Why Millennials Are Failing, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO209
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Summary
In this episode of the MFCEO Project, I talk about how millennials lack patience and why it's a problem. I also talk about why millennials are the first generation in the history of the world to grow up with these conveniences and why they don't have patience.
Transcript
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what is up guys you're listening to the MFCEO project I'm Andy I'm your host and I am the
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motherfucking CEO guys I decided to throw a little something extra at you this week because
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I see something that needs to be addressed all right you got a Tuesday you got a Thursday now
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you're getting a Friday send me a cookie don't really actually because I'm on a diet but
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I just got back from Gary V's agent 2021 yesterday and it was awesome uh there was a lot of people
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that came out a lot of people that came out specifically for me from all over the country
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as far away as Peru um Panama all these different places I thought I was totally humbled and blown
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away thank you guys for doing that a lot of millennials man a lot of millennials it was a
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it was a real estate insurance conference salesperson conference um basically a lot of
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independent agents and we were talking about branding and I had a conversation actually
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more than a few times yesterday um because it was a mix of a lot of millennials and a few older people
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and the older people all had the same thing to say man they said like this they would make some sort
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of snarky remark towards millennials which really irritates me okay I have built a very very strong
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brand and strong company with almost exclusively millennials and most people don't realize that
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um and they say these things to me like you know the typical shit that people say to millennials
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oh they're lazy oh they're not focused oh they're this oh they're that and they act like they're better
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than than the millennial generation and dude you know if you look at the millennial generation they've
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built some pretty badass shit okay look at all the technology look at all the apps look at all the
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social media that's being developed by people who are in that generation it's amazing okay and not just
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that there's a trillion other things too they have huge benefits and and I always take this time
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to stop people in their tracks and I say look man I think you're fucking wrong I think millennials are
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amazing I think millennials have done some pretty cool shit and have some pretty awesome skills
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I do agree that they have one downfall and I'm going to talk about that in this podcast because I
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mentioned it in my IG story and I got so many DMs people didn't know what the fuck I was talking about
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but if you listen to the podcast you know I talk about this concept all right millennials have an
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issue with patience you can't blame them for it the world is a world of convenience we could click a
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button now and get shit delivered the next day and soon we will be clicking a button and having shit
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deliver within 30 minutes just like it used to be for pizza only all right we have instant messenger
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text message email social media you could talk to your friends all over the world at any time of the day
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okay we have all these conveniences that are geared towards instant gratification
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that these people grew up with they are the first generation in the history of the world to grow up with
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these conveniences and we're surprised that they don't have patience that's not their fault the society
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that they're brought up in doesn't require a lot of patience to get the things you want
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I would argue that it's the parents generation our generation for not taking the time to teach them
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that patience is a requirement okay so I do believe millennials lack patience but they are not fucking
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lazy they are not dumb they are not unproductive they don't value different things you know people
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like to paint them as these hippies they value life bullshit they want to make fucking money just like we do
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just like we did okay but they don't understand patience and for that reason we have a lot of
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millennials who think that if they pour their lives and their effort and all the things that they can
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their resources into something for a very short amount of time it doesn't work they think it's not
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working all right this is the concept that you have to understand especially if you're a young person
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that is listening to this podcast you've got to understand aggressive patience and if you listen to
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every episode you'll hear me talk about this from time to time but I wanted to dedicate a short little
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episode on this Friday for you so that you didn't have to go listen to 100 episodes or whatever we're
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at 200 something episodes to listen and understand what aggressive patience is and what it means when I
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talk about it aggressive patience is this you have to understand that no matter what you do time is
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going to be a factor you've got to understand that now that doesn't mean sit back with your feet up
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and chill okay and shit's just going to come to you that's not how it works aggressive patience works
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like this I understand that it is going to take me another eight to ten years to build my company
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into a billion dollar brand that's just reality maybe it'll take five but it's at least going to take
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five okay now during that five years I am going to literally do every single thing I can do to expedite
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that process with urgency I understand it's going to take time but I also am going to be aggressive about
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everything that I do to make that point happen okay you guys are one of two ways you either understand
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patience and you kick your fucking feet up and you don't do shit or you do everything you can for
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two months time and then you say it's not working and both of those are wrong time is going to be a
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factor in anything I use the analogy of baking a cake a lot you've got the famous recipe for the world's
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greatest cake and you mix up all the ingredients in the bowl okay and you pour the cake into the pan
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but since you are impatient you think well if I turn the heat up twice as high I only have to bake
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the cake twice as long or half as long so I put the cake in the oven what happens it's supposed to be
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for 20 minutes you put it in there for seven minutes what happens cakes burnt it's no fucking good
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right so the time is going to be a factor you cannot get around it okay the other thing that
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you can do is you could take the cake and you could pour it in and you know you could forget to turn the
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oven on and you could just say hey it's going to take time and what happens the cake never bakes
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because you never turn the oven on the oven represents your efforts the time represents fucking
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time and you can't get around it you can't outwork time you can't change it you can't do anything
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about it it's just going to take time and if you could understand aggressive patience and you could
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put it into play in your life you can not only achieve everything you want to achieve but you can do so
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with a sense of calm with a sense of confidence with a sense of certainty that your life is going to
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turn out the way that you want it to aggressive patience is the biggest point that you need to
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utilize to have success most people and you've heard this analogy before too they want to run a 26.2
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mile marathon and in business what do they do they get to mile 17 and they say fuck this is hard because
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they're working hard and they're putting in the time but sometimes it just takes more time with the same
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amount of effort sometimes it just takes more time with more effort but if you get to mile 17 and you
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say fuck this isn't working you're more than halfway there and you're turning around and going back to
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the starting line and starting all over again guys this is a simple concept to understand but it's very
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very difficult for the millennial generation to put it into play I get emails all day long and today
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I got one from a young man who follows me and it said the exact same thing that I'm communicating it
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said Andy how do you maintain belief how do you maintain confidence when you're doing everything
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you can and you don't see any results guys it takes faith you have to trust that things are going to
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happen at the end of the day if you've given it your all and you know you've given it your all and
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you're the only one that can know you gave it your all by the way no one could tell you did you know
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you did if you go to bed at night and sleep good knowing you gave every fucking day your all you
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could feel good that things are going to happen even if you don't have the right plan because that's
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what people will say why don't what if how do I know if I have the right plan well you are going to
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discover along the way things that work and things that don't work on a small level on a micro level
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when those things are happening all the time and things aren't working all the time you're making
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adjustments you're making micro adjustments right you're not letting all those things build up to
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to derail your plan and make you you know become homeless you're changing things as time is happening
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you're making adjustments in real time and those small adjustments in real time equal a big adjustment
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over the course of time so if you are willing to keep seeing how things are aren't working on a small
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scale and you're giving them the attention that they need you're giving them the resources they need
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and you're finding out what works on a small scale all those little small scale decisions add up to you
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being on the right track on the big scale but on the big scale you have to be understanding that that
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big scale is going to take time doing things that matter take time doing things that are great take
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time doing things that are going to get you fucking paid take time and so many people
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fail in life i would say the vast majority of people that never achieve what they desire in their
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heart to achieve it's not because they didn't try it's not because they weren't smart enough it's not
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because they were you know told they were dumb or laughed at it's none of those things it's because they
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didn't understand the concept of aggressive patience if you can understand that it is going to take a long
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time and during that time you are going to have to do absolutely everything you can you cannot be anything
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else but successful all right understand if you're a millennial you're not fucking lazy you're not dumb
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you're not something less than everybody else you probably just don't have a great concept of patience
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and if you can fix that you can accomplish far more than any of the other generations have accomplished
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because of the technology that's available to you so don't let people talk shit and say you're fucking lazy
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don't let people you know say that you're unqualified or stupid or whatever prove them fucking wrong by sticking
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with shit and making shit come true because that's the only way you're going to silence all these motherfuckers
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that don't understand what they're talking about you've got to show them and the way you're going to show them
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is by putting aggressive patience into your life whether that be with your business whether it be with your
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fitness fitness is the same thing if you have 150 fucking pounds to lose and you put in one or two
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or three or seven days you're not going to see much you just aren't but if you put in seven months you're
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going to be a completely different person that's the exact thing that happens in business it just takes
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longer than it does for fitness so guys aggressive patience understand time is always a factor okay
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but also understand that every single thing needs to be done on a day by day by day basis
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needs to be done along the way do that and you're going to fucking win do less than that you'll be
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one of these people who jumps from thing to thing to thing every two to three years saying oh that
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didn't work out well or oh that didn't you know that just didn't play out the way I thought it would
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blah blah blah every fucking excuse which we all know those are excuses you're going to be that
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person and you're going to end up in a situation you don't want to be in for the rest of your life
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it's not your job to see if things play out it's not your job to see if things quote unquote work out
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for you it is your job to make them fucking work aggressive patience put it in play right now
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couple it with win the day episode 107 and you have the exact recipe that you need don't fuck with it