Episode 5: Jesse Itzler

Your 20s are really a great time to... figure out what it is you love to do. Your 30s is to figure out what that thing is and get really good at it—almost perfect it. And your 40s and 50s are for cashing in.

When I went to college, my mom gave me some amazing advice. She said, 'You don't know what you want to do yet. You're going to college. You have this amazing opportunity.' And she told me to do everything. She said, 'If there's a speaker at the college, go listen to the speaker. Sign up for every intramural sport. Go to every event, every happening.'

Great entrepreneurs, great business leaders, deal with the lows really well ... Great entrepreneurs handle the lows really well because they have such a passion. Their passion to get to that end goal is so much bigger than the obstacles. The obstacles are almost obsolete.

They say you find your true purpose when these three things collide: when you figure out what it is you're good at, what you love to do, and providing a product or service that helps people.

You have so much more—all of us—in our reserve tank. We just don't want to tap into it because it's uncomfortable. But once you go beyond what you think you can do, it's addicting.

In today's world, everybody thinks instant everything, instant likes, more followers, more this... Like it just happens. And it does for some people—they get lucky, and they have... rapid growth. But for 99.9% of us, we go through this trial and error period, and that was no different for me.

The limitations we put on ourselves are self-imposed.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

The more you experience, the more you have to offer.