Alex Hormozi, Shelby Sapp, and Noah Kagan All Have This One Things in Common | SPECIAL EPISODE w/ Jay Yang

Um-

Mm-hmm

... someone from Acquisition said, "Hey, we're looking for an Instagram strategist," and they asked Jeremy, "Do you know anyone?" And Jeremy connected us.

Um, and so, you know, side point, like I think I call this luck farming.

Every compliment or note of appreciation that you send out there increases your luck surface area.

And so, like I didn't-- I genuinely did not want anything from Jeremy, and I was not trying to get anything from him.

But just the fact that I sent him that note, like, as you can see, kind of helped shape a lot of the things further down the road.

Um, but I got this opportunity to work at Acquisition, and so I was-- I had this crossroads of being like, "Okay, should I stay in college, continue running my marketing agency?" Um, it was great like work-life balance.

I got to work in the mornings, go to class in the afternoons, and play basketball and, you know, chill with friends.

Or do I drop out? Do I shut the business down? Do I move across the country but join Acquisition.com and probably learn a lot and, and accelerate my career that way? And I remember feeling all this emotion of like, you know, am I gonna get f- I feel FOMO if I m- if I drop out of college.

I also don't wanna disappoint Alex and Layla, like, you know, I, I look up to them.

And so I said, "Screw emotion.

I'm just gonna think about this as logically as possible." And I asked myself, "What are the categories or the, the things that matter to me in my career most right now?" And I ended up boiling it down to four things.

Number one was learning.

How much am I gonna learn, uh, specifically about the skills that are the constraint of my career? Number two was how much am I gonna earn in each of these opportunities? And more importantly, how much is this going to increase my capacity to earn? Number three was network.

Who am I going to meet by being at the company or just being around them? And who am I gonna meet by the people who are coming in through the doors, the business owners? And then number four was story.

How well does this opportunity create future opportunities? And so I weighed both career paths, staying in college, running the business, dropping out, joining Acquisition, weighed all four, four of those categories out of 10, so out of 40 for each of them, and just ranked it up as, like, m- mathematically as possible, and the acquisition.com opportunity won.

And so I said, "Okay, this is, this is what I'm gonna take."

Love that.

I mean, I think that, again, that, that framework I don't think is, you know, uh, age-bound.

That's not, you know, u- more useful to a 20-year-old than a 30-year-old than a 50-year-old.

I mean, I think each of those, depending what you value in your career and in your life, but I think those four are a really good barometer for, like, choices and decisions.

And, um, often I think, you know, a lot of people outweigh the financial incentive or the learning with, with, you know, negating the growth opportunity or, you know, number three over, you know, one and two.

And so I, I really like that mental model, um, to evaluate something like that.

Um-

Mm-hmm

... someone from Acquisition said, "Hey, we're looking for an Instagram strategist," and they asked Jeremy, "Do you know anyone?" And Jeremy connected us.

Um, and so, you know, side point, like I think I call this luck farming.

Every compliment or note of appreciation that you send out there increases your luck surface area.

And so, like I didn't-- I genuinely did not want anything from Jeremy, and I was not trying to get anything from him.

But just the fact that I sent him that note, like, as you can see, kind of helped shape a lot of the things further down the road.

Um, but I got this opportunity to work at Acquisition, and so I was-- I had this crossroads of being like, "Okay, should I stay in college, continue running my marketing agency?" Um, it was great like work-life balance.

I got to work in the mornings, go to class in the afternoons, and play basketball and, you know, chill with friends.

Or do I drop out? Do I shut the business down? Do I move across the country but join Acquisition.com and probably learn a lot and, and accelerate my career that way? And I remember feeling all this emotion of like, you know, am I gonna get f- I feel FOMO if I m- if I drop out of college.

I also don't wanna disappoint Alex and Layla, like, you know, I, I look up to them.

And so I said, "Screw emotion.

I'm just gonna think about this as logically as possible." And I asked myself, "What are the categories or the, the things that matter to me in my career most right now?" And I ended up boiling it down to four things.

Number one was learning.

How much am I gonna learn, uh, specifically about the skills that are the constraint of my career? Number two was how much am I gonna earn in each of these opportunities? And more importantly, how much is this going to increase my capacity to earn? Number three was network.

Who am I going to meet by being at the company or just being around them? And who am I gonna meet by the people who are coming in through the doors, the business owners? And then number four was story.

How well does this opportunity create future opportunities? And so I weighed both career paths, staying in college, running the business, dropping out, joining Acquisition, weighed all four, four of those categories out of 10, so out of 40 for each of them, and just ranked it up as, like, m- mathematically as possible, and the acquisition.com opportunity won.

And so I said, "Okay, this is, this is what I'm gonna take."

Love that.

I mean, I think that, again, that, that framework I don't think is, you know, uh, age-bound.

That's not, you know, u- more useful to a 20-year-old than a 30-year-old than a 50-year-old.

I mean, I think each of those, depending what you value in your career and in your life, but I think those four are a really good barometer for, like, choices and decisions.

And, um, often I think, you know, a lot of people outweigh the financial incentive or the learning with, with, you know, negating the growth opportunity or, you know, number three over, you know, one and two.

And so I, I really like that mental model, um, to evaluate something like that.