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If your mom and dad are not where you want to be in life, don't get advice from people that are not doing what you want to do.

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Why it worked

The video works because it validates the internal frustration many aspiring entrepreneurs feel when their personal ambitions clash with traditional advice from family.

Summary

The speaker advises against taking life advice from people who haven't achieved the goals you aspire to, specifically mentioning parents who might prioritize traditional paths like college. He suggests that this internal feeling of dissatisfaction with a conventional path is a sign of an entrepreneurial mindset.

Structure

1Advice on who to listen to
2Distinction between high and low level conversations
3The conflict between parental advice and entrepreneurial ambition
4Identifying the internal signs of being an entrepreneur

On-screen text

If your mom and dad are not where you want to be in life. Don't get advice from people that are not doing what you want to do. Don't have high level conversations with low level people, and I'm not being derogatory by that. It's a different frequency and vibration. When you're talking to somebody that's sitting at a high level versus your mom and dad who just genuinely love you and want you to go to college and get a job and make 80 grand a year for the rest of your life. And now that worked for them. But if you're entrepreneurial like me and Steve and you have that thing that goes off in your head like you're not doing what you're supposed to do, and it's aggravating and you don't know why, but you have this internal like aggravation. You're probably an entrepreneur.

Original caption

Who do you listen to? If you are hard headed like me and you just want to do your own thing….. you might just be an Entrepreneur! Keep SKILLING Up