Naveen Jain
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
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It's not just a focus. It is you care enough, the obsession that I'm talking about. You jump out of the bed at 4 a.m. wanting to solve that problem. You go to bed wanting to solve the problem. When you're taking shower, all you're thinking about how to solve that problem, right? That is what takes you through the tough times because you know it is worth it.
Because remember, when times are tough, you give up because you don't think it is worth it. Now, imagine if your kids are in danger, what goes through your mind? You become the superman, superwoman. Nothing gets in your way. You are willing to take your bare hands. And if you have to kill someone with your bare hands, you're willing to do that because your kids are in danger.
And that's what I'm talking about. When you have that type of a laser focus and a purpose, that purpose is what drives you. You notice when people, when they find that kids are in danger, the mom becomes a super mom. There's nothing stops them. And they have this laser focus eyes and nothing gets in the way.
They get that power in their arms that they could probably take down the person of three times their size because you do not want to get in the way of a mom and their kid. That's the power of purpose.
And the way you do that is you take a large, audacious project and you break them down into smaller milestones. And you start every time you achieve a milestone, you celebrate the milestone. So it starts to look like you're making progress because you can't see no progress and keep going down that path. So the thing is, if you say, hey, I'm going to live on Saturn.
Oh, my God, look at my rocket is now firing the fire. And by the way, I can see the pressure on that is 10 gigabits. Great, love it. And you keep baking these milestones to achieve what are these milestones after milestones that you're achieving and that allows you to keep going because now you know you're moving in the right direction.
I was going to actually change the subject on you and maybe we can talk about youth formula, but I was going to talk about the kids since I mentioned the mom and the kids. How does an entrepreneur raise unbelievably great children with the same audacious thinking that they had before they were successful? This is something I always find very fascinating. So we have three children, Ilana.
My oldest is Ankur, 33 years old. He runs a company called Build. And you probably know that Build is another unicorn that he started about two years ago. and he went to Wharton. My daughter went to Stanford. She's a Stanford Mayfield Fellow, and she started a women's health company called Evvy, E-V-V-Y, which is the best women's health company. It is another great company that she started.
My youngest went to Stanford also, and he's a Schwarzman Scholar, and he's a FinTech company that's also a unicorn.
So the interesting thing I'm seeing, three children, knowing that they are growing up in an affluent family, knowing they don't have to work for a day for living, and they decided to take on the audacious projects and take on the challenges, knowing that they don't have to do anything. They could live off the wealth that dad created.
And yet they want to go out and take on some of the biggest project that has never been done and still do that. So what was that? And this to me is about what I call the counterintuitive parenting. So I'm going to give you five or six tips here because every entrepreneur, that is one of the biggest thing I notice is that A successful person generally will end up having kids who are becoming bums.
They just don't ever go out and actually have the same hunger, same desire to go solve the biggest problems to help the humanity live better. So the couple of things, number one thing is you need to redefine what success is. So we told our children while they were young that your success will never be measured by how much money you have in the bank.
It will always be measured by how many lives you improved. And more importantly, your self-worth will never come from what you own. 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. So don't be a parasite.
Other lesson that we learned was that as a parent or as a leader, our job is not to take the kids to the water and make them drink. Our job is to make them thirsty. How do you make them thirsty? By giving them intellectual curiosity.
Once you give them the intellectual curiosity, that is the thirst they will, rest of their life, they will actually find their own water and they will drink it because they are thirsty. And the thirst comes from this intellectual curiosity that what if that something was possible.
And how do you create the intellectual curiosity is learning for them to challenge everything that they take it for granted. Just like I say as a non-expert. Ilana, if your kids were to say, mom, mom, look at such a beautiful blue sky. Normally, most parents will say, oh, amazing, you're right, it's such a beautiful blue sky.
But your job at that point, what if you were to say, you know, the sky doesn't really exist. The sky is not a physical thing. It is simply a figment of our imagination. And by the way, the blue color, There is no blue color. It is simply the electromagnetic waves that come to our retina. They go to our mind and we actually interpret these colors. And by the way, the dog may not see the same color.
The bat may not see the same color. Other species don't see the same color. The color doesn't really exist. We create the colors in our own mind. The reason I mentioned that is not about to teach them about the science. It is about for them to know something they are seeing with their own eyes, something they are absolutely certain about. Even that can be wrong. Everything can be questioned.
Everything can be questioned, right? And once you do that, it starts to change their perspective on everything they see in life. They can say, what if that was wrong? What if we could do it differently? What if that was not true, right? And that is the intellectual curiosity why kids go out and challenge everything.
Just to give you an idea, I still remember during COVID, we worked together and said, dad, I want to start this company where people can pay their rent on a credit card and reward them for a rent And what if there was no charge when you put the rent on a credit card? What if there was no charge? And I said, uncle, what are you thinking about?
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