The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett XX
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[5] right now.
[6] I know that there's going to be a lot of young entrepreneurs watching this.
[7] And I know that they typically ask me the same question.
[8] So I want to ask you just a couple of them before we wrap.
[9] One of them I get a lot is, you know, there'll be someone listening to this.
[10] They've not got any money.
[11] They want to start a business.
[12] They don't have an idea, but they want to start a business.
[13] What would you say to them?
[14] If you don't have an idea or money.
[15] Yeah.
[16] But they want to be an entrepreneur.
[17] I get this a lot.
[18] So the first thing for me would be to find out what you.
[19] you're truly, truly passionate about, because for me, when I started Jim Shark, I made two fitness apps beforehand.
[20] I made two fitness apps both failed miserably.
[21] I made a little fitness social network failed miserably, a little fitness sort of forum that failed miserably.
[22] And then Jim Sharp was, I wanted to be involved in the industry more than anything.
[23] I wanted to be involved in fitness because it changed my life.
[24] It was the thing that got me from being a D student to an A student.
[25] Literally, that was the thing that changed my life.
[26] The discipline.
[27] Yeah, the discipline.
[28] that I learned, the structure, the fact that if I was tired on a Monday, the gym doesn't care, go in and lift, it doesn't matter.
[29] And most importantly, that if January 1, I joined the gym, and I lift five days a week, every single week, by December 25, whatever, I am better than I was a year ago.
[30] That, those lessons to me were massive, because previously I didn't really realize that.
[31] And I'd do this thing in school where I would be like, I'd try really hard and I'd get a bad grade.
[32] And then there'd be another thing that I wouldn't try out, and I'd get a really good grades.
[33] And I just, it didn't, do what I mean?
[34] It didn't add up to me. So for me, I was in love with the industry and fitness was and is my passion.
[35] And that's carried me through some of the difficult times because I remember the difference it's made to my life.
[36] And it's this inherent passion that drives me every day.
[37] So if you've got no ideal money, just lean into that community, whatever it is, it might be boxing, it might be golf, it might be videography, it might be motorcycles or bicycles or whatever, lean into it.
[38] Because inevitably, there will be an opportunity, especially now because of this new social media world that we live in.
[39] There's a massive, there's so much room for people to create brands.
[40] So yeah, I would just lean into whatever your passion is.
[41] It's so true because you can waste a ton of time procrastinating and falling into indecision by trying to guess.
[42] And as you said there, I read that Jim Shark was actually like the seventh Apple website you created.
[43] So you like leaned into the industry, did this process of like failure and exploration and stumbled across the winner, right?
[44] And you have to fail.
[45] If you're a young entrepreneur, just do not be afraid to fail.
[46] Just all names out of boxes, ideas out of boxes aside, the likelihood of an individual starting a business and that one being the one that strikes gold is ridiculously low.
[47] What we've got to remember is you could start 30 businesses and you are still more likely to fail than you are succeed.
[48] So just honestly, just keep trying and keep trying and don't be afraid to fail.
[49] I think that's so, so, so important.
[50] And everyone I've met, by the way, from the people that run businesses that are 10 times bigger than Jim Shark, to every entrepreneur that I've met, every business person, every successful person in sport, in business, whatever, whether they've started a business or not, every single one of them has failed time and time and time again.
[51] And I think then people look at the final product and just assume that they've just, they were either this incredible human who had was born this way or and it is just never never ever the case more often than not all the most successful people I've ever met are all winging it they're all literally just working incredibly hard and they're just giving it their best shot can I ask you one more on this point I think that was a superb answer as well because it's just incredibly true I am the other question I would I'd get a lot from young entrepreneurs is something like you know they're in a in a job at the moment and they've got an idea so this is an example where they've got a business idea that they want to pursue.
[52] But they're just, you know, they've heard you say that.
[53] They want to pursue it.
[54] But there's something holding them back.
[55] And they're, you know, I know you get this a lot as well.
[56] Yeah.
[57] There's probably most conversations.
[58] What do you say to those people?
[59] Or I think if it's your passion, then I think you should jump in.
[60] The other thing I would say, and this is, I think this is a dangerous thing.
[61] I do see people online go in, quit your job, jump in, go and do something.
[62] And it's a bit like, personally, I'm sat there thinking, no, don't quit your job, it's fine.
[63] Like, I, I worked at Pizza Hut for whatever, I can't remember what the amount was.
[64] It was four or five pounds an hour.
[65] And Jim Sharp was doing hundreds of thousands in revenue.
[66] The utility of having a job whilst running the business is huge.
[67] One, because you can earn money to survive, so you don't need to remove money from the business.
[68] So two, you can then reinvest all the profits that you can make in that business.
[69] If you just, and two, by the way, if business number one fails you've still got your job you try number two number three number four and i think whatever it is find your passion i genuinely don't think it's a good idea just to jump out of your job just on a whim there are some people you'll hear about the one in a million that succeeds and congratulations more power to you i'm super happy for those people but you don't hear about the 99 % that ended up quitting their job and it didn't go as well as what they would like and then they ended up having to go back and find a new job so use that job as a superpower, as stability, and invest the money you earn from that job in the business and just keep trying, try and try and try.
[70] And hard work, where does that fit?
[71] What's the importance of it?
[72] Because there's a narrative, I talk about a lot in this podcast, that hard work is maybe a little bit, the narrative you see online from like the hustle porn style, is a little bit toxic.
[73] Yeah.
[74] But would you be sat here without hard work?
[75] Oh, definitely not.
[76] No. It's that combination of hard work alone is definitely not enough.
[77] You have to work hard, but you also have to work smart.
[78] There were periods where we were finding, finding out ways to manipulate Google in a way that got Jim Chart to the top, which gave us huge revenue for next to no cost, right?
[79] That was smart work.
[80] But there were days when we would work 12, 14, 16 hours sewing and printing T -shirts every single day.
[81] There are days like that now where we just work and work and work to get the job done.
[82] So exclusively hard work won't solve your problems.
[83] You definitely have to work smart.
[84] But I've never met anyone who was genuinely successful that wasn't hardworking.
[85] Did you know that the Dario of a CO now has its own channel exclusively on Samsung TV Plus?
[86] 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.
[87] Samsung TV Plus is a free streaming service available to all owners of Samsung Smart TVs and Galaxy mobiles and tablets.
[88] And along with the Dariovaccio channel, you'll find hundreds of more channels with entertainment for everyone all for free on Samsung TV Plus.
[89] So if you own a Samsung TV, tune in now and watch the Dyer Over CEO channel right now.