The greatest advantage in life is figuring out what you love early — during a 'golden window' from ages 6 to 16 — because that's when the brain can hyper-specialize and make you world-class.

16:07going to do that but I did have a random idea recently that I just kind of like fascinated me. So I was listening to some interview with the chef from Carbone and he said something like the interview actually was a little bit boring but he said one thing that I thought was was pretty interesting he goes Oh I was always obsessed with food I was 12 years old and I was

16:27absolute foodie I was always watching cooking shows I knew about every restaurant I knew I wanted to be a chef. And you know one of the greatest gifts that nobody really talks about right like you want you want your kid to be you know really good at school or really good at sports really whatever I mean really one of the best things you can do is figure out what you actually love to

16:44do in life. The earlier you figure that out that's actually the big advantage and so you know >> was Warren Buffett's advantage. >> It's Warren Buffett's it's everyone if you read these guys they you know Mr. Beast is like yeah at 12 I just at 11 years old I decided I was going to be a YouTuber like I just wanted to be a YouTuber that's all I wanted to do and

17:02so from he's like yeah so I'm whatever he is now 28 he's like yeah but I'm doing this for 20 years he's like you know it's like I've been doing this 17 years now and so he's literally just spent more time on this than everyone else. Warren Buffett bought first stock at seven and basically was thinking about businesses, money, and stocks since he was very young. And and had

17:21time during that a golden window. And and when I interviewed Monish Pabrai, he was I was asking about these books on the wall. He had a whole section on like science and neuro neuroscience and psychology. And I go, "What's something you really took away from reading a bunch of these?" And he goes, "We have a certain hardwiring that's kind of baked by the time you're six or seven. Like your your core

17:43nature, your DNA. You kind of know who that person is." But he goes, "And there's a golden window. And I think the golden window was something like, you know, six to 16 years old. And during that 10-year window, if you found something that's that you can obsess over and you can um you get free rein to actually obsess over it during that window, you will hyper-specialize when the brain is in

18:08this certain period and you'll become world-class. Like you're you're the rest of your life happens and if you really don't And so he talks about this with investing. He's like, "I don't invest in companies where the CEO doesn't have an evidence of the lemonade stand when they were 10 or 11 because if you really If you're an entrepreneur, you were an entrepreneur at an early stage." Now, I

18:25don't 100% believe this, but I did think it's interesting and you do see this pattern a lot where >> have that? Did Monish have that? >> Uh yeah, so he I asked him that and he was like He's like, "Yes." And he goes, "It wasn't for entrepreneurship. It was basically for like his dad had a jewelry business or a gold business or something like that." He said, "Like basically my MBA was every