- So remember when I said
most of you will fail,
and I'm only speaking to the few of you
who will actually take action and execute.
You wanna know one of the biggest tells?
Because you might be like,
well, you're just saying that,
I know it.
One of the biggest tells,
is that almost none of
you are taking notes.
Baffling right, you have
a notepad out, great.
You have one, you have one, that's it.
Why are you not taking
notes, everyone just..
talk to me, entertain me,
and that's the trap, unfortunately,
that most people fall into, right?
Results above all else, you're here,
I hope for results, the
people with the notepads
are here for results,
the rest of you are just
here to be entertained.
Don't fall into those traps.
This is not your new Netflix.
And unfortunately, this is
what self help has become.
It's like the snobby Netflix.
If you go home and you procrastinate,
and you do not Nothing with your life,
and you put on Netflix,
you know you're procrastinating, right?
No one can be there watching Netflix like,
Oh, the Witcher came out with the Witcher
and feel good about your life.
I mean, it's cool to watch
the Witcher and relax
and entertain yourself, yes.
But that's just entertainment.
You know, you're not being productive
watching The Witcher, correct?
None of you are like,
I'm watching The Witcher,
but it's getting me closer to my goals.
It isn't what is self help,
it's become the I feel
better about procrastinating
and not being productive Netflix.
That's what it is.
People even do this with my content.
I'm gonna watch some of Julien's content.
And some of all these
self help gurus contents
and this business
content in this TED talk,
and I'm just gonna feel
better about doing nothing.
You're still doing nothing.
You're not even applying it.
You're not even taking notes.
You're not even filtering it through.
How am I going to get a return
on this time and energy investment.
You're just like,
entertain me like Witcher.
It's the Witcher but with Julien.
And what's a live event like this
for all of you not taking notes?
It's the Witcher live.
Whoa, there it is.
He's real.
Am I gonna apply anything that he says no,
this is like Netflix in real life.
This is great.
And nothing ever changes
and everyone falls into this trap, okay?
Trap number one Watching
content that is entertaining.
And that's your RES, your focus.
You know your RES rights like to focus.
If you close your eyes
right now close your eyes.
Open your mouth.
Close your eyes.
(crowd laughs) If I ask you
right now with your eyes closed,
what is red in this room?
Open your eyes.
Immediately.
You're zoning out on what's red, right?
Because that has value
so your selective focus
your is RES activating system zones in
on what has value in
this case what is red.
So when you're scrolling through YouTube,
or even products or any type of contents,
most people's RES is
will this entertain me?
Ooh, that thumbnail looks pretty funny.
You know the content has nothing to do
with what I'm dealing with.
I'm not going to apply it
but that looks like a funny thumbnail,
a funny episode of The
Witcher, and they click on it.
They might scroll through the video.
And it's the harsh
content they need to hear.
But because it's not
entertaining, or is captivating,
they're like,
this is kind of a boring
episode of The Witcher.
I guess it's a key part for
the story arc of The Witcher
but it's not as captivating
as that thumbnail
and they just click on
to the next thumbnail,
and they're just there to be entertained.
And then no wonder nothing
changes in your life
because you're just looking
for entertainment, right?
You'll even see people go through videos
and there might be a key
concepts that that's explained
in a slightly different way to
click with different people.
And they're like,
I've heard this before.
I'll see this sometimes
in a con like a comment.
I've heard it before.
Like that's what your focus is on.
It's not how am I going to apply this?
It's, have I heard this before?
Is there another story
in the Witcher storyline?
No!
If that's you,
and if you resonate with this wake up,
because nothing will change
if you stay in this trap.
Now, here's another reason
why most of you will fail.
Notice how even with me
calling a lot of you out
on not taking notes?
You're still not taking notes,
(chuckles)
baffling right?
Why are you not taking
your pen or phone out?
Are you just like,
yes, he's right time, is what's the point?
What's the point?
Waiting For what?
- I was waiting for be called.
- Wow, waiting to be called.
Now that is actually another
trap that losers fall into.
(crowd laughs)
It's actually a really good
point, waiting to be called.
It's like when I know I'm a loser.
And I'm not taking notes.
I'm going to wait for
Julien to call me out
on it to finally take notes.
But people live their lives this way,
I'm waiting to be called.
Nothing magical is going to
happen to your life by the way,
you think you're the exception you're not.
You're a background character of a movie.
Unless you take action
and do something about it.
This is harsh, but true,
you gotta let this sink in.
You think you're the
hero of some Disney movie
where the magical thing happens,
you become the Witcher and all?
No!
You're the background character
of people who take action
and follow their dreams.
Right now you're the background
character of me and my life.
You're just filling a seat that
makes this video look great.
Thank you.
That's what you are,
until
or unless you take action and apply this.
If you're not taking notes,
and you're sitting here I don't mind
you make the video look amazing.
You make me look great.
It'd be a lonely movie
without you in this chair
and making me look so great.
So thank you for all the losers here.
Thank you for making me
look great for the winners.
Thank you for taking notes
and not making the decade
of me teaching this
and refining this go to waste, okay?
So take notes
why you're not taking (silenced) notes,
- I,
- Just use your phone right
now, you can use your phone.
- Even if like here's the other thing,
even if,
even if you weren't to take notes,
at least have your phone
out and pretend, you know?
Now here's the other thing I like,
because I know all this stuff,
you're still on taking action.
Why are you here if you
know all this stuff,
what's your sticking point?
- Because there is something
I am gonna learn later on for sure,
I am waiting for that time.
- What are you looking to learn?
What's your sticking point?
Do you not know what's
your sticking point?
That's another big trap.
If you don't know what your
number one sticking point is
the one thing that
would change everything.
What are you doing?
- More consistent,
more grounded and professional
and personal environment.
- Okay, what have you
been doing to fix it?
- Well, I've already.
- What have you learned so far from me?
- From you?
- Yeah.
- He way you talk is
very, is very charismatic,
is very, it's very direct.
Even when you call people losers
you saying it in fun ways.
- What else?
I like this but what else?
Wow.
Okay, so this,
I like some of it.
Okay, so I'm here to be more grounded
and learn et cetra, et cetra,
Being very modest.
I'm extremely grounded and amazing, right?
Especially in front of
a big crowd like this.
Very few people can do it.
Not toot my own horn,
but I'm (silenced) amazing right now.
If you can't learn from me
embodying this in such an amazing way,
you're never gonna learn this.
So right now how to be more grounded
how to be more grounded.
Okay, what's different to me
and Julien right now what's
different, what's different,
what's different.
what's different.
And you should have a huge list,
you should be taking notes as well,
because you will forget
something like this feels
real in the moments.
And trust me,
I've been there.
It's like, Oh, wow.
And then it just turns
into this distant memory.
You want to write down as many details
as you remember to
consolidate the experience.
And so even after this event,
when you forget what this is like,
because grounded and all something
you can only emotionally recognize
and connect with reading
your notes will spark back
that memory and feeling.
Beyond that the way
you should be filtering
this is not just okay, how
would this help me be grounded?
But exactly is what
I'm saying here, right?
Instead of just waiting for the one thing
that applies to me or
reinforces what I know,
what's my version of this?
Because here's what you're doing.
You have a clear idea, which is good.
But then you're not thinking okay,
what about the rest?
Because I'm not only going
to talk about being grounded.
So if you're only focusing on that
you're wasting most of your night.
And you should just leave.
If you're gonna stay here,
you should be thinking,
how am I going to, thank you.
How am I going to apply the
rest of what he talks about,
even if it doesn't touch on being grounded
and get a return on my
time and energy investment?
Even if it's not in the socializing area,
where else am I doing this?
What's perhaps the 1% of my life
where I'm falling into
this trap of not thinking,
how can I get a return?
Fall it looking for entertainment,
watching content?
This is trapping number two,
watching content that feels good,
what's content that feels good,
that reinforces what you currently believe
or what you know.
What's my version of that?
That's how you should be thinking.
I notice you're still not taking notes.
And this is high, you're not grounded.
And you are to remain the loser.
But maybe not.
Like one word.
Yeah, it's like I guess I'm a loser.
So, trap number two watching
content that feels good.
This is instead of scanning for
content that entertains you,
you're scanning for content
that reinforces what you know.
So here's an example.
You might believe that
you're an introvert,
like well, I'm an introvert,
I'm a bit more of a shy person.
So when you look for contents,
you're looking for content
that reinforces that.
Tips for introverts, right?
Tips for shy people.
Oh, that's for me.
Or if you think you know something,
you're like,
Oh, I think this is the right
course of action to take,
what some content that reinforces that
this is a right course of action to take,
as opposed to looking
for challenging content.
Don't look for content to
just reinforce what you know,
like, okay, I got it.
That feels good.
Oh, that reinforces what I already know.
Look for content that challenges you.
It's like imagine I walked in here
and like I will only
listen every time Julien
says the word red.
He's not saying red.
He's not saying red.
He's not saying red, but because
I'm so focused on the red
blocked myself off to so much more.
Remain open at all times.
Trap number three,
watching content that looks good.
What does that mean?
It's looking for the
fancy new bit of contents,
or the new video or the new
product or the advanced product.
I don't want the basics.
I want the newest shiny piece
of content that looks so good.
And people keep chasing that.
More often than not,
you have what you need.
The action steps are
very basic, very simple,
not easy to do but very simple.
But we're so focused on the shiny object.
You know I'm stuck.
It's because I'm missing
this shiny advanced thing.
Or ooh, this new product
but this person came out
I'm going to chase that.
Oh, the new season of The Witcher.
No!
If you can stick to the basics,
those shiny things won't help you at all.
Instead, watch content produces results,
not content that entertains
that feels good with it looks good,
but that produces results.
And this comes from training your RES,
to look for content that you need to hear
more often than not.
It's challenging content,
but then also taking responsibility
and cultivating ROI thinking
return on investment,
exactly what I'm telling you.
You're here you've
invested X amount of time
you're listening to this,
how can you get a return on
this time and energy investment?
Imagine you spent $10,000 to be here.
Play that experiment,
your bank account deduct 10,000,
you don't have 10,000 you're now in debt.
Would you be sitting here not taking notes
if you had spent 10,000?
Yes or no?
- No.
- No, you'd be taking notes.
You're like, well, I'm 10,000 in.
Let's get a return.
If you spend 10,000 would you be waiting
for the grounded bit?
Well,
I spent 10,000 I'm gonna wait
for that one grounded bits.
I'm gonna ignore everything else.
Even if your minds like,
I don't know,
if I'll ever apply this,
you're still going to take
notes because you spend 10,000.
And it's a big deal.
Why don't you view it like that?
Imagine you spend 10,000.
And then your mind works like,
Okay, how am I going to
apply this to get a return?
Imagine you spend 10,000.
And this was it.
The seminar ended right now
this little bit of
content was all you had.
And suddenly, like,
well, what's next,
the next shiny thing?
You say I gave you the
video to rewatch it,
you rewatch the segment
again and again and again,
because you spent 10,000 until you found
a way to get a return.
Yet we don't do that.
We're on to the next, on to the next.
And guess what,
with YouTube,
with the internets self
help has become like Netflix
where there's endless
new series of new movies.
Instead of taking it in
and applying it and getting that return,
the new video came out.
Oh, and this person's
new product came out.
And this shining new
thing and oh, this thing
and you just become another spectator,
just being entertained
by self help, by me.
Don't be entertained by me.
Apply what I teach you and get a return
the content is not the result.
The result is what happens
when you apply the content.
If you're just here to be entertained,
and you're using self
help as entertainment,
please watch the Witcher instead.
It's way way more
entertaining than little me.
Watch the Witcher.
If you're here and
you're gonna listen to me
and watch me put it to use.
Don't come here for entertainment.
Everything that I say,
everything that I embody,
everything that I show you,
that I teach you filter it through,
how can i 10 x The result?
How can I get 10 x value from this?
Where can I apply this to my life?
If you can't find a way
to apply to your life,
you're failing already.
Even the most simple basic thing,
where can I apply this?
What is something?
Oh, I already know this.
Okay, cool.
But what's something you already know,
you might not be applying?
Because if you go for
the entertainment route,
you probably know a lot of self help,
you know too much self help.
And why do you watch content?
In that case?
It's not necessarily
just to be entertained,
but it should feel good.
You watch that you're like,
Oh, yeah, I know that.
I've heard that before.
Oh, yeah, I know that concept.
Like, that's literally all you're doing.
It's like, Oh, I heard that
you should look for the ROI.
I knew that plus one.
You just get these little dopamine spikes.
Yeah, yep, yep.
No, put it to use,
knowing it doesn't change anything.
You just become a self
help keyboard jockey.
It's no different than
being like a witcher nerd
who knows everything
about the background of every character.
The way to see if you're
succeeding in this or not,
is by looking at the results
you're getting in your life.
Are things changing.
Are you taking action?
Are you noticing real change?
If not, this is just Netflix.
And this should be a wake up call.
Now you have a choice you can
keep going down and saying,
well, I don't care.
I just want to keep watching Netflix
that self help and feel good.
In which case my devices witchers better,
or you can wake up and
start taking action.
And always filter
everything you hear through.
How will this produce results.
