Invert, always invert

Correction: One of Charlie Munger's earliest jobs was as a weather forecaster, not as an Air Traffic Controller as mentioned in the reminder. Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions, and he is the most obedient and the most generous. Humbabadu, I am going to ask you a question and you have to answer. Today is going to be an interactive thing, so I need you to answer. My question is, what do you need to do to be a total failure in your life? Completely failed. Seriously. Tell me. I need to know from you. Total failure. You want a complete failure. What do you need to do? Ya bukkun hafa? Not praying. Give me a hand. Hamdila. Very good. Excellent. What else? Seriously. Complete, total failure. Akhil bhai. Disobey everything. Disobey everything. No, no, no. Seriously. Tell me. Total failure. Follow Shaitan. Follow Shaitan. Yes. Now what else? No, business. If you want to completely sink your business, totally gone. What do you need to do? Tell me. Seriously. I am asking you a serious question. Complete failure in your business, in your studies. Complete failure. Yes. Lying to your parents. Yes. Lying to your parents. Lying to your parents. See, this guy is brilliant. MashaAllah. Ma'aHmood. MashaAllah. Ali, what do you do to completely fail? Total failure. Total failure. No goals. No goals. Fantastic. Now that's talking. What is complete failure? Complete failure. Complete failure. Complete failure. Stay comfortable. Stay comfortable. Fantastic. Hamza. Yeah, Hamza. Total failure. Okay, while you think, yes. This guy here, what's your name? Ayub. Ayub. Ayub. Disrespecting family. What else? Farhan bhai. Farhan bhai. Not being punctual. Not being punctual. All right. So I'm going to expand a little bit more, which is? Not keeping to your word, right? Punctuality is that. You're supposed to be there. Okay. All right. What else? Don't do what's in your control. Don't? Do what's in your control. Do not do what's in your control. Fantastic. Yes, Ma'aHmood. Don't lie to your parents. Don't lie to your parents. You know, I'm asking this question. It's not a dumb question. I'm teaching you a tool. I'm teaching you a tool. If you apply this tool, you will be the most successful person on earth. Okay. What's the tool? The tool is list and write down how can you be the biggest failure? Seriously. Biggest failure. Right? This is not even my own. This is what Charlie Munger used to do. Charlie Munger died at the age of almost 100 a couple of months ago. He was Warren Buffett's advisor and also business partner with a billionaire many times over. And a very, very wise man. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him good health all right till the end. So there are interviews of him in his 99th year plus plus. He had a principle and his principle was invert, invert, invert. So they asked him what is the meaning of invert? He said whatever you need to do, think of the opposite of that. He said he started his career as a in an airport, small airport. He was an airport traveler. He started his career as a military pilot, as a, as a military pilot. He started his career as a military pilot. So he qualified to be a traffic controller. So he qualified as an air traffic controller. So he qualified as an air traffic controller. He started that. So he said, I sat down and I said, how can I be, how can I completely fail as an air traffic controller? Which means that when I'm controlling the traffic, planes are crashing, people are dying. There's planes are burning down. plane that comes into this airspace which I'm controlling collides and crashes. How can I make that happen? He said, I made a list of things. And then I did the opposite of that. Right? So he has a great career because now he knows what will make him fail and he does the opposite of that. Like you said. How to fail? Don't do what is in your control. Things are in your control. You don't want to do that. You will talk about what Imran Khan should do and what MBS should do and what ABS should do and what ABC should do. But what must I do? Let that wait. Inward, inward, inward. So I want you to do this. I want you to do this serious exercise if you are serious about your careers. More dunya wal akhirah. Like he said, stop praying. Fastest road to Jahannam. Right? You stop praying. Where will you go? Where will you head? So I want you to do this exercise. Sit down. If you are interested in yourself, sit down. Take a piece of paper and write down. How can I completely fail? List things down completely. One, two, three, four, five. And then do the opposite of that. I will fail if I completely neglect my kids. No attention to the children. Then now give attention to the children. Take time. Time out and sit with the children. Talk to the children. Go places with the children. Take the children with you. Give them tarbiyah. I will fail if I give my children free money. If I have my adult children on my budget, I tell my friends, never have your adult children on your budget. That is the root cause of failure. Your adult children on your budget. Root cause of failure. What you have is theirs. When you die, make them wait until you die. Not now. They will become worries when you die. Let them wait. Now when they are adults, not on your budget. You go, you earn. If you don't earn, you starve. I don't care. You go and you earn. I will help you to earn. Maybe I will open some doors for you and so on and so forth. But you are not living on my budget. The day you stop doing that, that is for example, you buy them a nice big million dollar flat because you can, I can afford it. So I'm going to buy this big, nice, you know, million dollar apartment. All right, no problem. So now his, the whole motivation to say, I must buy my house and so on, gone. Zero. Because he is living in his dad's house. Why does he need to buy a house? Biggest disservice. That's why I tell you, I mean, I consult with big business, uh, families, you know, I'm talking about real big money. And this is why I tell them, I ask them questions. I say, what, what kind of does your son drive? And if he tells me all of them, they, they all drive cars, like, you know, absolutely top of the line, fully loaded, blah, blah, blah. You put the guy in a, in a, in a Toyota Camry and he thinks you're insulted him. Seriously. Doesn't work. So I tell them, I said, what you are doing is sowing the seeds of your own family's demise. Because the same kids, they never struggled in their life. They got free tickets throughout. A day will come when they have to stand on their own feet. And then they are not ready. Their wings are not, their wings are not. Great forgotten years of extra time. Gonna, and I have a 30,000 business ducks there dirty with something offっ, no coconut grain back, you know, fragrant. And I'll say, he never tastes it again. He wanted to go to a inheritance home, you know. All right. Let me go back to Minnesota. I talk aboutя and you look up on bedroom wallside. Where he is next to the adoptive mother in the nanny, healthyอ have no ontusress. I was born in Madison with Gina who, very high, right, or top of mountains. The mother will kick the chick out of the nest. Will not bring food for it. That it will sit in the net and scream for a day or two and then it becomes too hungry. Sorry. No food. Kick them out. And they flap and they fall here and they fall there and so on. That is how they learn how to fly. And that's why then the time comes and they're soaring on the currents and they're diving for the fish and doing all. You think it comes for nothing? No. It comes because the parents take those hard decisions. You don't do that. Your kid is somebody else's food. This world has only two kinds of people. People who are at the table or people who are on the menu. Only two. You look at the people. People who are at the table or people who are on the menu. You decide where you want to be and where you want your kids to be. You want them to be at the table or you want them to be on the menu. So I want to end with that. Sit down and do this exercise. How can I fail? Seriously do that. How can I fail? List of things. And then do the opposite of that. You will be the most successful person in the world. It's not easy. If you think this is not easy, try failure. See if that is easy. We ask Allah SWT to help us to take the right decisions and to take the pain for our own success. We ask Allah SWT to help us and save us from ourselves and to help us and save us from all the evil in the world that we know and we don't know. We ask Allah SWT to help us and save us from all the evil in the world that we know and we don't know.