True, office automation and 3D printing wipes out 300 million manufacturing jobs. Self-driving vehicles affect truck drivers. Many will lose, but each new technology opens the opportunity to create new businesses that weren't envisioned before.

When you look at the world's largest hotel chain, Airbnb, it has no hotels. The world's largest transportation company, Uber, has no cars. The world's largest retailer is now Alibaba, and they have no inventory. What these businesses have in common is their ability to leverage big data, social media and mobile. They understand that each of us is connected to six billion consumers who are just one click away. You only have to be right for a nano second to become a billionaire or change the world.

We have an unprecedented amount of opportunities and equal access to those opportunities. Every month we have a new self-made billionaire in their 20s. They have the same 24 hours in a day that you and I do, but they are doing something different. I want to show people how to tap into that so that they can get the most out of their time on this planet, take any obstacle, and turn it into an opportunity.

When you look at some of the most successful businesses formed in the past 10 years, they do not resemble the ideas the entrepreneurs started with. Twitter was a music company, YouTube was a dating app.

The purpose of an idea in a startup isn't to nurture it like a flower; it's to kill it. You want to go to every potential customer and every user before you build it, write code, or spend millions, so that you can find out why it sucks, and keep on chipping away, iterating as quickly as you can and as agile as you can until you come up with what I call a zombie idea - an idea that can't be killed. Literally, it's a walking dead of all ideas. In each case, you really have to look at what's wrong and keep on going until you find that one zombie idea that can transform not only your company, but an entire industry.

Failure, on the other hand, is throwing in the towel and giving up for the rest of your life. At the end of your life, I can guarantee you will have more regrets for things that you didn't try than the things that you failed at. You need to realize there is no shame in failing.

Secondly, now that you want to go out there and do it, there are so many ways to increase your likelihood of success. You can use social media and LinkedIn to find mentors that have subject matter expertise. You can find other businesses that already deal with the audience that you're trying to reach and would love to introduce you to that audience, because it makes them look good. Also, there's no shortage of funding to help you, from crowdfunding, to Venture Capital.

Finally, as you start putting this virtual team together, you'll get closer to your idea. In Disrupt You!, I explain to people how to write a "disruptor's map". You don't need to know all the steps to get to your goal. Rather, you start from the goal and work backwards. For example, if you know you want be a doctor, you know you need to go to medical school. If you want to go to medical school, you probably have to go get into a good university. You can use the same approach in trying to build a billion-dollar business.

Learning how to communicate, learning what they're looking for, and how to describe the market, are very easy things to do. Equally, you can follow what's going on in the industry, see what trends people are looking to invest in, and then take your idea and make it on-point, because investors are looking to catch a wave. If you are part of that wave, that's how you get funding.

Crowdfunding is slightly different. Crowdfunding for the most part is about providing a solution to a specific user. If you can figure out who benefits from your product, you can target them exactly and get pre-orders of customers.

The greatest example of crowdfunding on a massive scale is Tesla. They have tens of billions of dollars of pre-orders for their low-cost Tesla. It's no different though if you invent something that just works for backpackers or something which just works for magicians. Figure out your market and get those advanced orders.

If you have your fully thought out business and you go out to that audience, and they're not willing to pre-order it, you might want to stop and think, why are you making this product? Is it a business if there's no customer base clamoring for the product?

True, you have a lot of noise out there, but most people are doing it wrong. No one wants to hear all day long on Instagram or in Snapchat that you have a new product. What they do want to hear is stories about how people's lives were made better or how something was solved. Social gives you a way to connect to people's feelings, and through that, move your product.

You've seen people in their bedrooms start cosmetic lines that have become $100 million sellers, because people met the person, saw their life, and wanted to be like them and became aspirational. The product was a way for them to connect with that individual. Integrated cause marketing like The TOMS buy-one get-one shoes model and the Warby Parker model focus on how my purchase decision can make the world better, and in turn I feel better about having that product.

Additionally, celebrities want to feel like they're making a difference too, and they'll be attracted to wanting to work with you and your brand. I've worked with some of the biggest names in the world, and there wasn't one instance where they were attracted to what we were doing because of a check. It was about the mission, whether you're talking to an Elton John, Stevie Wonder, or Justin Timberlake. Everybody's attracted to what are you able to achieve, and then they want to climb onboard.

Changing your attitude towards the world is key to bringing you success. In Disrupt You!, I lay out the scientific research, but ultimately everything comes down to this: A person in a negative state of mind is not open to new ideas and change. Therefore, they are inflating themselves into a life of negativity, depression, and failure.

Whereas if you start each day with just two affirmations – “today can be better than yesterday” and “I have the power to make it so” - suddenly, you're actually changing your physiology. You're releasing dopamine from your brain which lights up the synaptic nerves like lights on a Christmas tree. You will find yourself having more energy, being more social, closing more sales, and even having a higher IQ. You'll be in a state of mind where you're open to ideas, change, and connections.

One of my favorite examples involves two guys sitting in traffic. If you're in a negative state of mind, you're complaining about how bad the traffic is. If you're in a positive state of mind, you're saying, "Wait a second. The phone company knows I'm in this car. Imagine if they tell me to go left, then right, and there's no more traffic.” Two kids in Tel Aviv had that thought and it led to the Waze app. Less than a year in business, they're billionaires without $1 in revenue.

I'm working with a company right now that has me very excited. They took the number one global problem that everybody complains about - the weather - and actually solved a big part of the weather.

At the end of the day, it really comes down to empowering yourself, and once you realize how easy it is to change yourself, changing business is even easier, and changing the world is no different.

My two classic rules in hiring people are this:

1) I tell the new employees, "You don't work for me, I work for you. My job is to give you what you need to succeed. I'm not a mind reader, so unless you tell me what you need, I have no way of making you successful."

2) If you work for a year and you do not make a mistake, I fire you, because you have to be empowered and willing to try new things. If you're afraid of making a mistake on the job, you're dooming the company to failure, because trying new things is crucial to discovering what new opportunities exist for growth.

I was in my 20s and we were still in the early days of computers, when they were just a green screen with blinking white numbers or letters on them. California was going to get their first lottery machine that people could use to buy tickets. My competition had a monochromatic screen with blinking numbers that you could type your numbers into while I had created a kiosk in full color, with video that spoke six languages and a motion detector that said, "What would you do with a million dollars?" It was heads and shoulders above the rest. I was going to be an instant multi-millionaire. I invested every penny, maxed out the credit cards, went to Sacramento, and lost the bid.

Later, I would find out that the competition gave a $50,000 cash briefcase to a state senator who eventually served time for taking the bribe; even so, they never invalidated the contract. That day though, I flew back to LA, feeling dejected. I was so broke that I couldn't afford a taxi to get from LAX to my house. Back then, they used to have women working these information booths to tell you how to use public transportation in LA, but there was nobody at the booth at that moment.

It dawned on me then, "That woman, if she were there, only speaks one language. She's only working so many hours a day and can't be at every terminal. Why don't we put kiosks at an airport? We can solve the visitor dilemma. We can show the whole database, every van service, and every hotel. We can turn this lousy experience into a great experience." Fast-forward to today: when you go to airports, generally you go to a kiosk for information rather than a person.

You can always look at a situation from a different point of view. Analyze what you learned from your failure, and apply what you learned to the next opportunity. I've repeated that process again and again across the music industry, running multi-national corporations, being a public CEO, buying companies, selling companies, working in transportation, working with McDonald's and the Cokes of the worlds, foreign governments, and even with our own White House.

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