The Mindset Mentor - Does Your Education Suck?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Mindset and Motivation Podcast, one of the top motivational podcasts in the world. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we come out with a short, to the point, no BS episode to help make massive changes in your mind and transform you from who you are now to who you want to be. My name is Rob Dial, and the podcast starts now. Welcome to today's episode. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another episode. And last but not least, I'm not going to tell you what the announcement is, but next week, be ready for an announcement about my group coaching mindset university. I'm going to give you an announcement. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but just be ready for next week. Make sure that you listen and I'll give you all of the information next week. But let's go ahead and dive into today's episode. What I'm going to be talking about is, I don't

Starting point is 00:01:04 know if you want to call it invest in yourself part two. Maybe we'll call it something along the lines of why to invest in your own education. Because this is going to be about, I guess you could spend money into yourself, but I'm also going to give you free ways that you can improve yourself in case you're cheap and investing into yourself isn't a priority. But whatever you feel like, you could be completely broke and homeless on the side of the road. And I'm going to give you some ways that you could still invest

Starting point is 00:01:28 yourself and better yourself because the world has a wealth of knowledge and you need to be a sponge. That's the way that it works. Some of the people that I've actually, the most successful people that I've met are more of a sponge than anybody else that I've ever met. They want to learn anything they possibly can from anybody that they possibly can as well. And so the way I had this idea was to do this episode is because I'm reading a book called Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. And it is a journal of the most successful person. Well, I guess not the most successful, the Roman emperor. And it was a journal he wrote for himself thinking that it would be destroyed when he was killed. I'm sorry, it was destroyed when he died. And it's just basically a journal of him writing his own

Starting point is 00:02:13 philosophy down. And one of the things that he says in it is he says that he learned from his great-grandfather to invest in yourself freely, invest in yourself as much as you possibly can. And this is something that I preach all the time. And obviously, you get the free podcast you can listen to. But there's a wealth of knowledge out there. I'm not the only person that you could listen to or watch or do all of these things. And for instance, anything that you want to learn, you can learn in a book or you could go back to school to do. And as you know, some of you might not know. I don't know if you guys know or not, but I'm a college dropout because I felt at that point in time that college was not giving me a great return on investment. The ROI on school was way lower than leaving and starting my own career. And

Starting point is 00:02:55 that was something that I decided to do. But for me, I'm taking classes... I just started, let me reverse this. I just started working on a new program to reuse for recording software. And I found out that I could learn it even better if I went to the community college here. So in the fall, I'm going to take one class a week to learn this, because this is something that I think is worth putting my time into. I'm going to invest my knowledge into this recording software so that I can make more music as well. And I'm going to be going back to school for that. But if you're broke and you don't have money to spend on yourself,

Starting point is 00:03:34 you know, there's books you can buy. And you might say books are 10 or 15 bucks. Not really. On Amazon, you can get books for 99 cents. Sometimes you get books for a penny on Amazon. So you really have no excuse in that one. We have a place here in Austin and I think it's throughout Texas. I don't know. We never had it in Florida. But in Texas, it's called Half Price Books. And you can

Starting point is 00:03:54 get books, some of them used for super cheap. You can get books really, really cheap if you go to Goodwill as well. And the thing that drives me crazy is that some of the smartest people, the smartest people in the world always wrote books and always put information out. So anything that you want to learn at this point in time, whether it's something that's been around for a long time or something that's brand new, like social media, it's only been out for a few months, something that you want to master, something that you want to get better at. There are books that you could read to invest in yourself in that sort of way. And one thing that I noticed is when I started speaking to a lot of

Starting point is 00:04:30 people who listened to the podcast, and this was not surprising to me because most people don't think of it this way, is that most people don't budget a monthly... They don't have a monthly allowance that they allow themselves. Like, this is how much I have to spend on myself this month. Now, some of my listeners do. Some of them, it's 10% or 20%. I have friends that spend over $50,000 to $100,000 a year just on investing into their personal knowledge. Some of the richest people in the world spend tons of money on becoming better, even though they might be some of the most successful people in the world. It's the exact same thing for you. Most people have like, okay, I spend this much money on average on rent. I spend this much on my car. This is my car insurance. This is my phone.

Starting point is 00:05:13 But then they never think, how much should I budget on myself, on my own personal development to become a better person so that I can be the person that I want in 10 years, so that I can have the success that I want in 10 years, so that I can affect as many people as I want to in 10 years. They know, like, okay, I can spend 50 bucks on drinks on a Friday, but they don't go, I need to spend $100 this month on myself and make sure that I use that $100 to make myself a better person every single month. That's crazy if you really think about it. It's crazy, but it's just something that people, it's not the front of their mind. It needs to be at the front of your mind. And I recommend no matter where you spend it, and this is not me like being like, hey, you should

Starting point is 00:05:53 do my group coaching because honestly, I don't care if you do my group coaching. If you want to, I'd love to have you, but spend a hundred bucks into yourself somewhere. Do something. There's so many courses you could take. There's so many different seminars you could go to, so many conferences you could go to, so many networking groups that cost like 10 or 20 bucks a month or something like that that you could go to to invest in yourself because that money is going to come back to you. And the thing about it is the difference between someone who cannot read and someone who doesn't is pretty much nothing. The outcome for both of them is ignorance. The opportunity cost is not the problem that people usually have with books. It's not the fact that it only costs

Starting point is 00:06:32 10 or 15 bucks normally. It's usually the time that it takes. Most people say, you know, I don't have enough time to read a book. In all honesty, that's complete BS because the most successful people in the world that have schedules way crazier than all of us find time to invest in themselves. Spend 30 minutes a day. Wake up 30 minutes earlier than you do and legitimately read and find a way to get better. That's all you have to do. And I had somebody ask me the other day. They said, well, how do I make myself wake up in the morning? It's hard for me to wake up in the morning. Well, you're not going to want to wake up in the morning if your life sucks. You're going to want to wake up in the morning? It's hard for me to wake up in the morning Well, you're not going to want to wake up in the morning if your life sucks You're going to want to wake up in the morning if your life is exciting You want to create a life or create a morning routine that's so exciting that you want to get up for it

Starting point is 00:07:15 So maybe if you start seeing that you're reading books and you enjoy doing it and personally I hate reading books But I do it because I know the benefit of reading books But for some of you might love reading books and you might say you know what I love reading books, but I do it because I know the benefit of reading books. But for some of you, you might love reading books and you might say, you know what? I love reading books. I'm going to wake up 30 minutes early, enjoy a cup of coffee and read a book for 30 minutes. The thing about reading books is one book could potentially change your life and your outlook and give you more ideas. If you feel like you're in a rut, read a book because usually there's some stuff in that book that starts to spark your brain and go, man, this is something I've never thought of. Maybe I can

Starting point is 00:07:48 make money this way. Actually, maybe I'm passionate about this. It could potentially change your life. I know I have books that I've read that have changed my life. It is not an excuse that you don't have enough time. The average millionaire reads 60 books a year. That's more than a book a week. You have enough time. You just don't allocate that time. You allocate your time to Facebook and to social media and all of these types of things. And I was reading it and I went through and I was like, let me see how much, how long it takes to become a millionaire. And then also what the average person reads. And so they said the average one reads about 60 books per year. And it takes about 32 years to become rich.

Starting point is 00:08:26 Not 32 years of age, but 32 years of working hard. So if you figure 20 years old, someone gets into whatever their profession is, by 52 is when they would become a millionaire and be successful. And if you do the math on that, if they're reading 60 books per year, and it takes 32 years to get there, that's 1,800 books that some of these people are reading. 1,800. And you're telling me that some people out there listening to the podcast can't find time to read one in a year or one in a month? It's worth it to invest in yourself. And it's not just like self-help books. They read self-help

Starting point is 00:09:02 books, the career books, how-to books, history books, biographies of successful people, psychology books. And the greatest thing about it is that the world is changing so much that you can get an education from some of the greatest universities in the world completely free nowadays. I just found out the other day that MIT offers 2,400 online courses now for free. This is a school that costs $50,000 a year or $50,000 a semester or something like that. And you can get an education for them for free. You really have no excuse. The only excuse that you have is your laziness, which is your fault in the first place. You need to figure out a way to overcome it. Here's the truth. Every person in the world is lazy. Every person is. But the successful ones, the people that get what they want in their life,

Starting point is 00:09:57 are the ones that overcome that laziness and say, you know what? I'm fed up. I'm going to figure out a way to do it. There's 2,400 courses online from MIT. YouTube is free. YouTube has tons of interviews and videos and speeches of the most successful people in the world. There's audio books if you can't afford to go get books. There's really no excuse not to feed your mind all day long. I talk about brainwashing yourself to be successful. There's so many avenues to do so. And as you can tell, I'm really freaking passionate about it. It's because I know if you're going to change your life, you need to become the person that is in 10 years from now, you're going to be a different person. In 10 years from now, if you look and you say, in 10 years from now, if you envision all of the success you could possibly have, what person would you have to be? How smart would you have to

Starting point is 00:10:41 be? And what would you have to learn in order to become that person and work backwards from 10 years from now into today. What do you have to learn today that will make you become that person? What's the next step to become that person? And you just work on yourself every single day. You don't build an entire house with a giant wall of bricks. You put one brick down at a time. That's exactly how your life should be. One brick is one day. So you just try to life should be. One brick is one day. So you just try to be the best version of yourself every single day. And over 10 years, you're going to have this massive house of success that you've built because you decided that you wanted to improve on yourself and read and learn every single day. Success doesn't happen overnight. So don't expect immediate results, but just continue to read 30 minutes a day,

Starting point is 00:11:22 every single day. Make sure that you go on YouTube, listen to videos and watch them in interviews and speeches and audio books and MITS courses. I'm in the middle of a psychology course from MIT. And the next one I'm going to do is quantum mechanics and it's free. Like that's mind blowing to me that I can take these things, things that I'm interested in, like psychology and quantum mechanics. That's my nerdy side coming out. So you guys know, but I can get this stuff for free and people pay tons and tons and tons of money for it. And you have the exact same opportunity. You can go to YouTube and look up MIT free online courses and they'll pop up. Harvard has them too. I took a programming class

Starting point is 00:12:02 from Harvard a couple of years ago as well. It's amazing. So invest in yourself in some sort of way. So there's a lot of free ways to do it, but I would also recommend finding some sort of way where you put the skin in the game and you say, all right, I'm putting $100 a month into myself in this sort of way. And maybe it's coaching, maybe it's classes, maybe it's investing classes, maybe it's courses, maybe it's seminars, maybe it's conferences, maybe it's networking groups. I don't know. Maybe it's something along those lines. But if you put the skin in the game, you say, I'm going to invest 100 bucks a month, you are more likely to work harder for that. If you do that, it's the example someone gave me

Starting point is 00:12:40 where they said, you ever downloaded a free app? And then three months later, you look at your phone and you're like, why the hell do I have this app? I've never opened it. Well, imagine if you paid $50 for that app. Do you think you would have used it? Yeah, because you invested into it. It's the exact way the investment into yourself goes. So with that, if I could tell you one thing, try to invest in yourself and make sure that you're becoming a better version of yourself. Laziness is not the excuse for it. Every person is lazy. You just need to get yourself up and get so fed up with where you currently are and the fact that you're not on the right path that you just decide to wake up one day and get on the right path. And with that, if you like this episode, please share it with someone

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The Mindset Mentor - Does Your Education Suck?

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