Learn how you are only as good as the people you have around you.
What gives you the age? Well, it's simple. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and your dream more than you do until one day you believe it too. So it's who you are before you stand up in front of people. Not because you're standing up in front of people. I am who I am as Sean Khaled.
Before I do public speaking not because I do public speaking. I am showing Kellogg before I do radio, not because of radio. Before I do acting, not because of acting. My strength comes from the people around me. I'm only as good as the people are surround myself with. I have an excellent team that's helping me put this together.
Thank you to Casey and Velma and lots of other friends and influence Does that help me be good to you? That's what gives me the edge, my life and who I bring to the table. I have loads of people and experiences and wonderful lives that I've been able to have the honor of being part of, and I learned my craft as to how I can deliver that to you. And that's where my credibility comes from. I'm not dependent on this working, it's really working. And now I'm sharing that with you.
So you have to know your craft, right? craft is important. Everything we've been teaching you, you must know it and you must know to Well, now how do you get to know your craft? Malcolm Gladwell from his book, outliers, where he goes in figures out why is Tiger Woods tiger woods? Why is Michael Jordan who he is and the Beatles and the list goes on one of the most important things to make you good at what you do is time 10,000 hours. You need to spend to become a genius.
Now it only takes 4000 hours to be a teacher of anything, to know it completely, but 10,000 hours to become really good. In fact, if you want to be world number one, you got to spend more time than anybody else. Tom is what's going to make this happen for you. And 10,000 hours is it works to roughly three hours a day, seven days a week, 14 years. Now, if you want to make it shorter, do it six hours, and then you do it five years, and the story continues. You have to have to understand that only time makes you better.
So I shade in one of my stories where I did public speaking and what became a very important person in my life was the person that said you really really are bad as a public speaker. You really are. Then began my journey where I put the time in and I never refused a opportunity to be able to speak. It's very common for me to do that. 300 speeches in one year, the more I do it. Now, hold on a second.
The more you do it, the better you're going to be. Then being you, as I was saying in the beginning is the most important thing. You have a story. Use your story, your background, your family, your scars that you carry are uniquely yours, your stories that you earn, or uniquely yours, so give you a really amazing story of a woman I know who had her eye but an art by a dog. And she went home with her eye in her hand to her mother, who took sugar, put her head back, pour the sugar into our socket and shove it back and then she was taken to the doctor. And after more than seven hour operation, they restored her eye and she can see perfectly through that.
Now, what a story. Now imagine if she was standing up here and she was sharing that story with you. So you have stories big or small is irrelevant. You don't have to be the person that had all these failures to be a success. People want to know what you're doing to get it right. And if you've been getting a draft with not much failure, that's not a problem.
What gives you the edge is actually you, and home are the one that owns that story. If you want to copy me, thank you, I really appreciate it. But you must aim at me to miss me. I miss you too, but my aim is getting better. Now what you want to do is you want to aim and as you get close to me, you want to do what I do. So if you want to do what I do, you do what I've done to be able to do what I do and I'm teaching you how to do that.
And then you just want to get better than me. You want to climb on my shoulders and reach a little bit higher and it is all about you, that's what gives you the edge. And then you add everything to that. And then you probably gonna say something like Ken touches Dan and the power of these dream brings you here is man, Sean, Colorado.