This Is DISTRACTING You

There's a lot of channels that are dedicated to financial entertainment, but they mask themselves as financial education. Financial entertainment appeals to the one thing in money that you need to stay away from when you're trying to build wealth, when you're trying to make money, and that is emotions. Guys, I got a comment the other day ago on one of my YouTube videos from a person who was asking me in the comment section. They said, show us what you got. Show us the cars and show us the houses that you talk about. Show us the jewelry. I mean, they were asking me to show them a part of my wealth to sort of prove to them that I have wealth or I have money or whatever they will want. I think it was a young man. Instead of answering the comment, it began to make me think about how we want to be so entertained when it comes to money. We want to be sort of what I call financially entertained instead of financially educated about money. We want to have our entertainment fulfilled, our need and our demand for entertainment and our want for entertainment. We want that as opposed to a lot of financial education. The way he phrased the comment was sort of like if I'm obligated or I need to show what they call like show receipts, right? And show stuff that I have. And so it's like, hey, look, newsflash, newsflash, newsflash, listen, real wealth is not flashy. People want to be financially entertained too much. And that becomes sort of a distraction to people. So I want to answer that question. I want to answer that comment in this video. I didn't put an answer in there. So I hope this person's watching. I know that we are an entertainment driven society, right? You make more money when you entertain people than you make when you educate people. I mean, you could just ask the teachers who are teaching in public schools in America or who are teaching in private schools, wherever. Just ask them, you know, hey, they make $50,000 a year trying to teach our children the things they need to be adults and all this good stuff. And they make 10, 15, 20 times, sometimes 30, but many times less than the people who can dance and sing and entertain you and keep you all happy and entertained. Listen, the problem is this mentality and this culture, it seeps into everything. There's nothing wrong with entertainment. I know we love, love, love entertainment. And I'm not mad at entertainment, right? I'm not mad at it at all. But it's a distraction oftentimes. And we're driven by this distraction called the need to be entertained more than we're driven by the fact that we need to be educated. Listen, if you dance, shake, play sports, sing, act, whatever, and you're marketable, they're going to find a way to make you make money and make you make them money, right? It's just how it is. It's how our society or our culture, whatever you want to call it. We're just driven by this entertainment, right? And it trickles into social media, IG, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. It trickles into all that. And it trickles into the money space on social media, the money space on YouTube. Entertainment, listen, on YouTube, entertainment always gets the most views. If you go to somebody that's entertaining you or keeping you entrenched and entertained for two minutes, five minutes, one minute, short, 10 minutes, that usually gets more views than people who are trying to educate you about something. You get more likes. You get more clicks. And most of all, on social media in particular, you get more attention. And attention is really like capital nowadays, right? You may say financial entertainment is more fun and you can learn more. This is what some people say about financial entertainment. They say, man, if you just mix entertainment with your financial education, man, you're going to really, people will really be drawn. But here's my opinion about that. A lot of times with financial entertainment, you're motivated in the wrong direction. You get motivated by the entertainment as opposed to being motivated by the education. And what happens is you end up getting, you get the education because you're entertained, but then you want the rush of the entertainment and so you seek more entertainment as opposed to more education. And so what happens is you begin to run after the entertainment instead of running after the education and you find yourself being entertained but not moved to do anything. Not motivated or encouraged to actually do something different. The thing is, is that entertainment becomes steering you in the wrong direction. Listen, for example, think about it. When you go to, let's say a church or a mosque, wherever you worship at, right? When you go to, you don't need to be entertained when you go, you need to be educated. This is my opinion now. You need to be educated when you go to a church or a mosque or wherever you worship. You don't need the entertainment. The entertainment becomes a distraction. It happens the same way with your money, in my opinion, on the internet. When it comes to money, you need to be, you need to learn financial literacy. Not be entertained about financial literacy. And some of you may think that entertainment will draw people, especially when you're talking about money. But in my opinion, the entertainment piece is what wins out, not the education piece. The entertainment piece becomes to take precedence over the education. And I'm not saying, let me just clarify all this. I'm not saying you cannot have fun with money, right? Not saying you can't have fun with money. I'm just saying, don't have so much fun with money that you miss the motivation and the encouragement and the inspiration that comes with the educational piece. It's fun to learn more and to have more knowledge, right? I get it. We like the flashy. We like the shiny, the bling bling, right? We like fast talkers, right? And we're just attracted to financial entertainment. Let's keep it real. But sometimes we lose ourselves in the entertainment and it becomes a distraction from the real learning, a distraction from the real doing. Guys, if you're getting anything out of this video, do me a favor and smash that like button below. Also, please share this video with your friends, your family, and your network of people. And if you're not a subscriber to this channel, please consider subscribing to my channel. Now, let's get back to the video. Is there value in entertainment? Absolutely. I believe there is value in entertainment. But I believe that for long-term growth with your money, with your wealth, there's more value in the education when you get serious and you get focused as opposed to when you get playful and you're having fun and you're whisked away by the entertainment. Financial entertainment is a lot of times it's about the quick fix. It's about the attention grabbing. It's about sort of the instant gratification, right? It's just like, hurry up, hurry up. Okay, it's not entertaining. I'm turning. I'm scrolling on. You leave it on something for 15 seconds, it didn't craps you, you scroll. 15 more seconds, you scroll. And a lot of times financial education, financial literacy, it's not that way. You got to sit and think. You got to sit and use a different part of your brain than you use when you're being entertained. And that different part of your brain is what I think is the long lasting effects of being financially educated as opposed to being financially entertained. Financial entertainment is everywhere on YouTube, right? There's a lot of channels that are dedicated to financial entertainment, but they mask themselves as financial education. They look like financial education on the surface, right? Oh man, that grabbed my attention. Let me stop and watch. Oh, look at that. Oh, it looks good. But what happens is that's just entertainment. It is everywhere. It feels like and looks like education, but it's really just entertainment. See here's the problem with financial entertainment. Financial entertainment appeals to the one thing in money that you need to stay away from when you're trying to build wealth, when you're trying to make money. And that is financial entertainment appeals to emotions, which is the one thing you really want to sort of quail a little bit, put to the side a little bit, is emotions when you're trying to learn how to manage, how to handle, how to grow wealth. You have to sort of leave your emotions out of when you're getting financially literate, right? I mean, think about it. When you was going to learn that skill that you had that you do on your job every day, you wasn't trying to bring in the anger, the happiness, the sadness, right? The person that was teaching you at your job to do whatever you do at your job, they were telling you, I don't care how you feel in this moment. You got to learn how to cook this meal for these customers. I don't care how you feel at the moment. You have to learn how to answer this phone for these customers. I don't care necessarily how you feel at the moment, that as an engineer, how you feel, I need these drawings, right? I need these renderings right now put out by 3.30 this afternoon. Forget about how you feel. Same concept when it comes to money. You have to put aside the feelings and the emotions. And that's what financial entertainment does to you. Financial entertainment, it brings in all these emotions. It makes you happy. It makes you sad. It makes you angry. It makes you all these emotions. And now, you're focused on the financial entertainment emotions as opposed to being focused on the learning, on the education. And that can be the issue with financial entertainment. My answer to the comment, show us what you got. Show us your car. Show us your jewelry. Show your receipts. My answer is, it's not necessary. I'm not in the space of financial entertainment. If you want to be entertained, there's a lot of channels on YouTube that you can go to to get this financial rush, right? I'm in the space of financial education. It's boring. It's not glamorous. It ain't real fun. But I'm trying to change lives, not look like I'm changing lives, right? I'm focused on being effective, helping people, not just look like I'm balling, right? I'm trying to show people how to be wealthy, not just how to look rich and feel rich. So there's a difference between financial entertainment and financial education. I think financial entertainment is what distracts a lot of people. And it takes people off focus from being really truly educated in a way that they can actually do something with that education to change and affect their financial lives. Listen, get educated about money, not just entertained about money. Drop me a comment below. Let me know what you think. I'll holler at you in the next video. The best person to take care of the old you is the young you. Take good care of yourself and take care of other people. Peace.