Survival Is Good for About 10% of Your Life

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As a pro athlete for me it was ingrained in me every day could be the last day on this team you could get cut do I think that that helped me not at all. "I just think that so many people are operating today where survival is the main thing that they feed off of and I don't think that it helps them" It's hard to collaborate when you're in survival it's hard to express whenyou're in survival, he says. Letting go of survival has been something that I spend a lot of that I have in the past spent a lot of time doing.

JT Barnett is a former professional athlete turned founder and content creator. His content is centered around business, marketing, and lifestyle and has grown his audience to over 1M people. In this conversation, we spoke about how he broke down different platforms at a young age, how he spots talent, JT's internal growth, how to find a wife, when he knew he’d be famous, and much more.

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(0:00) Intro

(2:00) Breaking Down MySpace & Instagram

(5:41) Why Does JT Break Down Platforms?

(9:13) Systems Are Meant To Be Built Then Broken

(24:59) Where Are We Going?

(30:45) Why Do We Take Selfies Now?

(37:15) Public Relationship & Fame

(44:22) Finding A Wife

(46:32) JT’s Many Coaches

(49:55) Going Internal

(52:15) More Comfortable In Survival

(59:18) When Did JT Know He Was Going To Be Famous?