entrepreneurs and the father of Caleb Maddix gave a speech on stage now I

didn't know who Caleb was at the time and I'm assuming most of you don't

either so I'll give you a quick rundown Caleb Maddix was born in 2001 and made

his first million at the age of 16 he actually started his journey as an

entrepreneur much earlier than that at the age of 12 when he published the

best-selling book keys to success for kids he's pals with some of the most

well known self-improvement legends like Tony Robbins Arnold Schwarzenegger and

Gary Vee just to name a few and there's even a video of him closing

a $10,000 deal on the phone when he was just 14 so just hearing all of this made

me very curious how is it that this kid was able to reach such high levels of

success at such a young age I mean seriously when I was 12 I was

still hanging out in the park playing tag after school back then I never

thought about my career or what I should be doing with my life not to say that

there's anything wrong with enjoying one's childhood but it really makes you

wonder how did Caleb Maddox become so successful and that's exactly what his

father Matt Maddox talked about on stage now Matt is a single father he and

Kayla's mother had some sort of falling-out early on in Caleb's

childhood so he was forced to raise Caleb all on his own which is an

extremely hard thing to do because well kids take up a lot of time you have to

entertain them and keep them busy or else they go crazy the problem was Matt

was a public speaker his job involved traveling around the world giving

speeches on stage and although he would bring Caleb along with him he still had

to keep Caleb busy while he was working so here's what Matt decided to do when

Caleb was only six years old Matt told him that if he could finish reading the

success principles by Jack Canfield which is a 500 page book he would get

$20 that's a lot of money for a six-year-old so needless to say Caleb

was extremely motivated and he finished the book in only a couple of weeks Matt

decided to keep this tradition and continued to offer $20 for every

self-improvement book his son read and it's this one action that caused Caleb's

reached the levels of success he now has at such a young age see the amount of

success we have in life is directly correlated with the quality of teachers

you learn from because if you think about it in theory it's your teachers

job to help you succeed in life that's kind of the point of going to school

right that's why we learn things like English and math and history because

this stuff is supposed to help you but the thing is it's the quality of your

teachers that ultimately determines how successful you become if you're learning

from average Joe schmo's who just happen to get teaching degrees the majority of

which teach from a textbook not from their personal experience all you're

gonna learn is how to be as successful as just another Joe Schmo on the street

if you want to outperform others if you want to be healthier wealthier happier

than the average person you need to learn from the teachers who are known

worldwide as experts in these areas who know how to do things better than most

other people you should not focus on learning from

your average school teacher or professor because for the most part all they're

gonna teach you is how to perform at an average level learn from the average and

you will become average learn from the successful and you will become

successful now you can learn from the successful in

a variety of ways you can watch their videos listen to their podcast but

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