The Key Flaw That Keeps Millennials (And You) From Success, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO176
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Summary
In this episode of The M.E.A.R.K.I.P. project, I discuss the problem with millennials and how they lack patience and how this is a problem that needs to be addressed.
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 the
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motherfucking CEO today is Thursday Thunder and I've got something to talk to you guys about
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I am specifically talking today to you young people and when I say young people I mean under
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30 years old all right and you may be 40 and this may be resonating with you as well but there's
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something different about the generation that is 30 years old and under right now and everybody
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likes to say oh they're entitled oh they're angry oh they're uh they're lazy oh they're you know they
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think that they should be um you know so much further down the road or too good they're too
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good to do hard jobs and this and that you know what there's some validity to that all right and
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I want to get right into why I think that's the case a lot of people like to dog the under 30 or
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quote-unquote millennial generation and you know I don't think it's necessarily a fair thing for
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people to do but I do think there's some validity in the criticism and I want to pinpoint the problem
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as I see it all right millennials don't lack work ethic they don't lack creative thought they don't
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lack um the ability to do great work what they do lack is patience all right because of the internet
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and because of the way these people have grown up they have not grown up or been taught patience
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they don't know what it's like to have to call somebody when they're at home and hopefully get them
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or ask their mom like hey is Susie home uh you know and she might be out playing so you have to
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wait for two three hours till she gets home so you can talk to her they don't know what it's like to uh
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not be able to have everything at their thumb uh the availability of their thumb on their phone
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they don't know what it's like to have to actually go out in the public to live an actual life
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all right and for that reason because everything is so instant now and everything is so available
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and everything is so um you know automatic in every single way and this is how they've grown up
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they lack patience okay and this is a fundamental problem with millennials this is very very fucking
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dangerous and let me tell you why because in the real world in the real world that you have to go out
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and earn an income build a career become successful in patience fucking matters all right we see these
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kids who think you know that in three months or one year that they should be automatically earning six
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figures in their position and they don't understand what a realistic time frame is they don't understand
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that to create a career where you're going to earn six figures is going to take three five seven years
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to get to that point and then it can greatly increase after that a lot of these guys feel like they're too
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good to work for a job that makes 30 40 50 thousand dollars a year they don't understand that that's where
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fucking everybody starts a lot of these people look only at the short term and they highly overestimate
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what they can do in three four five six months and they highly underestimate what they can do in five years
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and that's a huge problem for anybody that's young that listens to this that you need to overcome in your
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own fucking brain because you know what the real world doesn't give a fuck how instant everything is on your
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thumb it cares about what you do in real life and because you're so conditioned to getting everything you want
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right now you have trouble seeing the long-term potential that you have at whatever situation you're in
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okay you guys have to be start getting better at looking at the long term you have to start getting
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better seeing where you're going to be in five years not five months you have to get better understanding
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the upside to your situation and not discounting the upside to your situation for the short-term
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rewards now because I'm going to tell you right now guys no matter how much you see on the internet
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no matter how many fucking Lamborghinis you see posted no matter how many life coaches that are 19 years old
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and haven't done a goddamn thing post on the internet how they're making four hundred thousand dollars a
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fucking minute or whatever the fuck they tell you that shit ain't real life real life starts humbly
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real life starts small real life starts with you paying your fucking dues over and over and over again
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for fucking years and that's an extremely valuable situation that you can't possibly comprehend until
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you've been through it because if I were to walk up to you right now and you are a young man or young
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woman and I said here's a $250,000 job or a $400,000 job or a seven-figure job you would be fucking broke
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because you would spend every dollar you had you would spend it on dumb shit you wouldn't know how to
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manage your money because you haven't learned how to manage your money through the process and a lot of you
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guys are like oh well that sounds okay to me well that's how people ruin their whole lives so if
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that's what sounds good to you that's fine but I tell you what I get messages and emails from every
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fuck every fucking day from young guys being like well I'm in a company right now where I'm making
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for I'm 19 years old or I'm 22 years old or I'm 25 years old and I'm making $40,000 a year base with
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the ability to make 80 if I do what I'm supposed to do with tremendous upside but I got an offer to make
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$42,000 base where I get to go home and chill and not have to worry about doing the extra things
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that are gonna I mean like how is that even a question like if that's a question for you which
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which opportunity is better you don't have the right fucking mindset you've got the average mindset
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you've got the mindset that you are going to go out you're going to take what you can take now
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and then you're gonna you're gonna go sit on your ass and I can tell you as appealing as that might be
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right now you are going to regret that decision your entire fucking life guaranteed
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you're gonna be the guy who's sitting in the fucking mediocre house with the mediocre car with
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the mediocre life with with not being able to do things you want to do because you made a short-term
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decision based on fucking short-term gain period you guys who are young right now you need to teach
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yourself patience you need to teach yourself perseverance you need to teach yourself that
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things take time and how to develop skills through those challenges nothing in this world worthwhile can
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be had instantly nothing in this world that is going to make you wealthy can be had instantly in
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fucking one month or two months or three months or fucking one year it doesn't happen and because
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we have the internet telling everybody that they're going to be wealthy if they fucking post uh if they
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buy my program or this or that in 12 months we have this unrealistic expectation of what it truly takes
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to succeed and I'm not talking about guys who just want to be entrepreneurs and own their own company
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I'm talking about people who work inside of a company if you work inside of a company right now that has
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the ability to grow that is growing that creates momentum that creates potential career opportunities
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and you're not working your ass off to be a part of that company you are delusional about the
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opportunities out there because I'm going to tell you right now there's a thousand companies for every
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one of those that doesn't give a fuck about you or your career or your growth or where you're going to
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be and they don't you they will promise you the sun and the moon and the fucking stars and you will
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never get any of it so the first thing you need to do is identify the situation you're in and see if the
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long-term potential is there the second thing you need to do is understand that it doesn't materialize in
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one year I'm so tired of getting fucking emails from you young people who try to tell me like oh well I've been
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at this for six months and I'm not where I want to be the fuck man six months the fuck
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six months isn't shit you guys can't even stick something to something for six months and you think
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what do you have what it takes to be a high six-figure earner a fucking seven-figure earner get the fuck out
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of here man you guys have lost all concept of what realistic time frame is because you read all the
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fucking headlines out there that ain't true and you know what I'm not going to be the guy that's
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going to fucking tell you oh you know what you can make millions of dollars if you buy my program
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in one year because I'm not going to do it because it's not true there's plenty other guys that'll tell
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you that there's plenty other guys they'll tell you you can get rich by buying their program in
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fucking 12 months but I guarantee it ain't fucking true you got two choices you can spend your whole
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life chasing that fucking unicorn that doesn't exist or you could buckle down now you could develop
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great skills you can move forward where you are and you could build a great career for yourself
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those are your fucking only two choices because there's not one wealthy motherfucker that earns
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high six into the seven figures eight figures that fucking got it overnight not one not even a
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fucking professional athlete well Andy professional athlete just signed a 400 million dollar contract
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yeah they also worked since they were fucking three years old that skill so they've been working for
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20 fucking years to get that contract and you tell me that you can't work six fucking months
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and you think you have what it takes and you think you deserve more pay and you think you're better than
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the guy out there that's working for 15 bucks an hour you know busting his fucking balls and you think
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you're too good for that job bullshit you don't have what it fucking takes you don't have the right
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perspective you don't understand patience you don't understand grit you don't understand perseverance
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and if you don't have those things and you don't understand those things and you don't develop them
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in your day-to-day life you ain't ever gonna have anything because every single thing out there takes
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those things and I am so fucking fed up with this Instagram society and this instant gratification society
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and this fucking bullshit entrepreneur society telling all you motherfuckers out there that you could
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drive a Lambo and it fucking rolls and fly around on private jets with no fucking work and you know
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what you just fucking can't so you can either reside yourself to fucking average and take the fucking
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short-term gain and sit on your ass and barbecue with your friends and you guys can all bitch about
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how you don't have any fucking money and how the company's screwing you and how life screwed you and
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it's not fair and it's all the rich man's fault that's fine that's what most people do or you could
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buckle down you can fucking learn the skills you need to learn you can appreciate the process and
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you can earn your way into success but those are the only two fucking choices and you better fucking
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choose wisely when you're when you're young because you're never going to get that fucking time back
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and remember who told you first remember who told you if you choose to take that that short-term path
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remember who told you how your life was going to fucking be it was me it was fucking uncle Andy
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he told you the fucking truth he told you how it was going to turn out you didn't listen and now
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you're eating fucking hot pockets because you couldn't you couldn't fucking wait to make that
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extra three thousand dollars a year as opposed to investing the time it takes to where you're able
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to do whatever the fuck you want whenever you want with whoever you want just remember who told you that