Naveen Jain
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
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Counterintuitive Unconventional Principles for Success in Life and Business.
Well, first of all, thank you for hosting me.
And I'm looking forward to listening to your podcast time and time again.
When times are tough, you give up because you don't think it is worth it.
Making money is simply a byproduct of doing things that improve other people's lives. Your self-worth comes from what you create. And if you haven't created anything and you own a lot, you're still a parasite on humanity. Entrepreneurship is simply about solving a problem. It's not about starting a company. You could be inside a company and be an entrepreneur because you're solving a problem.
If you can help a billion people live a better life, you can create a $100 billion company. Non-experts are better at solving the problem than experts are. And here's why. Making money is like having an orgasm. If you focus on it, you're never going to get it. You just have to learn to enjoy the process.
You know, there is a method to the madness, and I'll give you the framework for that.
It's really the strings of experiences, first of all, that makes you who you are. You know, a lot of us tend to go back and trying to find that one single moment that changed us, right? And it comes from this philosophy that we constantly keep saying, it's the last straw that breaks the camel's back. And we all know that it's never the last straw that breaks the camel back.
It's all the other straws that were there before, right? So it's really the strings of experiences together that makes us who we are. Every experience in childhood that you have, good, bad, how your parents actually nurture you. And then as we get along, I would love to tell you a little bit more about this idea of counterintuitive parenting and how we incorporate that into our own world.
Because, you know, when you are born and when your kids are born, they don't come with a user manual. It's not like, here's who I am, here's how you operate me, and here is my user manual, right? I wish. I wish, right? The point is, we all wish that way, but that's not how it happens. And we do our best to raise children. But what's really interesting is that
If you grow up in humble beginnings like many of us do on who are the first time entrepreneurs, we all grow up in very humble beginnings. And we believe that shapes us who we become because we still have that hunger, that desire to actually do something. And it could be a desire to obviously be financially successful.
But as you will learn, making money is simply a byproduct of doing things that improve other people's lives. And I'll give you how I look at starting every venture. I can't find wood here anymore in the office. Here, I have one for you. Here you go. It's a knock on wood. Every company so far I've started has been wildly successful.
You know, there is a method to the madness of how do you think about these audacious moonshot ideas? And I'll give you the framework for that. And then as we go along and we'll talk about that, now that once you become successful, how do you start to bring that type of hunger into the children? And how would you go about doing that?
So with that, first of all, I want to thank you, Ilana, for hosting me here. You have been an unbelievable mentor to millions of people who listen to your podcast. And the fact that you're dedicating your life to improving other people's life is something that everyone could learn from. So it's not what I'm going to tell you that is going to be important.
It is everyone who is listening to you every single episode. They need to know that your sincere desire to help the humanity, to help everyone who's listening to it, make them better with every guest. You give your time. The most important thing you have in your life, your time to actually doing it for others, someone else. And that to me is so commendable. So my hat's off to you and thank you.
Ilana, so first of all, every time you start any project, you should ask yourself three questions. Why this? Why now? Why me? And I'm going to explain this to you in very simple things, how you go about doing it. So why this is about, go backward and ask yourself, God forbid, I am actually successful in solving the problem that I set out to solve.
Would it help a billion people live a better life? It could be 100 million. It could be 10 million. It could be 1 million. Would it help people's life be better? If you can help a billion people live a better life, you can create a $100 billion company. But you don't wake up in the morning and say, what should I do to create a $100 billion company?
Making money is simply a byproduct of doing things that improve people's lives, right? And a lot of young people who just don't seem to understand that concept. So I explained to them in a way they do do, which is making money is like having an orgasm. If you focus on it, you're never going to get it. You just have to learn to enjoy the process.
So every time you start, whatever it is, ask yourself if you're successful, would it actually move the needle? Would it help lots of people live better life? The second part is why now? So why now has actually two pieces to the puzzle. Number one is,
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