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Welcome to The Adaptive Mindset. I'm Bret Gallant, cybersecurity thought leader and founder of Adaptive Office Solutions. Here, we don't just talk tech. We unlock the strategies, stories, and mindset shifts you need to stay secure, lead boldly, and thrive in a digital world. Let's get started. Welcome back to The Adaptive Mindset. Today's guest is someone who doesn't talk about prosperity. He challenges everything you believe about it. Randy, Randy Gage is a Speaker Hall of Famer, bestselling author, author of 15 books, and known globally as the Entrepreneur Whisperer. From a jail cell as a teenager to becoming a multimillionaire entrepreneur, Randy has spent 3 decades helping founders and leaders rewrite the mental programming that keeps them playing small. His books, including Risky Is the New Safe, Mad Genius, and Radical Rebirth, have been translated into more than 25 languages. He's been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Fox News, and Success Magazine. But what makes Randy different

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he doesn't give you motivation. He challenges your conditioning. Today we're talking about reinvention, prosperity in the AI age, imposter syndrome, and why earning a lot of money quickly may actually be easier than earning a little slowly. Randy, welcome to The Adaptive Mindset. Hey, great to be on with you. It's such a pleasure. I, I was looking at your, your story, and there's a lot of lot of areas where I can identify with, but just being a man who's rebuilt his identity and reborn in just my mindset, I was really looking forward to this conversation. And I just see so many, so many opportunities for people to, to, you know, thrive. And so many of our listeners are going to benefit from what you have to share, Randy. So it's really, really great to have you. So, um, so you've, you've gone from the thing that really connected with me a lot— you've gone from a jail cell to a global thought leader. What belief had to die first for that transformation to happen? That one— the belief that had to die for that is the belief that you're not worthy. Yeah, that I had. You probably had. Most people watching or listening probably had, because there's a— there's an entire ecosystem dedicated to beating you down and convincing you that you're not worthy and you don't deserve success or happiness or wealth. And organized religion is a very guilty party here. Governments are a guilty party. The education system is a culprit. And then just social media, all the haters and the trolls and the— and then just all of the opportunistic marketers who only can make money if they convince you that you're not worthy. But if you buy their $477 ebook, then you will be worthy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that would probably be— that's what jumps to my mind as the— to make that jump that we're talking about here is a fundamental rewiring of your operating system. Yeah. How do people actually do that? I mean, we live in this world where there's so much change and so much programming coming at us. Um, how, how would you say for someone, uh, best way to handle that and navigate that in this— these times change? First, you have to recognize what are your core foundational

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money and success, work and career, health and wellness, marriage and relationships, God and religion. Uh, you look at those and then you say, what are my core foundational beliefs? Because most people had them all imprinted on them before they were 8 years old, or by the time they were 8 years old. And they've been programmed that money is bad, rich people are evil, spiritual to be poor. They have core beliefs about relationships because one of their parents cheated on the other or was abusive to the other. And if that's your formative years, you grow, and that's your perception, that's how relationships work. So you grow up and you get married and you want to live happily ever after, and instead you recreate the dysfunctional relationship your parents had if you don't go and question those beliefs. If you don't— health and wellness. Most people grow up with the belief that you have items in your pantry that have an expiration date 4 years from now, and like that those are healthy and nutritious to eat, and that you're gonna get an extra 5, 10 pounds in your 20s, and you're gonna add 5, 10 pounds in your 30s, and another 5, 10 in your 40s, and decade after decade. And by the time you're 60, you should be on 10 prescriptions. And time you're 70, you should be on 15 prescriptions. And if you,'cause that's what you see in front of you, that's the model you were raised in. So if you don't go back at some point and do the critical thinking and check and say, well, wait a minute, What are my core foundational beliefs in this area? What are the mind viruses that I got programmed with? I wrote a whole book about this, which you mentioned at the start, called Radical Rebirth. That's what that whole book is about, is how we get programmed and how we can recognize that programming, blow it up, and then replace it with programming that empowers us. Yeah, I— number one, I am going to buy that book, um, because I've been through that rebirth. I, I had a pivotal moment a couple of years ago, Randy, where I was speaking with my coach and I said, uh, I didn't have time to get to the gym. And my, my, my coach questioned me, challenged me like a good coach. Should. So, Brett, you mean to tell me you own your own business and you can't get to the gym? I was at that time, I was 330 pounds. My highest was 349. Wow. Now, as of today, uh, I'm 210 pounds. So I challenged that. I was reborn. Yeah. And so that old programming that you were talking about, uh, I had these old mindsets and identities and beliefs. You said a really important word there— identity. Yes, we get— we create identities. And then once you create that identity, you have this, this conformational bias so that every decision you're faced with, you're going to make the decision that conforms to that identity.. And when you do it the right way, which is, hey, I've created this identity of becoming the highest possible version of myself, it's one thing. But when you create that other identities at the lower levels, that's when it turns into prison sentences. Yeah. And people don't even realize they're trapped there. Until they come across a new way or, or somebody like yourself that can guide them through that. We are asking a better question, challenging that belief and that identity, like letting the shackles of it go. So yeah, I get asked all the time, like, you're telling me I'm blowing up my marriage because of a belief I got when I was 7? And I'm like, yeah, that's exactly what I'm telling you. You're telling me I manifested getting fired and I'm self-sabotaging my results because of programming I got as a kid? Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Yeah, um, but we don't even realize it. People don't even realize it until they see it. So can you give us a few examples of how you've helped some people in the past? So identify that or tactics that people can use to break, break free? Well, step one would be that book, Radical Rebirth. I put those 6 main areas. In other words, your life is going to be determined by your belief in those areas. And in each section, I put the, the most deadly or the most negative or the most toxic beliefs in that area, like the money one, right? Money is bad. Rich people are evil. It's spiritual to be poor. To be successful in the corporate world, you have to be a terrible parent. To run a successful company, you have to exploit the workers and plunder the environment. These are the core mind viruses, millions of them circulating around the world. So you recognize Oh yeah, that's exactly what I thought. Or take the religious ones, you know, the, uh, you're not supposed to get the good stuff here, you're going to get the good stuff in the afterlife. You should be paying penance all this lifetime because you're not worthy. You should make yourself worthy that the God entity, supernatural being, is going to let you get into the afterlife, and then you're going to get the the 72 virgins, or you're going to get to live in heaven, or you're going to get to reincarnation, or you're going to reach bliss or enlightenment. But so if you've got a core foundational belief that you're paying penance here in this lifetime because you were a camel thief in the last lifetime, what's the odds you're going to let yourself be healthy, happy, prosperous? If you have a core belief that you need 192 lifetimes to reach enlightenment and you're only on lifetime number 106, what's the probability you're going to let yourself get there? If you had the Catholic school nurses rapping your knuckles with a ruler and telling you that you were born a sorry sinner and you better beg for forgiveness so you can— Jesus is going to allow you into the kingdom. How does that work while you're here? So it takes really confronting these beliefs and recognizing. So for me, obviously by this point, you and everybody listening has realized, wow, Randy isn't afraid to get in, get up in my grill and challenge my most sacred core beliefs. Because that's the only— that's where the breakthroughs are. I see, like religion, right? That's such a trigger for most people. They're just gonna go haywire when you question that. And I always just say, question the premise. The premise is solid, it will withstand the scrutiny. And do you— so my premise would be, if there really is this supernatural being that created you, why wouldn't they want you to be healthy, happy, and prosperous while you were alive? Why would they think you should go on and be negative and limited and hold yourself back for 90 years, and if you do that, then you're gonna get the good stuff? Does that really make sense? You know, is that a belief that serves you, or is there another belief that might empower you in a better way. Well, and I would argue part of that too, it could be the programming or the perception from the family that they were raised in, the environment. That 100%. I did a, um, I did a debate with a fundamentalist Christian guy who wanted to debate me in a podcast of his, so I did it. Yeah. And, and I'm, and I don't, I'm not here trying to convert people to atheism, and I'm not trying convert them to devil worshiping. You know, I'm just saying, be a critical thinker. And he told the story of how his mother was, I don't know, drug addict or something, divorced many times, and he kept getting bounced around. And then she met this guy, and he was a wonderful guy who adopted him and became his, you know, adopted father and taught him Christianity and raised him. And now he's So healthy and happy. And I said, great, I love it. But do you recognize that if your mother had been born in Saudi Arabia and met the guy, this same guy, he would have been Muslim and he would have taught you Islam and your faith would be exactly as strong as it is now? And he said, yeah, I admit that. But I, but I know that Jesus is the right one. The true one. I said, no, that's what you think. But if you were born in Tehran or Abu Dhabi or Doha or wherever, you would think it was Muhammad or Hindu or Buddhist or whatever. We are creatures of our environment, whether we like it or not. Of course we are. Yes. So, and again, everybody listening, I'm not telling you you have to renounce your religion. I'm saying Maybe you do some mindful thinking about it and say, does— do these beliefs serve me, or are they limiting me? And you're speaking to a person that has questioned beliefs of what exactly— what you said, like, even looking at my own life growing up, my father, his beliefs that money was— I'm not going to do it justice here, but he had a limiting belief about money. I, on the other hand, have a different belief. He thought people that were successful would never be kind. And I'm not doing it justice, Dad. Sorry about this, but But, but I look at money can be a tool to help people. Yeah, it amplifies whatever you want to do, whoever you want to be. Money can amplify that, right? And so there's these identities and beliefs that we have that are— that come from our environment, whether we like it or not. And I've always chosen to look at whatever that was around me. Okay, is this true? Is there information out there that can show me another way? And, and from my identity on my fitness transformation to my business, to where I've grown my business, I, I've proven that there is another way. I'm not stuck in a box of what, what is what I believe to be true right now. There's always a better question. There's always another way. So, amen. Preach. You know, I, I'm so passionate about this, even from, um, from Being an entrepreneur, a burnt-out entrepreneur that was working 16-hour days, getting nowhere, to, you know, reclaiming my identity and being able to be spending time with my family. We, we think we need to be the hero, but the hero in your own story is fine asking the question. Yeah, finding another way. I will riff on that a little bit. Yeah, yeah. What often happens is we think we need to be the hero in the hero's journey story. Yes. And then we think we need a more heroic hero's journey story, so we have to get divorced 3 times to prove how resilient we are. And we have to defeat cancer 4 times to show how tragic, how much tragedy has been thrown our way to overcome. A lot of times people come to my workshops and we'll work through prosperity stuff and they will break down in tears and tell me, oh my God, it's— that's exactly what I did. I kept manifesting a more business failure after business failure because I kept— or I manifest becoming a millionaire and then losing it all and earning it all back because I wanted to prove how heroic I was. Because I know, because that's what I did. And then I realized, you know, it's, um, I always had— I've always said I could— if I lost everything tomorrow, I'd be a multi-millionaire again within 2 years, and then I proved it. And then I thought I was so clever because I proved that, and I proved it again, right? And then I thought, you know, it just might be smarter to not feel like I had to prove that. Maybe I don't have to lose everything. Maybe I can start with this position of great strength and just build on it. Do, have, and become more. I don't need— what I was doing in my case was I was creating a more heroic hero's journey because I couldn't accept love. I had been sheltered, hurt in my childhood and built this wall around me so nobody could love me because if they loved me, they could withdraw that love and then I would be rejected and then I wouldn't know where to go. So I just figured, If I built this wall around me and I don't allow myself to love anyone and I don't allow anyone to love me, nobody can hurt me. Well, at some point you realize that's not really a great strategy for life. No, no. And sadly, there's a lot of, a lot of people that, that live that way, you know, like Like, uh, yeah, I, I, I feel it's different transitions in my life. I, I've, I've lived that way myself at different points, but then you realize and you catch yourself, no, this is not, this is not the way. It's not sustainable. It's not, this is not what, why I'm here. Um, I, I have, um Wrote this question down. I talk about it a lot with— I'm in a few masterminds and peer groups over the years, and a lot of times we've talked about head trash, or AKA imposter syndrome. Um, in your mind, is that real, or is it just a luxury problem? Uh, I kind of have a contrarian take on that. I have suffered from imposter syndrome multiple times, and I'm really glad I do because I feel like if you're not experiencing some imposter syndrome at some point, you're not really challenging yourself. You're not getting up to that higher possible version of yourself.. And then you realize, okay, I have imposter syndrome and everybody has imposter syndrome. Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Cuban, Elon Musk, pick whoever your superstar hero is in any arena. And I guarantee you at some point they faced imposter syndrome. And that's a good thing. I want to always be challenging myself. So I do feel a little of that.. But then I also recognize that a lot of that is just, there are negative, there are haters, right? So if we're really doing something amazing, we're gonna attract some haters. We're gonna attract some trolls. And if you haven't attracted any haters or trolls, then you're probably not really done anything amazing. Because if you do something amazing, there's people are gonna be bitter, petty, jealous, and they're gonna attack you. And just accept that that's all part of the game. And when they throw all that garbage at you, you say, thank you for sharing, I wish you the best Merry Christmas ever. Thank you for sharing, I wish you the greatest week ever. You know, thanks, uh, great day. Alrighty then, thanks for sharing, let's move on. And that's the end of that story. So what you're saying is I got to shine a lot brighter than Randy. I'm usually saying that to most people. Yes. Because I think most people, we have a tendency of human nature as we surround ourselves with people who give us permission to stay the way we are. Yeah. And that's what they do. Because they know we like to hear that. And so we put those people around us. I work assiduously to put people around me who won't do that, who will challenge me. You mentioned you've been in mastermind. I can't tell you how many masterminds I left, right? Yeah. I always say, hey, if you're the smartest person in the room, you need a bigger room. Well, yeah. I'm almost always the smartest person in the room. And I don't say that to be an arrogant jerk. And I don't say that as a flex. I'm autistic. I've got— that's a curse. It's a blessing and it's a curse. The blessing is it's a very— I have a very high IQ. The curse is I have the social skills of an eggplant. So there is a trade-off there. But so I get in a lot of masterminds and I say I'm doling out all kind of beneficial generosity to this group, but I'm not able to— I'm not receiving it back that I could quantify this as a good use of my time. I need something more so to challenge me. That's why. That's exactly why I've exited a mastermind. Mind, because I wouldn't say— maybe I did outgrow it, or, or the, the, the parameters around the mastermind changed. And so I knew it was no longer serving me. It, it brought me to a place in my journey, and I had to face the uncomfortable truth of being honest with myself that it was no longer the right room for me to be in. Yeah. In my case, I started my own program. It's called Breakthrough U, and it's for entrepreneurs. And I had 3 levels of it so that people who aren't ready to engage at that top level, they don't have the resources, the money, the time, the talent. Okay. There's a middle level to help, and then there's a beginning level. To for people who are just like, I got $35,000 in credit card debt and I can't be— all right, great. Start at the beginning level, right? And then I've got a level for people who are getting after it, but they just can't break that million dollar a year income for whatever reason. And then I have high level people at what I call the anarchist level. Well, I created that group for me. Totally selfish. I wanted the most brilliant people in the world that I could be brainstorming, masterminding, and just working through the principles of prosperity. And so that's— that was the driver for me creating that program. Well, I think some— a lot of times we, we do, like you, you alluded to earlier, we need to have people to challenge us. And when you said that earlier, being in a room with people that challenge you, like, you know, I'm paraphrasing, made me think of this moment where I had the privilege to be— sit in with a group. I, I was at, at this event in Phoenix a couple years ago, and I, I was witness to a group of peers that had their own mastermind for a number of years. And they were talking about a challenge. Somebody in the group was talking about a challenge. And this gentleman immediately— we're at this table— he leaned over and he said to the gentleman in the group, said just two words. I've never forgot them. Do better. It, it, it was the— it was magic to my ears because somebody had the courage to challenge him, call him out on his own BS, that the challenge that he had was part of his own doing and he had to do better. Good. You know, so we need to surround ourselves with people that can call us out on that. And I love how you created your own, selfishly created your own level. Is that group still running? Yeah, that's my Breakthrough U program. The beginning level is called the Apprentice level. The middle level is the Alchemist level, right? For alchemy. And then the top level is the Anarchist level. And those are the rebels and the daredevils and the risk takers and the Change makers, right? So yeah, I— and they join that group because I can give them that value back that I seek from them. For a lot of them, I'm the only person who will tell them their stupid idea is stupid, right? Because they've got a whole company they've built, they've got 5 vice presidents or 10 vice presidents who turn into sycophants and rubber stamp everything they say, and I'm the only person in their world to say, wait a Wait a minute, let's just take a timeout here. Let's question the premise, right? Let's question the premise. And I'm not going to let them just come in and bowl us over with their billion-dollar stories, right? Because the money only isn't great. You got a Gulfstream, you got 5 houses, you got all the bling-bling, but your spouse isn't talking to you. Okay, that's not prosperity. Or your kids don't want to be with you. That's not prosperity. Or you're 2 cheeseburgers away from a diabetic coma or a stroke. That's not prosperity. Matter of fact, so while it's on my mind, let's give a little gift to your listeners, viewers. Yeah. If you go to RandyGage.com, that's my website, RandyGage.com, right on the home page. Is a free PDF, The 7 Elements of an Abundant Life. So I encourage everybody, download that after you're done with the show, go through and read it, and kind of paints the holistic picture of what I believe prosperity is. Nice. What you just said there, that whole, yeah, I call it the yes man, sick man in this, and leads me to a question I had for money, power, and AI, because AI is the biggest yes man in this world. But, well, here's a, here's a tip on that. For instance, I've created an AI co-CEO to work with my company. So I've custom programmed that with my books, my blogs, my— I want it to know my thinking and I have trained it. I do not need a sycophant. I do not need someone who agrees with me. I need you. And so I've trained it that way to say, hey, look at— I've got a— here's a book concept I'm thinking about. These are my 18 chapters. Would you look at it and tell me Did I jump the shark anywhere? Is there something missing? Is there a logical progression? And it'll give me real feedback. And then every now and then, it seems after 2 months, it'll say, Randy, that book is— it's directly on brand. It speaks exactly to the demo. This is the best work you've ever done. And I'll say, whoa, whoa, whoa. We've had this talk before. I don't need you to puff me up. I need you to be somebody I can check things out. And please, I didn't hear any constructive criticism. And literally, if you say that, the algorithm, it will say, you're right, I was very flattery there. You do— there are some things you could do that would make this book stronger. Between chapter 3 and chapter 4, if you added another chapter on such and such, it would create a better flow for the reader. And on chapter 7 and chapter 8, you might want to reverse that, you know what I mean? It'll give you real feedback, but you've got to be, you know, willing to challenge it and say, no, no, no, don't pander to me. I need you to give me constructive feedback. And then, and we can do the same thing with people, but unfortunately with people, if you are that vice president to one of my clients and they make$350,000 a year and they've got access to the corporate jet and the company car and the Roth IRA plan and whatever, they still might be afraid to tell the truth to the this skill. Oh yes, it does. Yeah, 100%. And as long as we're aware of that, we, like, I love how you frame that. You need to be around people that challenge you, and you need to have your AI challenge you. My, along somebody that's in my network for a long time, she introduced me to a prompt called Absolute Mode, and she made She said, I made AI my bitch. Literally, that's what she said. And she's an incredible lady. But we have to have AI challenge us. So this leads me to this question. In the age we're living in, what have— like, in the AI age, which we're in right now, what habits or beliefs right now are in your opinion, are gonna make entrepreneurs obsolete? There's nothing that will ever make entrepreneurs obsolete, is my opinion. Good. Yeah, yeah, well, we're seeing that challenge right now. People are saying that, so yeah. Yeah, and by the way, since we're talking free resources for people, I literally just wrote a blog post on this, on AI and business, and I'm going to suggest people read that. Anybody who's doing anything with AI. Yeah, it's called Unleashing AI for Business. Maybe you can put it in the show notes. Yeah, I know I will. I will put this in the show notes. Okay. AI is something I'm very passionate about. It's been a huge driving point in, in, in business that I'm doing. I do cybersecurity, but I've also been doing AI readiness with with northern municipalities in Canada. So yeah, so passionate about that. Here's my take on it in that blog post, which is, okay, great, you're using it to summarize emails or create emails or filter this. But it's like I have a collection of essays from Montague over there on my bookshelf, right? I could use it for a doorstop. And work beautiful. I could use it for a paperweight, works beautiful. But that isn't the highest good of that. And the same way, using AI to summarize an email is not the highest good of AI. I use AI where I'm, first of all, I've created a number of custom agents. So when I have a lot of functions that are automated now that freed up 12 or 13 or 15 15 hours a week that allow me to be creative genius zone stuff. And then I just use it to challenge me. I will put in and say, okay, here's my business model. Tell me if I was a competitor, how would I disrupt this business model? I can put in, I'm a professional speaker. One of the standard practices of professional speakers is ABC. Is anything changed in the market that you think that's no longer a viable strategy? Is there something better? And when you ask, as you know, of course, when you ask smart questions like that to the AI, now you get real breakthrough answers. Whereas if you just say, okay, read this 800-page book and give me a 20-word summary. Okay, I guess you could fake it at a cocktail party, but did you really learn the book if you didn't have to go through it and process it for 8 hours and think about it? Can you really get the same benefit by just asking it to summarize something for you? And no, you have to engage in AI as a thought partner. I have it challenge my thinking, and I even have my own AI virtual board of directors with personas. And I want you to look at this, and based on everything you know about me, tell me how this book applies to my life. Give me 2 obvious and 3 non-obvious ways that this could, that this book can help me, ask me one question at a time, and I get— oh, I get some amazing— oh, I bet you do. Like, oh yeah, see, that's what I'm saying. That's the higher use of AI that we should just be celebrating and shouting from the rooftops. But most people, they don't, they don't know it yet because they're just still playing around and learning as a glorified email writer. But You put garbage into AI, you're gonna get garbage out. So, you know, like, no, I'm challenging, inviting everybody to check out that article. It will be in the show notes. You'll be better for it. I believe that the way you approach AI is quite similar to me, so. Happy to send people that way, your way. So just, just for the people who don't see me, they're only listening to this, you should know I'm very old. So, okay, if you're watching, you've already figured that out, but if you're just listening, you might think, oh yeah, these young kids with their— no, I'm not a young kid. I'm going to be 67 years old in a month. I didn't grow up with the internet. I didn't grow up with electronic games. I didn't grow up with social media. I didn't grow up with AI. I'm having to figure it out just like you all are having to figure it out. But I also realized 2 years ago, AI is going to be the most cataclysmic disruption in my lifetime, and I have to take it seriously, and I have to become a student of this. Yeah. And I'm sure in your mastermind you've surrounded yourself with people that challenge you on that as well. Yeah. Lifted you up. Yeah. And so I have all these AI agents. I'm doing, I'm doing more with— I would— here's— I'm going to make this claim that people are going to say what an arrogant jerk he is. He's drinking his own Kool-Aid. Bring it on. Yeah, I bet I know more about AI than 97% of the people on Earth. 97%. And that means I'm just a dangerous idiot because there are the 3%, right? Sam Altman at OpenAI and we got Elon and We got Anthropic and all, you know, all those people of those in those spaces. They know more than I do. I get it. But I know more than 97% of the people on Earth. And I'm an old guy and I'm a high school dropout. So people should— I say that again, not to be an arrogant jerk, but to say you don't need those degrees. You don't need permission from anyone else. You don't have to be a certain age. Demographic. You just like now, right? You could have studied how to program for 8 years in college. I can do the exact same thing you could do if I'm curious and I know how to ask good questions and I speak, because that's how we program now. We vibe code by saying, hey, I want to build an app that washes my dishes and then stacks them in there and calls my mother and whatever. If you're a curious person who can ask good questions, you're now the equivalent of an MBA computer programmer. That's what people have to recognize today. So we're living in the greatest time in human history. There's never been a better time to be alive. So we got to celebrate that and participate in that. I think that's brilliant what you just said. If you're a curious person and ask better questions, we tie this right back to the beginning of our conversation. We were talking about identity and rebirth. That's true for everything. Yeah. Curious person, you ask a better question. The questions are the magic. It's not the answer, it's the questions. No. And are you courageous enough to ask the better question and face your truth? Yes. 'Cause I know when my coach asked me the question, "Brett, you mean to tell me you own your own business and you don't have time to go to the gym?" That was a question I needed to hear. Yeah. Yeah. And we need to ask ourselves those type of questions. But tying it back into AI, asking the questions the right way and not accepting the answer at face value and interacting with it and getting something useful that can impact you. So, um, last— one of the last questions I want to ask you, Randy, um, um, but I, I mean, I'm— because I'm very curious to see what, uh, your viewpoint is on this. What's one prosperity habit every founder should adopt immediately? Oh, I'll give you one they'll never expect. Yeah. Yeah. One prosperity habit every founder should adopt immediately is to charge their phone overnight in a room they don't sleep in. Oh yeah. I'll give you a bonus one. Number 2, get off social media. If you need social media to promote your business like I do, most people do, great. Go in there as a content creator. Not as a consumer. Yes. And you will, if once you get off the— and now the research is just starting to really come out, like Jonathan Haidt and some of the other authors who are looking at the studies of short-form video and what they're doing to kids' minds, how much the kids' learning ability has gone down since we put put laptops and smartphones in classrooms. The research is overwhelming. These brilliant mini computers, which are so convenient and so helpful in our lives in so many ways, have a really dangerous downside. And like some of the people in my entrepreneur program, what I have to teach them, they might run a multimillion-dollar business, for 20 years and I have to teach them how to take a day off. And when I suggest how they have to take a day off and I say, "And you're gonna have to have a no device policy during these hours," they look at me like I just suggested they should ax murder their mother or something, right? Because they're like, "My phone is on 24/7. I have to be, I get alerts." 217 times a— yes. And that's why you have the attention span of a gnat on espresso. That's why you can't concentrate. That's why you— I have a client. He's a 23-year-old. He's in the top level, the anarchist level. This kid is mad genius. I don't want to give away his model, but I would tell you he, he works in social media marketing. His own company, he founded it. He had more than 20 billion views last year on his accounts. And I'm trying to coach him how to be a better CEO and scale his company. And I couldn't get him to, we kept agreeing that he would read 20 minutes, a book, a physical book every morning. And he couldn't do it.. And I kept saying, okay, you didn't like that book. Let's try this book. You didn't. Okay, let's try. And finally, after listening to Haidt and another psychologist who was on the Diary of a CEO podcast, I realized, oh my God, all day, every day, he's creating and watching and swimming around in short-form video. So of course there's no book on earth. No attention span. Yeah, right. So now, like, I have to coach him like, hey, this is what we've got to do. We have to retrain your brain so you can concentrate and you're going to have to have no device days and you're going to have to have blocks of time. Like, I wrote another book called Mad Genius. And of all the emails and DMs and everything I get about that book, the thing that resonated most with people is I say set aside 45 minutes every week for thinking. Yes. No devices. You get a notepad like this, a pen, and a cup of green tea or coffee. And you sit in a nice comfortable chair. You go out on your balcony, you do it at the beach, and you just think. And you think about what you want to think about. And I get more feedback from the book than what the breakthroughs people have. But that's, you know, that's so— that's why I say I heard right now, like, I know it. And I'll tell you why. There's multiple times in my life every year, annually, I go with the scout group and we go for 3 to 4 days, no phone, no technology. And I come back refreshed with great ideas. But this time last year, Yeah, and I also, I, I often escape in nature because that's where I get reconnected and I, I get away from a screen for an hour and a half hiking in nature. This time last year, I made a decision that I was going to take every Wednesday off for 8 weeks. I went to a nearby mountain, the 2-hour drive, and once you get to this place, Mount Carleton is the area, there is no cell phone access. So I put my snowshoes on and I snowshoed up this mountain called Mount Bailey. 4.5 hours. I got up to the top. There's a picnic table. I don't know how it got there, but it's a wonderful picnic table. I loved it. I had about 6 or 7 ideas that just came to my mind. 2 of them I implemented right away when I came back. Best trip that I had that year where I just had to— where I disconnected. And it was only for 4 hours that I had no technology. Best trip ever. And I, I— of what you said, like, even, even 45 minutes, if, if we allowed ourselves even those 45 minutes, what magic could it do? And you literally— you have to program it if you want to really blow your mind. I read Who Not How by Dan Sullivan. Oh, I love that book. Yeah, Ben Hardy. And then the 10x is better than 2x. So I really took that to heart. So I brought in a new executive assistant, farmed off everything, and I tell him, okay, you have 2 days a week to book me anything and everything— chiropractor appointment, doctor appointment, blood test. If I want to meet with Miss Cleo in the psychic hotline in the astral plane. If I'm going to record a podcast as a guest, if I'm recording my podcast, I'm doing coaching calls with my clients, I'm doing calls with— you have everything has to be booked in those 2 days. You're the 5th. You're literally the 5th podcast I'm recording today, right? Because it's one of my record days. And then the other 5 days, I told them, you're not allowed to book anything. That's my time. So I won't be snowshoeing up the mountain. I'll be walking along the beach in South Beach. So it's a little— but, or I will be writing a book, writing a long-form podcast, a long-form blog. I'll be doing my thinking time. I will be working in my genius zone without interruptions. And without appointments. So I literally, if people think, oh, I'm such a good CEO, I've got my whole calendar booked out every week and they've got, I've got 13-minute meetings scheduled and then it's followed by a 22-minute meeting and I'm like, you're outta your fricking mind. Okay, if you just knew what putting, so here's the $3 million bonus to your original question is now go back, all you founders, and look at— because I know what it is to found a business. I know what it is to grind 14 hours a day. There's time to do that. But there's also the time when you say, no, it's the white space in my calendar where the breakthroughs live. Bingo. Yeah. And we need to give ourselves permission to do that, Randy. And we don't. We don't. We don't allow ourselves to go for that walk on that beach. So with that, I, I think this is a perfect time to end with that. But I want to encourage our audience to share this episode with someone in your network that can be impacted by what Randy has shared today. We unpacked quite a bit today. This went— always these, these when they're great like this, they go in different directions. And I really appreciate you being here, Randy. It was, was a valuable short time with you. So I appreciate you. Thank you. Thanks for bringing me in, Brett. Yeah, no, it's great. Thanks for tuning into The Adaptive Mindset. If you found value in today's episode, don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who's ready to thrive in the digital age. 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