Valuetainment - April 27, 2026


Why Mediocre Workers Won’t Survive


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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

222.48009

Word count

1,406

Sentence count

74


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In this episode, I talk about how important it is to have confidence in your footwork and how it will set you up for success in life and in your business. I also talk about why it's so important to have a good footwork.

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00:00:00.080 You ever wonder why you hesitate?
00:00:01.460 You ever wonder when there's an opportunity right in front of you?
00:00:03.560 You're like, I don't know if I want to take it.
00:00:05.000 I don't know if I'm ready for it.
00:00:06.000 You're like thinking twice about your abilities, right?
00:00:08.340 Where does that come from?
00:00:09.720 We just had a conversation with my wife and my son about this specifically,
00:00:14.020 and we had a massive breakthrough I want to share with you.
00:00:16.380 By the way, if you get value out of this video, if the message gets you thinking,
00:00:20.280 give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.
00:00:22.000 Let me get right into it.
00:00:22.880 So Business Insider comes out with an article this week, and here's what it says.
00:00:27.420 no mediocre worker is safe the bar for keeping your job just went up and it continues to say
00:00:34.700 in the bottom you need to do a great job not a good job so how does this apply to you let me
00:00:39.880 give you an idea my wife and i we work very closely with our son because he he's got dreams
00:00:45.780 of wanting to play soccer so he's doing a good job playing soccer right now but i'm training him
00:00:50.980 to open up when the ball is being thrown this last 18 months 12 months we've been working on
00:00:56.140 You know how you want to throw the ball.
00:00:57.040 Open up.
00:00:57.820 Back him up.
00:00:58.300 Come get the ball, right?
00:00:59.700 And we're going back and forth, going back and forth, going back and forth,
00:01:02.620 and we're not having a breakthrough.
00:01:04.340 So, hey, let's teach spacing.
00:01:05.780 Let's teach this.
00:01:06.520 Let's watch this video.
00:01:07.880 Coaches he works with every day.
00:01:09.480 Do this, do that.
00:01:10.120 Finally, we sit down.
00:01:10.940 I say, babe, let me tell you how this thing works.
00:01:14.200 And Dylan's sitting right there with me.
00:01:15.940 He says, what's that?
00:01:17.080 I said, do you want to know why people demand the ball, not ask for the ball?
00:01:24.640 Do you know who demands the ball?
00:01:26.980 Who demands the ball?
00:01:28.480 Somebody who is confident in their footwork.
00:01:32.160 Why would you demand the ball if you don't have that level of confidence in your footwork?
00:01:37.500 You're just going to be asking for the ball, but you're hesitating a little bit.
00:01:41.340 When I was playing basketball, 14 years old, I was a horrible shooter.
00:01:46.880 So guess what happens when you're coming up and the point guard is looking for you?
00:01:51.160 What will a good shooter do?
00:01:53.080 Run around, be open.
00:01:54.280 Hey, hey, give me the ball.
00:01:55.100 Give me the ball.
00:01:55.560 Hey, hey, I'm open.
00:01:56.780 What will a bad shooter do?
00:01:58.340 Nothing.
00:01:59.660 Nothing.
00:02:00.120 The bad shooter's not even going to make eye contact with the point guard because, hey,
00:02:02.880 if you throw me the ball, I don't know what I'm doing.
00:02:04.640 I'll rebound for you.
00:02:05.940 I'll block for you.
00:02:07.180 I'll fight for you.
00:02:08.200 But I'm not shooting for you.
00:02:09.900 But the guy who knew how to shoot the ball, what did he say?
00:02:12.700 Give me the ball.
00:02:13.600 Demanding, come on, give me the ball.
00:02:15.060 Right?
00:02:15.720 And you give him the ball, he shoots.
00:02:16.800 Because he knows he's a good shooter.
00:02:18.900 Do you know we've been working on this kid's footwork for God knows how long now?
00:02:22.440 and all of a sudden, the last few months, we're watching him play
00:02:26.520 in the practices he's going, and I'm seeing him.
00:02:30.320 Give me the ball.
00:02:31.380 He's becoming more demanding.
00:02:32.720 I said, hey, this whole thing about spacing,
00:02:35.760 this whole thing about finding to be open, it's not how life works.
00:02:39.300 The way life works is get your footwork in place,
00:02:42.800 and you will start demanding the ball.
00:02:44.800 No matter what you do in your life,
00:02:46.800 if you get better in whatever that footwork is for you,
00:02:49.460 for you, you may be watching to say, man,
00:02:50.960 I really want to go ask for that one promotion.
00:02:53.260 I'm not doing it.
00:02:53.860 Why?
00:02:54.620 Your footwork is what?
00:02:55.980 Management, conflict.
00:02:57.100 You're afraid of conflict.
00:02:58.540 You're worried about having respectful confrontations with people.
00:03:01.380 So you don't do it.
00:03:02.320 So you hesitate.
00:03:03.420 So go learn that skill set because that's going to hold you back for the rest of your
00:03:05.960 life in marriage and business and finance and everything you do.
00:03:08.840 Maybe your hesitation is a skill set that you're not good at.
00:03:11.860 Think about what's going on with the market right now.
00:03:13.740 We're seeing everything that's going on with AI.
00:03:15.480 We just talked about how we have 4,000 AI data centers that they've built the last 10 years.
00:03:21.200 We had zero just 10 years ago.
00:03:22.780 They built 4,000.
00:03:23.820 They just built a facility in Arizona.
00:03:27.140 The TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, was an $11 billion project, went to a $60 billion project.
00:03:34.260 Now it's a $165 billion project.
00:03:36.560 How many AI jobs do you think are going to be out there?
00:03:39.260 And how many companies are going to be saying, AI just does this better, AI just does this better, AI just does this better?
00:03:43.400 so why is business insider that typically he business insider was the same paper that would
00:03:49.360 tell you work from home or else you're going to lose your employees offer people to work from
00:03:53.860 home or else you're going to lose your employees now business insider wants to write an article
00:03:57.920 saying no mediocre worker is safe the bar for keeping your job just went up you need to do a
00:04:03.840 great job not a good job wow they're saying that yes maybe they know what's coming maybe they're
00:04:09.420 trying to say hey no more lollygagging no more just sitting on the sidelines so you may say well
00:04:14.840 pat i don't have to worry about it i'm not an employee i'm a business owner even more pressure
00:04:18.980 on you if you're watching this even more more pressure is going to come into business owners
00:04:25.160 if you're not going to improve your footwork another guy is hey give me your best employees
00:04:28.960 are coming to me if you're not going to improve your benefits and long-term benefits for equity
00:04:33.600 or l tip or whatever may hey we're doing it give me your best engineers they'll come to me don't
00:04:37.560 worry about it. If you're not driving and finding better, hey, hey, don't worry about it. Give me
00:04:41.480 your best viewership customers. They'll come to me. What do you think is going to happen? The same
00:04:45.120 what this implies to employees, it applies to business owners. So going back to it, sometimes
00:04:50.580 the reason why we hesitate is because there is a skill set that you and I have not chosen to get
00:04:56.880 obsessed over to improve. And because of that, we don't ask because God forbid if we do, people
00:05:03.140 going to find out how much we suck in that one skill set that we all need to know. By the way,
00:05:08.360 don't get me wrong. Every time I say we have a job opening, we're hiring, you know, go to vt.com
00:05:12.200 forward slash careers and apply and do your five minute AI interview because it puts you at the
00:05:16.340 top. You can actually go to vt.com right now forward slash careers. We have so many jobs
00:05:20.080 we're hiring for. 80% of people think so highly of themselves. I'm a $250,000 full stack developer
00:05:26.000 engineer and their background has nothing. And they're thinking they're just going to come and
00:05:29.400 do an open ai coding so that's not who i'm talking about i'm talking about the actual people who are
00:05:35.540 willing to work who are dedicated who are committed who have something that they're worried about with
00:05:41.080 their footwork if that's you go work on your footwork when you do you're going to start
00:05:46.120 demanding for opportunities and your life's going to change in ways especially with opportunities
00:05:50.700 in career in ways you've never even seen it before if you choose to do that within your industry
00:05:57.840 having said that if you got value out of this video give a thumbs up and subscribe to the
00:06:03.860 channel if you have any questions for me you can manek me i answer a hundred percent of the
00:06:07.860 questions people ask me on manek in audio and if you enjoyed this video i want you to watch a video
00:06:12.100 i did probably 10 years ago titled how to improve your work ethic if you've never seen it click here
00:06:17.340 to watch it take care everybody bye bye