How to find your unfair advantage

Key ideas: “Competitive advantages” (not instant success)

• Success isn’t something you’re “born with.” Instead, you’re born with competitive advantages (attributes/resources/experiences), and your job is to identify and use them.
• The goal is to find advantages that create opportunities others don’t see or can’t replicate.

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Step-by-step worksheet to discover your competitive advantages

The presenter has viewers fill out a Notes app list by answering questions in categories:

Appearance

• Hair type/color
• Anything about your appearance people comment on

Personality

• How friends/family describe you
• Important instruction: don’t lie to yourself—write what’s true about how you actually behave

Resources

• Money, free time
• Access to creators/tools (studio, videographer, producers)
• Unique/rare items you have (example given: a telescope)

Story & background

• Ethnicity and culture/background
• Jobs you’ve worked
• Current struggles (even if you wouldn’t share publicly)
• Past challenges growing up
• Personal stories:
  • funniest story
  • saddest story
  • near-death/scary experience
  • one thing that changed your life (good or bad)
• Current location

Skills

• Hobbies/sports you’re good at
• Languages you speak
• Quirky/odd skills you’re unusually good at

Network

• Friends with similar interests
• Friends with interesting personalities
• Friends with interesting skills
• Friends/acquaintances with social status
• People you can call immediately for help (e.g., filming)

Dig deeper prompts (final touchpoints)

• What people compliment you on most
• What people ask you for help with
• What feels effortless to you but difficult for others

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How to apply advantages to music (the “application skill”)

You apply the list to your music career using two passes/questions:

• Question 1: “How?”

  • Example given: use your unique life story in lyrics.
  • Reframe your traits/skills as content opportunities (e.g., a friend’s unique skill like drifting cars → content concept).

• Question 2: “And you can come up with…” (more ways)

  • Generate many content angles from each advantage (not just one idea).
  • Treat this as training your ability to extract opportunities from “thin air” or things others wouldn’t turn into content.

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Most valuable competitive advantage (priority strategy)

• A major advantage is access to opportunities before everyone else.
• The presenter warns that copying viral ideas usually fails because others have already done it before you.

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Final prioritization method

• Revisit your list and highlight the advantages that are hardest to replicate (only ~1% of people can create opportunities from them).
• These become your highest-leverage priorities.
• Key concept: stacking multiple advantages and consistently using them is what separates you from others and builds “iconic” positioning.

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Mentioned product/service (sponsor-like segment)

The presenter promotes a music/content platform/feature described as:

• trend alerts (compared to “crypto alerts”)
• a backlog of 180+ content ideas
• used as a “training ground” to discover new artists to collaborate with
• price: $9/month and a 7-day free trial (for a short period)

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Presenters / sources mentioned in the subtitles

• Jaden Smith
• Will Smith
• Olivia Rodrigo
• Disney Channel
• DJ Khaled
• Stranger Things
• Lil Uzi Vert
• Lil Wayne
• Kanye West
• Heroic Dragon
• Kanye West (Super Bowl ads example)
• The presenter/channel (not named explicitly in the subtitles; referenced as “phase three” / “episode two” / “artist boot camp”)