Why 'Think Positive' Advice Is Garbage
44sContrarian take on common self-help advice sparks curiosity and debate.
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The video presents seven 'boring' traits that the speaker claims all millionaires possess, based on his 10 years of experience helping over 2,000 entrepreneurs. He contrasts these traits with common self-help advice, emphasizing hard work, stress tolerance, charisma, mastery over passion, ego, pessimistic visualization, and the difficulty of maintaining success.
Millionaires believe they are special and better than others in certain areas, but this must be backed by work, otherwise it's delusion. The speaker cites Michael Jordan as an example.
The speaker's ambition sparked at age 9-10 when he saw his uncle's Mercedes S500, leading to an obsession with becoming a businessman.
Millionaires need a high tolerance for stress. The speaker shares his experience during Covid when clients stopped paying, leaving him with only 4-5 thousand euros, but his resilience helped him endure.
Charisma and persuasion are trainable and crucial for success, affecting income and client acquisition. The speaker, an introvert, learned to be extroverted when needed.
Instead of following passion, focus on mastery. Passion fades, but commitment leads to mastery, which brings enjoyment and respect. The speaker references Japanese knife-making apprentices.
Ego is necessary for excellence, but it must be balanced with humility and belief in something bigger than oneself.
Millionaires visualize potential problems and prepare for them, unlike positive affirmations. The speaker visualizes taking difficult actions, not material possessions.
Achieving success is relatively easy, but maintaining it is extremely difficult. The speaker emphasizes that reaching a goal is just the beginning.
The speaker concludes that these seven traits are essential for becoming and staying a millionaire, and he encourages viewers to rewatch the video as they become more successful. He also promotes his free business model calculator on Instagram.
What is the first secret trait of millionaires mentioned?
Feeling special and believing you are better than others in certain areas, but backed by work.
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What event sparked the speaker's ambition?
Seeing his uncle's Mercedes S500 at a family meal when he was 9 or 10 years old.
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What happened to the speaker during Covid?
All his clients stopped paying, leaving him with 4-5 thousand euros, but his resilience helped him endure.
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Why is charisma important according to the speaker?
It affects income and client acquisition; without it, you charge less and have fewer clients.
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What does the speaker suggest focusing on instead of passion?
Mastery, because passion fades but commitment leads to mastery and enjoyment.
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What example does the speaker give from Japanese culture?
Teenagers enter as apprentices and learn to make knives for 60 years, committing to mastery.
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What is the sixth trait and how does it differ from self-help?
Thinking about what can go wrong, visualizing potential problems and preparing, unlike positive affirmations.
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What does the speaker visualize before sleep?
He visualizes taking difficult actions, not material possessions like Ferraris.
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What is the seventh trait?
Understanding that achieving success is relatively easy, but staying successful is extremely difficult.
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Feeling Special is Key
Challenges the common belief that humility means thinking you're average, but emphasizes it must be backed by work.
00:43Stress Tolerance is Built
Provides a concrete example of how resilience is developed over time, not overnight.
03:11Mastery Over Passion
Offers a contrarian view to the popular 'follow your passion' advice, advocating for commitment and skill development.
06:45Pessimistic Visualization
Introduces a practical alternative to positive affirmations, focusing on preparing for obstacles.
09:27Success is a Beginning
Highlights the often-overlooked challenge of maintaining success, not just achieving it.
11:27[00:01] millionaire. Think positive, manifest, you need 17 sources of income, that's how it's done, garbage. In today's video, I'm going to reveal the become a millionaire. And this is what most influencers are
[00:15] society is telling us right now . I guarantee that if you hear and see things from a new perspective that may not be so pretty, can tell you that it works and it will take you where you want to go in life.
[00:31] online businesses. I have helped more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, my team has over 100 people and we have already billed more than 500,000 euros to my clients. So what I'm going to tell you isn't theory, it's what I've been
[00:43] living for 10 years. The first secret trait of millionaires, and I've met, including myself. And by the way, it is especially true that the highest-earning businessmen, the ones I surround myself with, possess this trait more
[00:56] special and, in fact, to a certain extent, they believe they are better than others. And I know that many people who watch this video will misinterpret this and think it's terrible to believe you 're better than others. But hey, it's not about
[01:09] about [music] that in certain areas you are better than other people. Do you think Michael Jordan doesn't look at everyone around him and think, industry leaders don't look at themselves and think,
[01:23] gets dangerous, and I'm sure we all know these people, they are the ones who but are not willing to work. The reason you may believe you are simply because you have put in more hours, more time, and more work. So
[01:38] listen, you should absolutely believe that you are special. You should absolutely believe that to some extent you are better than most people who are asleep, numb, afraid to go after what they
[01:51] with having these feelings. as long as you back it up with work, because if you don't back it up, it's simply delusion. There are many people, and I'm sure you know this, who are extremely delirious [music] . They go around saying,
[02:04] "I'm going to be a millionaire." Brilliant. Do you have a plan, do you have some kind of roadmap? In fact, let's leave that aside. Have you ever earned even €5000 on earned €10,000 in your life? In other words, you haven't achieved the basics. So,
[02:17] ? I had that feeling when I was little. When I was 9 or 10 years old, one a family meal, a super-businessman uncle of mine showed up with one of the first Mercedes S500s that existed in Spain. My mother is a
[02:31] is a soldier. Money was not a topic of conversation in my house . But that day, when I saw that car, something exploded in my head. I felt an immediate ambition and obsession from that day on, when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always answered
[02:47] businessman or notary or surgeon, simply because I knew they were the ones who earned a lot of money. In life, humility is very important and you should be able to evaluate your situation and look at your life and not be like those who go around
[02:59] saying, "I'm going to be a millionaire." And then they sit on the sofa all day doing nothing. You should feel special, but then put in a special amount of work, a special amount of dedication to
[03:11] exactly what I did. The next secret trait of millionaires that you need to possess is that you need to develop a high tolerance for stress. I tell people this over and over again . Most
[03:23] people probably think they want my life, but they really don't. It's not people across several companies, manage family planning, taking care of your own, your friends, your
[03:35] loved ones. The reason I can deal with all of that is because I have a n't believe all that self-help crap about everything being transparently and openly with people and it's going to be stressful, it's going to be painful, you're going to
[03:49] same way that you can't expect to be an elite bodybuilder and just say, stage." But when I go to the gym, I make sure it doesn't hurt, and the break because I have to take care of myself. If you want to have that mentality, [music]
[04:05] to get where you want to be in life. And it's not that something has to happen progress. I can handle a level of stress today that I simply couldn't In fact, I remember that when Covid arrived, all my clients
[04:18] suddenly stopped paying. I was left with 4 or 5 thousand euros in my bank account, which was the equivalent of a month's survival to be able to pay salaries and rent. If I had faced that pressure a few years earlier, I would have thrown in the towel,
[04:31] but by then I had built up enough resilience to endure it, not something that happens overnight, it's something you build over time. But as I said, don't reach the first obstacle and think, "This is hard and it
[04:45] shouldn't be hard." Everything is supposed to be beautiful and easy when you are successful as an clear expectations. It's important [music] that someone tells you, "Look, not At least you're a little more prepared to go to war, because it's
[04:59] when I see people around me, in any field, sports, business, even a high-level career, you need to be able to handle a lot of stress [music] and embrace it. The third trait for becoming a
[05:13] millionaire that no one talks about enough is your charisma and your ability to persuade. Everyone knows this, but they don't give it enough importance. this is something that can be trained, by the way, like [music] everything else. Most
[05:25] people might not assume this about me, but I'm actually an introvert alone in my office with my noise-canceling headphones in front of a time and place where I need to be more extroverted, I am because I understand
[05:39] [musicians] who have a certain charisma, and that doesn't mean talking more than anyone else, it means learning charisma. And you need to understand that if you don't learn charisma, if you do n't learn persuasion, you're going to charge less, you're going to have fewer clients,
[05:52] whether it's trying to convince a supplier, inspiring the team, or audience. You need to learn this trait. Very fast. And before moving on to the fourth trait, I constantly receive messages saying,
[06:05] "Jesus, I want to start a business, but I don't know which business model to choose." And it's one of the most important decisions you'll probably make in your life. That's why I've helps you discover which business model is best for your situation,
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[06:32] what the best business model is for your case. If you want free access, go to my Instagram account, Jesús Orozco Mo, and send me the word calculator via direct message not going to make you pay anything, just write me "calculator" and I'll
[06:45] you want to focus on [musical] mastery, not passion. And it's another for years. It's really funny because I've started looking at the self-help industry and I've realized how much damage it's doing to the world, [music]
[07:00] by telling them, "Follow your passion." This might sting a little, but what you're excite you in a month. And sometimes your greatest passions in life cease to be passions when money gets involved. So what you're passionate about today
[07:14] passionate about in the next 30 [music] years. But what you commit to today will still make you a master at it 30 years from now. you're really good at something, you always enjoy it. You may not be
[07:26] passionate and euphoric all the time, but you enjoy it and respect it. doing it because you understand the amount of blood, sweat, and tears you've put into it. So in life, don't focus on your passions. [music]
[07:40] Find something that interests you, commit to it, but focus on at it, once you're really good at it, on top of that, and that's where you really build up your portfolio of things you're really
[07:53] should be your hobbies; that's your free time, because those things comes to a job, when it comes to a business, focus on something maybe you do n't like that much, [music] but it doesn't matter because you know what you're
[08:08] become a master. This is something I greatly respect about Japanese culture. In Japan, teenagers enter as apprentices and learn to make knives for the next 60 years of their lives. And they
[08:21] probably hate it or find it boring for a large part of it, but it doesn't matter. They find something and commit to it. [music] They have honor for their things that's missing in modern society. Not everything has to feel good.
[08:34] passion. The next secret trait of millionaires is that you need to have ego. Everyone tells you that ego is bad, but you need to have some kind of faith. I don't care what religion you believe in, do I ? I don't care what you believe in
[08:47] something bigger than yourself. As long as you put yourself in difficult situations where place, your ego will be under control. But that doesn't mean having no ego at drives people towards excellence.
[09:01] excellence from my team and myself is team is the sharpest in the entire industry. I love that when we release something new, I know that those who have been in the music business for 6 years have n't done it like we have
[09:13] people in any industry in the world. They always tell themselves, "Whatever do my best." And that's not a bad thing. bigger than themselves, a belief, a faith, or simply gratitude,
[09:27] something that gives them humility. So while you're doing that, don't listen to all the self-help talk. I deny it, that's good. The sixth secret trait of millionaires is that they are always thinking about what can go
[09:39] this is very different from the world of self-help that always talks about positive affirmations, visualization, this and that. One of the biggest reasons I got to where I am today is because I do a lot of visualization
[09:52] before going to sleep. But what I envision are not Ferraris or Rolls-Royces. I never visualized those things because I knew that if I took the right actions, those things would come to me, and they have. But instead of visualizing that, what he
[10:04] visualizes are the actions. I see myself taking those difficult actions closer to the goal. Let me give you an example. Let's say you find it very difficult to get up morning when the alarm goes off, but it's difficult, it's not easy. So
[10:20] prepare to wake up and want to hit the snooze button. If you have every super comfortable there, but you still get up. Do you know why? Because when you wake up in the morning, you only get one chance a day and you can fail.
[10:34] next day. But in your mind, which by the way does not distinguish reality from especially before going to sleep, is such a powerful tool. In your mind you can practice waking up 15 times in your imagination before waking up
[10:48] the next morning. And you can imagine that it's difficult and that you try to convince yourself to stay there in bed, but that you still manage to overcome it. So thinking about what could go wrong. I'm always looking at all my businesses, my
[11:01] structures, and I'm always asking myself, what could possibly go wrong? I'm thinking, what happens if this employee leaves? What would happen if this situation arose? And it's not negative thinking, it's simply being one step ahead, it's preparation.
[11:13] talk about, but I can tell you that those people, and definitely I, are always thinking about what could go wrong. And in an ideal world nothing goes wrong, would do if something happens [music]. The final secret trait of millionaires is that
[11:27] they understand that achieving success is relatively easy. Staying there and continuing to be successful is [music] extremely difficult. I always see people saying, "I'm going to be very successful." Look, I've been doing this for over a decade
[11:40] iPhone cases in a store, in a shopping mall. I've been through it all, and because I've lived through every stage, I can tell you with certainty that if you commit to something guaranteed success. For me, that has never been what really worried me.
[11:54] Instead, what I focused on, what consumed my mind, was how we [music] if you manage to earn a million euros, congratulations, but you're not really that special. If you can do it time and time again and have continued success
[12:07] in one industry, or perhaps pivot to another industry and thrive there too, that's . So don't think that I'm going to start my own business, make a lot of many times I've seen people [musicians] get to that position and then
[12:22] comfortable. And I know that in this video I've talked about how good it is to have an ego special. In that sense, those things are not bad. But let me tell you, it's truly egocentric to reach a point in life and think, 'That's it
[12:37] , I've made it.' That [music] is being egocentric. You need to understand that once you get life, you've only just begun. Now you have to stay there, and that's the real watch this video again. Save it for later and come back to
[12:53] year, because probably the more successful you are, the more you'll realize how . These seven traits and you'll also start to realize how
[13:05] self-help garbage [music] out there. And remember, if you want to know which business model to start using these traits, go to my Instagram, Jesús Orozco Mo. Send me a direct message with the word "calculator" and I'll send you the
[13:17] ideal for you. Don't worry, I won't make you pay anything, just write my calculator number and I'll send it to you.
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