Get Rich in the New Economy [2022]
Summary
- The wealthiest individuals of the last century were built on oil, but today's economy values attention as the new oil.
- The total available attention is the sum of every person's eyes and ears for 24 hours each day; companies and individuals vie for this attention.
- Attention has become a scarce resource, making it highly valuable in the current digital landscape.
- I had a revelation about the power of attention when I saw young celebrities like Kylie Jenner capitalizing on it to become billionaires at a young age.
- Skills, beliefs, and character traits can hold back entrepreneurs; for me, it was a belief about the value of developing a personal brand for attention.
- After reading "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant," I understood the concept of leverage, which includes labor, capital, code, and media.
- I realized the need for a compounding vehicle in business—a way for efforts to multiply and grow over time.
- Leveraging media allows for scalable impact; it provides the potential to reach millions with a single piece of content.
- MrBeast illustrates the power of media leverage, predicting he will become a "sense of billionaire" due to his mastery of media.
- After a conversation with Dean Graziosi, I committed to using media to make a significant impact and align my actions with my proclaimed goal of making business education accessible.
- I shifted my view to see content creation not as a transient output but as an input for building an audience—the truly compounding asset.
- The ability to monetize attention effectively connects with being patient and consistent in brand building, like The Rock did for 20 years before launching successful products.
- On-brand monetization choices resonate with the audience and amplify the success of celebrity-endorsed ventures.
- Diverse interests and expertise can draw in a varied audience, and the cross-pollination of these audiences accelerates growth and impact.
- I was slow to recognize the shift towards attention as the key resource, but now I see that creating and holding an audience's attention is essential.
- The future's wealthiest individuals will be those who can capture, retain, and multiply attention effectively.
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How To Take Action
I would suggest implementing these strategies to tap into the power of attention, just like MrBeast and Kylie Jenner:
- Understand that your attention is precious. Think about how you can captivate people's eyes and ears for even just a minute every day. It's all about getting other people to notice what you do.
- Start creating content now, but don't expect quick fame. It's an investment. Focus on sharing your skills or passions because the attention you get will grow like a snowball over time.
- Believe in yourself and your message. Just like I had to shift my thinking, you may need to change what you believe about personal branding. Don't be shy to show people who you are and what you've got to offer.
- Pick something to share that's truly you. Just like The Rock with fitness, your content should reflect something real about your life. This authenticity makes people feel connected and keeps them coming back.
- Be patient and consistent. Spend years building your brand and audience without immediately trying to sell something. The longer you wait, the more you can eventually ask from your audience.
- When you choose to monetize, pick something that fits your brand. Conor McGregor's whiskey fit his tough image, so think about what products or services fit your image and will excite your audience.
- Diversify your interests to appeal to a wider audience. Learn from Joe Rogan how having many interests can help you draw people from different places. The more areas you cover, the more people you reach.
- Finally, keep working at it. The wealthiest folks of the future will be masters at grabbing, keeping, and growing attention. Start now, because the earlier you start, the more your efforts can compound over time.
Remember, creating content is not just making stuff; it's building an asset – your audience. And with every person you connect with, that's one more potential fan, one more set of eyes and ears headed your way. So use media as your leverage and watch your impact multiply.
Quotes by Alex Hormozi
"The wealthiest individuals of the last century were built on oil, the biggest companies were all energy companies, fast forward today four out of the top five biggest companies in the world are built on the new oil, and the oil of today is attention"
– Alex Hormozi
"The total attention that exists is every human's eyes and ears collectively 24 hours a day. That is the pie and they're fighting for it"
– Alex Hormozi
"Scarce resources are the things that are the most valuable, and so oil was the scarce resource and now attention is the scarce resource and so that's why attention is the new oil"
– Alex Hormozi
"Leverage is the difference between what you put in and what you get out, the people who make the most money are the ones who have the most leverage"
– Alex Hormozi
"You're gathering the scarce resource, and the audience is the thing that pumps attention over and over again"
– Alex Hormozi
Full Transcript
it was a 600 million dollar deal The Rock had taramana tequila which is now worth like 4 billion Kylie made the front of Forbes as a billionaire and she was 20. Mr Beast he will be a sense of billionaire right now the entire economy has shifted the last century was a century about the power and when I say power I mean like energy the wealthiest individuals of the last century were built on oil the biggest companies were all energy companies fast forward today four out of the top five biggest companies in the world are not built on the old oil but the new oil and the oil of today is attention rise in teens on tick tocks the thing that is being pumped and drilled every day is the attention of the masses you have 24 hours a day that your ears are open you have 24 hours a day that your eyes are open and so the idea is how can we capture as many of those hours from as many people as possible and the war for our minds for me the stuff is all about like helping people connect the total of attention that exists is every human's eyes and ears collectively 24 hours a day that is the pie and they're fighting for it people who are creating the platforms that other companies can come and drill they're basically the digital landscape they envelope the world they're literally buying up the real estate of the collective attention that exists the oil tycoons had to go and buy a state negotiate haggle with the farmer to get us things the new world today they don't need to haggle with anyone they just take it scarce resources are the things that are the most valuable and so oil was the scarce resource and now attention is the scarce resource and so that's why attention is the new oil a friend of mine Ryan Fisher just showed me a clip on his phone of a podcast that I did with him this is when I wasn't really actually I didn't do any podcast I was that wasn't doing any speaking stuff like all I was doing was building gym launcher Prestige Labs I was like screw content just run ads I don't want to be known I want to be rich and unknown it's funny because he was like and now you're not doing that I was very against it and then what happened Kylie made the front of Forbes as a billionaire and she was 20. and at the time I was 27 and I think I had taken home 17 million in income the year before I was on Pace to do like 13 to 15 that next year in terms of take home and I thought like I was hot [ __ ] and then this girl is seven years younger than me [ __ ] crushes me in net worth and I was like Wow and so it was just this huge belief shift for me where I was like what am I doing wrong my ego felt hurt so I started protecting myself and I was like oh no Kris Jenner's her mom she's an absolute gangster she was born into this royalty it's not that she did it it was someone else and blah blah ego protected I feel okay now and then Huda Beauty sold a percentage of her thing for 600 million at the time it's worth over a billion today Conor McGregor came out with proper 12 and 12 months later boom it was a 600 million dollar deal robot 12 and then the rock had taramana tequila which is now worth like four billion just kept seeing this again and again and again to the point where I was like I I believe something that's not true and so I talk about how skills beliefs character traits are the three things that hold back entrepreneurs and this one for me was something that I believed about the world and I was functioning as though and it was not I was trying to find those things because they construct our reality and we make our decisions based on the things that we believe to be true and so I basically was walking through a reality that was not real I then read a book mine of all rubikov which is his Almanac which is really good really quick read and you talked about the four types of Leverage in the book Leverage is the difference between what you put in and what you get out the people who make the most money are the ones who have the most leverage because everybody's the same amount of time it's just who gets the most back for their time and compounding is that now that you've made that trade with your Leverage is it going to compound unto itself and get you even more back because compounding is a form of Leverage and you've got labor you get other people to do stuff for you which means you get more of your time back and you get output above that you've got Capital so people give you money you invest the money that other people give you and you get leveraged by extension the last two levels are code so you got software and media so if you think about this you make a piece of code and then 10 million people can use it that's leverage you put one-time investment you get infinite on the other side with media it's the same way if I take however much time it takes me to make this video one person a million people a hundred million people can see this video which is what gives it leverage when I saw that that was what made everything click for me as to why these people were getting these crazy crazy numbers when they had like I had heard Kylie had a team of seven and she was doing 200 million a year I was like team of seven and was because she had a compounding leverage vehicle built within her business and that was when I looked at my own businesses at the time and realized I had nothing that compounded nothing I almost became dissatisfied with the business that I had because I realized that whatever I wanted to do next I wanted to have a compounding vehicle something that multiplies unto itself over and over again so Warren Buffett could build Berkshire Hathaway because the money itself compounds and compounds and compounds and on a long enough time Horizon when you keep rolling the snowball after you do that for 40 50 years you have a big [ __ ] snowball you have to unlock one of those four types of Leverage and so when I looked at that pyramid I was like well I understand the leverage of Labor so I've got that I'm now in a position where I have Capital that I can deploy now I don't have other people's Capital because that's not what I want to do with my life right now but when I looked at software and media I was like given my skills Etc I could be better at the media side than I could at the code side but I still wasn't there yet I looked at these people that are Ultra famous and I was like huh well I'd still rather be anonymous because they've got all these stalkers and Weirdos hey good morning when you get exposed to 10 million people if you figure one percent of people are crazy you got a hundred thousand weirdos anyways I go to have dinner with a friend of mine uh Dean graciosi who's he gets like weirdos that come to his house and all that kind of stuff and I was like how do you deal with this I was like why do you think this like how is this worth it you just had me down he was like dude if if a couple weird letters you know every day or every week is the price I have to pay for the impact I want to have he's like I pay that price any day of the week and twice on Sunday and there was just like this pause when he said it between when he said it and he looked at me and I just felt like it hit me because I was like God I'm being such a pansy I want to make real business education available to everyone if I say that that's what I actually want to do then I need to match my actions to that otherwise they're just empty words I hate doing something that I don't get credit for later and so the idea of making a short that is going to float today and then disappear into the ether tomorrow right or make a post on Instagram that's going to be gone in a week like no one's ever going to see it again to me taking the scarce resources of my time and then having it vanish I couldn't make that work for me it was a huge belief that I realized the content is not the output is the input the output is the audience and the audience is what compounds the audience is what sticks you're Gathering the scarce resource and the audience is the thing that pumps attention over and over again you've got Mr Beast I think he opened up a restaurant in a local area and had 10 000 people show up at a local restaurant I don't think people realize that he's 24 and media compounds I will make a prediction that he will be a sense of billionaire not just a billionaire but a sense a billionaire and so becoming a master of media is a huge way of creating leverage because if Kylie can just point or Mr Beast can just point and then you have a hundred million people who buy anything you have a billion dollar plus company but once that shifted in me I'd stop seeing it as a waste because I thought if I got one more person who's gonna see this short or see this long or see this post or see this tweet or see this whatever that was the point the reason Huda The Rock Conor McGregor or Kylie were able to translate their attention into money one they spent a long time building it right and amassing that attention because they knew that the moment they did decide to monetize it it was right there think about how long The Rock has been building the brand of the rock before he signed his deal with Under Armor before he made termana before he made zoa 20 years he'd been building this brand people piss and moan about the fact that you know they posted content for four weeks and they're not famous yet one is they waited a really really long time and they didn't ask they just they gave they give to their particular audience the longer you can wait the bigger the ass can be at the end the longer the runway the bigger the plane that can take off from it the next thing is that the thing they chose to monetize from was on brand this is something that Their audience already dug the Rye signing the deal with Under Armor makes complete sense because Fitness is a core part of his brand it's about drive it's about power we stay hungry we devour like all of that is something that Under Armor wanted to tap into to associate their brand with the biggest brands that exist come from the endorsements of celebrities we can't be Kim Kardashian a girl can't be Kim so Kim is the ultimate status then Dolce Gabbana signs Kim and says wear our [ __ ] people then see the status that Kim has and Associate it with Dolce Gabbana and then little lady who's got money and doesn't have status trades her money for the bag that she can associate with Kim to get the status that's the game let's look at LeBron and Nike they wanted to sign him because they figure he is going to be iconic he is Iconic right and they wanted to associate Nike Victory with somebody who's Victorious because a brand can't be victorious in and of itself it's not a person and so they got to find the people who embody the spirit and the values of their brand they make the endorsement people make the association in their mind and then they buy the brand to get the the association of the thing they could never do but always aspire to the people who are the most famous you look at Rogan right he's got UFC he's also a really amazing comedian and loves the comedy community Fitness and biohacking and supplements and all and like brain stuff he loves all that stuff aliens and UFOs and these are all totally different but the more Dimensions that someone can go deep on the more they'll get an audience from Comedy and then they'll cross-pollinate them with fighting it's this total pollination which ultimately compounds the audience even faster and so these Mega stars go deep on many things and capture bigger and bigger audiences that Compound on themselves and they wait because they stay loyal to their brand and then they appeal to a segment of Their audience or they try to cut across the one that appeals to the most of them it took me way too long to realize that the game had changed fundamentally if the Rockefellers were built on oil the new generation of people are going to be built on attention media will only become more expensive over time advertising becomes more expensive content creation becomes more expensive it becomes increasingly fragmented so it costs more to do it across different platform the audience becomes more valuable the cost of getting the audience becomes more valuable which means the best time to start is now the people who will become the new sense of billionaires Etc is going to be people who can do three things they will be able to capture they have to be able to hold they have to be able to multiply attention