Moment 17 - Russell Kane Reveals The Simple Path To Success

00:05this is the message i get most often sent to me via my agent or an instagram and it drives me fucking nuts i had one the other week oh my god i love what you do i'm a really funny person this is how it was phrase of the week how how many gigs would i have to do before i could like open for you on tour can you have a look at some stuff i filmed on my phone and i'm i give them an answer that normally I never get a reply to this answer I say okay it's quite simple lucky for you there is a really simple model to follow you need to work unpaid for three years in the clubs three times a week I wouldn't recommend a relationship and just warn your friends you're not going to see them I started to earn about two three hundred pounds a week after five years at that point you're ready to give up your day job on about the eighth or ninth year you're going to be ready to do a support slot i never yeah people don't want to hear it but you if you went up to the guy in the gym who's 16 stone and five percent body fat and go can you tell me how i can get like that he'd say the machines are over there dickhead just get going yeah the machines are there you cannot skip the machine you cannot skip the tricep station if you want triceps you can't just go but it's

01:16gonna hurt uh it's too much work to get a try and then just don't get triceps don't but don't moan if you don't have triceps head to the dip station and see you in four years i can yeah i now i've wrote about this my book came out last week and i wrote about it in my book i remember someone turning to me it was actually the ceo of my company now company i've just left and he said to me steve you know this personal brand stuff and this like speaking you do on stage was like how long did it like how do i he was like how do i how do i do it and your brain immediately scrambles around looking for like three tips right three tips to describe like a deck i remember my first talk in school at 14 years old my hand's shaking absolutely the truth is like someone's seen you with a sharp sword and they've said how do i get a short sword that sharp so well start sharpening it now and then 10 years time but people don't want that no one wants to hear the answer is boring repetitive practice for most most people that are absolutely fucking excellent at something have done a lot of boring repetitive practice that would be boring to the person asking the question not to us i loved every shit gig i did and that's the difference that's what kept you

02:15doing it for 10 years or two decades or whatever is that you genuinely intrinsic loved it for it and people want the rewards right but when they if they started and genuinely wanted they too would discover that love if you if you say i want to be a dentist how do i be a dentist you start dental training and you're finding it boring and a slog newsflash you don't actually want to be a dentist you'll be rich yeah so find something else find something where you love the journey that is a secret so that's what my dad never found he did he didn't find a job he took pleasure in It's got nothing to do with coin, although I'm into it.

02:45But if you love the outdoors, you're going to love landscaping, whether you're on 17 grand a year or 17 million a year, you're going to love it because that's what you were born to do. It's such a counter narrative to the narrative that sells, which is like short investment, big returns. It's like seven days, six pack abs. That's everyone fucking signs up for that. Imagine that the like 10 years, maybe. Maybe that's true. And the problem is a lot of the TV we make, I make, sells that X Factor spot, do one song, live the pimp lifestyle.

03:19And of course, that is what, in all of the X Factor that's ever been on and all of Popstar the Rivals, how many of those people are now platinum selling artists living in mansions? What? Harry Styles? Try and name some. One Direction, that's it. That's out of every single little mix doing well. that's out of every single one in a show that's designed to push people to the front in an artificial way so if you think that's going to happen if you're russell from essex you're deluded it's but any business if you're passionate mixed with a little bit of luck people this is the other thing people like us don't like putting out there but i'm afraid there is a bit of luck involved and it sort of calls into like we always sat here again i've worked so hard oh look at me with my my work hard badge but at some point we had some luck as well just we're in the right place right time mixed with the hard work so some people are more lucky than others luck is a thing and what lucky not luck as in lottery number luck but luck is in oh my god you've met that you've met the perfect partner you've in the business oh you you were looking for a friend a french bulldog breed and you found exactly the right one at the right time when you were looking for a puppy why are you

04:28so lucky why is my life so shit so they tested this they got a bunch of people together half people who say my life shit i'm so unlucky and half people like me who like i've got to admit i'm a bit i'm hashtag blessed i do have a lot of luck and they run tests on them and the test they run was very simple the the psychologist i can't remember it's the british jewish guy really funny brings loads of books out richard something or other he's written a book about it about luck look it up they gave him newspaper each and they went in there go into your separate rooms and on a page is a picture you're looking for whoever finds that picture comes in first gets 100 pounds cash that was the game so everyone went in like that on page two in massive headlines was it's a trick stop turning if you've read this headline go and collect the money that was on page two all the unlucky people missed that all the lucky people found it you know why because lucky people are eyes are open the hustlers so it turns out you can make luck you can practice that you can hone it that's something you can hone next time you walk into a meeting just think right what's what's that guy do for it for a living who's that is that a contact that's not luck if i sit down

05:35next to someone and he happens to be doing a comedy streaming service startup and he signs me up that's me being a bit bold and striking up a conversation and looking at what he's wearing and having to think you can learn these skills people don't like that because that sharp puts the mirror on me and creates personal responsibility where i yeah you know what i mean and i feel like in our society at the moment this is just an observation i've had personal responsibility is people fucking hate that yeah the fortunate position i'm in which is what i talked about in my last podcast was because i came from like a very broke family where my mum can't read or write and i was born in africa and i we didn't have anything no christmas birthdays or holidays my journey in life people don't discredit it they don't point at me and say oh you know silver spoon you can't fucking talk so i feel like i can have the conversation a little bit more about personal responsibility of course i'm fucking incredibly lucky like i didn't choose to be me you know what i mean i didn't choose my parents or the the good and bad things that shaped me yeah but i but i want to i want to have a conversation about personal responsibility as it relates to career

06:36success and let's let's start with hard work because in our society right now there's two counter narratives one is that don't work like incredibly hard you're going to burn out and you're going to have mental health problems and the other is i've never met someone that sat here in front of me that doesn't work really fucking hard and i i did i don't know how i would have sat here without hard work and tremendous sacrifice well first of all we sort of already made the point a lot of people are working hard at things they hate yeah so working hard at things you dislike hate or find stressful will bring success and money but at a cost working hard at things you love i'm i'm i finished filming at midnight last night in maize and i got in at half one i had my dinner at two and i fell asleep at three and i bounced out of bed this morning to come here to do a podcast for the price of a car why because i love what i do now if i was had got in at three from working as a hospital porter uh and had to get up to do another job which was quite well paid this morning but i hated it i wouldn't be buzzing and that's what releases the cortisol and the stress hormone into your body so you can't compare you're not comparing like and like even

07:46though both people are working hard you've even got people that might be barristers or or doctors really well-paid professions but find it stressful when they're burnt out and stuff it's unlikely you and i will burn out because i'm like what's next and you're intrinsically motivated by you've got a sense of control exactly Thank you.