Rule No. 6: Luck Favors Hard Workers | The Few Will Hunt Show 010

Are the successful in life and business just lucky? Joey and Drew prove they aren’t. In this episode, they break down Rule No. 6 of The Few (“Luck favor hard workers”) and explain what “luck” actually is and how you can make your own. Joey and Drew also offer a tool for this rule— a practical way you can live Rule No. 6 of The Few each day to change your life.

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Drew Beech is an entrepreneur and cofounder of Few Will Hunt. He spent several years in the sales and marketing industry, grossing over several million dollars in sales. But his love for the entrepreneurial journey and desire to escape the rate race started with his personal training business in college. Today, Drew leads the Few Will Hunt community alongside his cousin and cofounder, Joey in their mission to restore the dignity of hard work through the highest-quality American-made apparel.

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Joey Bowen is co-founder of Few Will Hunt.

What is The Few Will Hunt Show?

The official podcast of Few Will Hunt, the world’s largest community of hard workers and 100% Made in the USA apparel brand. We’re on a mission to restore the dignity of hard work and help others live The Rules of The Few to strengthen ourselves and strengthen society. No entitlement or excuses are allowed here.

Joey Rosen: 00:03

I think luck is one of those things that is it's deeply cultural, like superstition and things like that. It's a it's a concept that is really hard to overcome for a lot of people. It's easy to think that there's something out there to get you when you're not getting what you want, and it's hard to take complete ownership. Welcome to the Fuel Hunt Show.

Drew Beech: 00:28

What's going on, Eagles?

Joey Rosen: 00:29

Welcome to the Fuel Hunt Show. I'm Joey, Now I have Drew with me, my fellow cofounder of fuel hunt and also my cousin. How are you feeling today, comrade? I like that.

Drew Beech: 00:40

Living the fucking dream, man. Living the dream. To be alive and here.

Joey Rosen: 00:45

I'm happy that you're alive in here with me. Thank you. I'm happy that you're alive and here with me. I feel the same way. I feel, blessed.

Joey Rosen: 00:52

We're, you know, I don't we're not 10 episodes in yet, but we're getting close.

Drew Beech: 00:56

Yeah. It feels like 10. Yeah. We're

Joey Rosen: 00:58

getting close. We're getting close. And, you know, I'm really I'm happy to have this opportunity to connect with a few in a different way, than we have in the previous, you know, years of, community building. So today, we have a rules of the few episode. We're gonna talk about rule number 6 of the few, which is, luck favors hard workers.

Drew Beech: 01:19

This seems to be a one of the favorite, fuel hunt quotes

Joey Rosen: 01:24

It is.

Drew Beech: 01:24

Of the community.

Joey Rosen: 01:25

It definitely is. Thank you for that because what I wanted to say was this is one of our very first mantras. Mhmm. Our very

Drew Beech: 01:33

first second.

Joey Rosen: 01:34

Well, one of our one of our very first mantras.

Drew Beech: 01:37

Yeah. I believe I thought it was the second one second. Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Rosen: 01:41

Quite possibly, actually. Yeah. Comfort is slow death, prefer pain, and luck favors hard workers. So when I say, you know, our when you say our second or one of our very first, we're going all the way back to, like, 2017. Right?

Joey Rosen: 01:53

So the rules of the few, we didn't codify them and put them out for the community. And maybe a year ago, we did that. But these rules have been around since day 1, and today we're gonna chop up one of them. Rule number 6, luck favors hard workers. Typically, I'll read the rule, but, I wanna mix it up today, man.

Joey Rosen: 02:10

So if you wanna read the rule, you can go to fuelhunt.comforward/rules, and you can read all the rules in addition to number 6 that we're gonna talk about today. So, yeah, the the luck t, was that the second t that we ever dropped for the community?

Drew Beech: 02:25

Yeah. Well, we just and then we just revamped it.

Joey Rosen: 02:28

And we rebooted them all. Yeah. Yeah.

Drew Beech: 02:29

The revamped version is a lot.

Joey Rosen: 02:32

We had we kinda had 3. Right? We had the all in. Right? Then we had the luck tee, and then we had the 3rd we had a third one.

Joey Rosen: 02:39

So we kinda came out of the gate hop

Drew Beech: 02:41

when we brought it back. We did.

Joey Rosen: 02:43

Yeah. So let's, let's talk about luck for a moment. And before I ask you what luck means to you or what this this mantra means to you, how do you think the non few see luck?

Drew Beech: 03:00

It's funny you asked me this question because I wrote down it's like I feel like when we do these, it's like a it's such a natural spontaneous conversation because you kind of like oh, I wonder what Joey's thinking about this question. Like, you just sent me the topic, and we're just like, oh, like, so, I'm glad you asked me this because I wrote down some things that call the non view the average. Right? That's when I'm writing our few our motivational OG posts

Joey Rosen: 03:26

Mhmm.

Drew Beech: 03:27

I think sometimes label we we we label ourselves the few. Right? But what do we label the non few? Yeah. They are enemy.

Drew Beech: 03:34

So we always say averages the enemies. I feel like Average. The average would be it would be

Joey Rosen: 03:40

What's the average outlook on luck?

Drew Beech: 03:42

And I think there are 2 quotes Mhmm. That the average say to the few that pertain to this rule. Okay. Okay. And the first one and the the phrase I loathe the most Mhmm.

Drew Beech: 04:00

Is must be nice. Yep. I that is a not many things trigger me.

Joey Rosen: 04:07

So you think that they're saying that because they're insinuating that whatever your circumstances are, that, the reason that you're living those circumstances are because some mystical force aligned things in your favor, or maybe you found a 4 leaf clover, or maybe you have a rabbit's foot.

Drew Beech: 04:28

Correct.

Joey Rosen: 04:29

Or maybe you have any vomiting.

Drew Beech: 04:31

Somehow this life just was given to me. Right? Like, I just stumbled upon it. Mhmm. When I'm like, bitch, you didn't see Can you say

Joey Rosen: 04:41

it out loud?

Drew Beech: 04:42

Yeah. Like, bitch, you didn't see the

Joey Rosen: 04:43

We're gonna kill

Drew Beech: 04:45

5, 10 years of fucking grinding, the sacrifice, the sweat, the blood, the tears, like, that led to this life.

Joey Rosen: 04:52

The reality of it is they didn't. I mean, some did.

Drew Beech: 04:55

Yeah.

Joey Rosen: 04:55

But a lot of people didn't because they're distracted. And we'll get to that a little later when I start chopping up, you know, maybe a tool for the rule, you know, which we do during these episodes, but they're distracted. So maybe they didn't even say it. Yeah. And that's a problem.

Joey Rosen: 05:08

No.

Drew Beech: 05:08

That is. And then the second one is just you're so lucky. Like, they that's another catchphrase that the average love to use against the few that make them feel as though they aren't living the fruits of their labor.

Joey Rosen: 05:25

So must be nice. You're so lucky. Red flags that that individual is not in the few. I would say so. I would say so.

Joey Rosen: 05:36

Yeah. What what are the opposites of that? What do you expect to hear from the few, in those circumstances if you're not gonna hear those 2 things?

Drew Beech: 05:45

I realistically, like, congratulations. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like like, I always knew you'd do it.

Drew Beech: 05:52

Yeah. Right?

Joey Rosen: 05:53

Or, you know, much respect. Mhmm. Or, you know, I know how hard it is to do something like that, and I've got a lot of respect for you that you put yourself through the process and did the work. You know, something like that. Yeah.

Joey Rosen: 06:06

Alright. I think that's you hit the nail on the head there with, what everybody sees luck as. What what do you see luck as? Or if you wanna take it another way, what do you, what does luck favors hard workers mean to you?

Drew Beech: 06:19

Luck favors hard workers to me just means and this takes me back to our old days, but another quote you hit me with when we're getting started was reps earn respect. Right? So

Joey Rosen: 06:33

You're gonna hear you're gonna hear some stuff about reps.

Drew Beech: 06:35

The people are this so we may be on the exact same page for this one, but the people that are lucky are just the people that did the reps. Yes. And if you are not one of those people, then you look at at the for instance, like, someone with a ripped body. Right? Mhmm.

Drew Beech: 06:54

Jacked ripped abs, perfect people biceps. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. That.

Drew Beech: 07:00

And people that don't exercise or have their nutrition dialed in, they'd look at those people and they'll go, oh, wow. Like, must be nice to have that body. Right? Like, we know people in our lives that think that way. Mhmm.

Drew Beech: 07:11

And, realistically, they don't see the reps, the reps of the meals, the reps of the the bench presses. Right? Yeah. The reps on the treadmill.

Joey Rosen: 07:21

Yeah. I feel like that they you know, that people think that there's something mystical conspiring against them, and they think that there's a reason why they can't have those results. The real reason is because the reps haven't been done. Now everybody has different challenges. Right?

Joey Rosen: 07:38

You know, if you're speaking about the physical health, you know, everybody has different health things, different challenges, but reps will help you overcome and get to those results. But I think that a lot of people think that there's some kind of, like, mystical force that's conspiring against them that's keeping them from those results when that's not true at all. If there's any force that's keeping them from the results and doing the reps, that force is the story that they're telling themselves. Right? Which is maybe it's an old childhood wound or a trauma or you know, who knows what it could be.

Joey Rosen: 08:12

But there's that limiting belief there, the story that they're telling themselves, you know, that's that's keeping them from from those results. My outlook on luck is very reps focused as as well. I think people use luck to explain consistency when they don't understand it. When they've never done anything consistently in their lives to produce a result, they lean on this concept of luck to explain away the work, the consistent work that was done to get to the result. And sometimes it's not even I don't think people do it maliciously.

Joey Rosen: 08:48

I think you have to have the the experience of doing those reps and saying, like, when I show up and I do work consistently, it produces result. You know, you have to see that in your own in your own life. You have to do the work with your hands and witness it. And then you're like, This is how it works. Yeah.

Joey Rosen: 09:07

Luck luck favors for our workers. Now I understand because it's not really about luck. It's about the labor. Right? And, you know, we don't use the word labor to ex to describe hard work all that often, but here, it's fitting.

Joey Rosen: 09:21

You know what I mean? It's about the work that you're gonna do, the reps. You would agree?

Drew Beech: 09:25

I would agree.

Joey Rosen: 09:25

I would agree. Yeah.

Drew Beech: 09:26

Yeah.

Joey Rosen: 09:27

Why do you think the this mantra, this rule of the few now yeah. It's graduated from Montreal rule of the few. And our original Lucte. Why do you think it went over so well? Why do you think it resonated so well in the community?

Joey Rosen: 09:44

Is it because our entire community was hearing things like you said in the beginning of

Drew Beech: 09:49

That's what I was going to say.

Joey Rosen: 09:50

It's like

Drew Beech: 09:50

it's I feel like so many people are triggered by phrases such as you're so lucky must be nice Mhmm. That when they see the word luck specifically put on a shirt that resonates with the things that factored in to them appearing lucky, it hits them in a a special spot in their heart. Right? Like, it's it triggers emotions that we're all hard workers feel.

Joey Rosen: 10:22

Yep. I agree. And we used to follow-up follow it up with a line. Funny how that works. You You know what I mean?

Joey Rosen: 10:28

I feel like that got a lot. Everybody was like, yeah. Exactly. Like, they it it helped it helped, the main rule of the few resonate with them. We talked about reps, right, and proceeding results.

Joey Rosen: 10:41

I would I would also throw another thing out there because and I would say that the volume of the reps, right, proceed like the victory. Right? So volume precedes victory. Like, the amount of reps you do, right, prepare you for the opportunity that

Drew Beech: 10:55

eventually presents itself. Because I know,

Joey Rosen: 10:55

you know, back in the day when wouldn't even call them haters. Haters is a strong word. Like, haters are people that are, like, you know, wouldn't even call them haters. Haters is a strong word. Like, haters are people that are, like, you know, cutting your brake cords, brake lines in your car and shit.

Joey Rosen: 11:11

Like, people that are just coming out trolling, looking at and they're like, how can you say that, you know, luck doesn't exist or, you know, luck, it's just random. It's random chance in life. And I would agree there's there's a randomness to life's events. There's chance. Right?

Joey Rosen: 11:28

But the lucky ones that are receiving those type of statements must be nice. You're so lucky. The lucky ones in the background, why everybody's been observing all this randomness, they've been working. They've been doing the reps. So when the randomness appears at their doorstep or on their desk or, you know, over the phone, they're prepared for the opportunity.

Joey Rosen: 11:50

Right? So that that leans into the the preparation plus opportunity explanation of of luck too. I think luck is one of those things that is it's deeply cultural, like, superstition and things like that. It's a it's a concept that is really hard to overcome for a lot of people. You know, it's easy to think that there's something out there to get you when you're not getting what you want.

Joey Rosen: 12:16

Mhmm. And it's hard to take complete ownership. You know? And so it's hard to to take complete ownership. So how a tool for the rule?

Joey Rosen: 12:25

Do you have a tool for the rule? A way that our community can live this rule of few, which specifically is luck favors hard workers, make your own luck. Mhmm. Is there a tool for the rule that you can give to our community for that?

Drew Beech: 12:40

I gotta be honest. Mhmm. I did struggle coming up with a rule, but then it hit me.

Joey Rosen: 12:44

Nah. Hey, Gal. You so you did some mental reps.

Drew Beech: 12:47

Mhmm.

Joey Rosen: 12:48

You're so lucky.

Drew Beech: 12:49

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So my tool for the rule, and it goes back to an old quote we like to we like to say, want more, do more. So my tool for the rule is to do one more.

Drew Beech: 13:03

So no matter what you're doing I like that. Do one more rep. I like that. One more cold call.

Joey Rosen: 13:08

I like that. I like

Drew Beech: 13:11

it. Because volume realistically is what leads to luck. Mhmm. If Yeah. You're right.

Joey Rosen: 13:18

Yeah. I mean, there's the increase is the probability, right, that you'll be able to seize opportunity. That's the other thing. Like, you could go, like, mathematical with this too. Like, you could look at luck as just probability, really.

Drew Beech: 13:32

Yep. You know? The, like, averages.

Joey Rosen: 13:34

Right. The more reps you're doing, the more often you show up and show out, more often you show up and you do the work, the more probable you are to win. Now, are there some people that they show up and show out 10 times and then they win? Yes. Like, there's randomness to life.

Joey Rosen: 13:52

I wouldn't I hesitate to call it luck

Drew Beech: 13:54

because a good word.

Joey Rosen: 13:55

I hesitate to call it luck because they were still prepared. They were still showing up and showing out. Some people show up and show out a 1,000 times, you know, before the randomness strikes or before the opportunity presents itself, or so we think. So my tool for the rule, is you know, I used to build software, so, like, I'm very systems driven. Right?

Joey Rosen: 14:15

It's like I can be rigid, very systems driven. It's even hard for me sometimes to do the show because I'm like Yeah. You know, I have, like,

Drew Beech: 14:22

a little bit of an OCD. You know what I mean?

Joey Rosen: 14:25

So I in since my past life is building systems, I think systematically for my own life. So I have all these little mini systems in my life that I use. Right? And I got one for every letter of the alphabet. I got a's.

Joey Rosen: 14:37

I got b's. I got c's. This one, has to do with r's. It's just easy for me to remember. If I can, attach my system to a letter of the alphabet, then I know, like, okay.

Joey Rosen: 14:49

There's Mars. So we're talking reps. Right? So while you do the reps, I have three things, to keep in mind, so that you can make your own luck. So the first thing is staying receptive.

Joey Rosen: 15:04

So that's the first r, receptive. So while you're doing the work, be receptive, stay receptive. New opportunities are literally bucking everywhere. The problem is you don't see them because you're distracted. Starve your distractions.

Joey Rosen: 15:17

Feed your focus. So that's the first thing. Be present. Be where your feet are. There's a million ways to say it.

Joey Rosen: 15:22

But as you do the work, you have to be aware that there are opportunities surrounding you. You know? And look for signs, universal or otherwise, that you can use the preparation that you're doing in these reps to capitalize on opportunities. So that's the first one. Stay receptive.

Joey Rosen: 15:44

2nd 1, second r, ready. Stay ready. K. This is reps driven too. Right?

Joey Rosen: 15:50

You have to keep the thang on you at all times, human weapon style. You have to train hard. You have to eat well. You have to sleep well. You have to read books.

Joey Rosen: 16:00

You have to write. You have to speak. You have to hone and build all your skills so you're ready. More preparation than the reps. If you're out here and you're living like a slob and you're not building skills, of course, it's gonna look like everybody else is getting lucky.

Joey Rosen: 16:16

They're fucking human weapons. They're ready to capitalize on everything that presents itself in front of them. You're not. Of course, it's gonna look like luck. So stay ready.

Joey Rosen: 16:27

That's the second one. And then the third one is very imp important. 3rd are stay resilient. And I'm not gonna get into a big soliloquy on resilience. I just wanna say one thing.

Joey Rosen: 16:38

This is something somebody told me many years ago, and I think it's I I think it's so true. Everything in your life on your journey so if you're looking to make your own luck in your business journey, your personal life, whatever it is, everything won't start well. Most things don't start well, but they will always, always end well with effort with effort. So when you think about resilience, think about that quote. You know what I mean?

Joey Rosen: 17:07

It's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be a bumpy But as long as you apply effort consistently throughout the whole process and you don't quit, it'll end well. Maybe not in your 100% desired state, but definitely much better than it seemed at the outset. You know? So

Drew Beech: 17:24

how about That was a that was a doozy of a tool, dude.

Joey Rosen: 17:26

Well, you know, the thing is, like, that's how I think about it. Right? Like, you're sit you're showing up. You're doing the reps for your business. You're showing up.

Joey Rosen: 17:32

You're doing the reps. It's hard as fuck. You're getting your crotch kicked in. Right? I was gonna say get your dick kicked in.

Joey Rosen: 17:37

You're getting your crotch kicked in fucking every single day. You know what I mean? You're looking on the gram. Entrepreneurship's glorified. Everybody looks like they're fucking winning.

Joey Rosen: 17:47

And it's natural to start to think, like, man, like, what forces out there conspiring against me that, like, I don't have these results yet? And it's not about that. It's about the reps. So when I'm doing the reps, I remind myself of these three things. I have to be receptive.

Joey Rosen: 18:01

The solution to my problem and my challenge is somewhere around me right now. Am I focused enough to see it? You gotta be receptive. The second one, you gotta be ready. You can't be living like a fucking slob out here.

Joey Rosen: 18:12

You got to be training. You have to be eating right. You got to be sleeping. You have to be sleeping well. You have to be reading books.

Joey Rosen: 18:19

You have to be writing. You have to be doing activities that keep you ready to seize the opportunity that appears. If you're distracted, exhausted, you can't carry yourself well, you can't speak well when the opportunity presents itself, you're fucked. You might as well kiss it goodbye. Then you can go back and start commiserating about how everybody's lucky and it must be nice.

Joey Rosen: 18:43

Right? So you got to be ready. And the third one is, look, you're going to take your licks, so you got to be resilient. And we could get to know all thing about resilience. And maybe we will on a future show.

Joey Rosen: 18:52

But I always go back to that quote, like things don't start well. Not fucking 9 times out of 10. They just don't start well. They don't go according to plan. What's the quote you get?

Joey Rosen: 19:02

Everything's goes according to your plan until you get punched in the mouth or some shit.

Drew Beech: 19:06

Was that Rocky?

Joey Rosen: 19:08

Oh, that's a Rocky quote.

Drew Beech: 19:09

I Everyone's apparently punched in the face.

Joey Rosen: 19:11

I don't think it's a Rocky quote. If that's

Drew Beech: 19:12

a Rocky quote Tyson.

Joey Rosen: 19:14

Hey, Mike Tyson. Okay. Mike Tyson. Thank you. Thank you.

Joey Rosen: 19:16

Mike Tyson. I was gonna say, yo, you almost Yeah. Shook me to my floor because that's a Rocky quote, and I didn't, properly attribute it. You I could you take away my Philadelphia. Why do you do the city?

Drew Beech: 19:27

Rocky says, like, the no, nothing's gonna hit as hard as life. Right? Yeah.

Joey Rosen: 19:31

Rockies has a lot of really inspirational. You know, we should do a Rocky episode.

Drew Beech: 19:35

No Rocky thing really like perplexed because like, it's really like a, it's a fake, it's a fake person. Like you don't like your tongue. Exactly. You're playing your tongue. But we, we, we talk about in Philly.

Drew Beech: 19:45

Like we talk about it as a real person.

Joey Rosen: 19:48

He's not?

Drew Beech: 19:48

No. Exactly. It's not. It's like we're just about Santa Claus.

Joey Rosen: 19:53

Well, I can't

Drew Beech: 19:54

so that's weird.

Joey Rosen: 19:54

I'm not gonna yeah. I can't. I'm not gonna say my feelings at Santa Claus because I don't know. Some of our listeners might be a little young here. So, we should do a Rocky episode.

Drew Beech: 20:02

We should.

Joey Rosen: 20:03

We should do a Rocky.

Drew Beech: 20:04

Celeste Malone and himself.

Joey Rosen: 20:06

Listen. I'm a speak that out in the universe just like you did. Sly will be here.

Drew Beech: 20:10

That will

Joey Rosen: 20:10

be Guest episode. It'll be

Drew Beech: 20:12

I think I know some people who may know some people that

Joey Rosen: 20:15

We know some people that could make that happen. It was just rocky day recently in Philly. So he was, like, literally 2 blocks from me. But I was at HQ doing the reps.

Drew Beech: 20:23

Did you see the video of the kid, like, yelling? The his his whole his whole, like Yes. He did the whole speech. That was cool.

Joey Rosen: 20:30

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So immediately, when I saw that video, now I'm gonna start conditioning my channel. My daughters Yeah.

Drew Beech: 20:35

Yeah. He's doing reps. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

Drew Beech: 20:38

So we're we're gonna do

Joey Rosen: 20:39

a Rocky episode. I think, lessons lessons learned from Rocky, and we'll pick the best Rocky movie, or maybe we'll spread it across all of them.

Drew Beech: 20:50

Parker and I are working through them now.

Joey Rosen: 20:52

Yeah. Best thing you can ever do for your child.

Drew Beech: 20:53

He gets kinda during this, the subpart, the love scenes. Yeah. Right? Like

Joey Rosen: 20:58

Yeah. But that's what he should do.

Drew Beech: 20:59

I got that. He just wants to get to the boxing and the training parts.

Joey Rosen: 21:02

Yeah. Yeah. That's what he should do at his age. That stuff, the other scenes come later. So, yeah, I you know, again, like, I'm systems driven.

Joey Rosen: 21:09

So when I'm here and I'm doing the reps, when I'm anywhere, I'm doing the reps. Even if they're just physical reps in the gym for a a physical goal that I have, or even with jujitsu, I'm thinking the same things. You know what I mean? Stay receptive, stay ready. Right?

Joey Rosen: 21:22

Which I think staying ready once you're in a, a rhythm is probably the easiest one, and then stay resilient. If you wanna read the full rule of the few, again, hit fuelhunt.com forward slash rules. You can read rule number 6, which is luck, favors hard workers, make your own luck, and the rest of the rules. Alright. So we got some Rocky talk in.

Joey Rosen: 21:43

That checks, like now I can just put a line through the whole episode because now we're we're good. It checks all the boxes. Anything else you wanna add?

Drew Beech: 21:49

Nothing right now.

Joey Rosen: 21:50

Okay. Good. Let me leave the few with this then. Always choose you wanna do you wanna Always. That's what I'm talking about.

Drew Beech: 21:57

Always choose that forever entitlement. Always choose hard work over handouts. And remember, no one owes you. No one owns you. You're one of the few.