How Much Should You Invest Into Yourself? (11 Minutes)

chapter 4 of The Book of Deuteronomy which will start next week if you look for me you'll find me if you look for me with all of your heart and all of your soul you'll find me so that's one of the things that we have to understand is that no one can show up that shamim no one can show up in sh with an excuse that oh I didn't know oh I uh didn't have a chance to get to to read it what do you mean the reality of it is that every single one of us is responsible for our life responsible to know all these things and we cannot go up to Sham with an excuse I didn't get a chance to do it why because someone that wants to make a living has to learn about his job right now someone that wants to be if I told you listen you want to be a millionaire 99.999% of people will say yes okay if you want to be a millionaire I can teach you a profession of how to be a millionaire so okay when do I start I tell okay listen not only I could teach you but you have to understand it's a tough schedule no problem you have to wake up at six o'clock in the morning no problem you finish training every day at 10:00 at night no problem you do this every single day for six days a week we don't work on Shabbat no problem you have to do this and you're going to pretty much barely survive for a few years no problem and eventually you're going to start you're not going you don't make a million dollars day one it's going to take you you know few years to build up no problem why no problem because you want the goal you want the prize at the end how do I know this is true I had hundreds of people come to my office every single day with the same exact dream they all wanted to be millionaires and every one of them would go to a process many people would not make it I trained over 130 different people to be salesmen some of them made it and became very successful some of them completely wasted my time and money but the reality of it is that everyone wanted the dream why because they see that I had a fancy watch also but mine didn't make music like this uh and uh they saw that someone is sitting in an office you know big office lot of employees in his 20s printing money practically who doesn't want it okay whatever you did I want to do the same thing like you go to the dentist and says rinse and repeat tells you oh rinse and repeat rinse and repeat say fine sure I have teeth like the woman in the picture I'll rinse and repeat all day he doesn't tell you that she's been doing it since she was born practically and most likely the teeth are fake he doesn't tell you that he says repeat okay which toothbrush oh it's the one that's $150 fine no problem which toothpaste the one at $60 no problem because you want the results same thing with these employees all these employees came and they wanted the results and do a will to sacrifice and some made it and some didn't but either way they're willing to sacrifice Hashem is telling you just like you willing to sacrifice a year 2 years 5 years 10 years 20 years in some cases to reach a level of success in your career that's only going to last what 30 years 40 years 50 years how long is your career going to last how long you going to live here 70 80 120 let's say m 120 you're M okay you're 120 Also let's say you live 120 years that's it then what then you have the real world the real world is eternal it's forever a million years is just a beginning it's just a beginning meaning that 120 years it's not even a phase it's not even equivalent to the time that it took me to pick up this uh cup and drink nothing what's 120 years soem says so for this 120 years you invested 20 years to learn to make a few dollars that in reality what did you really enjoy out of it but for the Eternity for the for the what's going to last forever you couldn't invest a half hour you couldn't go to sh for a couple of hours you couldn't invest 15 minutes a day no excuse my friend or I didn't know okay you also didn't know how to be a millionaire before you tried being a millionaire but I didn't stop you you didn't know how to be a millionaire before you came to work for me right but you that didn't stop you from coming in fact it encouraged you to come why because you saw this is the place to learn how to be a millionaire so you can't use a thatat excuse oh I didn't know okay you didn't know that's why you go to a place where you learn oh I didn't have time but you didn't say that with the job you were trying to work really hard you didn't say to the guy listen I need to make uh the million dollars faster than a couple years this your your training system takes too long I need to make the million dollars by next week you have something better he didn't say that why cuz he said listen whatever it takes you're realistic whatever it takes I'm going to do and eventually I'll get there you didn't say I didn't have time you didn't say I have to go watch basketball you didn't say I have uh a busy schedule when you wanted to succeed in your Material World you invested everything and anything in some cases for something that's just temporary so why couldn't you invest some time for something that's permanent and this is one of the things that most people today do not understand even the ones that know exactly everything that I just said by heart because there's knowing it and there's living it living it means that your priorities are different than all of mankind knowing it okay so you heard read this you watched this as a clip you read it in a book somewhere okay you committed it to memory that's it you know it big deal I know what the sign and cosine and a tangent of certain numbers are does that mean anything to you no it also doesn't mean anything to me it's completely worthless knowledge I can tell you the financial history of certain companies I can tell you where to find red flags in corporate financials I can tell you who's a good CEO who's a bad SE what's a good business what's a bad business who's going to make it who's going to succeed which is all based obviously on my opinion but also experience is all of that worth anything no it's worth absolutely zero why CU I'm not in the business anymore if I was in the business still putting money to work that knowledge could be could be put to use but if I'm not in the business world anymore the knowledge is worth zero same thing with someone's Torah knowledge when when you see a guy who sometimes comes to you with black and white says acts like he knows everything but acts like an animal that means that everything that he learned in Yesa everything they learned in the books is all worth zero you see a guy that comes to Shure and every time you start a sentence he complete your sentence you also know that everything that he learns means absolutely nothing to him it's just something committed to memory why because if he knew midot if he had even a half an ounce of of a character trait that's good quality he would know it's not polite to do that so knowing it any monkey could know it you could even teach a monkey to speak if you really want you can teach the parrot to speak there's a there's a parrot by the way the story about a parrot that made two people do CH already not joking do you know the story about the parrot it's not RAB M's parot he doesn't have a parrot he said the story I think he said the story a couple of rabbis said the story it's a famous story it's a parrot that used to say shabat shalom and uh and uh I heard it originally from ra the story and I also heard it from M so there's a parrot that belonged to a rabbi and uh used to say shabbat shalom shabbat shalom shabbat shalom all the time shabbat shalom so one day in Israel some guy stole the parrot he didn't know this parrot say shabbat shalom he just stole the parrot it's a nice big parrot stole it after a couple of weeks he comes back he knocks on the rabbi's door he goes I'm sorry I took your parrot and the guy with a keeper he goes oh okay it's okay it's okay he goes no you're not upset at me goes no no absolutely not I'm not upset at you it's okay I just want to let you know that uh I started keeping Shabbat because of this parrot you know it's uh I just he goes why what happened to you he says I don't know was not keeping any mitv obviously a thief few weeks ago and uh chabbat I'm smoking a cigarette and next thing you noce parrot keep screaming shabbat shalom shabbat shalom every two minutes I'm like I started thinking to myself the parrot knows Shabbat and I don't know it's Shabbat start keeping Shabbat Rabbi says yeah good you're the second guy it's done that too the second guy start keeping shat because of this parrot so parot has aot you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com