The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett XX
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[6] What role does hard work play in our society?
[7] In becoming a successful individual at whatever pursuit or whatever passion you're pursuing, there's a, there's probably a counter -narrative that I think has emerged in our country, maybe because of social media, has allowed people to kind of converge behind that and relinquish responsibility of their situations by calling hard, referring to hard work as being a really, really sort of toxic thing.
[8] And I've felt that more recently.
[9] I didn't see it when I was younger.
[10] I mean, let's, let's, you know what, let's have a, you know, gambling man?
[11] Not, it depends.
[12] I mean, in life, not in the casino.
[13] Yeah, let's put a bet on that.
[14] Let's see how that works out for them.
[15] I just don't think that's going to bring him happiness.
[16] Which part?
[17] Hard work is toxic.
[18] Okay.
[19] Okay, don't do hard work then.
[20] Good luck, dummy.
[21] It's just not going to work for you.
[22] That's not going to pay out.
[23] Because what's the metric of our society?
[24] It's results, right?
[25] And I don't care how...
[26] There's two great myths in our society, right?
[27] there's one myth is talent and ideas and there's another myth which is hard work they're both bullshit total fucking bullshit because the ideas are cheaper than table salt right there's everyone's got ideas i've got an idea for an app it's the uber four fill in the thing here yeah great sure sure it's every idea is about implementation every um sports is a good analogy right so michael jordan greatest of all time right there's no debate he's the greatest how much did he work fucking more than anyone else how much natural talent did he have more than anyone else what if he hadn't worked you never heard him he never would have made the team let alone being the greatest but wouldn't have even made the team if he hadn't trained it's a good analogy for life of going look whatever talent you have if you don't do the work as well it's it's it's just a wasted potential so i think it's it's the absolute fundamental.
[28] Now, hard work and drudgery are not the same thing, right?
[29] There's a working smart and working hard and there's a difference between the two.
[30] Like if you're working at something and it's like hard work alone won't do anything.
[31] You know, it's about what stream you're in.
[32] And I suppose the extreme example would be if you're collecting, you know, recyclable metals on a favela dump in South America, work as hard as you want.
[33] Nothing's ever going to, you're never going to get to that level.
[34] So you work hard if you must and you work smart if you can.
[35] If you can, you know, anyone listening to this is already in a privileged position in the, you know, odds are Western world, doing okay, have a digital phone.
[36] That's, you're doing better than a third of the world before you even start.
[37] You know, most people don't have running water, you know, most people don't have a flushing toilet.
[38] The world's in a fucking terrifying state.
[39] So it's that thing of going, we'll work as smart as you can, work at the thing that you're best at.
[40] I think school teaches us maybe the wrong lesson.
[41] School teaches us a lesson about mediocrity and being all -rounders.
[42] And yet we live in a world that does not reward all -rounders.
[43] Who goes to fuck about all -rounders?
[44] If you get a D in physics and you get an A in English, I say, just go to English lessons.
[45] Because we're going to get you up to a C -grade in physics.
[46] I'll tell you what the world doesn't need, someone who's shit at physics.
[47] still shit at physics with no natural so find out what you've kind of got a natural you know that edge thing find out what you have a natural ability for what's the thing that you do best and again I would remind people it's not the best in the world just better than anything else you do lean into that like I'm all for following your dreams if your dreams are what you're best at and the opinions of family and friends don't count and then it's it's a little bit I suppose it's a bit tough love it's that thing of going look look at what you're in inner critic says, okay?
[48] And it won't be wrong.
[49] Look at what your inner critic says about you.
[50] Walk back the cruelty.
[51] And you got to, okay, that's the reality.
[52] That's the starting point.
[53] I read that in your book.
[54] And I was laying in bed.
[55] I was actually already a book.
[56] I was listening to it.
[57] And you said, the thing about your inner critic, which a lot of people obviously don't want to admit is their inner critic is usually right.
[58] And I remember sitting there thinking, that can't be right.
[59] Let me check this.
[60] And then I started listening to my inner critic for a couple of seconds.
[61] And I thought, no, that's right.
[62] That's right.
[63] That's right.
[64] But please expand on the idea of the inner critic is going, look, I went to a fancy university, right?
[65] And I think Cambridge is where imposter syndrome was built.
[66] There's a lot of imposter syndrome in the world, right?
[67] You arrive at a new workplace and you go, Jesus, they must have made a mistake and got the wrong CV and given me the job or I'm at this new college or I'm at this new, I'm starting this thing and I don't know what I'm doing.
[68] That feeling of, I'm not enough and I don't know what I'm doing is why you buy the business management for dummies book and fucking read it the night before.
[69] It's what drives you to do the homework.
[70] So I got to Cambridge and I thought, I'm not smart enough to be here.
[71] And then I worked my fucking nuts off and it turned out I was wrong.
[72] And I was smart enough to be there and I did really well.
[73] Because I fucking, because I was motivated by the I'm not good enough to be here.
[74] I need to work.
[75] I need to work hard.
[76] You know, you start in comedy and you go, oh my God, I've given up everything.
[77] to be a comedian.
[78] I've got 20 minutes of jokes that work.
[79] I'm going to need thousands of jokes that work.
[80] They all have to work.
[81] Fuck.
[82] You get to work.
[83] What's the motivation?
[84] What's the thing that wakes you up at 4 in the morning?
[85] And you go, I need to fucking do this.
[86] I can't rely on just being, hey, I'm just going to wisecrack.
[87] And, you know, asking a comic to improvise an hour -long show is like asking a magician to do real magic.
[88] The work is done in the gym.
[89] By the time I get to the stage, I know it's going to be a good show.
[90] I've tried these jokes on other people.
[91] I know we're a lock.
[92] You know, 10, 20 % of the evening is about the fun that happens in that room, the messing around with the audience, the showing off the work that I've done in the gym, the muscle memory of knowing how to make people laugh.
[93] Great.
[94] But I'm going to arrive ready.
[95] There's something really interesting in that when you were talking about the reason why you succeeded at Cambridge is because you didn't feel like you were smart enough to be there and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
[96] That also sounds a lot like what I described when I said, the reason why I pursued money and trying, you know, tried to be successful was because I felt inadequate in my, in myself.
[97] And it became this great motivator.
[98] Yeah.
[99] And there's, there's like a, there's a plus to that.
[100] And then there's this potential danger in.
[101] But are we being a bit like, you know, that, that thing of going, giving kids too much self -esteem, giving people, not kids necessarily, because this is about life stage, right?
[102] What we're talking about here isn't about when you leave college and when you're young and when you're doing something, right?
[103] There'll be people listening to this in their 40s that are going to start a business and do something fucking exceptional with their lives.
[104] There's people in their 50s that are going to do that.
[105] It's people in their 60s.
[106] I don't believe there's like a knockoff point.
[107] People in their 70s?
[108] Yeah, fuck those people.
[109] The Delta variant dealt with them.
[110] They're gone, man. There's none left.
[111] I'm sorry.
[112] Hey, the good news is the pensions crisis is over.
[113] But that thing of like going, well, you're going to, you know, people do.
[114] people do extraordinary things if they if but they they put the work in and and i think people lean into the myth of like that thing of like oh he's a genius you read you know Forbes magazine or whatever about business people doing incredibly well it's like well this guy's a genius steve jobs thing is though genius genius love bill gates is genius and then you read about these these guys that like finance guys they wake up at five in the morning and he only sleeps for three hours a night and he does so much and he knows everything and he works so hard it's always both.
[115] It's always both.
[116] And then plus time, you need, you know, that 10 ,000 hours thing isn't wrong.
[117] It's just that's the minimum.
[118] What could you stand to do for 10 ,000 hours that won't feel like drudgery?
[119] What could you stand to do now for the next 10 years of your life that won't feel like, oh, this again?
[120] And if you're only motivated by the paycheck, it's like, well, how hard could you work?
[121] Did you know that the Dario of the CEO now has?
[122] has its own channel exclusively on Samsung TV Plus.
[123] And I'm excited to say that we've partnered with Samsung TV to bring this to life, and the channel is available in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
[124] Samsung TV Plus is a free streaming service available to all owners of Samsung Smart TVs and Galaxy mobiles and tablets.
[125] And along with the DiRiverseo channel, you'll find hundreds of more channels with entertainment for everyone all for free on Samsung TV Plus.
[126] So if you own a Samsung TV, tune in now and watch the DiRovaccio channel right now.