Shine Your Light | Dan Martell Original (Micro-Doc)

About this video

Dan Martell returns to Portage, a rehab centre, 22 years after his treatment, to speak to young people there. He recounts that at 16 years old, driving a stolen car high on drugs just outside Sussex, he fled a routine roadblock without a licence, smashed into the side of a house while trying to hide in an open garage, and struggled with a handgun in a backpack that got stuck before police grabbed him; he woke up sober the next morning in the Sussex jail and was released to Portage, where he did an 11 month program. While clearing out a room in the old church camp there, he found an old computer with a book on Java programming, followed chapter one and got it to say ‘Hello, world!’, which sparked an interest that became a new addiction. He says he got out in 1997, discovered the internet, has since started five software companies, sold the last three, became a multimillionaire when he was 27, and has invested in 40 other companies, four of them billion dollar companies — shared, he stresses, not to brag but to show what is possible. He teaches the tugboat versus the lighthouse: do not ram out to fix others like a tugboat, which drains you and frustrates them, but be a lighthouse. He says who you are today is not who you need to become for the next level, urges dropping the word ’try’, and commits that anyone who gets out, stays sober for at least a year and reaches out to him will get his help to achieve any dream they can design.

Key takeaways

• Martell says his turning point began in Portage’s 11 month program after his arrest at 16, where finding a Java programming book led to his first ‘Hello, world!’ program.
• He presents entrepreneurship as the ultimate personal development program: people think they have business problems when they really have personal problems that show up in their business.
• Be a lighthouse, not a tugboat: trying to force others to change drains you and frustrates them; give the advice you would give others to yourself in the mirror.
• Progress requires becoming a different person: habits, beliefs and values must change, and each day ask who you need to become to reach the next level.
• His commitment to Portage graduates: stay sober for at least a year, reach out, and he will help them achieve any dream they can design.

Episode details: published October 21, 2019 · 13:51 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dan Martell’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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