What You Can Learn From Netflix
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Summary
In this episode I talk about how to create yourself in a way that no one else recognizes you anymore. If you don't change, you will end up in the same exact place as Blockbuster, Apple, or Amazon.
Transcript
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You know, when we think about innovation, all we think about is companies innovating.
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We don't think about us innovating, not as in us being innovative, but us innovating as individuals.
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This is a Netflix DVD, right? This is their old business model that they had.
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You would rent a DVD from them. They would ship it to you.
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You're done watching it, take a week, two weeks, three weeks.
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They were going up against Blockbuster. They didn't have the late fees.
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Send them back. They'll send you the next movie, and it was a basic model they had, right?
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I was unboxing because I moved into a new house, and I'm going through all my stuff.
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So here's what's crazy about this when I look at it, right?
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This business model, if they would have stayed like this, they would have been out of business.
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They would have been in the same exact cemetery as another company called Blockbuster.
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Blockbuster didn't want to do their late fees, all this stuff.
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They changed up, and then boom, $8 billion company goes out of business.
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But these guys who thought this model was going to work for them realized if they don't change
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and they don't innovate, they're going to get destroyed, and they'll be in the same exact
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You know, we read books, and books talk about how innovative Apple was and how innovative Amazon
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If the cemetery of companies that stopped changing is filled with tens of thousands of businesses
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that at one point were winning, what about people who stopped changing?
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Is it a cemetery of people that got demoted, that got fired, that couldn't stay at a company,
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that lost clients, that lost businesses, that were let go and they blamed the company?
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There are so many people like that, so this message comes to you.
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When's the last time you recreated yourself in a way that nobody recognizes you?
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When's the last time you met your family, friends, you're sitting down with them, and they simply
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Imagine if you are always a certain reputation with your friends, and every time you meet with
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them, they give you certain words that you tell them, right?
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Whatever the words may be, and they don't see you for six months, and they see you again,
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and they keep talking to you the same exact way as you were six months ago, and you laugh
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What you're saying is you're still that person versus all of a sudden you say, hey, Johnny,
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If you think I'm still that guy two years ago, you completely have confused who I really
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So you may want to think of that for yourself, but not me.
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Anyways, whatever that means to you is, if these guys changed and they became the monstrosity
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that they are today, what could happen to you if you change and you recreate yourself?
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By the way, this is a message that is a timeless message.
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I did a video five, six years ago where I talk about 10 laws on how to recreate yourself.
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If you've never seen this video before, click over here to watch that video.
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And with that being said, have a great week, everybody.