Dan Fleyshman Shows You Why 100% of Influencers Are Leaving Money on the Table

I'm in the gym this morning.

I'm listening to an old Gary Vee podcast because I was tired of listening to Diplo or Side Piece or something.

And he made a point I've never heard him make before, which might've been one of the most impactful things I've ever heard the guy say in all my life.

And he's been a real, I don't know if I have any influencer, it's him.

He brought up the point that the successful people of the world are either Vader or Yoda.

And I realized I'm Vader and I know you're Yoda.

Mm-hmm.

So the Vader are the people who got through to success through like dark

forces.

I used to have a sign over my office that said the best revenge is massive success.

So my success came because I was motivated to be revengeful.

Revengeful of what? shitty time in high school, people who looked over me, didn't think I was important, didn't validate me, more motivated to do things to beat my competitors from doing them rather than for like my own gratitude or self-advancement, have to get a bunch of money so other people see that I have stuff and think I'm important and I feel validated through bullshit reasons.

Then there's a small subsect of people who got really successful because they were just mission-driven.

They were passionate.

They were good to people.

They focused on the journey, not the goal.

They really invested their time in bettering people and leaving the things they were building in a better place.

I feel like you're that guy.

You, in my mind, are a Yoda, but you also do focus on the money because you know how important that is.

You can't help others unless your oxygen is flowing for yourself.

Mm-hmm.

The Yoda concept to me is, I like to say, do or do not.

There is no try.

I say it all the time.

I must have texted it three times in the last three days.