Entrepreneurial genius Dan Lok wasn't always savvy and successful. After suffering a crushing loss, he meets a wise mentor who teaches him the secret to breaking your limits.
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00:00 "My mom cried, I cried, I was like, how stupid could I be?"
00:04 There was a guy who called me up.
00:07 He sold me on this idea, maybe you need a website.
00:10 And I said, well, that's maybe I don't need a website.
00:12 Yeah, maybe that's a good idea.
00:14 So, and I was dying enough to believe in him.
00:17 And he said, oh, he would say,
00:19 "Oh, we need some programming stuff."
00:20 Okay, I didn't know anything about, we need more money.
00:22 Long story short, back and forth, back and forth,
00:24 I would sink in more and more money into the ventures,
00:27 believing they were almost, almost done.
00:29 I would put money into it.
00:30 I thought I would be successful overnight.
00:33 I thought this is gonna, I'm gonna make it.
00:35 So before you knew it, about a year's time
00:38 from borrowing money from friends and family,
00:40 all my mom's face savings, about 30K,
00:43 accumulates about $150,000.
00:46 And then one day I said, you know what, screw this,
00:48 I want my money back.
00:49 Next day he disappeared.
00:51 He moved out, nowhere to be found.
00:54 I was so mad at myself.
00:58 My mom cried, I cried.
01:00 I was like, how stupid could I be?
01:02 But I had no one to blame because I was,
01:06 I was trying to search for a shortcut.
01:07 I thought I could rely on this person
01:10 and I would be successful overnight.
01:13 I failed at 13 businesses and everything I touched,
01:16 it just turns into chaos.
01:19 It cost me so dearly when I don't know what I was doing.
01:24 It turned me into this fanatic, obsessive student.
01:29 From then on, I'm obsessed about learning
01:33 because of that incident.
01:35 One time I was attending a workshop,
01:36 sitting in the back of the hotel room
01:39 and sitting next to me was a gentleman called Alan Jacks.
01:45 I love your work.
01:48 At the end I asked him if I can work for him,
01:50 I can learn from him.
01:51 He said, okay, fine, what do you want?
01:53 I said, I just want to learn.
01:54 And he took me on, he let me work for him.
01:56 Gave me an opportunity to work on some of the marketing
02:00 and I would write a letter and I would give it to him.
02:03 He looked at it, he said, it'll crumble,
02:07 it's just a (beep)
02:08 He'll throw it away.
02:09 Said, do it again.
02:10 Fine.
02:12 We wrote the whole thing, take it to him second time.
02:16 He'll look at it, he'll come with this (beep)
02:19 I said, it cannot be (beep)
02:21 He said, this is the best work that I could produce.
02:24 He said, you can do better than that.
02:26 Go back, write again.
02:28 Third time.
02:28 Try my very best, analyze every single word
02:33 of my communication.
02:34 Bring it to him, he looked at it
02:37 for a little bit longer this time.
02:38 Crumble it, this is (beep)
02:42 Said, I'm not gonna do it again.
02:43 Said, do it again.
02:44 Fine.
02:47 That happened seventh time.
02:49 But a seventh time, this time it's like
02:52 almost like a month later.
02:54 He looked at it, he looked at it.
02:57 Finally said this, it's okay.
03:00 I said, finally, this is okay.
03:04 He said, you know what Dan, let me tell you something.
03:06 Actually your first draft, it was okay.
03:09 But he said, what if I just share with you?
03:12 You thought this is your limit.
03:14 This is as good as you could get.
03:16 I tell you (beep) I challenge you.
03:18 And you outdo yourself, and you outdo yourself,
03:21 and you outdo yourself, and this is seventh draft.
03:23 Now this, this is good work.
03:26 So whatever you think the limit that you have,
03:28 it's not your limit.
03:29 You could do so much more.
03:31 You might not like it.
03:33 All depends on how you interpret it.
03:36 But you will look back and the worst thing
03:40 would turn out to be the greatest thing
03:42 that ever happened to you.
03:44 (explosion)
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