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Wealth
- making money is not a thing you do, it’s a skill you learn
- getting rich is about knowing what to do, who to do with, and when to do it
- you should not grind at a lot of hard work until you figure out what you should be working on
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Wealth vs Money
- money is how we transfer wealth
- money is social credit, having the ability to have credits or debits of other people’s time
- wealth is assets that earn while you sleep
- wealth is the factory, the robots, cranking out things
- wealth is the computer program that’s running at night, serving other customers
- wealth is money in the bank that is being reinvested into other assets, and into other businesses
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Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone
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- the challenge to make money is to figure out what product or service society wants but does not yet know how to deliver it at scale
- without ownership, you are being paid renting out your time
- when sleeping, on vacation, or retired, you’re not earning
- work up to a point where you can own equity in a business
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Money leverage
- dominant form of leverage for the last century
- capital is trickier form of leverage
- banker, politician
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Product with no marginal cost of replication leverage
- media, movies, and code
- code is permissionless leverage, which means they don’t require somebody else’s permission for you to use them or succeed
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Prioritize independence
- optimize for independence rather than pay
- if you have independence and you’re accountable on your output, as opposed to your input - that’s the dream
- what you want in life is to be in control of your time
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Accountability
more accountability has more leverage, and more risk, and needs more specific knowledge
- labor to repair house: low accountability, low risk, low payment, least leverage
- contractor: mid accountability, average risk, average payment
- real estate developer: high accountability, high risk, high leverage
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most important things to do for younger people
- spend more time making big decisions:
- where you live
- who you’re with
- what you do
- figure out what you’re good at
- start helping other people with it
- give it away. pay it forward
- long enough time scale. you will attract what you project
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Definition of retirement
when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. when today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired
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how do you retire
- have so much money saved that your passive income covers your burn rate
- drive your burn rate down to zero → become a monk
- do something you love and enjoy it so much that it’s not about the money
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Four kinds of luck in getting rich
1) blind luck
- something completely out of their control happened, which include fortune, fate, etc.
2) luck through persistence, hard work, hustle, and motion
- you running around creating opportunities
- you generate enough force, hustle and energy for luck to find you
3) you become very good at spotting luck
- if you’re very good in a field, you will notice when a lucky break happens in your field
4) weirdest, hardest kind of luck
- you build a unique character, unique brand, unique mindset, which causes luck to find you
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How to think clearly
- making effective decisions boils down to dealing with reality
- the number one thing clouding us from being able to see reality is we have preconceived notions of the way it should be
- when you’re in pain, it is the moment of truth, where you are forced to embrace reality the way it actually is
- to see the truth, you have to get your ego out of the way because your ego doesn’t want to face the truth
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the three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse
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you can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else
NAVAL RAVIKANT
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anger is its own punishment. An angry person trying to push your head below water is drowning at the same time
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