I barely make time to watch TV. Better Call Saul I watched and I loved most of it.
The hustle display in particular is frighteningly well done. Is it advisable or healthy? No. I'ts a TV show after all.
But there are some good take aways.
Just you watch me.
- Season 4 ep 06
What is it about?
Jimmy, the protagonist, is a crooked lawyer acting in the same world as Breaking Bad.
If you have not seen it yet, it is pretty intense at times.
It is a story about hustling - about the tenacity and discipline to keep going, and doing whatever it takes to get where you want to.
Why do I like it?
Jimmy works hard. Really hard. He is almost a living representation of the hustle culture. And to me, it felt oddly motivational to see him keep pushing and pushing and pushing. Through heavy set backs he keeps going on, through hardships he fights his way through. He does not cave in. Ever.
And yes, he sometimes is down to nothing and almost crying, struggling to get up because he knwos he has to go at it again and again.
Yet, he keeps at it.
This was insanely inspirational to me. I had phases of desperation, when I was drowning in self-doubts when things did not work out at all.
Is it healthy to do it the way Jimmy does? Not really, but it is a TV series after all, meant for entertainment.
One thing that stuck with me was when Jimmy stated that he will get rich quick.
It summarised his path and approach to business and hustling. Get rich quick schemes do not work - if you stay legal.
It takes practice and a lot of endurance to become that good that you can take full advantage of the moment when the stars align for you.
Like, building a startup from the ground up over 5 years, living on less than minimal wage and struggling to pay the bills until you find that sweet market niche that blows up. You sell your shares half a year later and suddenly, you have a lot of money at hand.
I think this process of trial, build up and mastery happens for most of us. -> If you keep building, learning and practising for a long time, you will be really good in a year, and a respectable expert in five.
Imagine me learning one hour every day about making money, sales, finance and investing. That is 365 hours in a year. After three years, I invested already over a thousand hours into this skillset.
This will leave a mark. You have to practice to get good.
Same with Jimmy. He is a good salesman because of years of training. If he makes it, it is because he has so many specific skills trained over time. He tried and tested a lot of different ways and approaches, and gets better and better. And when the time is right, he is also ready and it suddenly goes fast. THEN, he gets rich really quick.
Sadly, he also takes on a crooked path.
There are many inspirational things to take away from Better call Saul - from sales, to being fast and witty, trying everything, taking risks and so on.
The one take away for me is simple. It takes a lot of hard work to go where you want to.
Yet, ultimately, discipline beats talent.
Discipline beats circumstances and discipline beats the odds.
But hey, that's a takeaway from a TV show.
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