The reason why people think you're strange is because they're not used to seeing your level of focusness and authenticity! Keep doing what you do brother!!
Damn this is the smartest breakdown of Business that we didn’t have to pay 20,000 at least for.... Most WONT see the VALUE but if you do....the SKY is the Limit!!!!!!!
Came to your videos from Alex Becker, and I'm really happy that I watched your video. Very thought-provoking and informative. I'm not the type to be afraid to listen to varying viewpoints on this subject. I've been one of those people that is totally distracted without a singular Focus and you're right. This kind of advise reminds me of Zig Ziglar. Even before social media apps or on smartphones, he was talking about how all the flood of information with making us stupid as a nation and overly stimulated with TV at that point. Today with smartphones the stimuli is on steroids for our attention and your points are very valid. Rather than being distracted in our Focus it's helpful to find your Polaris star to keep you grounded and hungry. I will not forget this message anytime soon.
This has to be one of the best video's I've seen because it's so true. When I first started my business, all I did was focus on my business with very little youtube/instagram/fb time and I did very well. This year I spent a ton of time on Instagram(grew my following) and RU-vid and I made many mistakes and didn't make as much money as the previous years even though I now have more experience and money. I also realized most youtube videos, even entrepreneurial ones, won't really help you. Most youtubers make their money by selling courses and not by being actually being entrepreneurs and most people that buy these courses don't really find any success in them.
This is 100% the answer thank you for the professional insight, this is exactly what I needed, everyone seeing and doesn’t believe this is the answer just take a look in settings for social media because it tells you the time you spend on this shit and it’s all wasted. Even if your watching entrepreneur videos to a extent it will not help you, go out do shit on your own, make your path, make happiness
SAM! LET ME TELL THE PEOPLE WATCHING THIS YOUR VIDEO, THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ON ABOUT! FOR EXAMPLE! LAST WEEK EVEN BEFORE I CAME ACROSS YOUR VIDEO'S I TOLD MYSELF THAT IM NOT GOING TO BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE FACEBOOK ECT SO MUCH! SO I COULD LEARN MORE FROM ONES LIKE YOURSELF ON UTUBE IN FACT I HAVE NOT BEEN ON FACEBOOK THIS WEEK EVEN THOUGH I HAVE BEEN GETTING POP-UP'S! IM SO GLAD I HAVE WATCHED AND TUNED IN TO YOUR VIDEO'S. YOU HAVE SORTED MY HEAD OUT CONCERNING HUMAN NATURE AND BAD HABITS THAT IS USELESS TO ME! THANKS TERESA
I have chronic fatigue. And while working on that problem as fast as I can, I still need to spend a lot of time in my bed. Whatching youtube vids like this are a great way to work on my future, even when I am sick in bed. Thanks Sam!
Self-awareness is everything. Without understanding how you respond to certain external stimuli you always seem to glaze over these sorts of ideas. Most of society just consumes. They aren’t investing time and energy into self development and learning about human nature. This video is about how to avoid becoming apart of the mediocre masses and how to become a leader and a successful businessperson. Question everything. Test it for yourself. If you’re using social media in a way that has been detrimental to your overall success eliminate it or drastically reduce the time you’re on it. A great book on this topic is DEEP WORK by Cal Newport. Sam I resonated with this a lot, but I also have desires to grow my social media following, because I see an opportunity to gain potential clientele there, but I don’t unconsciously consume everyone’s instagram accounts. I use social media to consciously create and investigate, that’s it. Thanks for the video!
Okay I guess I'll close youtube for a while, just watched 1.5 hr of your videos and I'm fascinated. Now I will take some time to reflect and think about what I learned. Thanks for sharing!
I did a social media fast for a week (deleted all apps except RU-vid). Everytime my mind wandered off and wanted to go on social media, I almost went straight back onto focusing on my work. Even if I wanted to do nothing still kept going on, I could literally only meditate, think, or work. Both 3 result in results.
Thanks for clearing that up. I really liked the section on followers, it made me realise that the people following me here being vastly outweighed by my actual contact list is a good thing. it means im servicing people correctly. Although as someone doing youtube il keep the YT studio app.
The same can be said for gaming. I've noticed an insane difference in how my brain operates since I stopped playing games. It's both fascinating and exciting.
As someone who has adhd cutting out a lot of my social media in the last year, besides my business IG has improved my life greatly in being able to focus and reach my goals. Great vid!
Thank you Sam. The last few minutes, the best advice: use tools to solve your immediate problem. Don't become a slave to other people's agenda. I was reading Deep Work by Cal Thomas this morning and your advise goes hand to hand with his advise. I can't say I will delete You Tube or other social media but I will be mindful how I use it
People still think I'm nuts that I never got a Facebook account, but I cringe to think how much time I would have wasted on one. I really enjoy your weekly videos and hope you keep 'em up, Sam. Really doing a public service, here.
Love this video. I am going to watch at least 10 more before I delete RU-vid. Seriously, your tone and delivery of the info you share is awesome. Love the Polaris Star explanations. You are certainly true to your Polaris Star.
WOW one of the best youtube videos i have watched... thanks for making it clear.... i now know where i am going wrong..... my energy and focus is on too many things.... i want to focus on a health and fitness business.. but keep being distracted. Thanks so much Sam
Love the honesty. Value is number 1. I like the concept of the polaris star and this push pull student appreciation principle that exposes the fame industry of the online teaching business. You appreciate students enough to value their attention more than fame notification bells and buzzes. I've noticed that you're good at building a layer of thinking for the people who follow you. It's not the person who has the most views that give the best advice; it's the tinkerers. The people with the best advice and highest level of focus through . The most famous person is NEVER the person who's the best; it's a warning sign not to follow them.
Great video Sam! Enjoyed it. Been trying to quit mindless browsing on social media for a while now, and start using it only as a tool to get in, get what I need and get out.
It's always great to read through the transcript instead of watching the video. Just like he says, time is your most valuable asset. If you learn better from the video, then watch it.
You are 100% correct. The incentive to be paid by YT by making low quality content and click-bait but lots of it has become a joke. If only people were paid by quality and value. Not to mention how many videos just copy another influencer and on and on. It''s become a carnival of clowns. Love your fresh perspectives.
When people speak about your strange behavior, they're probably referring to your gaze, Sam.😄 One thing I've learned through reading, and watching, and listening is that most of what people tell me are mainly their own personal experience with a topic. I agree with the points Sam makes here, but realize that there are exceptions. Alex Becker has 300,000 followers on RU-vid. He also has a business that generates millions per month in revenue. He also ardently requests followers to his social media. I hardly think Alex has a lifestyle where he eliminates all distractions. Yet by most measures, he can be considered successful. Casey Neistat has 10 million followers. His main product is, of course, his channel itself. But nonetheless, we can also consider him a successful businessman as well. There are billions of people engaged with social media. And in one form or another, SM will be with us probably from now on. Watching it, engaging with it, utilizing it… if you know what you're doing, you can most certainly become successful in the SM arena. My point is that there are several roads that lead to Rome. There are no written rules that state you need to be a monk in order to achieve financial success, if that's your measure of success. If you invented teleportation tomorrow, the world would want it and wouldn't care about your lifestyle. You'd likely become wealthy no matter how you live your life. The general population doesn't care about who you are and how you live. Just supply their wants and needs and you can become successful.
@Redjam And I agree with your comment, 100%. But who says those two things, genuinely helping people and becoming famous, are incongruous? The only thing stopping you from becoming both incredibly famous and incredibly useful is you figuring out a way to do it, nothing else. So you invent a device that can cure bacterial and viral infectious diseases almost instantly. The device costs $99 and can provide a lifetime of use. You decide to tour the world demonstrating the device and selling it. You go on RU-vid and Instagram and mainstream TV channels follow you everywhere. You help millions of people and become world famous at the same time. That's extreme, but not unimaginable. It's just that right now, the norm for too many people is to put their effort into becoming famous only. But there's no written rule saying that you can't make both things work.
@Hossain However, Alex Becker and Casey spent hours each day on social media. It's a part of how they grew their following and subsequently their fortune. Who is to say that the time you spend today on social media may not lead you to reward in the future? Who can honestly predict that? At RU-vid's start, did anyone predict that there would be users making millions here annually? Your focus should be on achieving a desired result. It's not possible for you to see the entire path that's going to get you there, we cannot predict the future. Do you even need mental discipline to get where you need to go? It's sacrilege to say that you don't. But are all the wealthy people currently alive so mentally disciplined? If 95% of the general population aren't, it would stand to reason that a significant number of wealthy people also are not as disciplined as assumed. The life that Sam has adopted is what works for HIM. But it may not work for you. Therefore you should find a path that leads to your result. A path of your own making. In all honesty, I would rather Sam just speak about his product creation, his marketing and a few more non-personal aspects of running his enterprise. The lifestyle stuff is a bit off-putting. I'd like to take his raw information and integrate it into my lifestyle, rather than adopt the severity of his own. If this severe lifestyle change is what he touts in his program, I'm unlikely to purchase. No offense to Sam.
Yeah, it is the intentions you have, and becoming a creator of content as opposed to being a passive consumer, digital media enables us to swap the dynamic, and build our own projects, this is the simple difference.
Crystal Davis Crystal, I understand your point. However it is not possible for you to predict who is wasting their time on social media and who is not. Casey would have been told that he’s wasting his time posting videos on RU-vid. Time revealed that he was not. You’re being a bit narrow in your thinking. There are too many variables for you to state with certainty, for any one person, that they are wasting their time viewing social media. What if they come across something life changing? I’ll state again: the only thing that’s important is knowing what you want. You do not need to follow someone else’s lifestyle in order to get there, you can find your own path. Even one that involves you being overly engaged with social media. Let’s say I have a special needs child that takes up 6 hours of my time, every day. Is my time wasted? From the standpoint of building a business, yes it is. So is the door to prosperity closed to me? No. I’ll have to find a way to get what I want while subtracting 6 hours daily from my available time to get it. Now replace the child with browsing the internet. Or playing video games. Or working out. Or walking outdoors. Or anything. You could apply the same solution to help bring you to the desired result. So this is a matter of opening the way you think about how to get your desired result. By the way, Becker May have adopted a few of Sam’s principles, but he’s hardly a student. Alex made his money while being deeply involved in playing video games.
Hey Sam, Wow, being a fellow Kiwi we are so proud of you.We love your common sense no bullshit approach to things.Thank you. But we will get to say that to you in person shortly. Shaz and Wayne
It's cool to experiment with yourself, because you surprise yourself most times. If turning yourself into a machine will help you live the way you want, then go for it. Am a little sort of in that path. I see the bright side in this, thanks Sam
it makes perfect sense I noticed everyone who spends an overabundance of time on social media eventually start asking for money which tells me their not making money personally
Sam, 90 percent of the time I use RU-vid or Facebook to watch tutorials about Business or documentaries, so I think it depends what you use it for: entretaiment or education purposes. Bogota, Colombia.
Love your videos. I'm not involved in business in any way but you're definitely a compelling and interesting thinker, which is more impressive because a lot of your conclusions and ideas are kind of "outside of the box" but are ultimately consistent with your overall system of thought and come across as being eminently justified (as also proven by your professional success), thereby demonstrating that a fair amount of conventional wisdom (I would suggest of a more recent origin) is not very accurate.
So true, I had a business coach who made over a million dollars a year and didn't have any social media except ads on Facebook and RU-vid. He barely had a website. He was a
This is also great insight into why governments, politicians, and industries don’t care about hypocritical. Pragmatism towards a North Star, above all else. Use evidence to deduce their’s.
Great content, wish i knew about you 5 years ago dude.. My life would've been different right now probably.. But its not too late glad i found your vids
This video was amazing, Sam. I really appreciate the knowledge and the straight forward way you approached everything. I've already subscribed but still certainly be watching more of your videos as I have time. Thanks man and have a great day
Thanks for being so analytical and serious-minded, Sam. I'm in the free trial for Accelerator right now and just that much is so good, I'm going to have to take a month to mull it over and really master the concepts lol. When I can afford the whole thing, I'm definitely in! Going to put what you're giving away for free to work so I can make enough to buy the rest :D
I’m part of the Accelerator and can refer you to get $500 off the regular price. Feel free to shoot me an email to matt@convogrowth.com if you would like to get the referral discount! :)
This again is so simple but so awesome. This video cleared my mind again to what is important! Thank you Sam! Its crazy but I'm litterally waiting for those Wednesdays' videos of yours and although I'm subscribed to a lot of channels, yours are the only ones I have this anticipation for, checking my RU-vid in the morning to see, if it's already out. I think this is due to the fact that they help me sort my thoughts and ideas that become so polluted by so many business advice which often times just don't work - especially the pressure of posting everything all the time on social media. This video made me level up again mentally and I feel more confident in finding out what my true polaris star is. Thank you!
Hey Jana - I’m in Sam’s program and hope you’ve had a chance to do the free trial. Feel free to send me an email if you want me to share my referral link that would give you $500 off the regular price! My email is matt@convogrowth.com :)
I love your content... I definitely become more productive and focussed when I reduce social media and youtube... But I do value the connections as well. Trying to set a time limit on these and stick to it.
I work as a Social Media Consultant, I only use the accounts to manage my clients' pages. The only platform I use is RU-vid, as for me it's a place to watch documentaries and old kung fu films, on friday nights. I allow myself RU-vid as it can be informative and I do like to watch stuff on weekends. But you're spot on, FB, Twitter and Instagram are absolute poison for the mind. Instant gratification is what drives gambling as well, getting a notification when someones liked your posts sort of works in your brain like slot machine. You end wasting so much energy to chase likes and followers.
Sam Ovens if you dont know me you will soon but dude... YOU HAVE MY RESPECT. This was a terrific video and all in one take its gnarly good for bizzarro land standards. Hat tip.
@@raymeester7883 he needs to respond to a dm. im literally looking for investor in a big deal. im making a business out of selling channel managers that pilot ppls channels to silver play buttons. thats a neat way of saying i can sell silver play buttons.
Wow Sam. I have resisted viewing your videos when RU-vid showed your advertisements for quite a while. However I have been watching Alex Becker about a year and in his video from the 18th he said to pay attention to you. Good thing I did. Thank you for the information.
Came here from Becker’s channel. I couldn’t keep up with posting on my blog, RU-vid channel, Instagram and Facebook daily. I deleted everything but RU-vid, however I need to blog and write more. Gary V is right about attention being a commodity. Depending on your product, you will need a certain kind of attention.
Great advice! So many distractions out there. I used to be in an Instagram DM group and it was annoying and kept pulling my attention in the wrong direction daily.
Great video Sam! Agree 100%. I don't use facebook alot, I invest more of my time in youtube videos like yours. Will go fullforce and quit coldturkey on facebook. RU-vid is pretty useful to learn lots of stuff though. Keep up the amazing content!
Really grateful for stumbling upon this video. His message makes a lot of sense. That said, I was confused by his nudge to subscribe at the very end. Earlier he said he’s not hypocritical and I believed him until I heard his call to action. What’s the point of subscribing when he tells us that we should stop lingering on YT?
I understand what he's saying. I think it's all about moderation. Once you develop the producer mindset, you consume less. Too many people get caught up in watching and never Get Shit Done. Too many of the "gurus" put on a show to sell the entrepreneur dream to young kids. So his point of view is very valid. I honestly love to listen to certain podcasts and RU-vid shows simply because they put me in the right mindset to get work done. It serves as background noise, if you will.
