Not for myself, but for my brother: he went from not hard-working at all (barely worked, had no direction) to more ambitious working levels (~50 hour weeks, big ambitions).
The trigger was mostly a few conversations with his big brother (me) about what he wanted to do with his life (when he was a high-school senior with grades low enough he couldn’t go to university), giving him the Four-Hour Work-Week, and then giving him a bit of direction on next steps once he became obsessed with the idea of building his own business.
From that point on, it was a night-and-day difference in work ethic (he has been building businesses since then and working in the PE/SaaS space, he‘s working towards building his own private equity firm). He had essentially never read a book in his life, and then started devouring business and self-improvement books/courses daily. The great thing is that he was taking action, not just reading the books.
Not for myself, but for my brother: he went from not hard-working at all (barely worked, had no direction) to more ambitious working levels (~50 hour weeks, big ambitions).
The trigger was mostly a few conversations with his big brother (me) about what he wanted to do with his life (when he was a high-school senior with grades low enough he couldn’t go to university), giving him the Four-Hour Work-Week, and then giving him a bit of direction on next steps once he became obsessed with the idea of building his own business.
From that point on, it was a night-and-day difference in work ethic (he has been building businesses since then and working in the PE/SaaS space, he‘s working towards building his own private equity firm). He had essentially never read a book in his life, and then started devouring business and self-improvement books/courses daily. The great thing is that he was taking action, not just reading the books.
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This made me chuckle