One of the things you will inadvertently do when you're learning and growing and building is you're going to become an expert in something. So for example, when I created my first movie, the Bucks County massacre, and my second movie The Kings Highway. Both of these were distributed online and DVDs worldwide. I became an expert in filmmaking. By accident, I just wanted to make a movie, I wanted to learn how to use a camera. So I bought the equipment.

I spent so much time going to video events and talking to videographers and volunteering my services to video production companies, going to film festivals, watching movies, learning the history of filmmaking back to the 1800s by reading articles and reading Wikipedia, and kind of getting like a master's degree in filmmaking just from reading and learning and watching all the old movies from Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin and you know, all of the old movies and just trying to learn how cinematography and transition And and and effects came into play and how dialogue was created. I can't tell you how many screenplays I've read over the years and and started to write but I learned how to write a screenplay by reading screenplays. becoming an expert in something is crucial. Because even if you don't become successful in your own startup with all the skills you're learning, you will now have skills that are valuable to the outside world.

Now, I'm a consultant for so many different companies, whether I'm doing web development, or videography, or mobile apps, or workflow documents and prototypes and UI UX design, even music for for movies and writing as a journalist and writing books and writing screenplays and getting paid to write for other publications. You know, all these skills that I've acquired over the years, I'm now able to make money off of them to the outside world. So become an expert in not just one thing, but many things. And there's that 10,000 hour rule where if you do something for 10,000 hours, you automatically become an expert in that In that thing because you did it for 10,000 hours, so I don't know if it's exactly 10,000 hours or not. It could be could be not I'm not sure. But I'd become an expert in so many things that that means I've, you know, done things for hundreds of thousands of hours.