Pat Flynn
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147 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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That confirmation bias. A few hours later, I checked my email, nothing. Reconfirming that I was not meant to do this. Sent more emails out to architects and engineers. Later that afternoon, I got an email. PayPal. Come on. Notification of payment received. $18.38 because of PayPal fees. And I was like, where did this, I made money. That was the first money I had ever made online.
And immediately, not two minutes later, I thought something was gonna go wrong. I thought the FBI was gonna show up, you know? I could go through hours with you talking about all the times I didn't believe that I was supposed to do what I was supposed to do. Even when I was making 35 to $40,000 a month. You talk about rich, but with scarcity. That's the mindset I had.
I was still looking for architecture jobs, even though I was generating revenue. And it wasn't until I let go of who I thought I was supposed to be, that sunk cost and literal cost that I put into college, into architecture, not wanting to disappoint my parents, all those things played a role in me believing that I was supposed to still be an architect.
Yet there was this new world, the business world. And essentially I was climbing two ladders at the same time. How can you climb two ladders safely at the same time? That's tricky. But that's literally what it was like. So eventually I had to let go of one ladder, which was scary and dangerous. But this new ladder had endless height to it. It had opportunity. It had more freedom.
Freedom was way up there. Didn't know how I was gonna get there, but I knew that there were other people who had stepped on those rungs before me. And so I trusted myself. I had to let go to grow.
Yes. However, I've always sort of looked for the next fun thing. I think that's something that has helped me. I do a lot of things. Luis has mentioned a lot of the things I'm into now, Pokemon. I also have an invention called the SwitchPod. I have started and sold software companies. I'm an advisor to 12 different companies. I do a lot of things. And I've learned over time that
And this is what they often say. You have to do one thing and just like lean into that really well. Right. Have you heard that before? Lean into the one thing. There's a lot of people who say that. And that's great. If you are disciplined enough to do that, I am not.
So when I was told to do that and tried it, that's when I started to feel like this wasn't fun because I wasn't able to scratch that creative entrepreneur itch that I had. And so I've developed a framework called the 20% itch rule, which isn't anything really new.
Google practices this, I know a lot of other friends of ours practice this, where 80% of your time is dedicated to the things that you are committed to, the things you've already said yes to, which you reserve and even protect 20% of your time for experimentation, for fun, for something new, to allow you to scratch that it's such that if that were to fail,
That's okay because you still have the 80% that you're taking care of. You're still taking care of business. But honestly, even when I've quote unquote failed in that 20%, I've started and failed a lot of software companies and other things in that 20% of time, it's always a lesson learned that then I can apply to the next thing.
Because I've created something before. I have literal proof that I can do it. It just didn't do it this time. But I have proof, and that's what I found that best combats, at least for me, all of these feelings. The imposter syndrome that comes in. Even backstage, I wanted to throw up. Literally. And I've done this 350 times.
But I think about, well, I've been on stage before, and I have delivered value, and I've spoken to Lewis before. There's no reason for me to believe that this is going to be bad. I have proof that all these feelings are false. And when I'm starting new businesses, I think about the same thing.
And for anybody out there who's starting a business and wants to really get over that imposter syndrome, my best advice would be something I call the 1-1-1 strategy. Find one person who has one problem and get one result for them. Just start with one. Because if you can't find one, how are you gonna find 100, 1,000, 10,000? Find one, it's much easier.
It's gonna help you figure out where these people exist, how to talk to them, how to interact with them, how to help them through that problem. And trust me, when you help them get that result, all the fear of, I don't know if this is gonna work, is this even real? Like, can I even actually help somebody? You've done it now.
You have collected that proof that all those things that are keeping you from succeeding are false. So the one, one, one has been really helpful for my students. I wanted to pass that forward to you. Start simple. Tim Ferriss taught me a question. That is, if this were easy, what would it look like?
And it's been a guiding light for me because I, and I know many of us, tend to overcomplicate or believe things are more complicated than they actually are. So if this were easy, what would it look like? If I'm writing a book, how do I sell it? How do I market it? How do I get it out there? I don't know, but all I know is I need to write that book first.
If this were easy, okay, I'm gonna open Word and just start writing. I'm gonna go to a mentor who's done it before, who's gone through those mistakes so that I don't have to make them myself. That would be easy if I learned from somebody else. So mentorship and getting coaching and things like that are really important to me as well.
And that's how I've been able to fast forward my success and fast forward skill acquisition to do things like, enter the world of Pokemon and have, on my Shorts channel, 1.7 billion views in 230 days. It's crazy, man. It's been wild. In this fiscal year, you've done that. In this fiscal year, yeah.
So here's the story with Pokemon. I know people with Pokemon. Like Pikachu? Like those things? Yes.
Has anybody ever heard the channel Should I Open It or Should I Keep It Sealed? That's me. I have. That's me. Anyway, it's just me opening packs, and you see my weird-looking thumbs and all that stuff. That's the Shorts channel. But before that, the Pokemon channel actually started during... during the pandemic, because my kids got into Pokemon.
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