The Real Reason Most People Never Start (It's Not Discipline)

Benjamin Hardy· Guest0:00

I could have said, "I'm a PhD student with three foster kids. I'll save the becoming a professional author till after I finish the PhD." But if you just wake up and do it for, like, even 30 minutes, as you said. Most people, they haven't been trained to think very well about their future self. Because they don't think very successfully about their future self, their future self just becomes a continuation of their past self. It is worth the climb. Uh, it will, it will rip you to shreds. The future self, it's worth stretching into. It really humbles you. [upbeat music] No, dude, dude, dude, this is, this is incredible. I'm excited to have a conversation with you. Excit- I'm excited to just be with you, man. I mean, I just love your, where you're at and what you... [laughs] What you're doing, man. It's huge.

Tommy Mello· Host0:43

It's gonna be fun digging into your story. I mean, I quote your books all the time. I know Billy Cline's a big fan, too. He's a good buddy of mine.

Benjamin Hardy· Guest0:52

Billy is a dog, dude. He's one of our scalers. He's in scaling.com. He's... And he's doubled his business already since being an, a member in scaling.com. So he... We'll, we'll get him to 10X. Don't you, don't you worry. He's a good guy. I like Billy a lot.

Tommy Mello· Host1:03

Yeah, you gotta get rid of the old methodology and make it simple and scalable, right? And, uh, I always say who not how. I mean, it- it's become like a, a metaphor/verb at this company is, like, uh, I hate to say I like the top grade, but I do, because I think it's okay to say, "I'm gonna free this person up to go win and enjoy what they do." And different seasons of business. I mean, right now we're, we're running