Episode 219： Best Advice For 18 Year Olds
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
213.87212
Summary
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.
Transcript
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
00:00:17.300
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
00:00:25.620
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
00:00:51.220
Look, probably the best advice I can give you is there are certain things you have to
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.
00:01:15.360
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.
00:01:22.460
You may get an opportunity six months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months from now we can
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
00:01:41.940
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.
00:01:56.040
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
00:02:18.620
Now what areas you shouldn't take your time in is the following.
00:02:37.120
Study that uncle of yours that does so good at the dinner table.
00:02:47.520
Watch how he handles uncertain challenges, issues.
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.
00:02:59.100
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.
00:03:12.980
Don't take your time on learning how to communicate.
00:03:19.840
Study what kind of people that rub you the wrong way.
00:03:25.340
Find somebody that's way ahead of you and say, oh my gosh, I just love watching this guy,
00:03:30.340
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
00:03:39.400
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?
00:03:50.780
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.
00:04:00.780
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
00:04:16.900
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
00:04:25.460
And I was very urgent with the other things that helped me get to where I'm at today.
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,
00:04:46.320
And I actually do respond back when you snap me or send me a message on Instagram.