Want to Get Rich? Do Your Homework

hey folks Dr Mike here for the making progress Channel today's video number 49 in our hopefully for a long time series is well you guys read the thumbnail and the title want to get rich do your homework this is under the productivity and work a subsection of this Channel video topic let's get into it so I'm G to ask you a question do you hate your assignments at school first of all uh who's the Target demographic for this video this is folks they're in school currently any kind of school definitely Middle School definitely high school for sure high school for sure college and all of the school after that in a major way and for those of you who are done done and finished with school maybe you're going to be interacting with folks that are younger and be able to teach them some valuable life lessons later maybe you're going to be going back to school yourself maybe you'll have children of your own that go to school so you can like I don't know hopefully get AI to get all the weird swear words and sexual references out of this lecture and give it to them when they're in eth grade might help in any case do you hate assignments at school or did you hate assignments at school when you were a student don't don't don't hate them you need to do your assignments you need to do your homework because your homework is practice because adult life is you and your co-workers giving you assignments to do self assign and others assign it's all assignments all the way down be at school or be it at work and in my experience in my knowledge and my understanding generally speaking the best task doers people that get [ __ ] done the best and on time if not early to a high degree of quality they generally tend to get the richest on average from any cohort of people that you examine there are definitely exceptions but on average people who get stuff done become more wealthy yeah I'm just going to reference wealth this entire time because it's a big deal and everyone knows it's a big deal and it's important to people but it's not just wealth people who do an amazing job at tasks be it in school or at work also tend to have the most fulfillment from their work and how could they not have the most fulfillment if they're poor everything they have into something that generally tends to give you a lot of fulfillment especially if you do well at it so real quick let's look at the kind of assignments you typically get at school and see if they're really preparing you for the working word well or if maybe school is stupid and you shouldn't be doing your homework I can think of at least four kinds of assignments you get at school one are intellectual problems like Standalone math problems in your textbook or up on on the board when the teacher writes them out you have busy work of course how can I not mention busy work like you know your uh teacher says you know do all these worksheets by Monday and you're like oh my God there's 10 and it's Friday why there's a good reason I'll get to that in a little bit there's group work there are kind of two types of group work that can be temporary group work where you just like team up with four other people that sit next to you in class you wanted to team up with the hot girl but she always goes with her friends and never looks you in the eye no wait that was me and school and the other kind of group work you get at school a lot is kind of longer term groups groups that team up for weeks at a time or even a semester at a time uh to work on bigger projects like a term paper or a big uh presentation or some kind of uh other project that takes a few stabs and or or rather takes a lot of work and a lot of meetings with your fellow group members and the last kind of problem that's really typical in school workor is what I would call this is not what's called in school a design slev development type of problem so these problems for example like making essays or other projects these are problems that take multiple they're composed of multiple sections and they take multiple stabs multiple attempts to go through to get the thing right so like a math problem you just go through it you get the right answer you plug it back in you check and you're done with design development problems it's a more in-depth situation like writing a paper you might create an outline and then you might uh vet the outline a little bit and then you might fill in the blanks and you might come around you might make some changes that's a big deal and it's not something you do one in one go and these are some of the toughest assignments you can get at school so this is what you get at school and you know there's a school of thought no punen intended that are like oh school is stupid school is boring it's pointless uh I'm sure a lot of your classmates uh currently or in history have said like what are we even learning this for why do we need it don't worry you'll see that guy dead of heroin overdose in about three years who says that just kidding sometimes he's right but most of the time he's wrong why let me give you a list of the kinds of intellectual problems sorry the kinds of assignments I skipped one step the kinds of assignments that life gives you in the real world the Working World where you make money one type of problem surprise is the same type you get in school an intellectual problem but in the real world it might be something like how do we reduce battery size to allow for a backpack portable electric scooter or electric bicycle imagine that you are just walking around Lisbon Portugal or some [ __ ] you know visiting it with your influencer girlfriend and looking at stuff you just have a backpack it's got some stuff in there and out of that backpack you pull out a little scooter you unfold it and now it's electric powered and it goes 20 miles on one charge and you get tired you go on the scooter in order to get batteries to be powerful and have enough capacity to fit into a backpack a decent weight this is a very very tough intellectual problem many many levels so sounds kind of like some of the problems you got at school except way harder next life and career will give you busy work that's right the very busy work and stupid worksheets you hate at school you got to do that [ __ ] again in the real world for example debugging code folks is there more busy work style work than debugging code it's brutal it's mind numing but it has to get done and it's a big deal and if it doesn't get done it's a non-starter group work almost every single real job in the real world is group-based and at the very least even if it's not super super group intensive you'll have to deal with other humans regularly regarding your work and theirs even if most of your own deep work is alone for me I do a lot of group work got the video guys in the in the the building right now making sure that this video it's properly filmed I also do a ton of my own deep work in my office I collaborate with people and I work alone you're going to get all of it and if you're really interested in making a a gazillion dollars at some point you may be presented with the opportunity to have a leadership position that's typically a way they're not the only way to make a lot of money leadership is almost exclusively group work Mr Nick Shaw the CEO of RP multi- trillionaire almost everything he does all week long is chatting and collaborating with different groups of people at RP and outside the company it's all group work so if you think oh man group work is stupid maybe but you're going to need to get really goddamn good at it if you want to be super successful make a lot of money you get boatloads of whatever money buys you female attention in your case specifically that's right you and not only is leadership super putting the emphasis on group work but a lot of it is the social dynamics of group work getting the right people to get along in the right ways to create the most value so back when I was in high school and we did group work what I would often do was just tell the other three people in the group like hey guys um I could just do all this by myself at home tonight I'll bring it back tomorrow and you guys can sign off on it and we'll get an A+ I promise and they were like okay and I would just go home and do it myself they got me a lot of a pluses but it didn't prepare me for the kind of real world group work where there are people just as smart or smarter than you which I for example I work with a team of Engineers at RP and like you know I'm willing to bet I'm smarter than most people those guys [ __ ] I'm probably like third or fourth or eighth on the list and there's only five people I have to understand how to work in an integrated group where I don't just go and do my own [ __ ] come back and it's done I have to deal with people on the Fly think and reason and accept yep that's right and I don't know if that's right that's social dynamics that's how you interact with people that's what the popular kids are good at doing and popularity by itself doesn't get you [ __ ] because you have to have technical knowledge to do it as well but if you have good technical knowledge and the kind of social dynamics that the popular kids seem to understand really well but your autistic ass can't do same from when I was in school you're going to have to fill in that blank at some point if you really want to rise to the top and make as much money as possible leading teams of people and lastly the real working world will present you with a shitload of design and development problems whether you're building custom furniture whether you're writing blog posts or whether you're coding an app these are things that are going to get best done in a design development framework that is structured and has a multi-pass approach I'll get into some examples of what that means in a second but you don't just simply just create it like if you're making custom furniture you might do a draft and leave it alone go work on some other Furniture you already have kind of in the works couple days later you come back to the draft and you're like o yeah this part of the leg looks okay but actually I want a little bit more of a curve oo that looks better that's already a revision then when you start making the furniture at first you make kind of the the big parts and then you Whittle it down that's already multiple layers of analysis work and modification if you went to school and really really studied hard and did all of your homework you're going to be familiar with the general structure of design and development problems in such a way that someone who didn't go to school or went to school but mostly the marijuana joint went to school and they were just there in body but not in mind they're not going to get that and they're going to have to catch up later in life and you're going to be ahead if you pay attention and do your homework being that as is clearly evident by now school is a pretty decent reflection on life let's ask the next question of how does school prepare you for the Working World specifically and all in that same category of intellectual problems busy work group work and then design development work so on intellectual problems schoolwork and especially homework develops your intellect the deeper the problems the better the harder the problems the better the more intractable they seem the better if you can solve the extra hard bonus problems in the very back of your textbook or at the end of each one of your math chapters there's 10 regular questions and then three super bonus hard questions if you can answer get to eventually correctly answering and figuring out those bonus problems your probability of success is going to be very high regularly at my work at RP our Engineers have to deal with problems that are literally unprecedented no one's ever built this kind of app before and not in this kind of uh data structure they have to create the data architecture they have to uh make sure that all the sourcing and databases line up there's so much going on the depth of intellect there has to be really really intense and if your depth of intellect is unrefined then you're just not going to be able to reach deeply into the system of problems you see at work and come out with anything remotely resembling a profitable solution how much should you focus on developing deep intellect I'm going to tell you something that hopefully is not a surprise but if it is no big deal andbody hooked you up now you know there is no upper bound to deep intellect the more of it you have and the more of it you develop over time cuz it's a big genetic component for how smart you are but also if you train it you get way smarter the more of it you have the exponentially more value you can create you give me someone that's a pretty deep thinker they get a great job $100,000 a year you get someone that's a Next Level deep thinker that's a $500,000 uh dollar a year job Creator you get me an Avant guard total revisioning of the landscape kind of thinker there's a millionaire in the M it literally hops like that it's an exponent how many people in the world can do the kind of work that Elon Musk can maybe Jeff Bezos maybe Zuck it's a [ __ ] short list people just aren't that smart they're not used to grappling with insanely deep problems and guess where you're going to learn how to do that in a very guided way where the problems actually have Solutions so you know if you're on the right track that's right School specifically your homework generally speaking if you create a ton of value value creation is really really well compensated next school prepares you for Life by increasing your work capacity just like in training if you can do sets of 10 versus sets of five your work capacity has gone up in school is the same way here busy work and it really is busy work sometimes you don't learn a ton it's not a lot of deep problems you just kind of have to get the [ __ ] done you think oh this is a waste of my time no it's [ __ ] not busy work is both the effector that is it helps you develop your work capacity and is the test if you can get the busy work done you're really good at work capacity if you roll your eyes at busy work in school which many people do I got news for you you're too soft to earn the most money that you're capable of in the Working World if a couple of worksheets intimidates you building a company that generates millions of dollars a year of value don't even bother because you're having trouble swimming in a puddle and a company's the [ __ ] marest trench in the Pacific 12 miles deep or whatever the [ __ ] it's not even close your work capacity ideally to make you as much money and change the world in a positive way through the corporate and even government world if you want to become a baller your work capacity has to be a yes can you do this yes I uh have been on a few business trips nowadays with Scott the video guy uh mostly they start off his business but end up getting into crazy fetishes hey and uh I thought I had a huge work capacity then I lived with Scott for a bit and I realized I ain't [ __ ] because this guy just works sun up to sun down I'll have a later little blurb here at the towards the end of the talk of is it a good idea to really go super super hard Scott and I also learned on one of the trips that we were going too hard and damn near broke down and both got sick but how come Scott video guy is so super successful and he's the Scott's real successful unreal lucky to have him cuz he shows up and there 99 problems but work will get done how much work as much as you can feed him that's nuts that's that next level [ __ ] if you get tired at work and if you're like oh my God this is so much dope no worries you'll make plenty of money you'll have great Recreation great friends great family life but being a megalith of industry and making gazillion dollars that [ __ ] ain't for you harden that ass up and get your [ __ ] work done because if you do all the busy work in school by the time you get to College college won't be that hard for everyone else for you it'll be doubly hard because you get even more busy work in college and you're going to feed yourself as much of that [ __ ] as you can eat so by the time you get to grad school people are worried about writing their thesis but you already wrote like five thesis worth of [ __ ] content in undergrad just during one year so you rip through that but you don't rip through it you take your time high quality you make a thesis that is considered Junior League revolutionary in your little subfield then you go to a PhD program you repeat the same thing and the same thing and the same thing when you get out in the Working World you just out work everyone and someone's like dude how does how the hell does this guy do it well imagine someone seeing you in the wait room and being like how did you get so jacked it took me five years of lifting like this it just happen overnight I put in the work you put in the work on your school workor you're going to get a huge brain training that's just going to make workload super super easy on you and you'll be at a totally different level and you can leave a ton of people behind Quick side while I'm on the subject just a thought came to me it's definitely true that there are factors outside of your control that determine your success in life and your finances luck is a thing for sure but luck isn't as big of a thing as people think because in most modern free societies from where you're probably watching this video you don't get one chance of success you get tons of chances of success all the time opportunities to succeed are presented to you even in the same job and if you have the work capacity to rise up and to do it and the intellectual preparedness and so on you're going to catch at least one or two of those rungs and then ride them up if it turned out I had the gift of blab or whatever the [ __ ] I do on the RP YouTube 2 million Subs all that [ __ ] but I wasn't prepared to do the work and neither was Scott the video guy you wouldn't know about us because we wouldn't be on YouTube or we would we' have a [ __ ] Backwater Channel with no goddamn Subs like this one because when presented with opportunities we had the skill set built up over time to capitalize on them when people say oh successful people it's just luck or inheritance or whatever there's some truth to that because success is multifactorial there's multiple combined reasons why a certain person's successful but that person's work effort and intell and organizational ability to solve problems is easily the biggest part is easily the vast majority and is the most stable quality that will give you success everywhere else in your life so are people that get good grades in school really better at the rest of Life yeah they are and other people will lie to you about it to make you feel better don't worry about school and we like the corporate capitalist world man [ __ ] Rat Race guess what rats get at the end of the race cheese [ __ ] and that's an urban slaying for money if you didn't listen to enough rap music as a child you guys how much work you put into [ __ ] and how good your work is this the single biggest determinate of success I know it's not the only thing but it's the biggest thing and so anyone that tells you it's all luck it's all whatever it's all inheritance they're [ __ ] lying to you mostly to make themselves feel good because probably they never had that grit to do all that goddamn work that you're gonna do because you want to be successful next School prepares you for Life by teaching you how to work in groups and there are various skills that are built and tested in those group work projects skills like listening which is a big deal some people you talk to them and you're like did you catch that and they're like huh you're like I don't even know how the [ __ ] we're here listening arguing to collaborate not to win arguments but to find out who's got the piece to the puzzle that we connect we're all going to do it together as a team it's tough to communicate like that you're going to practice conceeding I meet with our Engineers they have a bunch of hypothesis to what we should do next with the apps I have a bunch of hypothesis we all come together some of us take the L some of us take the W but it turns out all of us take the W because the team profits as a whole so you got to be able to concede that look back actually my last idea was [ __ ] stupid and yours is better you're going to get practice doing that in groups and it's tough you've never been shot down before it's going to be tough in a group for someone to be like actually I think we should do it this way and you're like but my idea deal with it you're going to get a lot of practice and going to get really good at dealing with it you're going to be able to stick and move if you do a lot of school workk because if someone's like I don't think this is the best way to do it I think this way is better you look at it you're like dude you're totally right let's do it your way and they're like wow that was faster yeah we're here to get [ __ ] done right we're not here to argue against each other and get nothing done that would be dumb illustrating that is explaining Concepts is critical because you're trying to get your group to understand what you're trying to say you might have to illustrate some things with your hands with pictures with descriptive words convincing some people are kind of sticklers you're going to have to convince them to go your way because you think it's the correct way and good convincing means you listen to them too and adjust your plan consensus building knowing how to get the plan together that everyone agrees on the fundamentals is a big big deal splitting up tasks you got some tasks to do you have four people you got six tasks how's that going to work if you don't practice the [ __ ] it's going to be ugly ugly mess people do redundant tasks some tasks get completely missed like who was supposed to edit the introduction no one ra ra their hand who added to the conclusion three people raise their hand like [ __ ] God that only happens if you really poorly practiced at the thing you get really well practiced by the time that you have to coordinate tasks in the Working World you're going to be goddamn uh you spirit animal of that [ __ ] because you're you doing it so much reporting monitoring editing other people's work all that stuff can only be something that you get and learn at a deep level from group work and you start out group work in school in addition to that you get practice at doing a good job in proper social dynamics how to get your team to flow and gel better this is huge huge huge in business success if you're smarter than everyone for real and you're almost always right for real but you have no goddamn social skills and you're a picity butt plug and you just people hate you and you're like just do it my way losers you're going to be doing it your way all by yourself and yes the age of AI is almost among us and one person will be able to create billion dooll companies by themselves with AI teamwork that's just the whole world's different then but for now and even with AI you're going to have be around other people you're going to have to gel well with others because if you do your whole company works well and makes a ton of money you don't not so great things happen in our own history at RP we had a Time when things were yelling well because it was just like Mr Nick Shaw and myself we hired other people a ton of them worked well a few of them did not group dynamics decayed the jelling was not a thing and our company suffered greatly financially suffered once we adjusted to fit the pieces some people left some people came in some people uh had a come to Jesus meeting some people changed their minds myself included now our social dynamics at RP are the best they've ever been and guess what we're rolling in the [ __ ] dough it is not a coinci ents so it's a big thing to learn and it's another way in which school really really helps you in the Working World and lastly School prepares you for the Working World for the real world by giving you practice in very lowrisk design and development problems very lowrisk because like getting a B+ on an essay is not the end of the world but designing an app and putting up to the app store and then it crashes on on first download that's high risk somebody doing some time for that [ __ ] design development problems what's involved to them one is making precise goals which are critical how do we know when the project is over if you don't have precise goals you have no idea when your project is over you have to be good at the outline construction process every good project or damn near every good project is an outline first basic components first then you can do multi-pass outline filling so you have a paper an essay you got the intro Maino one main point two main point three conclusion that's your first outline that you make the next time you look at that document even 30 minutes later maybe the next day you go okay intro I'm goingon to put a bullet point to say this little hook statement explainer statement last statement of the intro just a note these are bullet points and then main paragraph number one point point point explanation explanation explanation Etc now you have an outline that's way more filled out then you go in and you fill out the sub points and after three of those multi-pass attempts you're basically your paper is written on everything except for pros nowadays you just toss that [ __ ] into GPT 40 or Claude and it comes back written as a paper but if you're doing it at home by yourself and you actually want to train your brain instead of offloading gpts you're going to have to do the pros yourself but writing Pros writing words that make sense on paper and flow from one to the other so here's the thing you need to practice that too so good news you practice that but that's so much easier when you have a properly vetted outline huge deal and constructing one is not something you're going to get right right off hand so it's good that you're get to uh get to go to school and learn how to do it better the revision process once you write your whole final paper even if you write your whole online you may take a look at it and be like a something's missing here I think we need a fourth paragraph to explain that second concept better or man this thing just doesn't fit I'm going to take it out oo this is actually much better and all the way down the line revision is a big deal and you need practice doing it in addition you get practice meeting deadlines by splitting your work into Sprints these design development projects are too big to do all at once it's like 26 hours of work and if you do it in a um all nighter which I would there's only one good reason to do all nighters at school I'mma cut you the real deal is to like try to get in with like hot girls or hot guys that you're trying to you know what I'm saying do [ __ ] with it's cool way to hang out and show your other side and smoke some doobies and have fun all nighters are not productive things you get your work done uh on your own goddamn due time all nighters are [ __ ] stupid uh they're great super fun and super awesome connecting with people because you're delirious and everyone's honest all the masks have come off that's sweet but you don't do 26 hours of work straight and get a [ __ ] design project done at school it's just not going to happen it can happen but you'll get a [ __ ] shitty grade on it because at the end of the last four hours you're just hallucinating at that point so you'll have to practice being like okay we're going to work on this much of the project this week this much next week this week okay the we after we have a break the week after we got to do this and that you got to split the work into multiple Sprints be able to coordinate it and then you get the project done this is a big deal man this is like launching a rocket One does not simply do this and all of this stuff and many other features is basically a mini version of how the real world looks to the highest earners the highest earners develop Keen intellect to tackle really massive unprecedented problems for which there is no answer key in the back of the book that's a big deal massive earners have unreal work capacities you guys have heard stories of Elon Musk sleeping at the factory that's not a day one thing that [ __ ] is is earned you have to you have to really work into that sort of Lifestyle massive earners work in groups all the time and they're really good and almost always work on massive megalith Mega build design and development problems when you make an app like chat GPT or like the Spotify app or YouTube you don't just make an app code it in half an hour and there it is real serious multi- integrated approach is what has to start is is the only thing that can make something like that and where do you learn to wet your appetite for that in school now a quick word on learning versus signaling yes yes a lot of school is for signaling it is for telling people around you that you're smart and can work hard and that you're admit to college and also hirable after college for a job however it's not all signaling and signaling is important let me explain how if you're a Super Genius but you don't signal it at all like you just don't do any work in your own mind you know you're a genius that doesn't help you become an integrated worker nearly as much or at all as if you signal it you got to show off the stuff at some point how do people know you're a genius unless you can do the work and then they can confidently hire you and pay you for work they expect if you show up to Silicon Valley company for an interview and they're like all right where'd you get your degree and you're like I never went to school and they're like okay uh do you know how to code you're like Yep they're like okay here's a coding challenge you're like I'm not going to do that this is a waste of my time trust me I'm brilliant okay sir the door is that way we'll call you back no one's calling you back that's insane when I went to school I went to school with a lot of other smart people that thought that schoolwork was beneath them and it was not sufficiently challenging or interesting to them and they just didn't do it and uh those people didn't get into the very best institutions and probably did not get the best Career Success because you got to show off the stuff so yeah doing your homework is a rat race do the rat race remember there's cheese at the end if you're not doing schoolwork assignments you had better be doing some crazy ass coding or some [ __ ] yeah Mark Zuckerberg didn't go to to to class when he was at Harvard or whatever why because he was building Facebook unless you're doing some [ __ ] like that or diving real deep into un unbelievable intellectual Concepts and really figuring out world problems if that's what you do in your spare time [ __ ] school to some extent but if you're just playing PlayStation in your spare time and you really are genetically a genius nobody cares nobody cares and you're going to be poor and that's not going to be great and the big question a lot of signaling is can you jump through hoops that's what a lot of school is about is jumping through hoops and people are like man I don't want to jump through hoops well if you can't jump through hoops and won't when it's inconvenient or undesirable to you school is the least of your problems compared to life because at school you might get a bad grade and then be able to do take a makeup test and get a good grade again uh because you didn't jump through hoops but then they talked you into jumping and you're fine you did it but at your work if you don't jump through hoops like you're supposed to the CEO of your current company could fire you and if you did a bad enough job when he talks to other people in the field they'd be like hey that one guy Jim from your office he doesn't work for you anymore like nope oh he applied for my uh my um Eng team what do you think about him and he sucks you guys I'm going to tell you I'm not directly involved in hiring at our company thank [ __ ] god somebody else multiple other people do that and do get to talk to some of the people that we hire if a serious colleague tells you this person is a non-starter the probability you're going to hire them is unreal low if let's say uh Greg knuckles who is the creator uh co-creator of macrofauna we're hiring and he worked at Maca before guess what we're doing we're calling either Jeff or Greg hey guys what do you think about this person if they're like yeah we have an NDA can't talk about this but this person and that's all they say the probability we hire this person or even continue to interview him is insanely low why because there is a chance there are diamond in a rough and there was just misunderstanding for sure am I gonna bet a huge fraction of our company's worth on that what the [ __ ] is any CEO going to do that are you crazy so if you can't jump through hoops and you get a reputation at your job or in your industry for being a person who doesn't jump through hoops it's all Hoops all the way down people people right now I'm sitting here recording a video a nobody I don't even know if anyone's home it's just Scott and I we jump through hoops by our goddamn selves nobody even gave us this assignment not only did we give ourselves this assignment we're jumping through our own Hoops it's Friday by the way it's Friday night I I could be doing other stuff we're good at this we jump through hoops that's why we have money and we're getting a lot more of it if you don't jump through hoops and it becomes apparent to other people you're not going to be suc successful so people are like man I hate jumping through hoops that's not how success is built I'm sorry now okay you got to be good at school you got to invest yourself into school and get super [ __ ] good at but how good at it I have an answer for you as good as a good effort makes you what means what does that mean that means you have to make sure you have enough sleep never be underslept or almost ever when you're in your school age make sure you rest plenty so you have plenty of energy mental and physical make sure you're eating and make sure you having plenty of fun with your friends that's what life is all about and make sure you're getting enough of all those to keep your schoolwork difficult and challenging but sustainable and not at burnout levels when you're like bleeding out of your eyes you can't even see your math homework anymore it's time to take the weekend off but when you feel regr on Monday it's time to get the frying pan in the fire again and do that [ __ ] push yourself rest push yourself rest push yourself rest that's going to be how work Works anyway and that's going to be how you expand your work capacity that's going to be how you get better pushing yourself until you have like a panic attack and you never want to do school again burn out that's really stupid but never pushing yourself and never seeing the potential you are able to do you're not going to get as much out of the [ __ ] as you could now for those willing to take the challenge up to be the best they can possibly be to do the school workor trust me in most cases in more cases than not it pays off like crazy to pour everything you have into your schoolwork I didn't start out a good student someday I'll inevitably make the Dr Mike's Journey from useless failure add person to billionaire trillionaire whatever but once I got good at school sometime in early middle high school by the end of high school I was one of the best students in my high school and I did hours and hours of homework mostly because I didn't have any friends but also because there was a lot of homework to do and a lot to learn and a lot of uh brain training to do when I eventually got to my PhD program uh I was objectively one of the best students in that and this this is top tier [ __ ] I did hours and hours of self- assigned work in my PhD that's where I literally became Dr Mike in two ways one I gave you a doctorate so you can call yourself doctor and two that's where I learned Sport Science and I learned a lot of it for my instructors and a lot of it from my colleagues and a lot of my experience training athletes in school but a ton of it was just hours and hours of reading and thinking and reading and thinking and reading and thinking and writing and reading and thinking all the time about all these topics so now when I go on the RP Channel and I blab about exercise or when I go on a podcast you might see me on and they ask me questions on the Fly and they're like dude how the hell do you answer all these questions so seamlessly this is my first day doing this [ __ ] I spent three years in a laboratory studying this [ __ ] and then I spent another 10 years studying and refining studying and refining so when I get on a podcast you're look how much prep did you do for this podcast none I don't need a prep for podcasts what why not because my prep is 15 years in the making a lot of prep that's how you build success is putting in that [ __ ] work over and over and over and over and because I did all that stuff quote unquote sacrifice at times it did feel sacrificial at times it was the time of my life anything that's challenging is going to be sometimes one sometimes the other now uh money is not really a problem which is really trippy to say because when I'm on a project or a team for my work work I'm almost never the limiting factor I take it as a a I take it as an element of personal Pride to not be the limiting factor on projects and I'll tell you this if I'm the limiting factor consistently on projects at RP we're making a gazillion dollars because holy [ __ ] um I used to be the slowest and the worst student straight up like I was the worst student in my middle school at math by a long shot but then I started doing my homework I did my homework consistently I went above and beyond and above and beyond and above Beyond no one watching no one calling me no one texting me just me in a [ __ ] office doing tons and tons of homework and that is the foundational reason other than genetics or whatever of why I am as successful as I am today because I was in a lot of quiet rooms by myself doing thankless work that barely anyone even asked me to do but if you can do that you're going to come out of those rooms smarter and sharper and with a higher work capacity and you're get get into a lot of group work and you're going to excel at that and eventually people are going to ask you how do you become successful and I'm going to tell you right now because you guys are interested in this kind of [ __ ] you [ __ ] work until you're real [ __ ] tired and then you rest and you get up and you do it again eventually something's going to have to happen so as a pantic [ __ ] that I am do your homework and I'll see you guys next time

hey folks Dr Mike here for the making progress Channel today&#39;s video number 49 in our hopefully for a long time series is well you guys read the thumbnail and the title want to get rich do your homework this is under the productivity and work a subsection of this Channel video topic let&#39;s get into it so I&#39;m G to ask you a question do you hate your assignments at school first of all uh who&#39;s the Target demographic for this video this is folks they&#39;re in school currently any kind of school definitely Middle School definitely high school for sure high school for sure college and all of the school after that in a major way and for those of you who are done done and finished with school maybe you&#39;re going to be interacting with folks that are younger and be able to teach them some valuable life lessons later maybe you&#39;re going to be going back to school yourself maybe you&#39;ll have children of your own that go to school so you can like I don&#39;t know hopefully get AI to get all the weird swear words and sexual references out of this lecture and give it to them when they&#39;re in eth grade might help in any case do you hate assignments at school or did you hate assignments at school when you were a student don&#39;t don&#39;t don&#39;t hate them you need to do your assignments you need to do your homework because your homework is practice because adult life is you and your co-workers giving you assignments to do self assign and others assign it&#39;s all assignments all the way down be at school or be it at work and in my experience in my knowledge and my understanding generally speaking the best task doers people that get [ __ ] done the best and on time if not early to a high degree of quality they generally tend to get the richest on average from any cohort of people that you examine there are definitely exceptions but on average people who get stuff done become more wealthy yeah I&#39;m just going to reference wealth this entire time because it&#39;s a big deal and everyone knows it&#39;s a big deal and it&#39;s important to people but it&#39;s not just wealth people who do an amazing job at tasks be it in school or at work also tend to have the most fulfillment from their work and how could they not have the most fulfillment if they&#39;re poor everything they have into something that generally tends to give you a lot of fulfillment especially if you do well at it so real quick let&#39;s look at the kind of assignments you typically get at school and see if they&#39;re really preparing you for the working word well or if maybe school is stupid and you shouldn&#39;t be doing your homework I can think of at least four kinds of assignments you get at school one are intellectual problems like Standalone math problems in your textbook or up on on the board when the teacher writes them out you have busy work of course how can I not mention busy work like you know your uh teacher says you know do all these worksheets by Monday and you&#39;re like oh my God there&#39;s 10 and it&#39;s Friday why there&#39;s a good reason I&#39;ll get to that in a little bit there&#39;s group work there are kind of two types of group work that can be temporary group work where you just like team up with four other people that sit next to you in class you wanted to team up with the hot girl but she always goes with her friends and never looks you in the eye no wait that was me and school and the other kind of group work you get at school a lot is kind of longer term groups groups that team up for weeks at a time or even a semester at a time uh to work on bigger projects like a term paper or a big uh presentation or some kind of uh other project that takes a few stabs and or or rather takes a lot of work and a lot of meetings with your fellow group members and the last kind of problem that&#39;s really typical in school workor is what I would call this is not what&#39;s called in school a design slev development type of problem so these problems for example like making essays or other projects these are problems that take multiple they&#39;re composed of multiple sections and they take multiple stabs multiple attempts to go through to get the thing right so like a math problem you just go through it you get the right answer you plug it back in you check and you&#39;re done with design development problems it&#39;s a more in-depth situation like writing a paper you might create an outline and then you might uh vet the outline a little bit and then you might fill in the blanks and you might come around you might make some changes that&#39;s a big deal and it&#39;s not something you do one in one go and these are some of the toughest assignments you can get at school so this is what you get at school and you know there&#39;s a school of thought no punen intended that are like oh school is stupid school is boring it&#39;s pointless uh I&#39;m sure a lot of your classmates uh currently or in history have said like what are we even learning this for why do we need it don&#39;t worry you&#39;ll see that guy dead of heroin overdose in about three years who says that just kidding sometimes he&#39;s right but most of the time he&#39;s wrong why let me give you a list of the kinds of intellectual problems sorry the kinds of assignments I skipped one step the kinds of assignments that life gives you in the real world the Working World where you make money one type of problem surprise is the same type you get in school an intellectual problem but in the real world it might be something like how do we reduce battery size to allow for a backpack portable electric scooter or electric bicycle imagine that you are just walking around Lisbon Portugal or some [ __ ] you know visiting it with your influencer girlfriend and looking at stuff you just have a backpack it&#39;s got some stuff in there and out of that backpack you pull out a little scooter you unfold it and now it&#39;s electric powered and it goes 20 miles on one charge and you get tired you go on the scooter in order to get batteries to be powerful and have enough capacity to fit into a backpack a decent weight this is a very very tough intellectual problem many many levels so sounds kind of like some of the problems you got at school except way harder next life and career will give you busy work that&#39;s right the very busy work and stupid worksheets you hate at school you got to do that [ __ ] again in the real world for example debugging code folks is there more busy work style work than debugging code it&#39;s brutal it&#39;s mind numing but it has to get done and it&#39;s a big deal and if it doesn&#39;t get done it&#39;s a non-starter group work almost every single real job in the real world is group-based and at the very least even if it&#39;s not super super group intensive you&#39;ll have to deal with other humans regularly regarding your work and theirs even if most of your own deep work is alone for me I do a lot of group work got the video guys in the in the the building right now making sure that this video it&#39;s properly filmed I also do a ton of my own deep work in my office I collaborate with people and I work alone you&#39;re going to get all of it and if you&#39;re really interested in making a a gazillion dollars at some point you may be presented with the opportunity to have a leadership position that&#39;s typically a way they&#39;re not the only way to make a lot of money leadership is almost exclusively group work Mr Nick Shaw the CEO of RP multi- trillionaire almost everything he does all week long is chatting and collaborating with different groups of people at RP and outside the company it&#39;s all group work so if you think oh man group work is stupid maybe but you&#39;re going to need to get really goddamn good at it if you want to be super successful make a lot of money you get boatloads of whatever money buys you female attention in your case specifically that&#39;s right you and not only is leadership super putting the emphasis on group work but a lot of it is the social dynamics of group work getting the right people to get along in the right ways to create the most value so back when I was in high school and we did group work what I would often do was just tell the other three people in the group like hey guys um I could just do all this by myself at home tonight I&#39;ll bring it back tomorrow and you guys can sign off on it and we&#39;ll get an A+ I promise and they were like okay and I would just go home and do it myself they got me a lot of a pluses but it didn&#39;t prepare me for the kind of real world group work where there are people just as smart or smarter than you which I for example I work with a team of Engineers at RP and like you know I&#39;m willing to bet I&#39;m smarter than most people those guys [ __ ] I&#39;m probably like third or fourth or eighth on the list and there&#39;s only five people I have to understand how to work in an integrated group where I don&#39;t just go and do my own [ __ ] come back and it&#39;s done I have to deal with people on the Fly think and reason and accept yep that&#39;s right and I don&#39;t know if that&#39;s right that&#39;s social dynamics that&#39;s how you interact with people that&#39;s what the popular kids are good at doing and popularity by itself doesn&#39;t get you [ __ ] because you have to have technical knowledge to do it as well but if you have good technical knowledge and the kind of social dynamics that the popular kids seem to understand really well but your autistic ass can&#39;t do same from when I was in school you&#39;re going to have to fill in that blank at some point if you really want to rise to the top and make as much money as possible leading teams of people and lastly the real working world will present you with a shitload of design and development problems whether you&#39;re building custom furniture whether you&#39;re writing blog posts or whether you&#39;re coding an app these are things that are going to get best done in a design development framework that is structured and has a multi-pass approach I&#39;ll get into some examples of what that means in a second but you don&#39;t just simply just create it like if you&#39;re making custom furniture you might do a draft and leave it alone go work on some other Furniture you already have kind of in the works couple days later you come back to the draft and you&#39;re like o yeah this part of the leg looks okay but actually I want a little bit more of a curve oo that looks better that&#39;s already a revision then when you start making the furniture at first you make kind of the the big parts and then you Whittle it down that&#39;s already multiple layers of analysis work and modification if you went to school and really really studied hard and did all of your homework you&#39;re going to be familiar with the general structure of design and development problems in such a way that someone who didn&#39;t go to school or went to school but mostly the marijuana joint went to school and they were just there in body but not in mind they&#39;re not going to get that and they&#39;re going to have to catch up later in life and you&#39;re going to be ahead if you pay attention and do your homework being that as is clearly evident by now school is a pretty decent reflection on life let&#39;s ask the next question of how does school prepare you for the Working World specifically and all in that same category of intellectual problems busy work group work and then design development work so on intellectual problems schoolwork and especially homework develops your intellect the deeper the problems the better the harder the problems the better the more intractable they seem the better if you can solve the extra hard bonus problems in the very back of your textbook or at the end of each one of your math chapters there&#39;s 10 regular questions and then three super bonus hard questions if you can answer get to eventually correctly answering and figuring out those bonus problems your probability of success is going to be very high regularly at my work at RP our Engineers have to deal with problems that are literally unprecedented no one&#39;s ever built this kind of app before and not in this kind of uh data structure they have to create the data architecture they have to uh make sure that all the sourcing and databases line up there&#39;s so much going on the depth of intellect there has to be really really intense and if your depth of intellect is unrefined then you&#39;re just not going to be able to reach deeply into the system of problems you see at work and come out with anything remotely resembling a profitable solution how much should you focus on developing deep intellect I&#39;m going to tell you something that hopefully is not a surprise but if it is no big deal andbody hooked you up now you know there is no upper bound to deep intellect the more of it you have and the more of it you develop over time cuz it&#39;s a big genetic component for how smart you are but also if you train it you get way smarter the more of it you have the exponentially more value you can create you give me someone that&#39;s a pretty deep thinker they get a great job $100,000 a year you get someone that&#39;s a Next Level deep thinker that&#39;s a $500,000 uh dollar a year job Creator you get me an Avant guard total revisioning of the landscape kind of thinker there&#39;s a millionaire in the M it literally hops like that it&#39;s an exponent how many people in the world can do the kind of work that Elon Musk can maybe Jeff Bezos maybe Zuck it&#39;s a [ __ ] short list people just aren&#39;t that smart they&#39;re not used to grappling with insanely deep problems and guess where you&#39;re going to learn how to do that in a very guided way where the problems actually have Solutions so you know if you&#39;re on the right track that&#39;s right School specifically your homework generally speaking if you create a ton of value value creation is really really well compensated next school prepares you for Life by increasing your work capacity just like in training if you can do sets of 10 versus sets of five your work capacity has gone up in school is the same way here busy work and it really is busy work sometimes you don&#39;t learn a ton it&#39;s not a lot of deep problems you just kind of have to get the [ __ ] done you think oh this is a waste of my time no it&#39;s [ __ ] not busy work is both the effector that is it helps you develop your work capacity and is the test if you can get the busy work done you&#39;re really good at work capacity if you roll your eyes at busy work in school which many people do I got news for you you&#39;re too soft to earn the most money that you&#39;re capable of in the Working World if a couple of worksheets intimidates you building a company that generates millions of dollars a year of value don&#39;t even bother because you&#39;re having trouble swimming in a puddle and a company&#39;s the [ __ ] marest trench in the Pacific 12 miles deep or whatever the [ __ ] it&#39;s not even close your work capacity ideally to make you as much money and change the world in a positive way through the corporate and even government world if you want to become a baller your work capacity has to be a yes can you do this yes I uh have been on a few business trips nowadays with Scott the video guy uh mostly they start off his business but end up getting into crazy fetishes hey and uh I thought I had a huge work capacity then I lived with Scott for a bit and I realized I ain&#39;t [ __ ] because this guy just works sun up to sun down I&#39;ll have a later little blurb here at the towards the end of the talk of is it a good idea to really go super super hard Scott and I also learned on one of the trips that we were going too hard and damn near broke down and both got sick but how come Scott video guy is so super successful and he&#39;s the Scott&#39;s real successful unreal lucky to have him cuz he shows up and there 99 problems but work will get done how much work as much as you can feed him that&#39;s nuts that&#39;s that next level [ __ ] if you get tired at work and if you&#39;re like oh my God this is so much dope no worries you&#39;ll make plenty of money you&#39;ll have great Recreation great friends great family life but being a megalith of industry and making gazillion dollars that [ __ ] ain&#39;t for you harden that ass up and get your [ __ ] work done because if you do all the busy work in school by the time you get to College college won&#39;t be that hard for everyone else for you it&#39;ll be doubly hard because you get even more busy work in college and you&#39;re going to feed yourself as much of that [ __ ] as you can eat so by the time you get to grad school people are worried about writing their thesis but you already wrote like five thesis worth of [ __ ] content in undergrad just during one year so you rip through that but you don&#39;t rip through it you take your time high quality you make a thesis that is considered Junior League revolutionary in your little subfield then you go to a PhD program you repeat the same thing and the same thing and the same thing when you get out in the Working World you just out work everyone and someone&#39;s like dude how does how the hell does this guy do it well imagine someone seeing you in the wait room and being like how did you get so jacked it took me five years of lifting like this it just happen overnight I put in the work you put in the work on your school workor you&#39;re going to get a huge brain training that&#39;s just going to make workload super super easy on you and you&#39;ll be at a totally different level and you can leave a ton of people behind Quick side while I&#39;m on the subject just a thought came to me it&#39;s definitely true that there are factors outside of your control that determine your success in life and your finances luck is a thing for sure but luck isn&#39;t as big of a thing as people think because in most modern free societies from where you&#39;re probably watching this video you don&#39;t get one chance of success you get tons of chances of success all the time opportunities to succeed are presented to you even in the same job and if you have the work capacity to rise up and to do it and the intellectual preparedness and so on you&#39;re going to catch at least one or two of those rungs and then ride them up if it turned out I had the gift of blab or whatever the [ __ ] I do on the RP YouTube 2 million Subs all that [ __ ] but I wasn&#39;t prepared to do the work and neither was Scott the video guy you wouldn&#39;t know about us because we wouldn&#39;t be on YouTube or we would we&#39; have a [ __ ] Backwater Channel with no goddamn Subs like this one because when presented with opportunities we had the skill set built up over time to capitalize on them when people say oh successful people it&#39;s just luck or inheritance or whatever there&#39;s some truth to that because success is multifactorial there&#39;s multiple combined reasons why a certain person&#39;s successful but that person&#39;s work effort and intell and organizational ability to solve problems is easily the biggest part is easily the vast majority and is the most stable quality that will give you success everywhere else in your life so are people that get good grades in school really better at the rest of Life yeah they are and other people will lie to you about it to make you feel better don&#39;t worry about school and we like the corporate capitalist world man [ __ ] Rat Race guess what rats get at the end of the race cheese [ __ ] and that&#39;s an urban slaying for money if you didn&#39;t listen to enough rap music as a child you guys how much work you put into [ __ ] and how good your work is this the single biggest determinate of success I know it&#39;s not the only thing but it&#39;s the biggest thing and so anyone that tells you it&#39;s all luck it&#39;s all whatever it&#39;s all inheritance they&#39;re [ __ ] lying to you mostly to make themselves feel good because probably they never had that grit to do all that goddamn work that you&#39;re gonna do because you want to be successful next School prepares you for Life by teaching you how to work in groups and there are various skills that are built and tested in those group work projects skills like listening which is a big deal some people you talk to them and you&#39;re like did you catch that and they&#39;re like huh you&#39;re like I don&#39;t even know how the [ __ ] we&#39;re here listening arguing to collaborate not to win arguments but to find out who&#39;s got the piece to the puzzle that we connect we&#39;re all going to do it together as a team it&#39;s tough to communicate like that you&#39;re going to practice conceeding I meet with our Engineers they have a bunch of hypothesis to what we should do next with the apps I have a bunch of hypothesis we all come together some of us take the L some of us take the W but it turns out all of us take the W because the team profits as a whole so you got to be able to concede that look back actually my last idea was [ __ ] stupid and yours is better you&#39;re going to get practice doing that in groups and it&#39;s tough you&#39;ve never been shot down before it&#39;s going to be tough in a group for someone to be like actually I think we should do it this way and you&#39;re like but my idea deal with it you&#39;re going to get a lot of practice and going to get really good at dealing with it you&#39;re going to be able to stick and move if you do a lot of school workk because if someone&#39;s like I don&#39;t think this is the best way to do it I think this way is better you look at it you&#39;re like dude you&#39;re totally right let&#39;s do it your way and they&#39;re like wow that was faster yeah we&#39;re here to get [ __ ] done right we&#39;re not here to argue against each other and get nothing done that would be dumb illustrating that is explaining Concepts is critical because you&#39;re trying to get your group to understand what you&#39;re trying to say you might have to illustrate some things with your hands with pictures with descriptive words convincing some people are kind of sticklers you&#39;re going to have to convince them to go your way because you think it&#39;s the correct way and good convincing means you listen to them too and adjust your plan consensus building knowing how to get the plan together that everyone agrees on the fundamentals is a big big deal splitting up tasks you got some tasks to do you have four people you got six tasks how&#39;s that going to work if you don&#39;t practice the [ __ ] it&#39;s going to be ugly ugly mess people do redundant tasks some tasks get completely missed like who was supposed to edit the introduction no one ra ra their hand who added to the conclusion three people raise their hand like [ __ ] God that only happens if you really poorly practiced at the thing you get really well practiced by the time that you have to coordinate tasks in the Working World you&#39;re going to be goddamn uh you spirit animal of that [ __ ] because you&#39;re you doing it so much reporting monitoring editing other people&#39;s work all that stuff can only be something that you get and learn at a deep level from group work and you start out group work in school in addition to that you get practice at doing a good job in proper social dynamics how to get your team to flow and gel better this is huge huge huge in business success if you&#39;re smarter than everyone for real and you&#39;re almost always right for real but you have no goddamn social skills and you&#39;re a picity butt plug and you just people hate you and you&#39;re like just do it my way losers you&#39;re going to be doing it your way all by yourself and yes the age of AI is almost among us and one person will be able to create billion dooll companies by themselves with AI teamwork that&#39;s just the whole world&#39;s different then but for now and even with AI you&#39;re going to have be around other people you&#39;re going to have to gel well with others because if you do your whole company works well and makes a ton of money you don&#39;t not so great things happen in our own history at RP we had a Time when things were yelling well because it was just like Mr Nick Shaw and myself we hired other people a ton of them worked well a few of them did not group dynamics decayed the jelling was not a thing and our company suffered greatly financially suffered once we adjusted to fit the pieces some people left some people came in some people uh had a come to Jesus meeting some people changed their minds myself included now our social dynamics at RP are the best they&#39;ve ever been and guess what we&#39;re rolling in the [ __ ] dough it is not a coinci ents so it&#39;s a big thing to learn and it&#39;s another way in which school really really helps you in the Working World and lastly School prepares you for the Working World for the real world by giving you practice in very lowrisk design and development problems very lowrisk because like getting a B+ on an essay is not the end of the world but designing an app and putting up to the app store and then it crashes on on first download that&#39;s high risk somebody doing some time for that [ __ ] design development problems what&#39;s involved to them one is making precise goals which are critical how do we know when the project is over if you don&#39;t have precise goals you have no idea when your project is over you have to be good at the outline construction process every good project or damn near every good project is an outline first basic components first then you can do multi-pass outline filling so you have a paper an essay you got the intro Maino one main point two main point three conclusion that&#39;s your first outline that you make the next time you look at that document even 30 minutes later maybe the next day you go okay intro I&#39;m goingon to put a bullet point to say this little hook statement explainer statement last statement of the intro just a note these are bullet points and then main paragraph number one point point point explanation explanation explanation Etc now you have an outline that&#39;s way more filled out then you go in and you fill out the sub points and after three of those multi-pass attempts you&#39;re basically your paper is written on everything except for pros nowadays you just toss that [ __ ] into GPT 40 or Claude and it comes back written as a paper but if you&#39;re doing it at home by yourself and you actually want to train your brain instead of offloading gpts you&#39;re going to have to do the pros yourself but writing Pros writing words that make sense on paper and flow from one to the other so here&#39;s the thing you need to practice that too so good news you practice that but that&#39;s so much easier when you have a properly vetted outline huge deal and constructing one is not something you&#39;re going to get right right off hand so it&#39;s good that you&#39;re get to uh get to go to school and learn how to do it better the revision process once you write your whole final paper even if you write your whole online you may take a look at it and be like a something&#39;s missing here I think we need a fourth paragraph to explain that second concept better or man this thing just doesn&#39;t fit I&#39;m going to take it out oo this is actually much better and all the way down the line revision is a big deal and you need practice doing it in addition you get practice meeting deadlines by splitting your work into Sprints these design development projects are too big to do all at once it&#39;s like 26 hours of work and if you do it in a um all nighter which I would there&#39;s only one good reason to do all nighters at school I&#39;mma cut you the real deal is to like try to get in with like hot girls or hot guys that you&#39;re trying to you know what I&#39;m saying do [ __ ] with it&#39;s cool way to hang out and show your other side and smoke some doobies and have fun all nighters are not productive things you get your work done uh on your own goddamn due time all nighters are [ __ ] stupid uh they&#39;re great super fun and super awesome connecting with people because you&#39;re delirious and everyone&#39;s honest all the masks have come off that&#39;s sweet but you don&#39;t do 26 hours of work straight and get a [ __ ] design project done at school it&#39;s just not going to happen it can happen but you&#39;ll get a [ __ ] shitty grade on it because at the end of the last four hours you&#39;re just hallucinating at that point so you&#39;ll have to practice being like okay we&#39;re going to work on this much of the project this week this much next week this week okay the we after we have a break the week after we got to do this and that you got to split the work into multiple Sprints be able to coordinate it and then you get the project done this is a big deal man this is like launching a rocket One does not simply do this and all of this stuff and many other features is basically a mini version of how the real world looks to the highest earners the highest earners develop Keen intellect to tackle really massive unprecedented problems for which there is no answer key in the back of the book that&#39;s a big deal massive earners have unreal work capacities you guys have heard stories of Elon Musk sleeping at the factory that&#39;s not a day one thing that [ __ ] is is earned you have to you have to really work into that sort of Lifestyle massive earners work in groups all the time and they&#39;re really good and almost always work on massive megalith Mega build design and development problems when you make an app like chat GPT or like the Spotify app or YouTube you don&#39;t just make an app code it in half an hour and there it is real serious multi- integrated approach is what has to start is is the only thing that can make something like that and where do you learn to wet your appetite for that in school now a quick word on learning versus signaling yes yes a lot of school is for signaling it is for telling people around you that you&#39;re smart and can work hard and that you&#39;re admit to college and also hirable after college for a job however it&#39;s not all signaling and signaling is important let me explain how if you&#39;re a Super Genius but you don&#39;t signal it at all like you just don&#39;t do any work in your own mind you know you&#39;re a genius that doesn&#39;t help you become an integrated worker nearly as much or at all as if you signal it you got to show off the stuff at some point how do people know you&#39;re a genius unless you can do the work and then they can confidently hire you and pay you for work they expect if you show up to Silicon Valley company for an interview and they&#39;re like all right where&#39;d you get your degree and you&#39;re like I never went to school and they&#39;re like okay uh do you know how to code you&#39;re like Yep they&#39;re like okay here&#39;s a coding challenge you&#39;re like I&#39;m not going to do that this is a waste of my time trust me I&#39;m brilliant okay sir the door is that way we&#39;ll call you back no one&#39;s calling you back that&#39;s insane when I went to school I went to school with a lot of other smart people that thought that schoolwork was beneath them and it was not sufficiently challenging or interesting to them and they just didn&#39;t do it and uh those people didn&#39;t get into the very best institutions and probably did not get the best Career Success because you got to show off the stuff so yeah doing your homework is a rat race do the rat race remember there&#39;s cheese at the end if you&#39;re not doing schoolwork assignments you had better be doing some crazy ass coding or some [ __ ] yeah Mark Zuckerberg didn&#39;t go to to to class when he was at Harvard or whatever why because he was building Facebook unless you&#39;re doing some [ __ ] like that or diving real deep into un unbelievable intellectual Concepts and really figuring out world problems if that&#39;s what you do in your spare time [ __ ] school to some extent but if you&#39;re just playing PlayStation in your spare time and you really are genetically a genius nobody cares nobody cares and you&#39;re going to be poor and that&#39;s not going to be great and the big question a lot of signaling is can you jump through hoops that&#39;s what a lot of school is about is jumping through hoops and people are like man I don&#39;t want to jump through hoops well if you can&#39;t jump through hoops and won&#39;t when it&#39;s inconvenient or undesirable to you school is the least of your problems compared to life because at school you might get a bad grade and then be able to do take a makeup test and get a good grade again uh because you didn&#39;t jump through hoops but then they talked you into jumping and you&#39;re fine you did it but at your work if you don&#39;t jump through hoops like you&#39;re supposed to the CEO of your current company could fire you and if you did a bad enough job when he talks to other people in the field they&#39;d be like hey that one guy Jim from your office he doesn&#39;t work for you anymore like nope oh he applied for my uh my um Eng team what do you think about him and he sucks you guys I&#39;m going to tell you I&#39;m not directly involved in hiring at our company thank [ __ ] god somebody else multiple other people do that and do get to talk to some of the people that we hire if a serious colleague tells you this person is a non-starter the probability you&#39;re going to hire them is unreal low if let&#39;s say uh Greg knuckles who is the creator uh co-creator of macrofauna we&#39;re hiring and he worked at Maca before guess what we&#39;re doing we&#39;re calling either Jeff or Greg hey guys what do you think about this person if they&#39;re like yeah we have an NDA can&#39;t talk about this but this person and that&#39;s all they say the probability we hire this person or even continue to interview him is insanely low why because there is a chance there are diamond in a rough and there was just misunderstanding for sure am I gonna bet a huge fraction of our company&#39;s worth on that what the [ __ ] is any CEO going to do that are you crazy so if you can&#39;t jump through hoops and you get a reputation at your job or in your industry for being a person who doesn&#39;t jump through hoops it&#39;s all Hoops all the way down people people right now I&#39;m sitting here recording a video a nobody I don&#39;t even know if anyone&#39;s home it&#39;s just Scott and I we jump through hoops by our goddamn selves nobody even gave us this assignment not only did we give ourselves this assignment we&#39;re jumping through our own Hoops it&#39;s Friday by the way it&#39;s Friday night I I could be doing other stuff we&#39;re good at this we jump through hoops that&#39;s why we have money and we&#39;re getting a lot more of it if you don&#39;t jump through hoops and it becomes apparent to other people you&#39;re not going to be suc successful so people are like man I hate jumping through hoops that&#39;s not how success is built I&#39;m sorry now okay you got to be good at school you got to invest yourself into school and get super [ __ ] good at but how good at it I have an answer for you as good as a good effort makes you what means what does that mean that means you have to make sure you have enough sleep never be underslept or almost ever when you&#39;re in your school age make sure you rest plenty so you have plenty of energy mental and physical make sure you&#39;re eating and make sure you having plenty of fun with your friends that&#39;s what life is all about and make sure you&#39;re getting enough of all those to keep your schoolwork difficult and challenging but sustainable and not at burnout levels when you&#39;re like bleeding out of your eyes you can&#39;t even see your math homework anymore it&#39;s time to take the weekend off but when you feel regr on Monday it&#39;s time to get the frying pan in the fire again and do that [ __ ] push yourself rest push yourself rest push yourself rest that&#39;s going to be how work Works anyway and that&#39;s going to be how you expand your work capacity that&#39;s going to be how you get better pushing yourself until you have like a panic attack and you never want to do school again burn out that&#39;s really stupid but never pushing yourself and never seeing the potential you are able to do you&#39;re not going to get as much out of the [ __ ] as you could now for those willing to take the challenge up to be the best they can possibly be to do the school workor trust me in most cases in more cases than not it pays off like crazy to pour everything you have into your schoolwork I didn&#39;t start out a good student someday I&#39;ll inevitably make the Dr Mike&#39;s Journey from useless failure add person to billionaire trillionaire whatever but once I got good at school sometime in early middle high school by the end of high school I was one of the best students in my high school and I did hours and hours of homework mostly because I didn&#39;t have any friends but also because there was a lot of homework to do and a lot to learn and a lot of uh brain training to do when I eventually got to my PhD program uh I was objectively one of the best students in that and this this is top tier [ __ ] I did hours and hours of self- assigned work in my PhD that&#39;s where I literally became Dr Mike in two ways one I gave you a doctorate so you can call yourself doctor and two that&#39;s where I learned Sport Science and I learned a lot of it for my instructors and a lot of it from my colleagues and a lot of my experience training athletes in school but a ton of it was just hours and hours of reading and thinking and reading and thinking and reading and thinking and writing and reading and thinking all the time about all these topics so now when I go on the RP Channel and I blab about exercise or when I go on a podcast you might see me on and they ask me questions on the Fly and they&#39;re like dude how the hell do you answer all these questions so seamlessly this is my first day doing this [ __ ] I spent three years in a laboratory studying this [ __ ] and then I spent another 10 years studying and refining studying and refining so when I get on a podcast you&#39;re look how much prep did you do for this podcast none I don&#39;t need a prep for podcasts what why not because my prep is 15 years in the making a lot of prep that&#39;s how you build success is putting in that [ __ ] work over and over and over and over and because I did all that stuff quote unquote sacrifice at times it did feel sacrificial at times it was the time of my life anything that&#39;s challenging is going to be sometimes one sometimes the other now uh money is not really a problem which is really trippy to say because when I&#39;m on a project or a team for my work work I&#39;m almost never the limiting factor I take it as a a I take it as an element of personal Pride to not be the limiting factor on projects and I&#39;ll tell you this if I&#39;m the limiting factor consistently on projects at RP we&#39;re making a gazillion dollars because holy [ __ ] um I used to be the slowest and the worst student straight up like I was the worst student in my middle school at math by a long shot but then I started doing my homework I did my homework consistently I went above and beyond and above and beyond and above Beyond no one watching no one calling me no one texting me just me in a [ __ ] office doing tons and tons of homework and that is the foundational reason other than genetics or whatever of why I am as successful as I am today because I was in a lot of quiet rooms by myself doing thankless work that barely anyone even asked me to do but if you can do that you&#39;re going to come out of those rooms smarter and sharper and with a higher work capacity and you&#39;re get get into a lot of group work and you&#39;re going to excel at that and eventually people are going to ask you how do you become successful and I&#39;m going to tell you right now because you guys are interested in this kind of [ __ ] you [ __ ] work until you&#39;re real [ __ ] tired and then you rest and you get up and you do it again eventually something&#39;s going to have to happen so as a pantic [ __ ] that I am do your homework and I&#39;ll see you guys next time

Transcript for:Want to Get Rich? Do Your Homework

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Want to Get Rich? Do Your Homework