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Welcome back!

It’s great to have you for this Tuesday’s edition of the newsletter.

For today, I want to talk about advice.

Let’s dive in:

I was driving home on a 6-hour drive after visiting family up in Michigan.

To help pass the time, my fiancee and I usually have long conversations or I throw on a podcast and she falls asleep.

I was going through the list of episodes from the My First Million podcast with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri, which many of you have probably heard of.

I decided to listen to a recent episode of theirs and heard something that really stuck with me.

It wasn’t a mind-blowing takeaway by any means, but it’s something I’d never heard of and wanted to share with all of you.

Here it is:

The best advice you’ll ever hear comes from one side of the barbell or the other.

What does that mean?

The best advice on any topic is either so simple that you can’t charge for it… or it comes from people who are so wealthy and successful that they wouldn’t think to charge for giving you their advice.

In the middle are people who are charging you for advice, and who make it ultra-complex and hard to understand and follow.

On the “simple” side of the barbell, they gave the example in the podcast where Shaan says…

“I want to get in the best shape of my life, Sam, what’s the best way I can do that? And answer it in 15 seconds or less.”

Sam responds and says “Eat 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight, strength train 3 times per week, and walk 10,000 steps per day.”

That’s amazing advice, and if Shaan follows it, he will get in the best shape of his life in a matter of a few months. It’s simple advice… and great advice.

But it’s so simple, that you can’t possibly charge for it.

On the other end of the barbell are the already super successful people who wouldn’t charge for advice, and who have “made it” and want to pass down their learnings.

What’s the Point?

Now, this is what I was asking as Shaan was staying on this topic for probably 10 minutes.

Okay, this is interesting but what’s the takeaway?

The point is… be careful who you take advice from.

This isn’t to say people in the middle of the barbell have bad intentions and are selling you something you don’t need or anything like that.

But you should be cautious.

Because… the best advice you’re ever going to hear is going to be so simple that you can’t charge for it… or, it will come from someone who is already so successful that they wouldn’t think to charge money for it.

There you have it!

The lesson I stole from Shaan Puri.

Thanks for reading!

Eric Higgs
Founder of Summit Group | Newsletter & Email Marketing Agency

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