You Will Need To Rent Your Time To Get Started

One of the most common questions we get from people is
"How do I get the time to start investing in myself?
I have a job"
And I'll kick off the answer
With one of the tweets from the cutting room floor
Where you said

[Chorus]
You will need to rent your time to get started
You will need to rent your time to get started
This is only acceptable
When you are learning and saving
You will need to rent your time to get started

You're gonna have to work, starting out
Unless you happened to bе born rich
In which case, you probably won't have the motivation
To makе money in the first place
If you're gonna do the work
Join a business where apprenticeship matters
Warren Buffet went and tried to work for Benjamin Graham
Straight outta school
To learn how to be a value investor
And he offered to work for free
And Ben Graham said, "You're overpriced"
One of the most coveted jobs
That's come up in Silicon Valley
Is being a chief of staff or an entrepreneur
The brightest young kids
Will follow the CEO or the entrepreneur around
And do whatever that person needs them to do
In many cases, they were overqualified for the position
You may have someone who has two graduate degrees
Running a CEO's laundry for that day
'Cause that's the most important thing
That needs to be done
But at the same time
They're also gonna be sitting
On all the highest-end staff meetings
They're gonna be privy to all the venture fundraising decks
All the stress and drama
Theatrics, innovation, and knowledge
That can only come from
Being next to the entrepreneur
Because the entrepreneur is willing
To do anything and everything
To make their company successful
And the chief of staff is coming there for learning

[Chorus]
You will need to rent your time to get started
You will need to rent your time to get started
This is only acceptable
When you are learning and saving
You will need to rent your time to get started

If you are currently stuck in a normal job
And you don't have the opportunity
To learn in an apprenticeship model
And you need to make money
Then go ahead and go ahead and do that job
But even within the context of that job
Try to be innovative
Sign up to take on new challenges, new responsibilities
Find the part of the job
That has the steepest learning curve
What you're really trying to avoid is repetitive drudgery
Repetitive drudgery doesn't serve anybody
Then you're essentially just counting the time
Until your job is automated away
Even if you're a barista at the coffee shop
Try to figure out
How to make connections with the customers
Try to figure out how to innovate
On what you're offering them in your basic service
Delight the customer
What will happen is, managers, founders, owners they notice
The hardest thing for any founder
Is to find people who will work with you
Who have founder mentality
And that's just a fancy way of saying
They care enough
Most people will say "Well, I'm not the founder
I'm not being paid enough to care"
Actually, you are
The knowledge and the skills that you gain
By having founder mentality
Set you up to be a founder down the line
And it pays you in that sense
You can get a lot out of almost any position
You just have to put a lot into it

[Chorus]
You will need to rent your time To get started
You will need to rent your time To get started
This is only acceptable
When you are learning and saving
You will need to rent your time To get started

[Chorus]
You will need to rent your time To get started
You will need to rent your time To get started
This is only acceptable
When you are learning and saving
You will need to rent your time To get started