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Surround yourself with lunatics
5x'ing your learning curve and unlocking exponential growth
Dyani Janga
January 10, 2025
On Joe Rogan’s podcast, YouTube icon MrBeast (362M subscribers) shared how he and a group of small creators unlocked massive success through an unconventional and relentless approach.
For 1,000 days in a row, they held daily masterminds. Some days even stretched from 7 AM to 10 PM.
They would dissect thousands of thumbnails and videos, analysing what makes them go viral. Every failure was dissected, every success reverse-engineered.
The result?
All of them skyrocketed from a few thousand subscribers to millions within just a few years.
👹 Surround Yourself With Lunatics
MrBeast refers to himself & his creator friends as lunatics because they sat together on Skype and obsessed over nothing else than YouTube for 3 years straight.
This wasn’t just about individual effort.
It was about collective learning: multiplying knowledge by sharing mistakes, discoveries, and insights.
You see, when you go on this entrepreneurial journey by yourself, you’ll only learn from your mistakes. But when you’re in a group of 5 other “lunatics,” you’ll learn 5X the lessons in the same amount of time.
Here’s the takeaway: Growth accelerates when you surround yourself with driven people who push each other to be better.
Don’t surround yourself with cannibals, but with people who are just as crazy as you are.
People who face the same struggles you do… Learn together.
👞 Today’s Action Step:
If you haven’t already—find yourself a crew. And when you have one, plan a daily/weekly time to have these masterminds where you share everything you’ve learned and dissect businesses, advertisements, and even products.
📖 Today’s Book Bit
God
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another
Book: The Holy Bible
When you’re doing everything alone, you’re not getting sharper, you’re becoming blunt. You need others to keep you on top of your game and further.
🚿 Today’s Shower Thought
If you improve 1% each day, you will be 38x better than what you are today in a year.
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