Valuetainment - November 28, 2018


Episode 219： Best Advice For 18 Year Olds

Topics
decisions
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

213.87

Word count

1,145

Sentence count

82

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Hate speech

1

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In this episode, I give advice to an 18 year old me, and how I would have done things differently if I was 18 years old, and what I would tell my younger self. If you're 18, and you want some advice, listen to this episode.

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00:00:01.000 30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
00:00:09.240 the sky, touch the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
00:00:16.220 underdog.
00:00:17.300 Hey listen, if you're 18 years old and you want some advice, I'm Patrick Bedevi, host
00:00:20.380 of Value Team, and today I'm going to give you the best advice I would give to the 18
00:00:24.240 year old version of myself.
00:00:25.620 So often when I pull up to a gas station, I'll have an 18 year old kid come up to me
00:00:29.120 and say, oh my gosh, how'd you get a Rolls Royce like, the sort of Lambo or the Ferrari
00:00:32.780 or the i8, and how did you make your money and what did you do, and they have no idea
00:00:36.700 what happened prior to it for 18, 20 years of making decisions, so finally I said, what
00:00:41.740 I tell these 18 year olds, these 19 year olds, I'm going to make a video of it so you can
00:00:45.400 know exactly, since many of you are graduating from high school, if you have a friend or a
00:00:49.500 kid, somebody, share this video with them.
00:00:51.220 Look, probably the best advice I can give you is there are certain things you have to
00:00:55.640 take your time in.
00:00:56.460 You've got to take your time in the following six things, one, marriage, take your time.
00:01:02.240 You're still learning what the word love is, you start learning what you want and what you
00:01:05.500 don't want and who to date and who not to date.
00:01:07.520 You may have a boyfriend you love right now, you think you love right now, but 10 years
00:01:10.920 from now he's going to have three, four qualities you do not like about this person.
00:01:14.360 Take your time.
00:01:15.360 You may have a girlfriend you love right now, but take your time with marriage, take your
00:01:18.380 time with kids, take your time with buying a house.
00:01:20.920 You may not live in the place you're at.
00:01:22.460 You may get an opportunity six months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months from now we can
00:01:27.560 move to a whole different place.
00:01:28.940 Take your time with buying a house.
00:01:30.400 Take your time with your inner circle on who your friends are.
00:01:33.000 Many of your current friends will not be your friends five, 10 years from now and if you're
00:01:36.760 not too careful, many of them will hold you back from getting to exactly where you want
00:01:40.940 to get to.
00:01:41.940 Believe me, it wasn't easy me having to tell some of my friends to stop calling me on Friday
00:01:46.180 nights and Saturday nights that I'm no longer going to the clubs.
00:01:48.960 I made them very upset, but I wanted to go to a whole different place.
00:01:51.920 Take your time with your political beliefs.
00:01:53.880 Most of your political beliefs are different.
00:01:56.040 It's going to be very different when you pay $100,000 in taxes and you realize who is really
00:02:00.560 working hard and capitalizing of the system that you have in your country and who is not.
00:02:05.180 And last but not least, take your time with your life purpose.
00:02:07.700 My purpose took me a long time until I got clear on what I wanted to do.
00:02:11.380 I see so many people trying to get everything right now, especially with the social media world
00:02:15.120 that we're living in.
00:02:16.120 Take your time in those areas.
00:02:17.620 Take your time.
00:02:18.620 Now what areas you shouldn't take your time in is the following.
00:02:22.060 Don't take your time learning about hard work.
00:02:24.340 Go learn hard work.
00:02:26.180 Learn what it is to work 80 hours a week.
00:02:29.180 Go learn about hustle.
00:02:30.320 Go learn about studying people.
00:02:32.540 Watch everybody.
00:02:33.720 Study everybody.
00:02:34.720 Study your parents.
00:02:36.120 Study your cousins.
00:02:37.120 Study that uncle of yours that does so good at the dinner table.
00:02:40.080 Don't say anything.
00:02:41.080 Just watch him.
00:02:42.080 Ask him questions.
00:02:43.080 Work with a guy, a CEO that's doing very good.
00:02:45.040 Just ask him.
00:02:46.180 Watch how he handles meetings.
00:02:47.520 Watch how he handles uncertain challenges, issues.
00:02:50.860 Study people.
00:02:51.860 Your entire game is going to be studying human nature because if you're going to move up,
00:02:55.380 you're going to deal with the number one product in the world which is people.
00:02:57.720 So study people.
00:02:59.100 Study communication and how you relay your message to everybody.
00:03:02.140 Most of your life, your parents, your kids, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend,
00:03:06.080 your customers, your investors, your business owners, your boss.
00:03:09.320 You're going to have to learn how to communicate.
00:03:11.000 Learn how to communicate fast.
00:03:12.980 Don't take your time on learning how to communicate.
00:03:14.960 Get that down now.
00:03:16.840 Study yourself.
00:03:17.840 Study what you like.
00:03:18.840 Study what you don't like.
00:03:19.840 Study what kind of people that rub you the wrong way.
00:03:21.940 Study what kind of people you get along with.
00:03:23.940 Find somebody you want to model. 0.61
00:03:25.340 Find somebody that's way ahead of you and say, oh my gosh, I just love watching this guy,
00:03:28.880 how he handles himself.
00:03:30.340 Find a group of people with certain ways they live and model them.
00:03:33.280 And by the way, as far as experimenting, let me give you one thing I would tell you to stay
00:03:36.280 away from 100% and that is drugs, alcohol.
00:03:39.400 Stay away from any man-made drugs and alcohol because they mess with your mind.
00:03:43.840 And the most biggest thing as I'm telling you all this stuff, when you see it alive,
00:03:47.740 people say, how do you live in a 15,000 square foot home?
00:03:49.780 How do you have this business?
00:03:50.780 How do you have all this stuff that you're doing?
00:03:53.080 It's the period from 18 to 39, the decisions that were made during that period.
00:03:59.040 It's purely a combination of decisions.
00:04:00.780 I've made a lot of bad decisions, but I was lucky enough to take my time in marriage,
00:04:06.300 in kids, in my purpose, in buying a house, in my circle, in my political beliefs because
00:04:12.460 I was in learning mode.
00:04:13.700 I wasn't eager to say, I know everything.
00:04:15.540 I was in learning mode.
00:04:16.900 And then obviously things became more solid, strong foundation.
00:04:20.280 I was able to get exactly what I wanted in my life because I took my time with those six
00:04:24.460 things.
00:04:25.460 And I was very urgent with the other things that helped me get to where I'm at today.
00:04:29.460 Thanks everybody for listening.
00:04:30.700 And by the way, if you haven't already subscribed to Valuetainment on iTunes, please do so.
00:04:35.460 Give us a five star, write a review if you haven't already.
00:04:38.280 And if you have any questions for me that you may have, you can always find me on Snapchat,
00:04:42.240 Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube.
00:04:44.380 Just search my name, Patrick David.
00:04:46.320 And I actually do respond back when you snap me or send me a message on Instagram.
00:04:51.220 With that being said, have a great day today.
00:04:52.980 Take care everybody.
00:04:53.980 Bye bye.
00:04:59.460 Bye bye.