Entitlement Needs To Go: FRIDAY FIRE #4

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Yo, what is going on, everybody? Isaac Mashman here. You are listening to Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman, the podcast, episode 31, and Friday Fire number 4. Now, today's episode is going to ruffle some feathers. I already know it will. This is also going to [be paired] with a YouTube video. I'm actually probably going to release the YouTube video a couple days prior to releasing this video, or this podcast rather, but it is going to be talking about entitlement. It's going to be talking about how entitled people are, and man, to get this started, I want to go ahead and ask a favor of you guys.

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Now, let's talk about entitlement. The other day on Twitter, I saw something, and it was: internships should be paid, unpaid internships should be illegal.

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I tried. I put a value on my education. It's the sense of entitlement people have. They think everything should be given to them, just because mommy and daddy, when they were growing up, were giving them every single damn thing that they wanted. That's not how the real world works. There's such a thing known as the law of reciprocity, which says that for whatever you give, you will also receive. Anybody who earns money without taking action does not value money. There is a reason why I do not believe in giving services for free, because by giving services [for free], you are not valuing yourself. Now you're probably like, wait, you just said something that conflicts with the internships.

Well, guess what? There's a difference between being somebody who doesn't know anything, who is learning, and being somebody who knows something and is making it his business.

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There's a huge difference between those two things. An intern goes into a program to learn something. Yes, that could be counted as training, but if an internship is a qualification in order to get a master's degree, or in order to level up, well, guess what? Sometimes you need to be humble. Sometimes you need to realize that, hey, I need to learn and I need to have the experience. It is a blessing for this company to even let me work with them side by side when they wouldn't even think of hiring me, because I didn't have any credentials. It is a chance for you to have a mentor.

It is a chance for you to learn from somebody, or to learn from a company, and even to learn trade secrets that you otherwise wouldn't have known.

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It should be a blessing, if anything. If it's a paid internship, then it's not a damn internship, it's a job. An internship allows a news reporter who has zero experience, an aspiring news reporter who has never held a news reporter job, to work at a news station to get firsthand experience. It is much easier to secure a job with experience than without experience, and that internship is giving you experience that could even lead to another job. I have known a lot of internships to lead to secured jobs at that same company because of how well that intern sells [themselves]. You set your price tag if you're good enough.

A lot of people go into a job and let their job tell them how much they're going to be making. If they valued themselves a little bit more and weren't afraid of asking, they would set the price that they would work at, because they'd be like, this is what I'm capable of, this is what I bring to the table, this is why you could benefit, and this is why I am worth this amount of money.

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That is not entitlement, that is facts, and that is self-confidence. That is self-confidence, but that is not entitlement. There's a big difference. There's a difference between thinking that you're the shit and being the shit and knowing you are. A lot of people think they're something that they're not, and I hate to break it to them, but they don't have any experience. They don't have any knowledge. You know what? They don't have what it takes. But now, the people who have the experience, who have the knowledge, or who have the humility to go out and learn, those are the people who are actually capable of saying that they have what it takes.

But the people who actually have the ability to say that they're entitled, to act like they're entitled, usually don't, because those are the people always striving for new levels.

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So guys, thank you for tuning in to episode 31 and Friday Fire number 4. Expect a lot of amazing content, two to three episodes every single week. Make sure to share this with a friend if you got any ounce of value, follow me at Isaac Mashman on all social media, and go to IsaacMashman.com. Much love, and always remember to live without limitations.