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(0:00) Mentorship and Business Success Story
(1:54) Challenges in Learning Bar Chords
(4:46) The Importance of Personalized Advice
(7:10) Application to Various Areas of Life
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Sharran, everybody. Sharran Srivasa coming to you live from really humid Laguna Beach California, and when we say humid, it's like when you have one and a half percent humidity. We spoiled Californians think it's humid here. But if you're coming on, say hi in the chat, and if you're catching this on the replay, just say awesome. If you're coming on, say hi, and if your cousin's on the replay, say awesome. All right, so this won't be long. I wanted to give you a couple of quick thoughts. I just got off the phone with one of the CEOs that I mentor, and it's a really cool story, and I think it'll benefit you, inspire you, and we'll help you understand what expensive advice seems like. Alright, so the CEO that I mentor, he, he's, you know, not even 30 years old. He, we recently helped him build his business over the last three years, and he sold it for nine figures, so $107 million and in his recently found time since kind of earlier this year, he's realized and he said, You know what, I want to learn a skill. So he's always wanted to learn how to play the guitar. So he picked up the guitar and he started teaching himself how to play the guitar with YouTube videos, right? So he first, if you've ever know anything about playing the guitar, he picked up a guitar, and then he started teaching himself some chords. So he the first thing he did the open chords, and the open chords are the easiest ones. So he taught himself the open chords with tab and all of that. And he started to learn the open chord. And within just a few weeks, he was able to switch through open chords and play songs and all of that. But then the more favorite songs that he had, he needed to learn how to bar and barring in in the Guitar World is, I'm not a guitarist, I'm tone deaf, so I know how to play the open chord. Barring is to actually move down the frets and actually have a whole string held down. And you need finger strength. You need right positioning, and you know how to do it, etc. So he was really determined to learn how to play some bar chords. And if you play the guitar, just comment guitar below. That way. I know you're a guitar fan as well. So he, you know, he he started to learn how to play these bar chords, and he didn't know how to do it. So what he did was he went on YouTube and Googled, like, learn bar chords, and he started trying to get people, you know, watch videos to learn how to bar and he's like, turning her to bar etc, just for for relevance and reference point, he was able To learn six to seven open chords and play songs in under three weeks, just playing around like 3020, 30 minutes a day. It's a pretty talented guy. For four months, four months, he's been trying to learn how to bar and play these bar chords, and he hasn't been able to play one bar chord. And he told me, Sharran, he got off a call with him this morning. He's explaining a couple things to me. Tell me. Sharn, you know what? This is crazy. He was telling me how for four months he watched almost every single YouTube video that was out there about how to play a bar chord. And he did the worksheets, did the finger training lessons. He did, you know, Spider Man push ups. He did the right positioning. He had multiple cameras. He did had other people watch him. He played with his left hand. He, like, he did all these crazy things to watch these YouTube videos that would help them teach him how to do a bar chord, and he couldn't four months and he's like, Sharran, what would you do? And so, like, I had this call with him a few weeks ago, and I'm like, Dude, what are you trying to do? Like you You're clearly stuck, and you've spent four months on this. He's like, Yeah, I'm going to watch more videos. I'm like, no, stop watching more videos, right? Let's go hire somebody to teach you how to do a bar chord. That's it. And I said, in fact, just get anybody that you have known, like even a Google search, or someone that you've seen a video for, that you like and enjoy, just message them and say, Hey, can you teach me a bar chord? And so that's exactly what he did. He had, he got a referral to somebody that was a local guitar teacher who literally got on zoom with him and taught him how to do a bar chord one on one, and in one 130 minute lesson, I think that he paid like $60 for 130 minute lesson, he was able to learn how to do a bar chord. One. Now that's fascinating to me, right? So the answer, the moral of the story here, is four months on YouTube, and he didn't get to learn how to do the barcode, but 130 minute lesson, he was able to do that. Now I'm not saying YouTube's not good. YouTube's fantastic. I use YouTube to figure out how to change the toilet seat. I use YouTube to figure out how to do the Rubik's Cube. I use YouTube to figure out how to build a sales funnel. I use YouTube to figure out how to write some copy. I use YouTube figure out some inspiration. In fact, you and I can, you can watch. More hours of me on YouTube than anything else. But the key is, if you're stuck for a while, what do you do next, right? Like, what do you do next? And I think that's the important part here is, what do you do next? If you're stuck for a while, the most expensive advice is bad advice, all right? The most expensive advice is bad advice. And it's not that any of I'm not saying the person delivering the advice is a bad person or doesn't know what to do. In fact, all those people delivering the barcoded may be good, but it's bad advice to you, because it doesn't customize exactly what you need at that point in time. It doesn't give you exactly the skill, the transformation that you need. So by all means, figure out the how tos on YouTube. By all means, download all the ebooks. By all means, click on all the Facebook ads. By it all means, get as much of the free stuff as you can. But most of the time, most of the time, we get expensive advice, and that expensive advice is bad advice for us, because most of the time we think it's just, hey, everything's free on the internet these days, so I'm just going to go get the free advice. And that's fine until the point it doesn't work anymore, right? And that's all I want to say, is until the point it doesn't work anymore. So if you hit a point, you hit a snack, you hit a place where you're not making any more progress. You feel stuck in your health, in your business, in your in your fitness, in your sleep, in your relationship, whatever it may be. If you feel stuck a little bit and the YouTube video or the ebook or reading articles or blogs or following random people or reading my emails or whatever is not working, it's time to actually get a little bit of help when it stops working, right? Because the most expensive advice is bad advice for you. The most expensive advice is bad advice for you, and we always tend because free advice has worked for us before. We think we can figure it out, but it's way better. Think about it this way. Would you rather go on WebMD and figure out whether you have, you know, skin cancer, or would you rather have a doctor just look at it if you can't figure it out in one three minute session and be done, right? Sometimes you just need a specialist. So remember, the most expensive advice is bad advice, and the bad advice is not about the person giving the advice. It's just it's just about how it's coming across to you. So small little increments of getting exactly the advice you need can completely change and grow your business, your life, your goals, your relationships and all of that. So remember, the most expensive advice is bad advice, and most of the time it's packaged as free. So when you get stuck only when you get stuck. Let's figure out if we can actually change that. It's never doesn't have to be expensive, it just has to be personalized for you. All right. Have an awesome weekend. Talk to you all soon. Bye. Bye.
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