Look… basically you need to fuckin’ DECIDE… make a damn decision about the direction you want to take your life and then you need to DO SHIT to move your ship in that direction….

If you’re not seeking out information, and if you’re not directed your own education, YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE…. you’re going to have a hard time.

All great people… those who live really dope and amazing lives… they ALL… THEY ALL READ BOOKS.

All of the friends, and the people I know who are DOING COOL SHIT… THEY ALL READ BOOKS.

It’s like the biggest, most obvious “secret” to success…

You need to learn as much as you possibly can my friends…

And then, do you know what you do after that… YOU FUCKIN’ LEARN SOME MORE!

It’s doesn’t stop.

You need to seek continual, never-ending improvement and development.

And if you don’t STEP UP… and if you don’t DIRECT that improvement, NO ONE ELSE WILL.

If you did nothing but just simply read books, your life will be completely different in just a few years (in a really dope, amazing way).

What I said in the video, just written out for you to read:

“Hey folks, what’s happening! Matt Horwitz, hope you’re well…

I wanted to share two concepts w/ you this morning..

Don’t mind the background noise, they’re working on the roof next door.

I want to talk to you about “Education vs. Entertainment” and “The Compound Effect”…

“Entertainment vs. Education” and “The Compound Effect”…

there’s not really many secrets out there to what it takes to…. to do what you want in life, to go after your dreams and desires, and make that happen…

One of the key differentiators between those who live an interesting, cool, amazing life, built around their passions, interests and desires, and those that live the pre-designed program…

… is that people in Group A… we’ll call this “Group A”, we’ll call this “Group B”.

People in Group A, those that lead and live really cool, amazing, dope lives, right?…

… they take their free time, and not all the time, 100% of the time, but they take the majority of their free time and spend it on education…

They spend it on learning… and I don’t mean you have to go to a university and shell out a degree…

But, self-directed learning, self-directed education…

I just found myself this morning… like, here it is… it’s Sunday morning, I’m reading a great book on business branding and marketing…

But people in Group A, they spend their free time on learning, on new experiences, on bettering themselves…

Where Group B, which unfortunately is the large majority of the population…. hopefully that’s not always the case in the future… they spend their free time on basically, bullshit entertainment.

So they’re really not fueling and feeding their minds, and their brains, and their ideas… they’re not in tune with their world, with their emotions, with their feelings…

And… it’s frankly just a pretty boring and bullshit path, right?

So if you watch my videos, I’m assuming that you’re either in Group A, or you’re heading in that direction.

And a lot people think that “successful” people… that people who do amazing… and big things, have all of these secrets, and it’s really just…

Very small… very profound… things, done consistently over time with The Compound Effect… this is the second thing I wanted to talk to you about…

The Compound Effect is basically… these little small actions, right?

This might not change my world, reading this book, but if I spend a couple Sundays a year reading…

Just that… just a couple Sundays a year reading, right?

Do you think takes a lot of work?…

No. It doesn’t.

Just a couple Sundays a year reading, alright? Compared to me not reading at all…

You take a guy who read and and a guy who didn’t read… 10 years later…

Which person, which version of me do you think is going to be in a better situation, right?

Think about it…

A ship heading east in the ocean, right?… if you change its course of direction 1 degree… just 1 degree, right?…

1 degree… that’s like reading 2 book a year, right?

You change that ship’s course of direction 1 degree… 2,000 miles later, it’s going to be on a whole other majestic island…

and do you where this guy’s going…

I don’t know… some fuckin’ boring tourist town or something… or he’s going to going to crash into a rock, right?

You get the metaphor, so…

Take your free time…

Make free time if you don’t have it…

And DIRECT your education and your learning into your interests, your passions, your desires, your goals…. and things that you want to CREATE in life…

AND… consistently… I’m not talking you gotta do this every day, or every week…

Just do it a couple times a month, right?

But… let that kick in, over a number of years… and the compound effect… which equates to exponentional growth, right?

It’s a curve that goes like this… where as linear growth is just…. you know…

Actually that wasn’t a good example, but linear growth is… is not so much like this, rather….

Scratch that…

Exponential is more powerful… where linear… ahhhh…. forget the linear/exponential shit… I just totally screwed that up and I don’t feel like shooting this video again and editing….

Forget whatever the heck I was saying there, but…

You get the point of this video, right? You get the point of the message…

Damn, I really wanted to get that exponential thing correct, but whatever…

‘Cause I was like, “Oh yea, this one… but this one’s much worse”… and I was like, “Oh shit, it’s going higher”… scratch it.

So… spend your free time and direct your education…

Like, it’s really not that hard guys, it’s really not that hard to go on Amazon.com, spend $10 book… read this for a few hours… and shit, you’re life’s gonna be fuckin’ better…

You’re going to be able to do stuff you want to do, and I’m using this sort of language and emphasis, and emotion, and enthusiasm because….

Because I meet a lot of people who aren’t doing anything fuckin’ interesting with their life…

And they think it’s really hard… and they…. it’s because they’re not… they’re not EDUCATING THEMSELVES… they’re not reading books….

They’re not reading blogs… they’re not listening to podcasts… they’re not listening to audiobooks… they’re not going to seminars and events, and meetups….

They’re not doing things to take their life and move it in a good direction.

So… hope this message resonates with you…

If it does, what can you do in your life to take the direction of your ship and steer it, at least 1 degree into something that’s going to be much better…

So… keep rockin’ my friends, I hope you’re well.

Self-directed education… it’s one of the “secrets”… it’s really not a secret… just fuckin’ read books.

Talk to you soon, be well, peace.”

Read books my friends… direct your education.

-Matt Horwitz