucking empty bank accounts you don't see the people laughing at you
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you don't see the constant frustration you don't see any of that shit because none of that shit is
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fucking sexy and that's why we have all these fucking ass clowns on the internet selling 997
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dollar programs who've never done a fucking thing
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it all comes down to one concept guys it comes down to doing the fucking work and you can look at any
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fucking book you can look at any fucking article you can look at you can listen to any motivational
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speaker but the theme of what they're going to talk about is always going to be the same it's going
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to be have a good plan role model somebody and work your fucking ass off that's it that's why we talk
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about this so much you know but everybody's in love with the entrepreneurial culture they're in love
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with what these kids think entrepreneurship is about because that's sexy it's sexy to drive a
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rolls royce it's sexy to drive a fucking lambo it's sexy to fly around on a private plane and you know
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what it is fucking sexy if you fucking earned it but there is no fucking honor and no fucking sexiness
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and taking a picture of someone else's fucking shit and posting it as if it's your own to sell shit to
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other people that is fucking immoral that is a lie that is not right you are preying on people's hopes and
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dreams and the fact of the matter is you're actually hurting people not just by taking their fucking money
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but the likelihood is because you've never done it your plan is probably fucking fraud uh uh flawed and
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doesn't work and so these people are going to invest their money they're going to go out buy this program
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it's not going to fucking work for them and then they're going to go back and be like well it must
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be me it must be me i'm not cut out for this you very well may be cut out for this
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but you're being led down the wrong fucking path entrepreneurship is not a fucking glorified
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sexy awesome fucking thing it's the most fucking brutal path someone could choose as a career
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it's a fucking bloodbath but you don't hear people talk about that as far as i know i'm the only one
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that talks about that i don't know maybe i'm just fucking stupid and it's hard for me and it's easy
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for everybody else but i'm gonna tell you right now this shit ain't easy for me and i think anybody
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out there that's going out trying to fucking buy the easy way is going to be set up for a big punch in
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the fucking nutsack nothing in life that's worthwhile is easy nothing nothing nothing in
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life that's going to pay off big is going to be simple nothing in life that is going to change your
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life and make it this thing that you want is going to be quick
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painless it's not going to be that way guys you've got to accept the fact up front and if you
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accept this fact up front that i'm telling you you will save yourself years of time chasing the easy
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thing over and over and over again but do me a fucking favor
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next time somebody talks about entrepreneurship and they make it seem like it's this easy fucking
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glorified thing remember what i'm telling you if you buy into that you're only fucking yourself