The Core Need You Require for Success - Insights into freedom part 2

Welcome to my next video in the Insights Into Freedom video series! Inside this video I want to share with you the next key insight that I learned as a teenager while I was doing my athletics. In the previous one I talked about the Power of Repetition and how that helped me become very successful. In fact, I became so successful that I became the number one best athlete in the country for my event. In fact, some of the meetings and events I went to, I was the "Athlete of the Event". That brought me on to the next insight. That was the NEED TO BE NUMBER ONE. At the back of all these stuff, everything that was driving me -- I had this key need or want, or whatever you may want to call it, the desire to be number one. Number two wasn't good enough for me. I'm not sure what made me do that, but that was something that developed intrinsically inside of me -- I wanted to be number one! I think if you have number one as your driving force, it doesn't mean you have to push other people down. You can pick, for example, a very specialized niche where you're the number one in your niche. But you also compliment other people in whatever you're doing. There's one key downfall with being number one. I've been able to get to the number one spot now with a number of different things in my life. The first thing was in academics to some degree. Then it was in the athletics field, I became number one there. The trouble with becoming number one is that it's extremely easy to get arrogant and to think that you're God's gift to the world. That becomes troublesome. Confidence is good but false confidence is not a good thing; it's arrogance! You need to be very careful when you become very good at something. In fact, when you become the number one person or company or organization in doing something, it's very easy to become complacent and arrogant in thinking that you're invincible. That's something to keep in mind. It's great to have that desire to be number one, but as you become more popular and more successful or whatever else, keep in mind that arrogance can make you fall. It can be very dangerous. In fact, nobody likes arrogant people anyway! If you stay humble, stick to your roots, keep your feet on the ground, then your success will be a lot more long term. That's the second key insight that I wanted to share with you. Inside the next video. I'll share a little bit about the financial model that I was using during my teenage years -- sort of the shooting star model. I'll share with you inside the next video what that looked like and why that was not a great model for having ultimate freedom in your life. Thank you for watching. I'll see you inside the next video.