Success, Family, and Legacy: A Blueprint for a Fulfilling Life | Scooter Braun EP 581

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11There's this idea in Kabbalah where God is where it's kind of enlightened He's looking over the valley You're in this kind of tight ravine like imagine Grand Canyon but really tight So you can't see what's around the next corner so it seems scary but if you can rise above and kind of see where all the turns and where the ending is it's not nearly as scary and that's kind of what life is once you start to realize it's going to be okay and you'll get through those turns and there are ups and downs, but tomorrow will come, I think you get happier. And I think what family has taught me is there's always this steadiness.

0:43And I think if you can provide for your family, if you can build a family, which I'm now doing with my wife, we're doing with our first child, you do all this stuff, but what's it really worth? And I think the only real legacy in life is family and charity. And when you asked me earlier, if I had a five-year plan, for me, my perspective is I just wanted to leave a mark on the world. I wanted to leave something positive because I don't I think you only get a short time on this planet and what's it worth unless you can do something and I understand one of my mentors said no one's going to remember you in 100 years no one's going to remember me, no one's going to remember you but they'll feel our impact and who might remember me is my children so the idea of family the idea of working your ass off to share it with someone else is what makes it worthwhile it's everything I watched this documentary Happy the other day which is really great documentary and they talk about how our nation in the last 50 years has gone up 50 percent up in wealth how we are richer than we were 50 years ago by 50 but our happiness per capita has gone up less than one percent and i think it's because we chase the dollar but we don't understand what the dollar is for and money is an amazing thing it can be actually a complete release and an avenue to freedom sure but it can also trap you at the same time you get caught in the rat race and i think family is that thing that you always need to know that comes first and if you do that you're going to live a happier life i tattooed family on my wrist my only tattoo because i said i wanted an invisible place for the rest of my life people will ask me about this tattoo which you just did yeah and i will have to tell this story of why i got it which is this simple and it will remind me for the rest of my life i was lost and i was chasing the dollar and i was chasing the money because I didn't really understand.

2:24I was just going for it. And what I realized was all I'm doing it for is this. So I'm going to tattoo it on my wrist. So for the rest of my life, I'll get asked this question. And for the rest of my life, I will be reminded of what's really important. Did something shift in your mindset and your energy or any way of being when you realized that, yeah, I was pregnant? Yeah, completely. What shifted for you? I've been told by everyone, and I think it's true, you don't really understand until you see the child. It's not inside of me. Sure. So I'm excited, but I'm not like, I can't comprehend until I think I meet them.

2:59It's going to be crazy. And I'm really excited about that. But what you start to realize is, you know, you can live for other people. You can do charity. You can, you know, I manage, so I have to, I'm helping people a lot. I'm helping that. My job is to help people achieve their goals. Yeah. But I think what I realized when my wife got pregnant was for the first time in my life, my wife's an adult. she can fend for herself. Yeah. When you become a father, you start to have this idea of, oh my God, my life is no longer mine. You know, for the rest of my life, there's never going to be a selfish decision again.

3:33I can't, you can't call me and say, yo Scooter, we're going to Vegas. You want to come with us? Oh, let's go play basketball right now. Every decision I make for the rest of my life, I have to consider how that affects someone who depends on me. Like truly depends on me. And that has made me respect other fathers. The moment she got pregnant, I started looking at friends of mine who are great businessmen who have kids and i've worked my ass off but i've been able to be selfish in my time of your own time yeah no one to look out for no one to look out for really like even my wife's an adult like i can do what i need to do to make it happen sure and i look at some of these guys who have multiple kids which i want and they're at the kids baseball game and they're here and then they're still handling all this business and they're present too and completely i have so much respect for them and i need to pull from their wisdom because i'm scared of how am I going to pull it off, but I have to pull it off.

4:22There's no other option. That's why I look at people like Jeffrey Katzenberg and Richard Branson as role models in a sense, because these are very successful businessmen, but they have great kids. Great kids who are adults and they love their father. And I think that's the ultimate test of success. If you would have had, uh, you know, been married when you're 23, 25 and had a child, then do you feel like you would be as successful in your business career and done as much now? Or do you feel like it would have shifted a lot of decisions you've made in the last five years? I would love to say yes, because people say that when you have a kid, you grind even harder.

4:56That's what I've been told. Gary Vee says that too. Yeah, like you grind even harder. But I'd have to say no if I was really being honest with myself. Because my acts are so young, I had to be present for them at that age. They were like their kids almost. Yeah. I don't think I would have been able to do the things I needed to do at the time I was building my business. What it took me six months before. I can do in a phone call because I've earned the leverage you earn it, you earn equity in your relationships and time and the hard work you put in but back then I had to earn it and I think that's actually why I wasn't ready to have a family back then because I knew it wasn't the right time but now I'd be a complete hypocrite if I wasn't a good dad at this point because if I can't give my kid the time he needs at this point in my life then everything I worked for you know I'd be a what's the point but at the same time I have amazing artists and people that I work with because we're all like a family and they're so excited to meet my kid too you know and my child will grow up in this fabric of these relationships like my artists are gonna be uncles and aunts yeah and we're gonna we're gonna have a fun ride it's gonna be it's a fun life

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