EP. 1814

08/22/25

Robert Herjavec

“The sun always rises tomorrow. The world is your oyster. You are all powerful. There is nothing we cannot achieve if we believe and we’re willing to work hard enough.”

The Mindset That Took A Shark From Poverty To Millions

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When Robert Herjavec was the only person to show up for free business lessons from a legendary Canadian retailer, he learned something that would change everything: “I don’t need to get paid to learn. I’ll pay to learn from the best.” This mindset shift from his immigrant childhood of poverty to building billion-dollar companies reveals the exact thinking patterns that separate those who stay stuck from those who break through. You’ll discover why passion isn’t enoughโ€”and why obsession might be the missing ingredient in your success recipe. Walk away knowing the difference between working hard and working smart, and how to shift from a poverty mindset to an abundance mindset that actually creates wealth.

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Driven: How to Succeed in Business and in Life

The Will To Win: Leading, Competing, Succeeding

You Don’t Have to Be a Shark: Creating Your Own Success

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"Poverty wasn't my mindset. I think people that are born into poverty or encompassed in poverty, it's harder to get out of. My mindset was joy. I didn't realize that we were poor until we came to Canada."
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And now let’s jump into episode 1814 of The School of Greatness!

Some Questions I Ask:

  • How far do you think can passion get someone on an idea, on a product, on a business, on anything in life versus if they really are obsessed about the thing?
  • How do you learn to go from, I guess, a poverty situation and turn it into an abundance mindset? When does that switch on to abundance of wealth mindset?
  • What is a poverty or poor mindset versus a wealth or abundance mindset? What do they both encompass?
  • What did you start learning to support you from going from poor to abundance mindset?
  • How does someone today not tie their self worth with their net worth? How do they not let it affect their identity?
  • What is the thing that you learned then, about hard work versus creating wealth? What is the thing that broke you open from saying, I’m going to work a different way that’s going to unlock wealth?
  • What do you ask God for today?
  • If you could go back a year before 2014, and if you were who you are now, and you could speak to that younger version of you, what three things would you say to that version of you right before you went through your darkest times?

In this episode, you will learn:

  • Discover the crucial difference between passion and obsession that determines who succeeds long-term
  • Transform your relationship with learning by understanding why the best pay to learn while others expect to be paid
  • Break through the poverty mindset trap that keeps people working harder but never getting wealthier
  • Master the sales secret that made Robert millions
  • Unlock the three mindset shifts billionaires use to create exponential wealth instead of linear growth
  • Plus much more…
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