Jason Allan Scott

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[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

grew up poor.
A slum in Rugby, Cape Town. apartheid-era South Africa. one of an estimated 400,000 poor whites ; a statistic most people don't know exists.

no safety net. no family money. just the belief that building something was the only way out.

This is my story

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

You are allowed to want more

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

I say it every morning before I start and every night when I clock off

This is so damn hard
This is so freaking challenging

I don’t know if I can keep trying to do this

But

I follow i also know

"if it's this hard for me, it'll be as hard for anyone to compete with me"

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

Every decision compounds.

Build a business.
Build your health.
Build your relationships.
Build your character.

Then ask yourself:

If I had to live this exact life over and over forever… would I be proud of today’s choices?

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

So for the next seven days, that’s exactly what I’m going to do.

One step.

One conversation.

One chance to learn.

Let’s see where it leads.

Day 1

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

I’ve started something new.

I’m not ready to talk about what it is yet.

What I can share is the promise I made to myself.

No endless planning.

No perfect logo.

No building things nobody asked for.

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

I also do it with MS, autism, dyslexia and no family to lean on.

Some days that makes everything feel heavier.

But I’ve learned something over the years.

Momentum beats motivation.

You don’t need to know the whole journey.

You just need to do today’s job.

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

Just this

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

Big one: Most suffering isn’t external

it’s the unconscious patterns running your life on autopilot (approval seeking, the pleaser, etc.).

Spot them = break free.

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

Good words
Good thoughts
Good deeds

Just this
Every single day

Karma

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

Stop measuring how customers enter your business.
Start measuring why they never want to leave.

Start asking:

"Why aren't our current customers bringing us more?"

The biggest businesses don't have the biggest ad budgets.

They have customers who can't stop talking about them.

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

Marketing buys attention.

Product earns trust.

Trust creates referrals.

Referrals create enterprise value.

Most founders spend 90% of their time buying attention instead of earning trust.

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

The biggest companies don't spend the most on marketing.

They spend the most removing friction.
Faster onboarding. Better support.
Better product. Better experience.
Every improvement increases referrals.
Every referral lowers CAC.
Every retained customer increases value

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Great advice: do more
Also great advice: do less

How do you make sense of it?
Do more of fewer.

“Perfect every detail. Limit the number of details.” -Jack Dorsey

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

There are three things you cannot buy. Fitness: You have to keep fit, whether you’re rich or not. Diet: You cannot pay someone to be on a diet for you. I think that diet is the biggest sacrifice in my life. Then, looking after your soul. No one can possibly treat your soul but you yourself. This is something you can do through culture and philosophy.

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

Until we die
All defeat
Is simply in our heads

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

Struggling today…..
Doing the base work to test an idea is killing me

The boring 🥱
The domain purchase
The email set up
The reading on competitor copy
Writing my own copy for a landing page
Creating a landing page
Linking it to stripe
Then creating the offer
Then DM’s

[Jason Allan Scott @JasonAllanScott]

If your knowledge creates money…

Stop giving it away to people who don’t value it.

Charge.

The right people won’t hesitate.