Pod Insights The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks Larry Winget: “You Cannot Succeed into The Next Decade with The Information You Have Right Now.” About this episode Larry Winget delivers a blunt and powerful lesson on personal growth, success, and responsibility. He explains why success is about more than just doing more—it’s about becoming more. This episode will challenge you to improve your character, expand your knowledge, and take action on what you learn so you can create the life you truly want. Source: The Ya Gottas For Success circa 1991. Hosted by Sean CroxtonFollow me on InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript 0:00 Speaker 00 The sad truth is this, 58% of our society will not read a nonfiction book after high school. 58% won't read any nonfiction book after high school. Average American reads one book of any kind per year. Only 14% of our society will go in a library or enter a bookstore this year. Of those that walk out with the book, only 10% will read past the first chapter. That's right.
0:40 Speaker 01 Welcome back to the Quote of the Day Show. I am your host, Shawn Croxton, at seancroxton.com. We've got Larry Winget back on the show today. Our QOD is this, you cannot succeed into the next decade with the information you have right now. So he's going to talk about the other half of the equation of life. How it's not just about doing, doing, doing. It's also about being, being, being, right? Be, do, have. And so he's going to talk about what it takes to be the right kind of person. He's also going to give you a hack that will allow you to absorb decades of experience in just a week's time. This talk cannot be more relevant in this AI age. You have to be learning how to use AI.
1:24 Speaker 01 I'm in two different AI classes right now, just learning how to keep up because you have to be sure you don't get left behind. Larry Winget is coming up.
1:36 Speaker 00 Most of what I get hired to do when I go into companies are the you gotta do's. They'll say, Larry, just tell us what we gotta do to make more sales. Larry, tell us what we gotta do to become better leaders. Tell us what we gotta do to give better customer service. Tell us what we gotta do. Everybody wants a list of things they've got to do in order to become a success. It's a simple principle we've all heard before and everybody understands it. In order to have more, all you've got to do is do more, right? Sure. And so everybody says, just give us a list of what we gotta do. Now, most won't do it, but everybody's real comfortable when they got a list, right? It's because those people don't understand that that's not all there is to it. There's more to life than just doing certain things. We only understand half of the equation of life.
2:18 Speaker 00 In fact, it's kind of like those people that you see late night on Sunday night on television, on those big number channels, being interviewed by John Davidson.
2:29 Speaker 00 You know the guys I'm talking about? Saying, "All you gotta do to become a phenomenal success, make a lot of money, is buy all my books and all my tapes and all the distressed property in the entire world, and you too can have a Hawaiian shirt just like me." You know those guys? And they may be great folks. But see, I have a problem with anybody that says, "All you have to do to have more in life is just do a certain list of things." Because there's more to it. See, the full equation of life says, "In order to have more, you must do more, but in order to do more, you must be more." You must be more. And that's the hard part where most people slip up. It's being more. Now, what does it take to be the right kind of person?
3:14 Speaker 00 I'm gonna give you just a few. In order to be the right kind of person, first of all, it's very important to be the right kind of person. In fact, Carnegie Institute of Technology did a study that says 85% of where you get a job, keep a job, and excel at a job, 85% is based on your character. 15% is based on your technical skills and ability. And yet, most of our efforts are on technical skills and ability. And yet, our success comes from who we are, the kind of person we are. CEOs, in a recent study, said they would pay more for the ability to get along with others than any other skill. You've just gotta be a nice person. That's what it takes. The next thing it takes to be the right kind of person is you gotta be smarter than you are right now. Now, that's a flash for some people.
3:57 Speaker 00 And they said, "No, no, you don't understand. I'm 50 years old, I'm as smart as I'm ever gonna get." That's not true. You gotta spend some time getting smarter than you are right now. John Nesbitt, in his book, "Megatrends," says that the knowledge mass of the United States is doubling at a rate of every five years. The knowledge mass is doubling every five years. How many of you have been around five years? Raise your hand. Don't answer this next one. How many of you are twice as smart as you were five years ago?
4:31 Speaker 00 If the answer is no, you are falling behind. That's true. If you're not twice as smart as you were five years ago, you're falling behind because there's a very good chance that somebody else is twice as smart. And their chances of becoming successful are much better than yours. Nasbun in his new book, Megatrends 2000, said that the knowledge mass in the United States in the year 2020, that is only 28 years away. The knowledge mass then will be doubling the rate of every 35 days. Every month, people will be twice as smart as they were the month before. What are you doing to keep up? You've got to figure out something to keep up. You've got to figure out ways to be smarter than you are right now. Now luckily, there are ways. There really are. You see, we all heard growing up that something was the best teacher. What was it?
5:15 Speaker 00 Experience. Experience is the best teacher. Now here's the problem with experience. It takes too long to get and it costs too much.
5:24 Speaker 00 Wouldn't you agree? You don't have enough time or money to make all the mistakes it's going to take for you to learn what you have to learn in order to be a success. You don't have that much time. So you have to learn from other people's experience. You have to. You see, because no matter what area of your life you've decided to become a success in, there's a very good chance that somebody else has become a success there already. Wouldn't you agree? And there's a very good chance that if they took 20 years to learn how to become a success in a certain area, that they probably wrote a book about that. And you could go out and you could read that book and take advantage of 20 years of experience in about a week's time of reading that book. That just makes good sense, doesn't it? The sad truth is this. 58% of our society will not read a nonfiction book after high school.
6:09 Speaker 00 58% won't read any nonfiction book after high school. Average American reads one book of any kind per year. Only 14% of our society will go in a library or enter a bookstore this year. Of those that walk out with the book, only 10% will read past the first chapter.
6:26 Speaker 00 That's right.
6:28 Speaker 00 And they wonder why they're not doing better. They wonder, "I don't understand." For instance, if there was a book out there that contained about 30 principles or so, that if you followed those principles and implemented them in your life, you were guaranteed more success, wouldn't you want to read that book? Say yes. Good news is, I wrote that book.
6:57 Speaker 00 But you know, it's not important whether you read my book or somebody else's book. The point is, you've got to read some books. You've got to go out there and take advantage of the knowledge that is out there and the experience of other people. You've got to do that, or you can never expect to become the success that every single one of you said that you wanted out of life. You've got to take advantage of the material that's out there. You cannot succeed into the next decade with the information you have right now. You can't succeed next year with the information you've got right now. I don't think you'll be any better off next month with the information you've got right now. You must find ways constantly to be adding to your base of knowledge. Now, let me make one thing perfectly clear about knowledge. We all heard growing up that knowledge is power. Remember that? Nothing could be more wrong.
7:41 Speaker 00 Knowledge is not power. Implementation of knowledge is power. Once you've got it, you've got to do something with it. You've got to get started. You've got to put it into action. Action makes the difference there. You must become more in order to do more. And the way you become more is by becoming smarter and taking advantage of the experience base of the other people that have already done it.
8:05 Speaker 01 That was Larry Winget. His website is larrywinget.com. You can watch today's entire talk on YouTube. It's called "The Yagatas for Success circa 1991." All right, my friend, I will see you tomorrow. We've got Dan Pena making his debut appearance on the show after I've been looking for a clip to feature him with for like five years. And so be sure to tune in for that. I'll see you tomorrow. Come out, peace.
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