0:01 if you're interested in making money
0:03 online enough money to potentially even
0:05 quit your job then hopefully you'll get
0:06 a lot of value from this video I've been
0:09 able to make around 20K profit per month
0:11 every month for the past 6 months which
0:13 is almost double my full-time income as
0:16 a software engineer and I quit my job
0:18 about four to 5 months before I hit that
0:20 profitability that is Aman a 23-year-old
0:22 who watched one of my videos when he was
0:23 a broke college student and he actually
0:25 took action based on the advice I shared
0:26 at the time and has now made enough
0:28 money to quit his job and live and work
0:30 from anywhere in the world on his own
0:32 terms so at this point I can pretty
0:34 confidently say I don't expect to have
0:36 to go back to a 95 job if I don't want
0:38 to now when Aman messaged me that he was
0:39 visiting Hong Kong where I live I wanted
0:41 to have him here on the channel to tell
0:42 his story because there are so many
0:44 people who watch YouTube videos just
0:46 like this one but 99% of people never
0:48 even take that first step they never
0:50 even get started and of the 1% that take
0:52 action and get started 99% of those
0:54 people don't stay consistent long enough
0:56 to actually see results Aman is that
0:58 rare person who watched a video actually
0:59 followed the advice and took action and
1:01 did it consistently enough for a few
1:02 years to finally see results yeah
1:04 resistance is the problem here like I
1:05 feel like a lot of people they see
1:06 things and they immediately come up with
1:07 all these reasons why it wouldn't work
1:09 for them and so in this video we're
1:10 going to break down exactly how he did
1:12 it and what mindsets and strategies and
1:14 tools helped him along the journey from
1:16 broke college student to now making over
1:18 $20,000 a month from his online business
1:20 I can confidently say that one can make
1:22 10K a month online from almost nothing
1:23 so the way this video is going to work
1:24 is that we are going to hear Aman's
1:26 story and then I'm going to share my own
1:28 perspectives and by the way if you are
1:29 new to the channel and you're like who
1:30 the hell is this guy hello my name is
1:32 Ali I'm a doctor turned entrepreneur and
1:34 author of The New York Times bestseller
1:36 Feelgood productivity and these days my
1:38 main gig is that I'm the co-founder of
1:39 Sparkle Studios where we are building a
1:41 suite of productivity apps to help you
1:43 save more time and have more fun on
1:45 route to achieving your goals and on the
1:46 side I've been making YouTube videos on
1:48 this channel since 2017 documenting my
1:50 journey from medical student to doctor
1:52 to entrepreneur and sharing the books
1:53 ideas strategies and tools that can help
1:55 us live more intentionally be more
1:56 productive and build a life that we
1:58 truly love anyway let's dive into Aman's
1:59 story and what we can learn from it if
2:01 we are trying to make enough money
2:02 online to be able to one day quit our
2:05 day jobs let's go back 4 years to May of
2:07 2020 around this time I was 19 years old
2:09 I was at home with my family and I
2:10 remember I was sitting in my living room
2:12 when my brother who's about a year
2:15 younger than me came to me and said hey
2:17 there's this guy who's a doctor and a
2:18 YouTuber and he posted about how much
2:19 money he made and they put on the TV
2:21 actually and my brother and me and my
2:23 parents actually sat down and we watched
2:26 that video and I don't know what about
2:28 it was so incredible but something in
2:30 that moment was just like holy
2:32 this guy he's working as a doctor
2:34 which is amazing but then also on the
2:37 side he's making passive income from
2:39 places like skillshare and YouTube and
2:41 AdSense I remember all I wanted to do
2:42 was either be like an engineer doctor
2:44 lawyer or politician in my mind I never
2:45 thought oh I could like start a business
2:48 and actually you know be F Financial
2:49 Freedom as a phrase has never even
2:52 entered my vocabulary yet so yeah like
2:54 watching that video was what actually
2:56 made tangible that someone could
2:57 actually do this so that was
2:59 revolutionary to me and within that week
3:02 I launched this skure class actually so
3:03 it's pretty crazy so what's interesting
3:05 about this is that 2.1 million people
3:07 have seen that video that I made 4 years
3:08 ago where I was documenting how much
3:10 money I was making online but having now
3:11 met a lot of people who've seen that
3:12 video in real life and at conferences
3:14 and talks that I've given the impression
3:16 I get is most people will see a video
3:18 like that and will immediately say not
3:20 me not now maybe this thing worked for
3:22 this person but the timing is not quite
3:23 right for me there seem to be a lot of
3:25 people who watch the stuff but don't
3:27 take action on the stuff and so I asked
3:28 Aman what was it about him and his
3:30 brother that made them actually take
3:32 action yeah resistance is the problem
3:33 here like I feel like a lot of people
3:34 they see things and they immediately
3:36 come up with all these reasons why it
3:38 wouldn't work for them maybe something
3:40 that was different about me at that time
3:42 or even now is that I feel like I just
3:45 have an absurd level of self-belief
3:47 there's basically anything that someone
3:51 has done I feel like with given enough
3:53 time effort and work I could replicate
3:55 at least a little bit of that success I
3:57 don't know if it's delusional but
3:58 something I think there was that like
4:00 self-belief there and I think also a lot
4:01 of it was the fact that it was someone
4:03 who on paper looked to be very similar
4:06 to me so it wasn't like Barack Obama was
4:08 saying launch your business right it was
4:10 someone who like looked like me on paper
4:11 with a very similar background and
4:12 upbringing it wasn't like you were born
4:14 to like a billionaire family or
4:15 something like that I think this is a
4:17 really really helpful mindset shift to
4:18 have and that anyone watching if you're
4:20 watching this right now you can also
4:21 have that mindset shift the thing that
4:23 Aman said which is that no matter what
4:24 if there is something that someone has
4:27 done given enough time and effort and
4:29 work I could replicate at least a little
4:30 bit of that success and there's a
4:32 concept in Psychology called locus of
4:34 control now there are some people with
4:36 an internal locus of control and some
4:38 people with an external locus of control
4:40 and basically what locus of control
4:42 means is that do you believe that the
4:44 events in your life are controlled by
4:46 you I.E an internal locus of control or
4:47 do you believe that your success or the
4:48 events in your life or whatever are
4:50 controlled by other people external
4:52 events the environment the government
4:53 whatever that thing might be what we see
4:55 from Aman's mindset is that it's very
4:56 internal locus of control it's very much
4:58 like hey someone else has achieved that
5:00 thing if I just did loads of work but
5:01 loads of time and effort and work into
5:02 it I could probably get a little bit of
5:04 the way there and so I might as well
5:05 just give it a go it's really hard for
5:07 me to not do things when I feel like I
5:10 should do them or what I want to do them
5:12 like for example we can talk about this
5:14 a bit later I I ended up quitting my job
5:16 within 24 hours of making that decision
5:18 so within the same day of me realizing I
5:19 could quit my full-time software
5:21 engineering job I want to do this and
5:23 iring out a plan I could not sit there
5:25 and work for any longer I had to quit
5:26 within the day I drafted my resignation
5:28 letter and sent it the next day so I
5:31 guess I just naturally had kind of like
5:33 almost like an impulsive bias for Action
5:35 where any anytime I would discover
5:37 something think about doing something
5:38 decide on doing something I would
5:40 immediately start to take take action uh
5:42 almost to a detriment with like other
5:43 areas of my life where it was like I I
5:45 tend to get distracted quite easily
5:46 about like new opportunities and new
5:47 Ventures all right so what we're seeing
5:50 here is a strong bias to action there
5:52 are a lot of people who have a bias to
5:53 analysis a bias to planning you know
5:55 what when I hear something I need to
5:57 analyze it a lot I need to think about
5:58 it I need to make plans but then there
5:59 are some people that strongly bias
6:01 towards action you know what I've heard
6:02 something interesting let me just try it
6:03 out and see what happens now a lot of
6:05 people talk about the theory of biased
6:06 to action and I've made tons of videos
6:08 talking about why when you're starting a
6:09 business or a YouTube channel or
6:11 anything actually just getting started
6:13 is the most important thing but I think
6:14 it's useful to hear what this actually
6:17 looked like for Aman at the time I
6:18 immediately sat down with my brother and
6:20 we sat on the couch and thought okay
6:21 what can we make what do we know that we
6:24 can teach so we came up with a few ideas
6:25 the first one was standardized testing
6:26 we both did very well on our
6:29 standardized test classic right uh so we
6:30 thought oh we can make a skillshare
6:32 course about teaching the ACT which is
6:33 the exam in the US that all the high
6:35 schoolers take uh there was a couple
6:37 other options one was like a music class
6:38 or something we both had done music for
6:40 piano and other instruments and stuff
6:43 like that growing up and finally what we
6:46 decided on doing was or actually what I
6:48 decided on doing was making just like a
6:50 random course on C which is a
6:52 programming language I was working on at
6:54 the time in my internship so the way I
6:55 pulled this off was I didn't know
6:57 anything about cameras microphones
6:59 editing nothing so I just asked my
7:00 friend was doing like videography stuff
7:01 in high school can I borrow your
7:03 microphone I want to make a course so he
7:06 literally just lent it to me for 3 days
7:08 I spent like 5 to 6 hours drafting up a
7:10 random idea for this course like very
7:12 basic programming Concepts filmed it
7:14 within like an afternoon edited and
7:16 launched it within like 3 days so I
7:19 literally just like full full full story
7:21 just literally just like came up with
7:23 this idea edit it launched it within a
7:24 couple days and just put it on the
7:26 platform nice this is exactly what bias
7:28 to action looks like and so the question
7:30 I would profit to you if you're watching
7:32 here in the video is to what extent do
7:33 you have this bias to action in your own
7:34 life see the thing that most people
7:36 would say in this context is oh
7:38 skillshare that's a cool idea I can make
7:40 some courses on that but let me spend
7:41 some time doing some research and then
7:43 they'll forget about it for 3 weeks and
7:44 then 3 weeks later they're like oh you
7:46 know what I did a little bit of research
7:47 but oh I don't have the right gear yet
7:48 and they wouldn't think to just message
7:50 a friend and borrow a microphone they'll
7:52 think oh let me then research all the
7:53 gear that I need to get oh I don't quite
7:55 have enough money 8 months from now when
7:56 Christmas rolls around and I'll get my
7:58 Christmas bonus then maybe I'll be able
7:59 to buy a microphone and a camera and
8:01 plus you know I'll have to check with my
8:02 work what if they find out that I have
8:04 this tiny ass class on skill show that
8:05 no one's ever going to see what if my
8:07 work finds out like oh no I I'd have to
8:09 write a letter to get permission and
8:10 there's all of this analysis that goes
8:13 into it analysis is the enemy of action
8:14 especially when you are just getting
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9:25 let's get back to it so have a pause of
9:27 this video and have a think this guy
9:29 made this course 4 years ago he made an
9:30 online course he put it online how much
9:32 money do you think it's made all right
9:33 cool so youve got a number in your mind
9:34 I think it's really helpful if you have
9:35 a number in your mind because there is a
9:37 point that I want to make a little bit
9:38 further around so please do generate a
9:40 number in your mind if you haven't yet
9:41 and now let's hear from Aman and how
9:42 much has that course made you in the
9:45 last four years yeah that course has
9:49 passively generated $1,500 which pretty
9:51 sick for a few hours of work but yeah
9:54 that was it's interesting because I
9:55 don't know how to feel about that
9:57 because part of me is like that's
9:58 actually great like I was able to make
10:00 money online but I guess if you compare
10:01 that to how much I made through other
10:02 areas it's really not that much now I
10:04 suspect for most people watching this
10:06 video your guess as to how much money he
10:07 would have made would have been higher
10:09 than $1,500 he might have thought he
10:10 made like five figures you know a few
10:12 tens of thousands of dollars or maybe
10:13 even hundreds of thousands of dollars
10:14 this is the impression that I get when I
10:16 do talks where there are aspiring
10:17 entrepreneurs in the audience people
10:19 generally have a skewed perspective of
10:21 how successful the first thing is going
10:23 to be you never really see stuff online
10:24 from people who tried launching an
10:27 online course and only made $11,000 in 4
10:29 years we only tend to hear the stories
10:30 of of people who have already made it
10:31 for example I've done a video talking
10:33 about how I've made over $10 million
10:35 from online courses Iman godi has made
10:37 over $100 million from online courses
10:38 these are the sorts of people you hear
10:40 from you tend not to hear from the
10:41 person who tried an online course
10:42 initially and then like it kind of
10:44 failed and they made like nothing and
10:45 then the next thing failed and they made
10:47 like $20 and the next thing failed and
10:49 they made like $300 over a 5year period
10:51 and the common mistake that people make
10:52 here is thinking that the first thing
10:55 you do has to be the last thing you do
10:56 and let's hear from Aman about that what
10:58 was great about that skillshare course
11:00 was the fact that it was it was just me
11:02 taking action to do something it's not I
11:03 think there's a common mistake that a
11:05 lot of people make thinking that the
11:07 first thing you do has to be the last
11:09 thing you do right it's like oh I don't
11:11 know what my Niche is or I don't know
11:13 how to I don't know what what idea to
11:14 start my business I need to look for an
11:15 idea I've heard this so much talking to
11:16 friends and family about starting
11:17 businesses they're like I need to look
11:19 for a good idea once I have an idea then
11:20 I'll start my business I'll leave my job
11:23 I'll do that but the fact that my first
11:26 forign to entrepreneurship was a really
11:28 frankly shitty C course on on skillshare
11:31 that only made 1.5k but that started
11:33 into creating this entire world of
11:35 Entrepreneurship 4 years later I don't
11:36 know I think the first thing you do
11:38 doesn't all does not have to be the last
11:39 thing you do in fact the first thing can
11:41 just be your first step into the journey
11:43 and that's what creates the rest nice
11:45 this is a really really really important
11:46 point the first thing you do does not
11:48 have to be the last thing you do and the
11:49 way I think of it is that when you're
11:51 starting a business your first three
11:53 businesses are probably going to fail
11:54 and that is a very good thing because
11:56 it's sort of like riding a bike in order
11:57 to learn how to ride a bike you don't
11:58 just watch videos about how to ride a
12:00 bike you you get on a bike and then you
12:01 try and then you fall off a few times
12:02 you get on you try again you fall off
12:04 you get on you try again you fall off
12:05 and eventually you learn how to ride a
12:06 bike not by consuming knowledge or
12:08 watching lectures and stuff about how to
12:09 ride a bike but by actually getting on
12:11 the bike and doing it and it's the same
12:12 thing with business if you're trying to
12:13 make money on the internet and you have
12:15 not yet failed at at least a few
12:17 business ideas you're probably worrying
12:18 too much about analysis and getting it
12:20 perfect rather than just taking action
12:22 another another point on this is like
12:23 you mentioned earlier millions of people
12:25 watch these videos and you have 6
12:27 million subscribers and I'm always
12:29 shocked when I talk to someone who has
12:30 hasn't started a business who's like oh
12:31 I love Al abdall like that doesn't
12:33 really computed by head how can you
12:34 watch Al AB doll's Channel and not have
12:36 already launched a YouTube channel or a
12:39 business or do taken action on something
12:40 right but I think there's a lot of
12:42 people out there who have just like
12:43 passively consumed this content but
12:46 haven't actually done what these people
12:48 say they're doing and I just don't get
12:50 it right why would you watch it and not
12:53 do what they're saying like if you want
12:55 if you want that life so there's someone
12:57 you want to be like is saying do X Y and
12:59 Z how how could how is it possible to
13:01 watch that and not even like take a
13:03 first step towards that direction you
13:04 know what I mean and I it's not even
13:06 just D like for anybody else like Chris
13:10 Williams and Alex heroi um even hza from
13:11 time to time I will like listen to
13:13 something they say and if something
13:14 resonates with me I'm like yeah that
13:16 makes sense just take action on it and
13:17 even if it has to be like a very basic
13:19 shitty version right not skillshare
13:21 class I think skillshare took it down
13:22 even like last year or something cuz it
13:23 just I don't know didn't fit some new
13:26 standard or whatever but that was just
13:27 like I just got quick feedback I just
13:30 tried something launch laed it made a
13:32 couple tens of dollars a month passively
13:33 through that and that just inspired me
13:35 to keep the flywheel going and often it
13:38 takes like 5 10 15 of these small random
13:40 things before even one thing works out
13:42 and as as you hear it took me 3 to four
13:43 years of trying like this before
13:44 one thing actually worked out and I was
13:46 able to quit my job and make money
13:49 online M again Aman has got it spot on
13:51 it often takes like 5 10 15 of these
13:53 random little things before one thing
13:55 works out in my case I had like eight or
13:57 nine failed businesses that just I
13:58 didn't make any money from before I
14:00 finally built my first business when I
14:01 was in medical school that actually
14:02 succeeded and made some money but all of
14:04 those different failures taught me the
14:05 ropes of like how to build a website how
14:07 to code how to accept payments how to
14:09 like actually get customers for the
14:10 first time and I just wouldn't have
14:11 gotten any of that if I just spent all
14:13 day watching YouTube videos and trying
14:14 to read books and trying to come up with
14:16 the perfect idea all right so now we
14:17 move on to talking about the strange
14:19 concept of difficulty as it relates to
14:21 entrepreneurship even even when I speak
14:22 to Izzy sometimes I'm sure she won't
14:24 mind me mind me saying this but she
14:26 often feels that YouTube feels really
14:27 hard for her therefore she's a bad
14:28 YouTuber and therefore she's not cut out
14:29 for this I'm like bro if you got like
14:31 700,000 subscribers with like 50 videos
14:33 I had 700 subscribers when I had 50
14:36 videos like come on and like by all
14:37 objective standards is he is a very very
14:39 good YouTuber and yet the fact that she
14:42 feels it's hard makes her go to the
14:45 conclusion that I suck mhm and I think a
14:46 lot of people have this kind of
14:48 conception that like if it's not
14:49 effortless if if I'm not finding it easy
14:51 from day one clearly I must be a bad
14:53 Entre entrepreneur I'm not cut out for
14:56 this you know uh I'm not like Elon mask
14:57 I just don't have it in my DNA there's
15:00 all these things that come up at the oh
15:02 at the prospect of friction I don't know
15:03 if you VIP with that at all like that's
15:04 something that you've seen with with
15:06 people that you know I think this is one
15:09 reason why I find Alex Hero's content to
15:10 be valuable I think this is one benefit
15:13 of it is the idea of like pain tolerance
15:14 just being able to deal with like the
15:16 discomfort of something not working and
15:17 often often times I come back to the
15:19 fact that if it was so easy then
15:21 everybody would do it and the fact that
15:23 everybody can't do it is it has to be
15:24 hard there has to be some level of
15:28 discomfort um so yeah 100% I think well
15:31 for the fact that Iz he has like 500
15:33 plus thousand subscribers like that is
15:35 unbelievable yeah like I'm still working
15:36 to get there 4 years later so I would
15:39 say yeah I I believe I think people have
15:40 this expectation that something is going
15:41 like you said something is going to be
15:44 incredibly easy they they come into it
15:46 they're like oh they encounter one
15:47 roadblock and then it immediately falls
15:49 falls apart again this is why I think
15:50 that this law of Entrepreneurship which
15:52 is that your first three businesses are
15:53 probably going to fail and that is okay
15:55 is really helpful to know I think that's
15:56 why content like this and podcasts with
15:58 other business owners are also really
15:59 interesting to listen to because they
16:01 all talk about how hard it is no one
16:03 ever says oh yeah it was super easy and
16:05 I was making money from day one they all
16:06 talk about the difficulty of the process
16:08 and so if you recognize that the process
16:09 is going to be difficult when you find
16:11 it difficult then you're not going to be
16:13 surprised but if you think the process
16:15 is going to be easy and you find it
16:16 difficult which you will then you'll be
16:17 very surprised and you're going to be a
16:19 lot more likely to quit all right so now
16:20 we move on to talking about the idea of
16:22 friction and Aman is going to give an
16:23 example from his singing lessons but I
16:25 think there is a so much to be learned
16:27 from this specific example I've been
16:28 doing singing lessons for the past few
16:29 years I'm like hey I want to find a
16:32 singing teacher so Step One is like
16:34 Google singing teacher Raleigh North
16:36 Carolina to take that to to do that
16:37 Google I've been thinking about it for a
16:39 week okay I was thinking I should
16:40 probably find a singing teacher first
16:42 Google's a week later then scroll
16:44 through click on a few websites ah none
16:46 of this looks that good done for two
16:47 weeks then I remember oh I should
16:49 probably find a singing teacher I do the
16:51 same Google again I look oh I find some
16:53 person I F A contact form don't hear
16:55 back for another few weeks okay then I
16:56 come back and think oh I should probably
16:58 find a singing teacher so it is actually
17:00 it is kind of surprising to me how uh
17:02 non-real it is to really do anything
17:04 because often to get anything done you
17:06 have to make five to 10 various attempts
17:08 for it to happen and then it actually
17:10 works out so for example if in your mind
17:11 you're like okay I should probably start
17:13 a I want to start a business what is an
17:15 easy way to start a business oh I can
17:16 start creating content online okay I
17:17 have to create my Channel all right I'm
17:18 going to go on YouTube I'm going to
17:19 create a channel all right I have to
17:20 film my video or I have to make a script
17:22 now I'll do it tomorrow I'll do it later
17:23 so I think there is there is like real
17:25 value into like that sequential step by
17:27 step by step and there's friction at
17:28 every step of the way so if you're
17:30 someone who can just like see things
17:32 through to completion be like I am going
17:35 to complete this no matter what it takes
17:36 so for example if you're like I have to
17:38 start a channel you can't just let
17:39 yourself be satisfied with a trying to
17:41 try I'm like I'm going to try to start a
17:42 channel I'm going to like make an
17:44 account I've done the work I've done it
17:45 you have to do what's necessary to
17:47 achieve the outcome rather than seeing
17:49 the the effort as enough so this is
17:50 something I've been thinking about a lot
17:52 since I had that conversation with Aman
17:54 that with anything you try and do there
17:56 is friction at every single step and the
17:58 trick is to be able to follow through
18:00 and and get through the friction and
18:01 this is where that mindset shift is
18:02 really important to recognize which is
18:04 that as soon as most people encounter
18:06 friction they will just drop off the
18:07 thing they'll just stop doing the thing
18:08 be like oh this friction I'm not going
18:10 to bother anymore but if you can be as
18:11 it relates to starting a business or
18:13 anything you want to do in that 1% of
18:15 people that sees the friction recognizes
18:17 okay this is friction this is normal I
18:19 just need to work through the friction
18:21 then you are far more likely to succeed
18:22 at whatever you're doing all right so
18:24 that was friction let's now talk about a
18:25 really common excuse which is the timing
18:27 is not right right now so we we do these
18:29 like meetups for our YouTuber Academy
18:31 and inevitably you know like 100 people
18:32 will show up the majority of
18:33 conversations I'll have with them I'll
18:35 be like oh so how's the channel going
18:37 and they'll say oh well I haven't been
18:38 consistent with it for for the last few
18:40 months or all this sort of stuff and
18:43 they'll never say I have quit YouTube
18:45 they will always say life got in the way
18:48 it's not the right time right now and
18:49 that's I think what is interesting about
18:51 this it's sort of like this thing that
18:52 you and I know because we we've consumed
18:54 the Kool-Aid of the self-help books kind
18:57 of not yet not right now is the thing
18:58 that takes all the dreams to the Grave
19:00 because the timing is never right we had
19:03 talks in med school uh from um doctors
19:04 with kids who are always like look if
19:06 you want to have kids literally the
19:08 timing is never right there will always
19:11 be another exam you could take another
19:12 step of the wrong that you could climb
19:14 when you're a junior doctor you'll think
19:16 oh once I once I get my exams out of the
19:17 way once you got your exams out of the
19:18 way you'll think ah well and I'm once
19:19 I'm a senior registar once you're a
19:21 senior registar you'll think when I'm a
19:22 consultant when you're a consultant you
19:23 think well I'm a junior consultant right
19:25 now and you know once I find my feet and
19:26 eventually you become 48 and you can't
19:29 have kids anymore and they were like a
19:30 lot of the message was like if you want
19:32 to do something recognize that the
19:34 timing will never ever ever feel right
19:35 and you actually just need to do it
19:37 right now and I think that is the thing
19:39 that that's a thing that holds a lot of
19:40 people back thinking the timing is not
19:42 right right now honestly I feel like the
19:43 mind is the worst enemy in fact it's
19:45 like it's so easy to I feel like people
19:48 are great at convincing themselves to to
19:49 do to like basically not follow their
19:51 own dreams it's like if you talk to
19:53 anybody very often you cannot convince
19:54 someone to do something like that
19:56 because they have so much of of like
19:58 arguments and baggage in their mind like
20:00 if let say someone says oh not right now
20:01 they can probably give you three to five
20:03 reasons why now is not the right time we
20:04 all have this fallacy in different
20:06 spheres of our life like oh the timing
20:08 is not quite right to do this thing but
20:10 it's worth recognizing like the thing
20:11 that I've always found helpful is to
20:12 recognize that that is just
20:14 procrastination in Disguise and for
20:15 almost everything the timing is never
20:17 going to be quite right and so what
20:18 would happen if you just acted now
20:20 assuming that the timing is never going
20:21 to be right so you make the skill share
20:23 class you're 19 years old you make the
20:25 skill sh class you release it presumably
20:28 nothing much happens what happens next
20:31 what happens next is I just start taking
20:33 action on all these different things I
20:34 hear from you and other people so for
20:36 example I also just launch a Blog and an
20:39 email newsletter at the same time so
20:42 week one is skillshare week two is blog
20:44 so bottle domain make a website Nat a
20:46 license preaching webflow so I use
20:49 webflow build that website I read a
20:50 bunch of books to start writing book
20:51 reviews I start a newsletter thoughtful
20:53 Thursday still around weekly email
20:54 newsletter start posting that every
20:57 single week great that's done then after
20:59 that week three or four I'm like hey you
21:01 know someone's saying to make a YouTube
21:02 channel maybe I should start this
21:04 YouTube channel thing so I also launched
21:06 a YouTube channel around that time it
21:09 was July 2020 I think to myself I
21:10 actually have a document that I wrote in
21:12 a car on a road trip which is what are
21:14 my what can I teach what can I talk
21:15 about in YouTube channel I still have
21:17 that document available um I was good at
21:18 the saxophone in high school so I was
21:20 like oh I can make music videos with the
21:22 saxophone I was great at doing
21:23 standardized test like I mentioned
21:25 earlier I can talk about that I can talk
21:27 about studying in University I can like
21:30 talk about my my in college so I just
21:32 decided hey I like Apple I'm a computer
21:33 science student I'm going to film a
21:35 video called why the MacBook Pro is
21:36 perfect for computer science students so
21:38 that was my first video on my channel
21:39 it's still available right now posted
21:42 that July of 2020 it's terrible quality
21:43 the lighting is bad the audio is
21:45 terrible I have no conviction when I
21:47 speak whatsoever but I decided to just
21:49 do something launch my channel and I
21:51 think you were also at the time talking
21:52 about how the consistency is key you
21:53 just kind of have to stay I think there
21:56 was like an MKBHD y combinator interview
21:59 that's the one where he was like if you
22:00 just stick with anything for 10 years
22:02 it's hard to not be successful at it so
22:03 I just set the intention I'm just going
22:05 to post something every single week so I
22:07 just started making videos on studying
22:11 computer science Quizlet versus anky
22:13 todoist things
22:17 three just like budget bad quality
22:18 productivity videos and studying in
22:20 computer science while also running the
22:22 newsletter while also being a student so
22:24 that was year one I made 20 something
22:26 videos just consistently and I had maybe
22:28 1,000 subscribers or 500 or actually I
22:29 think I only had like 100 subscribers in
22:32 year one so I just consistently post it
22:33 every single week on something I could
22:34 think of every single week I think this
22:36 is the harsh truth about trying to make
22:37 money on the internet or trying to build
22:39 any kind of business online which is
22:40 that if you are trying to go for an
22:42 extraordinary outcome if you're trying
22:44 to go for something that most people do
22:46 not have you often have to put in more
22:48 work than most people are willing to do
22:50 there is almost no one I have ever met
22:51 who's made enough money to be able to
22:53 quit their job who didn't have to
22:55 sacrifice something to make that happen
22:56 and it's really just a case of what are
22:58 the trade-offs you are willing to pay
22:59 what is the price that you are willing
23:01 to pay in my case for example I didn't
23:02 need to sacrifice hanging out with
23:04 friends and family but I did need to
23:07 sacrifice watching Netflix watching TV I
23:08 set a rule for myself when I got to
23:10 University which is I'm never allowed to
23:11 watch TV shows on my own instead of
23:13 using that time watching Netflix I would
23:15 sacrifice that time and put it towards
23:16 my YouTube channel or my business or
23:17 writing my book everything has a price
23:19 and if you don't want to pay that price
23:20 that's totally okay you don't have to
23:22 but it's worth recognizing that if you
23:23 want the thing on the other end of that
23:25 hard work on the other end of that
23:26 sacrifice you kind of have to pay the
23:29 price and also what I did was I was just
23:31 consuming all of this self-improvement
23:33 productivity self-development content
23:35 and I also think that is underrated I
23:36 think there's a lot of people out there
23:38 who tell who say it's all the same stuff
23:40 it's all the same idea why do you why do
23:41 you have to watch every single one of
23:42 this person's videos or why do you have
23:43 to read every single one of this book
23:44 it's all the same thing you already know
23:46 what you have to do but there's
23:47 something about just hearing that
23:50 message over and over and over and over
23:52 and over again of you just have to stay
23:53 consistent you have to keep doing this
23:54 you have to keep doing this unless it's
23:56 not going to work out um and on that
23:58 note I would just Implement all these
23:59 little productivity hacks and techniques
24:01 so for example one thing that probably
24:04 made 50% of my progress was Thomas Frank
24:05 he made this video about how he would
24:07 get charged by this app called be minder
24:09 if you didn't wake up on time so I
24:11 watched that about four to five years
24:12 ago and I decided to like make that
24:15 automation but for posting on YouTube so
24:17 be minder would charge me $100 if I
24:20 didn't post every single week to my
24:21 credit card and I've already paid them over
24:22 over
24:26 $1,000 because I did miss many weeks but
24:27 and people thought I was crazy when I
24:29 told them this I was like yeah dude like
24:31 I get charged of it on post on time so
24:33 that also was just like the fuel on the
24:35 fire just building these small things to
24:37 like force myself to stay consistent in
24:39 year one in year 2 and year three so
24:41 yeah year one posted 20 30 videos they
24:44 were all right they were not that good
24:45 and just like trying to come up with
24:46 these things to motivate me to keep on
24:48 going over time that's a long time to
24:50 grind at it for without seeing any
24:52 results that's very impressive like I'm
24:54 amazed I would I wouldn't have done that
24:56 yeah you know you always talk about how
24:58 I think it was like for you what like
25:01 six to 12 months in when you had like
25:02 viral video or something yeah about 10
25:03 months in I had a viral video 10 months
25:05 in yeah I hear that I'm like I think you
25:07 posted a lot more than me though like
25:09 video for me video 91 was a viral yeah
25:11 yeah I've only ever posted like 90 full
25:12 L videos or something at this point so
25:14 for me I think I was posting like less
25:15 frequently but over a longer period of
25:18 time I actually went 16 or 18 months
25:20 before my first video Hit 100K views I
25:22 think it was also just consuming other
25:23 people's content where you're talking
25:24 about I think this is another thing I
25:26 don't think you realize the impact that
25:27 you have when you actually rehash the
25:29 same ideas over and over and over and
25:30 over again cuz I see the comments being
25:32 like Oh just repetition and I think oh
25:34 like it's like a knife a knife to my
25:36 heart where I'm like am I just saying
25:37 the same I guess I am just saying the
25:41 same I mean yeah I guess I guess yeah
25:42 and then I think I don't want to make
25:43 this video because I'm just saying the
25:45 same thing again to saying the same
25:46 thing again but there is really
25:47 something to be said about saying the
25:49 same thing over and over and over again
25:50 because that is the message you need to
25:53 hear like someone like me I needed to
25:55 hear every single week from o doll's
25:57 Channel just stay consistent just stay
25:59 consistent just stay consistent I'm
26:00 reading this book on the side just just
26:02 stay consistent so there is something
26:04 special to that and like even on my own
26:05 channel I often say the same thing every
26:06 video and I also get those comments
26:09 which are like bro falling yeah bro
26:11 falling off bro saying the same thing
26:13 bro remakes the same video every month
26:16 like but that is what you actually have
26:17 to do there's a concept that Aman and I
26:19 were discussing over lunch that day when
26:21 when he came over to hang out which is
26:22 that your YouTube feed reflects your
26:24 priorities like the algorithms on
26:25 YouTube and Instagram and Tik Tok
26:27 they're all pretty good at figuring out
26:28 what we actually care about what we
26:30 actually spend our time on and so a fun
26:31 little exercise is to go on your YouTube
26:33 homepage and see what's the sort of
26:35 content that's coming up is it the sort
26:36 of content that is aligned with the
26:38 goals that you want to go for or not you
26:40 can actively start to pay more attention
26:41 to content that is aligned with your
26:43 goals like if you're here in this video
26:44 you probably want to build some kind of
26:45 business to probably make money on the
26:47 internet it would make sense for you to
26:49 just consume loads more of that content
26:51 compared to other things that you might
26:52 be consuming in your spare time instead
26:54 again if you want you don't have to I'm
26:55 not trying to tell you what to do Aman
26:56 is not trying to tell you what to do
26:57 we're just sharing the stuff that has
26:59 worked for us for me I deeply
27:01 intrinsically cared about YouTube it was
27:03 it was my dream it was my passion it was
27:04 what I wanted to work out I actually
27:06 remember I was late to work multiple
27:07 days because I was so engrossed in
27:09 writing my script in the morning before
27:11 work that I would show up late I would
27:13 take unnecessarily long lunch breaks to
27:15 work on the channel so much told them
27:16 like I told you about the conversation
27:18 with my boss he was not happy about that
27:19 I would leave early to work on the
27:23 channel and I I don't think it was a
27:24 grind but it also wasn't that much of a
27:26 grind because I had that flame it was
27:27 like oh like I can't wait to get home I
27:29 can't wait to ride a script like I would
27:31 I would watch my own videos with the
27:32 zest like the editors came back with the
27:33 new cut like I'm so excited to watch
27:35 that there were times where during my 9
27:37 to5 job but I actually I would go into
27:38 the meeting room which is like a
27:40 separate room I would like lock the door
27:41 go on my laptop and watch a cut of my
27:43 cut of my recent video cuz I was like
27:45 and I guess you're not supposed to do
27:46 that but it was something I was so
27:49 intrinsically excited to watch so I I
27:51 think I just had like a joy of kind of
27:52 going back to like enjoying the journey
27:54 right I think I at the time like I'm
27:56 only now realizing I think I really did
27:57 love that because of was outside of my 9
27:59 to5 job so was something that I
28:02 intrinsically really did care about so
28:03 if it was something where like I it was
28:05 a massive slug every single part of the
28:07 journey if I hated it I it would not
28:09 have worked out at all yeah that's I
28:11 think where you know when people ask me
28:13 about my days where I was like how how
28:14 did you do the thing while you were
28:16 doing the J day job and stuff and it it
28:19 it comes down to that nalism of like
28:20 find the thing that feels like play to
28:22 you but looks like work to others to
28:24 others it would look like work to be
28:26 grinding on a video edit or whatever at
28:27 like you know 7:00 p.m. 800 p.m. 9:00
28:30 p.m. after after a shift at work but for
28:31 me at the time and it sounds like for
28:32 you as well it was like I was delighted
28:33 to do it there were some days where I
28:34 didn't feel like it where you know
28:36 that's where the beinder reminded that's
28:38 where like the consistency it's like H
28:40 okay on those days where I really don't
28:41 feel like doing it I'm still going to do
28:43 it that's where I have to motivate
28:44 myself with the dream with the negative
28:45 visualization with all that kind of
28:48 stuff but for the most part because I
28:50 enjoyed the process it didn't feel like
28:53 work trying to find ways to sprinkle in
28:54 play Power people into all the stuff
28:56 field of productivity all that shtick
28:58 trying to make it fun because that fun
29:01 was where like the the excitement that
29:02 excitement and motivation was was was
29:04 generated by I'm still chasing that
29:07 flame honestly like I remember yeah
29:08 there there certain things where it's
29:10 like something about toiling away on
29:11 like a landing page at like 8:00 p.m.
29:13 for a new product I don't know what
29:16 about that is Sox love that like I
29:18 remember when I launched my program in
29:20 January of this year I was in London for
29:22 a couple weeks just for vacation and I
29:25 was in you know foils like in in London
29:27 I was like upstairs in their Cafe just
29:28 toiling just like grinding on that
29:30 landing page and I was so happy I don't
29:31 know why it was just something about
29:33 like it being the dark and just grinding
29:34 and building out this page and same to
29:36 like watching cuts of my video like
29:37 working on a script and of course there
29:39 were times that I I wasn't intrinsically
29:41 motivated I think for me I don't really
29:43 enjoy filming videos
29:46 same I much prefer this this for 100% I
29:48 think this is way more fun and it it is
29:51 a bit of a grind like I have three video
29:52 scripts I have two video scripts done I
29:54 need to sit down I have to build a setup
29:55 I have to sit down I record it it's a
29:57 big ruling it's my my throat hurts it's
29:59 a bit sweaty like I don't like to do
30:01 this I have to keep Mo motivating myself
30:03 to keep going but for the most part you
30:05 I do intrinsically enjoy it I I don't
30:07 know if it's possible maybe it is
30:09 possible but I don't know if it's really
30:12 practical for for anyone to do anything
30:13 longterm enough to make it work because
30:16 again like this was four years of grind
30:18 if I hated every minute of it there's no
30:19 way I would have done that I really
30:20 agree with this I found it to be so true
30:22 in the lives of most people that I know
30:23 including myself which is that it's just
30:25 impractical to do something for a really
30:27 long time if you absolutely hate it if
30:28 you don't find a way to enjoy the
30:29 process this is kind of the whole
30:30 concept of my book feel good
30:31 productivity you know back when I was
30:33 grinding on my YouTube channel and stuff
30:34 I was really focusing on how do I make
30:36 this so enjoyable that I choose to keep
30:38 working on it rather than forcing myself
30:39 to keep working on it now I want to
30:41 share a common objection here so you
30:43 know I've heard people again when when I
30:44 do talks and stuff people come up to me
30:46 and say you know well someone will hear
30:47 this advice of hey you should do
30:49 something you enjoy because then you
30:50 you're going to be more consistent with
30:51 it you're going to stick to it and some
30:53 people will say but what if I have
30:55 nothing in my life that I actually enjoy
30:56 I don't have any passions I just like
30:58 watching Netflix and playing video games
30:59 and scrolling social media this is the
31:02 thing like we all have hobbies which are
31:04 things that we do for fun but in the
31:06 capitalist world that we live in there
31:07 are some hobbies that let you double dip
31:09 in terms of you have fun doing the hobby
31:10 but you could also make money or you
31:12 could also become healthier or you could
31:13 also have more love in your life through
31:15 relationships for example sitting on the
31:16 couch and watching Netflix sure maybe
31:19 that makes you happy but if for example
31:22 you go for a run that can make you happy
31:24 and also makes you healthier what about
31:25 playing board games playing board games
31:28 makes you happy but it can also improve
31:29 your relationships because you generally
31:31 want to have friends over to play board
31:32 games one of my hobbies back at
31:34 University was doing hackathon side
31:36 projects with my friends where we would
31:37 go on a mini holiday together and we
31:39 would try and build an app within 24
31:40 hours that could make some money that
31:42 was a hobby that would make me happy
31:44 because it was fun but it also improved
31:45 my relationships cuz now I'm hanging out
31:46 with my friends and it also had the
31:48 potential to make money I'm not saying
31:49 you have to spend all of your time doing
31:50 productive things but what I'm saying is
31:52 that if you care about making money on
31:53 the internet which you probably do if
31:55 you're watching at this point in the
31:56 video if you care about that and you
31:58 have limited time which we all do then
32:00 actually finding hobbies that double dip
32:02 finding hobbies that are fun and also
32:03 have the potential to make money is
32:04 going to make you way more likely to
32:06 make money compared to having hobbies
32:08 that are simply just fun I think also
32:09 there's there's something around you
32:13 won't know until you've tried it like I
32:15 wouldn't have thought that like I
32:17 thought I wanted to be a like a singing
32:20 guitar acoustic sort of Music YouTuber
32:21 and that to me felt fun because I was
32:23 like oh that feels fun but I wouldn't
32:25 have thought that writing educational
32:25 content and like coming up with
32:26 Frameworks and would actually be
32:28 enjoyable but it actually is
32:30 and it's like it's kind of fun I know a
32:32 lot of people who count themselves out
32:34 of the business game or they'll hear a
32:36 conversation like this being like oh man
32:38 I get okay so the secret is to really
32:39 enjoy the thing but I don't I don't know
32:41 what I'd really enjoy and that's what's
32:43 stopping them from they're they're
32:44 almost like self- projecting ahead
32:47 knowing that like okay I mean Ali and
32:48 Aman are saying that you've got to grind
32:49 at YouTube for like 2 to four years to
32:51 see any results can I see myself right
32:53 now without having a YouTube channel
32:54 enjoying that process absolutely
32:57 absolutely not like who would who who
32:58 would think that they might even enjoy
33:00 that person but when you start with it
33:01 when you when you're building the thing
33:04 and you're seeing those initial bits of
33:06 momentum and stuff there's something
33:08 about that that lights the flame that is
33:10 so hard to predict ahead of time so when
33:12 did things start working mhm okaying so
33:15 Midway through year four I I honestly
33:16 Define one of the biggest inflection
33:18 points is realizing that I could spend
33:20 money on knowledge which I had not
33:22 actually realized nor internalized for
33:25 much at all other than buying books so
33:26 i' had been buying books for years that
33:27 was something I was reading in the
33:29 background I was reading many books but
33:31 there were two great unlocks I had in
33:33 year four which was actually about a
33:34 year ago the first one was realizing
33:36 that I could read business books which
33:38 is something I just did not realize I
33:39 was like wait there are books on
33:41 business that I could read like for
33:43 example all of Russell brunson's books
33:45 Alex Hero's books just these books on
33:47 sales and marketing I can read to just
33:48 like level up my brain in the world of
33:49 business I didn't realize that was a
33:51 thing that was one great unlock the
33:53 second one was realizing that I could
33:55 buying that I could buy coaching from
33:57 people who have done the thing I've done
33:58 and then learned their lessons and
34:00 supercharge my progress and I
34:02 procrastinated for months on doing this
34:03 so the first thing I actually invested
34:05 in was Captain ced's YouTube coaching
34:06 program I've been watching his videos
34:08 for years it was the first time I spent
34:11 money on anything and because of that it
34:13 created like a level of fire and drive
34:15 to actually perform so I believe he said
34:17 later on that I was probably the best
34:19 client he ever had of like over 100
34:21 people because I showed up to there were
34:23 24 calls and I didn't miss a single one
34:25 um I was on a plane for two of them so I
34:26 bought Wi-Fi on the plane and joined
34:29 zoom using a VPN so I could actually
34:30 show up to the call and not miss it and
34:32 I said a video Al Loom beforehand of
34:33 like all of my questions for him that I
34:36 had before so I listened to if he said
34:38 jump I said how high and that
34:39 immediately supercharged everything
34:41 because up until this point I had a
34:42 bunch of like raw potential I had a
34:44 bunch of like building blocks there I
34:45 had done a bunch of internships that
34:47 gave me an unfair advantage that I could
34:49 actually talk about on YouTube I had the
34:51 skills I had a video editor so I knew
34:52 how to like edit videos and also had to
34:54 manage a video editor I had built a
34:56 skill of writing so I was like pretty
34:57 decent at actually writing these scripts
34:59 and I could write them effectively but
35:01 he basically like put fuel on the flame
35:03 when it came to making marker research
35:04 or making good videos titles and
35:05 thumbnails he also taught me how to
35:08 negotiate sponsors and he told me hey
35:10 you have something that you can teach
35:11 which is getting internships and getting
35:13 jobs in software engineering is
35:15 something you've done before so you
35:18 could probably charge people to actually
35:20 make the transformation and it is worth
35:22 it like that knowledge is worth 203k if
35:24 I can get someone a 20 to $30,000
35:25 internship if they couldn't get before
35:27 so it was that mental unlock which made
35:29 me decide to actually launch my program
35:30 which is a software engineering
35:32 accelerator um to actually make that
35:34 progress happen so that was the greatest
35:36 unlock it was buying programs some
35:37 people might be hearing that and
35:39 thinking well I can't believe you sign
35:40 up for these courses like all course
35:42 sellers are scammers what's your take
35:44 what's your take on that I think loss AV
35:45 version is a big issue that a lot of
35:47 people face which is that they would
35:50 they're more worried about losing $5
35:52 than they would be excited about earning
35:55 $100 people often fight that uh issue of
35:57 loss of version like if you kind of like
35:59 think about it in terms of time for
36:01 money right people would take a lot of
36:02 people would spend an hour taking the
36:05 bus to avoid $20 for an Uber but they
36:07 wouldn't spend an hour doing like a
36:09 freelance gig for $50 right that doesn't
36:11 make any sense that's like an asymmetry
36:13 there so you kind of have to like like a
36:15 fool yourself into like overcoming the
36:17 like innate urge for loss aversion think
36:18 about the fact that what is the risk
36:20 reduction here right like there is a
36:21 guarantee almost every single program
36:23 you'll ever pay for as a guarantee
36:24 because these most of these things are
36:25 good and worth it where it's like if you
36:27 do this thing and if you do X number of
36:29 things or you can get a refund if it's
36:30 not actually good there are a bunch of
36:32 reviews and testimonials and even if the
36:35 program only gets me a few thousand in a
36:37 year it will have paid for itself and
36:38 the chances are it's going to get me a
36:40 lot more there so you need to like kind
36:42 of overcome that that that thought there
36:44 and finally I think a lot of people
36:46 don't really realize what knowledge they
36:49 don't have that could actually get them
36:51 really help them out a lot so what I
36:53 would often think back to is could I
36:55 influence my 17-year-old self to do
36:57 great things beyond what I already did
37:00 one 100% there's so much knowledge I've
37:01 learned over the past few years in the
37:03 world of careers and world of Education
37:05 the world of health and wellness and and
37:07 relationships everything you've learned
37:08 so much through this like living life
37:11 for years and years and years so how do
37:13 you not realize that you can just pay
37:14 someone else who's three to five years
37:16 ahead of you just to download their
37:17 knowledge and get yourself ahead yeah I
37:19 love that I think um there's something
37:21 uh this is something Alexy talks about
37:22 as well like he's invested hundreds of
37:24 thousands into these programs and his
37:25 goal is to be the best student they've
37:26 ever had and to like eventually like
37:28 outpace the instructor because of how
37:30 much he's executing uh my friend
37:32 Nicholas Cole talks about how every
37:34 single thing he's ever paid for has been
37:35 Roi positive because he's made it Roi
37:38 positive he pay $68,000 for a mastermind
37:40 he get and he's like okay well I need to
37:42 make sure I get at least $130,000 out of
37:43 this and therefore he's showing up to
37:45 the stuff he's doing the extra work he
37:47 he is taking responsibility for making
37:49 sure he gets the outcome from it I think
37:50 the mistake people make is that a they
37:51 don't sign up to the stuff in the first
37:53 place because of yeah this this sort of
37:55 loss aversion but you know case in point
37:56 with our YouTuber Academy like you're
37:58 one of the the the most students we have
37:59 in our accelerator that when when you
38:01 when you rock up to a call to ask me a
38:03 question you prepare a freaking document
38:05 to be like okay this is all here here
38:07 are all my problems these are my goals
38:08 these are the things I think you're
38:09 going to say here's what I would say in
38:11 response so this is really my ultimate
38:13 question you prepare for those questions
38:15 so much more than almost anyone else
38:17 does and you're getting value out of the
38:19 program and so a lot of it is like you
38:21 get what you put in um and I think you
38:23 and like other entrepreneur friends of
38:25 mine in including myself it's like if I
38:26 sign up for anything of course I'm going
38:27 to get the value out of it I'm not mhm
38:29 if it's a trivial cost for like you $200
38:31 for what it doesn't matter but if I'm
38:33 paying serious money for anything like
38:35 it's it's guaranteed to be Ro positive
38:36 because I will make it Roi positive
38:37 absolutely so you've invested all this
38:39 money into these educational programs
38:40 you've been grinding the out for 4
38:42 years how did it go how much money are
38:44 you making now so in June of this year I
38:46 joined another coaching program from
38:48 Charlie Morgan another guy he basically
38:50 taught me sales conversion fulfillment
38:52 for my coaching program almost
38:55 immediately I went from barely making 5
38:56 6K a month through like a handful of
38:58 brand deals here in and there some
39:00 random agency work on the side you know
39:02 stuff like that to becoming profitable
39:04 so I went from negative - 20K in the
39:07 whole on the business for 2024 and
39:09 immediately hit profitability in July I
39:11 hit $30,000 August also did 30k
39:15 September did around 30k October did 22k
39:18 but then November I had 55k in Revenue
39:22 December it's around 36k right now um
39:25 and expenses are like around
39:29 10K a month on average so I've been able
39:32 to make around 20K profit per month
39:34 every month for the past six months
39:36 which is almost double my full-time
39:38 income as a software engineer and I quit
39:41 my job about four to five months before
39:43 I hit that profitability how does it
39:45 feel yeah it feels good I mean it's nice
39:46 I think there's a lot of layers to it
39:47 first of all I have a sense of
39:50 confidence that I am not going to have
39:52 to go back to the 9 to5 job if you I
39:54 actually made a video cataloging this
39:56 journey um like a life update in May of
39:58 2024 where I mentioned how I need to
40:01 make 4K a month profit and then with
40:02 that number that was like my freedom
40:03 number if you used a million dollar
40:05 weekend term where I won't have to go
40:07 back to my 95 job and I've blown that
40:09 out of the park so at this point I can
40:11 pretty confidently say I don't expect to
40:13 have to go back to a 95 job if I don't
40:15 want to so that's nice that I feel like
40:18 I have that sense of security it's also
40:20 nice that I have freedom and flexibility
40:22 I think that was like people like us I
40:24 think that idea of freedom was like a
40:26 huge deal to me I I hated the fact that
40:29 I had to ask my boss if I was allowed to
40:32 take a PTO a day off here and there like
40:34 last year when I was in London for a
40:35 couple weeks I remember being so
40:37 stressed out because I had to work one
40:39 week remotely for my 9 to-5 job I was
40:41 worried about the US hour so I had to
40:43 stay up super late at like 11:00 p.m.
40:46 randomly just to continue doing this job
40:48 and I just had no flexibility whatsoever
40:50 and now I can be here in Hong Kong I can
40:51 record this podcast with you I just
40:52 complet I can do whatever I want
40:55 essentially and I just feel like that is
40:56 like infinitely valuable what advice
40:58 would you give to someone who's maybe
40:59 watched this far in the video maybe
41:01 they've some watched some of my stuff
41:03 they've seen some of you know they've
41:04 they've done the rounds of consuming
41:05 content and maybe even read some of the
41:07 books but they've not yet taken the
41:09 first step taking action what advice
41:10 would you have for that person there's a
41:12 couple things first of all I have
41:13 benefited immensely for paying for
41:15 educational resources I think a lot of
41:17 people will do this for University so
41:19 they'll pay for a $200,000 Business
41:21 Degree at a college which frankly
41:24 doesn't teach you much but they will B
41:26 at like a $1,000 program or like a
41:27 $2,000 program
41:29 which is teaching you business but is
41:31 updated for like the content ecosystem
41:34 and modern day marketing right so if you
41:36 have the capability I would recommend it
41:38 doesn't have to be any program I
41:39 mentioned in this conversation but
41:41 anything like if you find hey I want to
41:42 learn this knowledge I find it valuable
41:44 I really care about this I would
41:47 recommend you invest in your own skills
41:48 rather than like you know putting that
41:50 money in the stock market at this point
41:52 heroi talks about this it's pretty known
41:53 I feel like if you're already in this
41:56 podcast but like $1,000 in the S&P 500
41:58 is going to make you like 50 bucks at
42:00 the end of the year instead that, you
42:02 can like 10 to 100x that if you actually
42:03 invest in your own Knowledge and Skills
42:06 so I benefited immensely by investing my
42:08 money that I took from my 9 to5 job and
42:09 also my internships investing in Te
42:12 Knowledge and Skills and honestly just
42:14 keep doing it it like this is a case
42:16 study that it is possible it is still
42:17 possible to make a profitable YouTube
42:20 channel from not much it takes time it
42:23 is not easy it takes effort but just
42:26 know that if you are someone who is
42:27 willing to invest in your Knowledge and
42:31 Skills keep on going stay consistent and
42:32 just keep grinding until it works out it
42:34 is possible I can confidently say that
42:36 one can make 10K month online from
42:38 almost nothing so I would just say keep
42:39 going you can do this all right if you
42:40 got to this point in the video and you
42:41 enjoyed this conversation then you're
42:43 going to absolutely love this video
42:44 which is my honest advice for someone
42:45 who wants passive income thank you so
42:47 much for watching have a lovely day and
