Do you value identity?
Do you value your identity? Do you?
Well a lot of people I
included have a very destructive habit of
using I am statements
So I just became aware of this
yesterday when
Yesterday I was having a really rough day. I'm not gonna lie and so I I
Was like questioning if my routine is good or not and then I remember seeing a video by Alex Hormozzi
Basically saying like your routine is keeping you weak
and so I went and watched that video after recording yesterday's episode and
It was
It was not exactly what I was expecting it to be
And I'm not quite sure how to actually apply what he said because he was basically saying
It was many different it was like
multi-part video and the part where he was actually talking about the routine was
Basically he was saying that if you wake up and drink coffee and you need coffee every day
Then that's keeping you weak if you need sleeping pills every night to fall asleep. Well, then that's keeping you weak
That kind of routine and I'm not quite sure if he was talking about like actual routine like the kind that
You do the same thing every day at the same time
I'm not quite sure
But there was a different there's like I said it was a multi-part episode
video and
in the beginning he was talking about
Your identity and he was saying I am statements. So
basically, I was kind of I had an intuitive understanding that
Your identity is a very powerful thing very powerful
Just part of you and if you you can like manipulate your identity fairly
easily by speaking words and you can also use that to your advantage
For example one of the things that I am changing at the moment over the past couple weeks. I talked about this is
In my meditations, I always say I am a man with high standards when it comes to women and
I say that to myself like three times it
It during my meditation and there's a lot of other things that I say like I am focused and then I also say I hold
No expectations for will for what will or should happen during these meditations
and so these are all things that I say to try and change my identity like I
Want to change my identity to the point where I don't waste my energy
Like lusting over girls. I want to change my identity over
the to the point where I want to
Explore my consciousness and not expect certain results
When I'm meditating like your identity is a very powerful thing to manipulate
But there's one thing that he brought to my attention and it's just saying I am statements throughout the day like a
Lot of times I
Like over especially over the past couple weeks
I've just been becoming aware of this is I say I'm like struggling to
To record daily one-hour episodes when I prove that it's possible for the past 100 episodes
I prove that daily one-hour episodes are possible
So I just my identity started to change to the point where I'm actually saying that I'm struggling recording one-hour episodes daily
Now I'm starting to realize that that is actually damaging to me
And so what Alex from Ozy said is instead of saying I am used if you really have to say
That statement say I have a tendency towards because I am means that you can't change it
I am means it's like infinite, but having a tendency towards means that you can change it and you are
It's like the vibe around it like the energy surrounding that statement is
Is basically saying that you are
Working on it like if you say I have a tendency towards who says that like I've never heard anyone say I have a tendency towards
blank like
Everyone just says I am and it's because I feel like this also stems from the societies
Our societies just norms and the conditioning around it. We we have a tendency to like
Stay trapped and feel like we're trapped and we have a tendency not to like
escape
and so we just say I am a
worker or I
Am
I'm sure I'm having a hard time coming up with stuff, but
One of the examples Alex Ramosy said is that for 26 years of his life?
He always said I am bad at math. He always thought that he was bad at math until he was 26 years old and
Then once he shifted his identity, then he was actually pretty good at math
Like that's a power of identity
And so I'm gonna be I'm gonna be conscious more conscious aware of this over the following
just for the rest of my life and
Yesterday yesterday's episode was very down like I was not really
It was a really low point for just my mental
Everything mental I
Was it really I
Just had a low point all around because I
I want to tell a quick story so over the past
actually seven months ago a little over seven months ago I
started reading a book called reality transfer fin and then
In that book I started reading it and then I got maybe like
200 or 300 pages in and by the way, it's a 750 page book
So I got maybe a quarter of the way a third of the way done and then I just
Couldn't take it anymore. I just stopped reading it. I told myself it was because I was bored
But it was in reality was just because
My mental was so low. I just this book was destroying my worldview
I was getting destroyed by the truth and I just couldn't handle it
Especially because I was alone. I was alone. I had no one to talk to and
So what I did was I
Just stopped reading it and then I even though this was the book like this was the book for me to move forward
But the booked that lays out the foundation to success in my life the book that lays out the foundation to my entire life
and so I
moved on and
then I met my friend Franklin and he
Was asking about like books that I've read and one of the books on the list was reality transfer fin and he had never heard of that
So he's like, what is that and I was like, oh, yeah, it's pretty good book
And I told him like I'd never finished it and then he was like well the thing I should read it next and I was like
Absolutely, I like basically convinced him to read it because it was so good and I knew it was good
But for some reason I just stopped reading it
Well, the reason was because I couldn't handle the truth. It was like destroying me and
then I
So once he started reading I was like, okay, well, I got to read it now
So I got him to read it. He bought it and then I I started reading it as well
and now I made it all the way through because I had someone to talk to about it now I had a
Comrade in this war against the truth or this war fighting for the truth
Like before I was just alone
none of my
friends family
no one
Everyone's part of the system everyone is just
adherents to
societies conditioning
Everyone around me at least
Everyone at my school
Everyone at my house everyone and so I was going through this like
Transition period where I was just learning about all this stuff and I was becoming conscious
So I was becoming aware of all this stuff and I could see it all around me
And I didn't have anyone to talk to because no one was on that same wavelength as me
And if I did like they just wouldn't have understood
So I was basically like struggling all alone and then I started reading again
Because I had a friend to like basically cope with and a friend to talk to about it
to struggle through together and
so we we both finished the book and then we moved on to different books and
And literally the next day after we finished the book the first time through we
Like he was still like reading it when I finished it because I I was like further ahead
From him because I started earlier
so he was like still reading it while I was finishing and
Basically he told me after the fact
That right like literally the day after I stopped reading the book I
Basically like forgot about Transurfing through my actions like I was already talking
Like talking stuff the way I was speaking was breaking like the principles of Transurfing
just the first day after
reading the book
or after finishing the book and then I
I remember he didn't tell me that until like maybe a month later when we actually started reading it the second time through
But I remember like literally after a week of
Not having read Transurfing. I was like, oh wow this is I
Started to come aware of the fact that I was kind of losing
Touch and I was kind of my Transurfing like principles were atrophying and I was like
basically going back to my old habits and
so
maybe a month I don't remember how long later but a
Little while later. I decided to read the book a second time through
Because I knew that I was like losing all this stuff and I knew that it was like the most important thing
so I decided to read a second time through and
Study it by taking notes. So I was much more thorough in reading it this time
And I was also talking about on the podcast if you guys have seen those previous episodes you'll have seen
Transurfing principles
Episodes I've recorded ten of them so far and
And then this was probably a month ago actually yeah a month ago today is when I finished
Reading the book so it was in like September around September 25th is
When I finished reading it the second time through
And so I actually had measures in place
To make sure that I didn't like forget about it because I knew what happened the first time through
I was aware of the fact that I was probably gonna forget about this stuff again
And so I had measures in place to make sure that I didn't for example on
The last two transfer from principles episodes I
recorded I actually recorded them about a
Week or two after I actually finished reading the book and I actually wrote out all the notes a week or two after
I finished reading the book
So that kind of was a big refresher
And I also had I
Was also reading
Another trans I had plans on reading another transfer from book called to FD the priestess
Which was also like keeping me in the like mindset
and
Then a month passed and let's just flash forward like a week ago
just on like October
15th, let's just say even though it is October 25th
So on act around October 15th
I was reading these seven books all at once and I realized that it was not efficient. I
Wanted to I was reading seven books at once because I thought it was gonna be faster
But I did not it was not as efficient or effective for me
And and one of those books was to FD the priestess, which was keeping me in the transfer from mindset
And so I decided that I needed just focus on one book at a time
and so I dropped all the books except for die-wise and
Die-wise was like my main focus so I dropped to FD and I dropped trans surfing all
like all in general and
over these past like week I was reading die-wise and
The past week when I was reading die-wise I could tell that
Even over the past like multiple weeks since I stopped trans surfing
I could tell that the podcast has been like not as high quality because I just don't understand these new books as much because they're just brand new to me
So I'm not able to speak on them as much so I have to basically speak on
Different things I just have to come up with an hour of content just out of thin air every single day
Which I was able to do it got harder and harder every single day like for example today
Like I write a few notes before every episode
yesterday I had
Almost a full page of notes
The day before I had like half a page notes, but today I had like two lines of notes
So it's actually getting a lot more difficult to come up with things to say
Because my days are the same like and I'm not learning anything at school. So schools are waste of time
That could also be me not being as intuitive during my day like maybe I'm not actually
Growing as much as I should be maybe this is something I should be conscious of because maybe I should actually be
able to speak an
Hour about lessons I learned every single day
Maybe I should
Be more conscious about that
but pretty much
Die wise over the past week I was reading it and I
Like especially over the past week. I was struggling
like I don't know if after telling the story of the first time me reading
Transurfing and me like learning the truth
After telling that story again today. I kind of have this
questioning of whether or not I was experiencing similar thing reading die wise because
after yesterday's episode like an all-time low point I
Was like at a really low point mentally I
Was reading die wise yesterday and then I decided after yesterday's episode that I needed to I was like losing it last night during my journaling I
Was just like scratch scribbled all over the place because I was like in a fit of rage last night
And so I realized that I was kind of losing my Transurfing again
So I decided last night
That I need to start I need to drop everything and just read Transurfing again
So that's what I did this morning. I read the first 25 pages of Transurfing. So now I'm reading it again
And this will last like a month
So yes expect to transfer from principles
episodes again in the future
but
Like I said in the first time I read Transurfing I had no one to talk to about it and I was struggling mentally
It was a really low point and then the first time I read die wise which I didn't even finish. I stopped around the same
time like die wise like 300 pages and I got in
One hundred pages in and then I stopped
Transurfing is like 700 pages and I got 200 pages in and then I stopped like about a third of the book I stopped
So maybe it's maybe I just couldn't handle die wise because I have no one no one that I know
Not even my friend Franklin is reading die wise
So maybe I just couldn't handle that like
mental burden
Maybe that's why I was like stressing out so much
Who knows I'll only know once I decide to actually read it again
Which I definitely plan on reading and like finishing it in the future
But for for the time being I want to focus on Transurfing because that'll give me content
And it also keep me on that wavelength during school
Because it's especially important during school
When I'm when I go to school
Over these past like month
I could tell that I was falling asleep a lot more like I was not conscious
And if you don't know what falling asleep means, it's basically you have two
Screens like your attention can be focused on two things the inner screen or the outer screen
The inner screen is like anything going on in your body. So you're like your thoughts
And then the outer screen is anything going on outside of your body. So there's anything this podcast is part of the outer screen
And when you're immersed in one or the other you're asleep
So if you're immersed in this podcast and not really conscious of your inner like screen of your of your thoughts then you're asleep and
If you're immersed it deep in thought and you're not really aware of the outside world and you're like kind of on autopilot
you're asleep and the way you wake up is by
like holding your attention in
Between this inner screen and the outer screen. So you hold it between the two and
the
So I realized that over the past week or not week month
I was falling asleep a lot during school like once like a month ago
I went to Florida for fun a Hacking life a business conference
And I remember because I was just off of Transurfing
I just finished Transurfing right before leaving for Florida and I remember being at Florida
Extremely grateful for all the inner work that I've done up to that point because I was able to be awake like a
Lot of that event like I was awake enjoying Florida and I was actually able to
Enjoy it as much as I was
Which was huge. So I was like at a peak all-time peak of
Awakeness at that time and then I slowly but surely like was downhill
I didn't really notice it until like the weeks passed and then recently I could definitely tell over the past couple
one or two weeks I was definitely talking about on the podcast like I
Have been losing my
Focus and my attention I've been losing control of my attention and
There is one thing that I read in 250 the priestess
If you don't have control over your attention
You don't have control over your soul like you are not your you are not you like someone else owns you basically
If you don't have control over your attention somebody else owns you like think about that for a second
So I was slowly but surely losing control over my attention over the past month and
the reason why I started actually
locking in and starting to
Really control my attention was when I read Transurfing the second time through I
Was like oh this is actually a big piece of Transurfing so I need to actually start applying this and I went on this journey of
Every single day. I was like controlling my attention more and more and more and then lately it was just going down and down and down and
Now yet this morning
Like okay last night. I went to bed really like
just
intertension
anxiety
anger
like all the negative emotions and
This morning I woke up just a little tranquil like I was just like oh nice
Or I just woke up a little neutral actually and
Then once I like it was I did my morning routine
So I wake up at four and then I do my morning routine which includes reading
But I don't start reading to like 610 around 610 in the morning
and so once I got to that point I started reading Transurfing and
Literally the moment I started reading that book the moment I read the first word
Instant mindset shift and
Let me tell you another story when I when I started remember when I said after I finished reading Transurfing the first time through
I lost like all of that and then I
Like basically lost all the Transurfing
habits and just everything and then once I I want to tell you another piece of that story is once I
Literally the moment I started reading the second time through I
Didn't I wasn't really aware of it at the time
But at the moment I started reading instant mindset shift and I was instantly like already back on track
But I wasn't actually aware of it until once I got around page like 80
when I was talking my friend Franklin and
He was reading it the second time through as well with me and
We were at the park together and he said like it's crazy because the moment I started reading
Transurfing the second time through the moment. I actually started reading it
My mind instantly shifted and now I'm already back on track
And so I was like that's why I want was talking about Transurfing a lot
I
Don't remember if I was actually mentioning it a lot, but I definitely said maybe I should just read Transurfing again
What yesterday's episode?
That's why because I could tell that my mental was on a downhill and then
like I remembered that instant mindset shift and
This morning the second I read those first words
Instance just instant. I was already back on track already
And I was like I was aware of it this morning. I was thinking while I was reading those books. I was like
Man, this is like I'm instantly back on track
And I was kind of aware of the fact that they that will probably happen
and I was questioning like is
It because like of the tone of the words or like is Vadam's on such a great writer or like what like what is it?
Is there just some magical essence around that book?
I'm not sure and I to be honest. It doesn't really matter
What it is just realize that it is
so
Transurfing is definitely like a huge piece of
Puzzle the huge piece of like the journey to escape this matrix
like on the
in the show description of
This podcast I said in
Like the second or third sentence. I basically said that I'm documenting my journey escaping this matrix
and I truly believe that
The way you escape is just mindset like yesterday
In that Alex Mormose video that I watched yesterday about how your routine is keeping you lazy
Or keeping you weak in the beginning
He said that there are three components and I did I took notes on the video like I don't watch YouTube and when I do
it's for a definitive purpose and
When I actually do watch it for a very clear purpose
I make sure I take notes because I want to get the most out of it
And so I took some notes and in the beginning he said there's three
Components to growing your business and this was like about entrepreneurship. It was basically a video on on entrepreneurship
So there's three components to growing your business one skills as an entrepreneur
to
your character traits as an entrepreneur and three is beliefs and
Your character traits
All right, so your skills is basically just I'm pretty sure it's just like your normal
Material skills like are you a good speaker at podcasting for my business?
Are you good at building funnels? Are you good at like doing all this stuff?
Physically is your actual skills good? I'm pretty sure that's what that means and then your character
Your your character traits as an entrepreneur
I'm not quite sure what it means, but I I believe that it has something to do with the identity like
He was taught like he was talking a lot about your identity like I am statements. I am
Bad at math. I am good at math like these I am statements. I'm pretty sure that has to do with your character traits and
Then the third one the third component to growing your business as an entrepreneur
The third component was your beliefs so your worldview like everything that you believe to be true
so that's why I'm focusing so much on my
worldview because
There's a
Quote that I remember hearing on a Hamza video. He basically said that
You should when you're focusing on your business when you're trying to grow your business or even when you're
Actually, yeah, let's just say business
So when you're an entrepreneur we choose to be an entrepreneur and he and you start focusing on growing your business
you
Have like you should follow the 80-20 rule so pretty much
20% of your time
Or actually let me explain this first you figure out what you want to do so for example you want to be a youtuber
Okay, so that's what you want to do and then you figure out
What what the one task or one like thing is?
That will actually help you improve so for a youtuber the one thing that will help you improve is record videos
not editing videos not commenting on
Posts or not replying to your comments like the one thing that will actually help you grow is
recording
So pretty much you follow the 80-20 rule during your day
20% of your day should be focused on just doing that one thing just record and
Then the rest of your day the 80% other time available in your day should just be focused on learning about that one thing
So just learn about that how to record better how to be a better youtuber
That's it like that's how he basically said that's how you become successful
and
So I was aware of that and I kind of like shifted around so right now like my
What I'm trying to do is be a podcaster. I'm but I'm not just like the podcast is not the end game
I'm trying to have the podcast be a like
Be the foundation to my business but right now in this stage of my journey the podcast is like my only focus
So that's my one that's my thing that I want to do be a podcaster. So then what's the one thing?
That you like what's the one thing that will help you be a better podcaster will record
and
I was also aware of this
But I don't I'm not quite sure if I was conscious of it when I first started
I'd kind of just devise a strategy and then I went with it just from my knowledge and that was part of my knowledge so
But that's like my that was my whole plan just focus on recording. So I spend one hour recording and
then I
basically spend the rest of my day or
at least
And the rest of the available time I have
So I really only have like two hours every day one hour for recording and then one hour for reading in the morning
just the way that my
Routine is structured because I meditate a lot in the day and I sleep a lot at night
And I go to school. So you know, so like I have a lot of things I do but pretty much in my free time. I just spend
One hour reading and one hour recording and that's pretty much it. I don't really edit
Like I don't waste my time editing. I
do however edit like and
Increase the audio quality on podcastle
But other than that, I don't really edit. I don't like clip and do cuts or anything
So that's my one thing record and then the rest of my day is spent learning about that
But I don't learn about how to be a better podcaster sometimes I do like
Especially over the past like a couple weeks. I've realized that I've kind of hit a plateau on the quality of my episodes
so I had to figure out how to actually improve the quality again and
So I was looking up how to actually be
a better podcaster and I was actually looking up how to grow the podcast and
So other than that, I'm just learning about the content that I'm speaking about
So I'm not just learning about the podcast like I'm not just I'm not learning about how to do a better podcast
I'm learning about how to
I'm learning about more the message so and I'm aware of as I'm saying this in a book that I read called
Create don't capture. I read it a couple weeks ago
he basically said that
that when you're like recording when you're an influencer when you're creating content
Don't focus on the message, but focus on the messenger. So focus on the messenger and not the message
So don't try I just remember the quote and in hindsight
I don't really remember exactly what he meant by that but what I interpreted it as is
Don't focus on improving your message so much
so don't focus on like learning all these
like don't focus on improving your message by
Learning more learning more information. I
kind of have a
I'm kind of like questioning that right now. Maybe I should go back and read the book again, but
Instead of focusing on the message focus on the messenger, which means that you improve yourself and
when you're documenting your journey your
viewers will actually see that improvement in that growth on the journey and
That's like them. That's the thing that people actually want to see that growth like that's that's the journey of transformation when
In movies, there's two like in most like hero movies or most like
adventure movies or
just think like Star Wars and
And movies like that pretty much there's
there's actually a
like framework that they follow and
Originally like the hero starts in their home and then they like travel off they meet a
Like they meet a teacher and then they like there's a whole framework and then
And they go on two different journeys one the visible journey is the journey of destination and
That is or the journey of accomplishment that that's like the journey that they're taking to achieve this thing
so
I'm trying to think of one
So Star Wars, I'm pretty sure the journey of accomplishment would be like he wanted to
Basically save the galaxy. That's the accomplishment and
On that journey along the along the way there's a hidden journey and that's the journey of transformation
so when you are
Basically in order to accomplish that goal you have to actually transform yourself because what got you here won't get you there
you have to actually
transform yourself into
What will be able to achieve that goal and
And so the journey of transformation in Star Wars was like Luke Skywalker wanted to
Or he wanted to the journey of accomplishment was he wanted to save the galaxy destroy the Death Star and
then the journey of transformation was
When he was training with Yoda and he like had to transform into this like Jedi master essentially
That's the journey of transformation and that's like the most rewarding piece as
as
viewer to watch like the viewer wants to
Basically see
the person
Transform and so that's why I was focusing on worldview so much
One because I knew that that was like the secret that was one of the secrets to success
Like I knew that your worldview and your beliefs were
Vital because the first like
like the first book that I really read that
Became that got me aware of
Or one of the first books was reality-transurfing became got me aware of like this matrix that we live in
and I say one of because I read unscripted before and
then
That got me aware of the fact that
But your beliefs are like keeping you in this prison your worldview is keeping you in this person
like I'm still in
The same place I was
on the surface. I'm still in the same place. I was a
Hundred days ago when I first started this podcast like
From an outside perspective
Just like people around me seen where I'm at
They like they see them in the same place that I was a hundred days ago
But I'm definitely not under like in the inside of things because first of all I have a hundred episodes
Recorded I haven't actually posted a hundred episodes yet because I have seven episodes scheduled but pretty much
I'm like a hundred episodes into recording a podcast
so I
Already know just off of that is
is extremely powerful because I'm back
Like 80 days ago when I was learning about I was trying to come up with different
Markers to mark on my journey and different like accomplishments to achieve
throughout my journey of podcasting and one of the things that I learned about was once you
Record 20 or once you post 25 episodes you're in the top 1% of podcasters in the world
and
With that and then I the source of that episode source of that like
Info piece of information was from a podcast
Called modern wisdom which I actually used to listen to and
And my in modern that episode he was basically talking with a guest about like the value of consistency and the value of like
long term
Like posting and he was basically saying that like the guest said that once you post like a hundred episodes in
on like online on the social media or the podcast or whatever it is
Once you post a hundred episodes then
You're not okay, and then you record another and post another that's not just one more
That's not just one more
like
Addition to your show like that's not just one incremental
Benefit for you. It's not just a linear growth like like just one better
It's actually like exponentially better just the difference between 100 and 101 is crazy
And the more and more posts you make the more and more power it has like long term especially
Because and to connect this with my personal experience
I went like I said I went to funnel hacking live a month ago
And I had the opportunity to speak to many different entrepreneurs and one person I spoke to
He was from Hungary and he actually had a podcast that he got to like a hundred episodes
And then he just stopped recording and that was like in January
He stopped recording and it's October it was September when I talked to him
but it's October now and he's probably hasn't recorded and
He was telling me that he is still getting like consistent viewers
Like he's still getting a lot of leads and people are still listening to his show
literally like eight months nine months later like
Nine months later. He's still getting people and that's because he built up 100 episodes on his podcast
So that's the value. That's a power of consistency over a period of time
and so I'm at a hundred episodes and
Right now I have less than a thousand downloads total all time
and
then I also have
like five rolling average subscribers, which is like the average amount of people that
unique devices that
watch a
Video within 24 hours and that's the average of your past three videos and
and
Oh a couple days ago. I was at six and then a couple weeks ago. I was at seven rolling average subscribers
So the first month I was at four and then the next month like six and then the next month seven and now I'm down to five
So I like I dropped
But it's all the same like the difference between four and seven not very big difference. It's all the same
But the big thing is
That over time like right now I'm seeing linear growth
But that's simply because I'm posting every day and I have around the same amount of people
Watching every like new episode. So I get like six or seven new downloads every day
So that's like linear growth just every single day it's adding seven downloads to my download total
It's linear growth now, but long-term consistency like I'm in it for the long game
And it's evident because I made it to a hundred episodes
Like that's a huge accomplishment. I was proud of myself
Reaching 21 episodes because that's you're in the top 1% of podcasters
but
Of those top 1%
That's your true competition. I remember hearing that like the 99% of people that stopped before 21
Episodes those are not your competition
Those people are too lazy to actually even make it past episode 21 your true competition is that is that 1% and
The further and further you get
into like recording
The further and further you get more and more episodes in
You start to whittle that 1% down and down and down further until you get to like more and more to your truest
competitors
Like episode 21 that was 80 that was like 80 days ago 79 days ago
That's a long time for people to quit
That's a long time like big opportunity big potential of quitters
So at my point I'm like still
Not even seen any success like any real success yet
But I'm just whittling down the competition even more and more so
At my like whenever since I started I've had like a lot
So let's just go through the whole journey when I first started I had a
100%
podcasters as a competitor and then once I got to episode 3 like 50% are
Are my competitors and
Then
Okay, let's actually put numbers to this
Let's say there's a million podcasters in the world. I don't think that's actually true. It's probably a lot more than that
But let's say a million podcasters
So when I first started I had a million competitors and then once I got to episode 3 I
had 500,000 competitors and
Then once I got to episode 21. I
only had
What is that?
1000 is that 1000 1000 times 100 is
100,000 so it'd be 10,000 right
10,000 times 100 is a
Million yeah, so once I got to episode 21. I had 10,000 competitors
And these are just random numbers ballpark just to give just put numbers to it
Not even ballpark. I don't even know what the real numbers are but
Episode 21 80 days ago I had 10,000 competitors and
The more episodes that go by the more that number whittles down so right now I might have a thousand competitors
I might have 9,000 competitors. I don't know
but after every single episode with that long-term consistent growth every single episode is another
day of
Dropping another competitor another day of competitors dropping out of the race and
So in the initial start 1 million people were fighting over
Let's just say there are a hundred million eyeballs or a hundred million ears a hundred million viewers listening to podcasts in the world
Again, I don't know these numbers. I'm just giving random numbers just for
argument's sake
So let's say there's a hundred million people listening to podcasts
So when I first started I was competing against 1 million creators
For those 100 million people
To listen to the podcast so it makes sense that I was just fighting for scraps because the people that were in it for the long term the people
That were actually recorded for years. They had the majority of people
so then when I
Got to episode three instantly I was only competing against 500,000 other people and
Then once I got to episode 21 only 10,000 people I'm competing against and
the further and further along
Like right now, let's just say I'm only competing against 1000 other podcasts and
Let's say a hundred of those are
Are actually the popular ones that?
So let's follow the 80-20 rule right now
Right now. I'm at episode 100 and I'm competing against a thousand other podcasts for 100 million
people people's attention and
100 of my competitors are the big fish in this sea and they're the people that
Have been in it for the long term and they've been like resilient against time and they can actually
They're the ones who actually have like
90% of the
Like viewers so those hundred people that I'm can those hundred top dogs. I'm competing against
They have 90% of the viewers so that leaves me and the
900 other competitors fighting for the scraps
competing against each other fighting for the scraps for
only like 10 million viewers and
the like
Let's just say
I'm at
1000th place total so that means that I get like the bottom of the bucket
It's like a exponential growth graph if you've seen a
Graph where it just goes it starts
Small and then like very quickly it gets like super tall and gets like grows super high
Like it takes a while it may take a while to get to that like part where you actually start to grow
Exponentially but once you actually grow exponentially you're at like the top a hundred competitors
So then that means you you have access to those like hundred those 90 million viewers
That was a lot of numbers that I threw around and I'm even I'm having a hard time keeping up and
Following that so I'm sorry if I lost you guys there, but like that just
This is one of the tools that I use to keep pushing forward first of all discipline
Is like the number one tool to keep pushing forward and just keep going and
It also is comforting knowing the knowledge that
Eventually I'll make it like it's comforting seeing other people that have gone down this path before
that's why fun lacking live was very great for me because
there was a few speakers that did social media and
They like posted videos or they posted
screenshots of their analytics graph and in the beginning it was just like
Latlined like there was no viewers and then just randomly around like month five or four or six or whatever
It just started to skyrocket
So like that knowledge is comforting like that keeps you pushing forward
But one of the best things is to combine that knowledge and create a story for yourself and just basically try and like
Figure out how the system works
Like I just spent like the past ten minutes telling a story to you guys and myself about how
The system works even though I have no clue if that is actually how it works
But that's just what I assume from all the stories that I heard like I figured that it the
like the entry
Requirement is
For like having your podcast grow is standing the test of time
Like I've only been here for a hundred days
So it makes sense that I'm fighting for scraps against all the other people that have been here for a hundred days
And the test of time is like years there's some I was looking at the other
day I was figuring out trying to learn how to actually I
Don't remember what it was, but I was like trying to figure out how to
grow your podcast and
there was one graph that they threw up and
it was
basically a graph of percentage of
High casters
who
Actually make money off of the podcast and it was like a low income and a high income
and
it like the x-axis was
Like years or like the time so in the beginning it was like the majority of the percentage of podcasters in
like the first couple months were
Like not making any money the majority were low income and then
like slowly but surely the high income started to raise slightly and
then
The turning point was at like month 24 more than month 24. So once you reach month 24 of
Having a podcast
That's when the majority of the podcasters who have been
recording
for 24 months are high income
Earners in the podcast world
So that's another milestone two years
It may take two years to start making money, but that means is that's pretty much a guarantee if you can
Stand the test of time for two years. You're pretty much guaranteed to be making some big money like two whole years
like I am just in
In senior year of high school, I'm still a high school student and I started summer going into senior year
so that means one year will be
Summer going into freshman year of college, which by the way, I'm not going to college, but I'm just giving like
General numbers of the path that I was supposed to be going down like the path that everyone around me is going down
Like a couple of years ago left to my own like
Left alone my default path would have been to go to college because that's just everyone around me in my town
Go to college like people ask like where you go into college
Like that's just the the question that people ask because it's kind of a given everyone like 99% of
students at my school go to college
So pretty much I like to compare myself to where I would be if I stayed on that path
So I started my podcast going into senior year
So that means I'd be on episode 365 going into freshman year and then I would be two years in like through
720 I think is two years of
recording I'd be like
I'd be two years in going into sophomore year of college
So that means that I'd pretty much be guaranteed to be a high-income earner
Based on the stats obviously it's not a guarantee, but just
Based off the stats the majority the far majority are high-income earners two years in
As a sophomore in college like most people are still racking up the debt in college
So just that simple stat if you just focus on podcasting it goes to show that
That we are living in a rigged society like people are
Basically ignorant to the fact that they're way more optimal and effective ways to make money
Like people think that the way to actually live
a
Get a actually make money is by going to college getting in debt
Wasting four years of your life working towards a piece of paper that says your name and a diploma and then
You get a terrible job and then you have to figure out how to like get like you you know how it works
the rat race basically
So people are ignorant to the knowledge that you can actually make a lot more money doing focusing on the right types of things
And that's why I'm a huge advocate. I'm huge on just increasing my knowledge
I'm so huge on reading books because I know that I'm in this situation where I am simply because I know
About this stuff and I've actually learned about this stuff
If you don't know like ignorance is the best way to keep someone in prison in this matrix
That's it like all you have to do is have the knowledge
That's also why I'm focusing on worldview because our default basically our default worldview is based off of what we've learned in school and
We
Are left
Alone like that. It's such a sophisticated system where
No one has to like keep us in this prison. There's no like
Security guards keeping us here. We're keeping ourselves here through our own ignorance
So that's why I really believe that knowledge will actually set you free and I heard that
I'm pretty sure I heard a quote like that somewhere like knowledge will set you free
Knowledge will set you free
It's huge I know that knowledge is everything and you see it all around you like even there was a what's his name?
There was one guy I
Don't know there's one guy who was in like slavery and then he learned how to read and write and he
basically
Obviously he escaped through his own like means, but he learned how to read and write which
Set him free mentally first and he actually learned of all the things more in the world like ignorance is
most powerful weapon against us and
knowledge will actually set us free so
Just focus on reading that's like
Probably the biggest if you take anything out of this today's episode
Read the right types of books and learn the most
important pieces of knowledge
That's another reason why I'm reading Transurfing again
Even though it's all like not new knowledge, but it's like solidifying this knowledge even more
So I can actually
Have more
opportunities or it'll
Basically take up a lot more of my brain now. So the way I see it is when you like
There's something called my lawn. I'm pretty sure it's called. It's basically
Something that coats your the wiring in your brain the more and more times you do something
so if you like let's say you're you're practicing learning how to juggle and
Like the first time you don't have any my lawn coated on that and then after like a week of practice
You have some my lawn built up because you're getting better
And you've practiced a lot more and then after like a year you have a very strong thing of my lawn in your in
Your brain so now you can juggle very well and you have like the reps and
The way I see it is you're reading and learning the truth is the same way like the first time I read Transurfing
Yeah, I knew I like was aware of this stuff now, but I was I had a weak thing of my lawn
So I wasn't actually like applying it for the day
So then the second time the my lawn was stronger and stronger and now this third time
I suspect that it's gonna be get even stronger some getting more reps and
And like I said this whole story of the moment
I stopped reading Transurfing like I kind of shift started to slowly atrophy and
The moment I started reading it again instant mindset shift. So now I'm in like that
mindset of Transurfing
So now that you're in the mindset you have more opportunities throughout the day to get those more reps and solidify even more like like I said I
Started to fall asleep a lot throughout the day
And more and more since I stopped reading Transurfing I would fall asleep more and more
But then now that I'm back in the
So, okay, let me go back when I was falling asleep a lot
I was losing out on that opportunity to
Get more and more reps to build more and more my lawn for the Transurfing habits
There's one thing to have the Transurfing knowledge, but there's another thing to actually have it like
integrated into your life
like to have the true understanding and
He actually said that towards the end of the book
He said like it's one thing to know all this stuff, but it's another thing to like actually have applied it
Like that's the biggest difference
Knowing versus actually having it done like actually doing it. That's why
There's like a correlation the more and more you are in that mindset the more more you're in that like frequency the more
opportunities you get to
apply it so then like eventually you'll reach a point where
You'll you'll actually build the habits to where you're actually self-sustaining
Because I was like that remember the first time I finished it
Literally within the week I was off of the Transurfing mindset and then the second time I read it
It was a month. So that's exponential growth. So maybe the third time I read it
I'll have three months and then the fourth time I'll have like eight months and then the fifth time
I'll have a year like or like two years or six years like
maybe after
Ten times reading it. It'll be like ingrained a part of me now
And I can just get away with not reading it for the rest of my life and I'll still have it locked in
So that's like
That's that's under the episode. So I hope you enjoyed and
fall for more if you're interested and
Have a good day.