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If in a group, one person, or one being, when animal, whatever, brings more to the table,

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you are now envious of that person and what it does is it elevates the rest of the group to go and achieve the same, which is good for the collective.

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The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game.

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This podcast, the game, is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to build a acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio.

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My hope is that you use the lessons to grow your business and maybe someday soon partner with us to get $200 million beyond.

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I hope you share and enjoy.

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What I want to talk to you about today was a conversation that I had, and we were having conversation about motivation, and I figured out, share it with you, because I think it was of a lot of value.

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And so I was sharing that recently, I had delineated between the feelings of envy and jealousy.

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And how important it has been for me to be able to first name those emotions so that I could then analyze how I was feeling about them and the actions that I was subsequently take as a result of them.

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And so I want to at least first cover those and then I'll tell you about our conversation.

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And so envy is having the desire for something that someone else has that you do not have.

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So you are lacking and someone else has something that you want and do not have that is envy.

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Jealousy is when you have a threat that someone is going to take something that you have that they do not have.

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And so for example, I'll give you an example of each.

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So envy, I may be envious of a friend of mine.

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So I was actually talking to a good friend of mine who runs a big weight loss company, and right now he's doing better than I am.

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And now I am envious of his success. I am. I can feel it. I'm envious. I got off the phone.

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I was like, I am envious of you, right? On the flip side, if someone comes to talk to Laila, right?

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It is the fact that they pose the threat of taking attention or her attention that I think should continuously belong to me that I would feel jealous over.

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I haven't had, I haven't felt jealousy in a long time, but that is, that is an example.

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It could also be like with your kids. If you have some, you know, some other adult in their life starts taking their attention or has more influence over them,

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you are jealous of the influence that that person is now threatening your influence over your child, right?

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So two examples, they're nuance, but I think it's important.

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And when I was talking about this, I was talking about how I think envy gets a bad rap, and I'm not going to go into the spiritual

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religious side of this, or even the happiness side of this, because I think envy absolutely does not make you happy.

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But I do think that envy will make you successful, right? And so this, this is where I want to kind of dive into this.

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Envy is adaptive, right? As human beings, this is actually from our old brain, right?

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This is animals have this too. They are envious of one another, and it's because if in a group, one person or one being, one animal, whatever, brings more to the table,

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you are now envious of that person, and what it does is it elevates the rest of the group to go and achieve the same, which is good for the collective,

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not happier for each of the individuals, but as a pro-survival tool, right?

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And so for me, understanding this, and at least being able to name the emotion rather than saying, I don't like this guy, or I am angry at this person,

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or having this negative feeling that you cannot put words to, instead being able to say, I am envious has been very relieving for me, because now I can actually tell those people, hey, I am envious of you.

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And for some reason, I think it just creates another level of candor, because it's a certain level of vulnerability, and saying, you have something that I wish I had.

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But then you'll notice that the conversation is not defensive on that person's part. Most of the time they're like, well, let me help you.

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And it's only when we guys are intentions, or trying, or trying vain, you know, pretend to be a different way than we are, where people also can sense that you're being disingenuous, like great job, man, right?

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When realize deep down, and they can tell from your subtle tonality changes, and the way you look, that you're actually not happy for them.

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And so I think if you can at least say it, then it actually gives you power. In terms of judging your motivations, because obviously you might think that envy is a bad motivation.

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It is my belief that I would rather deal with people who do good things for bad reasons than bad reasons for good things.

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Or I said the same thing twice, but they do the right thing for the wrong reasons rather than the wrong things for the right reason.

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All right, I'd rather someone who does the right outcome. And he gave me an example that was really powerful. He said a friend of his was a top Navy seal.

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And, you know, one of the best Navy SEALs, he trains Navy SEALs just a total badass, right? And before that, he was an EMT.

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And he talked about his experiences being an EMT is that most people think, you know, EMTs have to be really caring that you want them to, you know, they have to save these people's lives every day.

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And he said the Navy SEAL was saying I was not compassionate at all. I didn't really care that much about the person who was on the table in front of me, but what I did care about was my stats.

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I cared about the status of being the best. I wanted to have the fastest to the hospital. I want to have the highest survival rates, highest success rates of the people that were under my care because I cared about myself being the best.

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And so the question is, if you were the person who was on the table having a heart attack, would you rather have the compassionate EMT, or would you rather have the self interested EMT, who is doing it for status?

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Well, if it were me, I'd rather have the guy who wanted to pride himself on being the best in the world and didn't care about me at all because I knew his result was going to be more pro me than the other persons.

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And so I think that as humans, as entrepreneurs, we judge ourselves a lot on our motivations and our intentions, but I think that if we can take a step back in A, name the emotion so that it's not this amorphous thing that we can understand.

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But then take the next step and say, is this a pro adaptive emotion? Is this something that's going to help me? Or is this an emotion that's going to drive me to do something that is negative?

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And I think at least even in naming that, we can increase the time between emotion and action. And the further that time gap is, in general, the better the quality of the decisions we make because the more rational we are.

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We're never completely rational because we're emotion driven beings and we have limbic systems that override things.

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But the more we can decrease the triggers of the emotional triggers that cause us to make bad decisions, ultimately the better decisions we make.

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And so I say all this to say, big picture.

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First, naming the emotions is important. Second, it creates space so we can make better decisions. Third, we can analyze this as just to say, is this something that is going to help me in my life or is this something that's going to hurt me?

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And then as a result of this, we don't have to judge ourselves as strongly on why we are doing things and rather what is being done.

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Because candidly, I am a very envious individual and maybe this is me just rationalizing my own negative emotions. Who knows?

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But at least for me, saying it that way and framing the thought process in that way has helped me feel better about myself and just not really just less bad if that's probably a better way of saying it and not constantly berating myself for having desires that I think are wrong.

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And so Dan Sullivan said this and I'll end with this is that when people want something, if you want to make more money, if you want to have a bigger house, you want to have a bigger car, you want to build a podcast studio, whatever, right?

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He said wanting is reason enough because so many times we ask, but why do we want that? We're probably not going to change the desire.

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And so letting us letting ourselves desire things and giving ourselves permission to desire things and myself specifically has been incredibly freeing and what it's done has given me a tremendous amount of my attention back that used to be allocated to analyzing why I'm feeling this way or why this is right or why this is right.

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And instead accepting the fact that I want something and that wanting it is okay as long as it is not something that is hurting other people and that is not something that is hurting me.

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And so anyways, I hope that makes sense. I hope that provide you some value or hopefully maybe some clarity around putting words to your own emotions, the decisions that results from them and whether they are positive or negative and eliminating the judgment from that equation provided it's something that helps.

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