“When I was 20 I wanted to be a millionaire…Now that I’m a millionaire, I want to be 20.”
I overheard a version of this.
Makes me realize that when I’m 40, I’d rather be 32 (my age) with nothing, just to be 32 (again).
A different frame on gratitude I thought I’d share.
This is a frightening visual for me.
The first dot is the amount of data Chat GPT 3 was trained on.
The second is what chat GPT 4 is trained on.
They are already doing demos.
It can write a 60,000 word book from a single prompt.
The only question I've had about AI…
Before I met my wife, I never cracked $3,000,000 per year. 24 months after, I took home $17,000,000 in personal income.
Some business lessons I’ve learned from her in no order:
I built wealth without:
1) Reading a book a week
2) Making my bed
3) Journaling
4) 2 hour morning routine
5) Giving up alcohol
6) Waiting to marry
7) Giving up netflix
8) Leverage
You just gotta find shit people want.
Then sell it to them for more than it costs.
Many times.
Ask the girl.
Shoot the shot.
Launch the business.
Run the ad.
Quit the job.
Take the risk.
When you’re 85 years old and on your deathbed, you’re not gonna wish you had fewer crazy stories.
9-5 you work to feed your present.
5-9 you work to feed your future.
Mon-Fri you work to feed your present.
Sat-Sun you risk to feed your future.
To get ahead, you gotta work like you’re coming up from behind.
Because you are.
There’s a moment when every boy realizes no one is coming to save him.
And that’s when he becomes a man.
And some boys never get there and stay children forever.
If you surround yourself with only people who make you better…you’ll probably get better than you are.
And if you’re that rare combination of ambitious yet humble - you may even get better than they are.
Everyone is going to forget about you six months after you die.
And in 3 generations everyone who ever knew you will be dead.
Probably worth doing what you want between now and then (because everyone’s gonna forget about you eventually anyways).
The fact that you don’t know if it’s gonna work - is exactly what makes it worth doing.
It’s why entrepreneurship isn’t for the faint of heart.
Embrace uncertainty.
The Queen of England died 5 months ago….
She ruled an entire nation and accumulated more wealth than 99.99% of humans…
And…yet…you haven’t thought about her except for this tweet.
You’re gonna die.
Everyone will move on.
Do what you want.
The Queen of England died 12 months ago.
She ruled a nation and accumulated more wealth than 99.99% of humans…
And…yet…you haven’t thought about her except for this post.
You’re gonna die.
Everyone will move on.
Do what you want.
Imagine how much further you’d be if you did things even when you didn’t feel like doing them.
People think there’s some complex formula to winning - when the most basic one is: do what you said you were gonna do before it became inconvenient.
You’re gonna lose sleep.
You’ll doubt whether it’ll work.
You’ll stress to make ends meet.
You won’t finish your to do list.
You’ll wonder if you made the right call - and have no way to know for years.
This is what ‘hard’ feels like.
And that’s okay.
Hot take:
No one cares about marriage advice from single people.
Money advice from poor people.
Fitness advice from fat people.
And if you aren’t richer, fitter, or married longer, maybe you should just shut up and listen instead.
You don’t become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are.
Outwork your self doubt.
People work.
Sacrifice.
Then get rich.
Then get time.
Then fill their time with weird routines.
Then forget how they got rich in the 1st place.
Then tell others the weird routines made them rich…rather than what they did.
Which is whatever it took.
Not a 3hr morning routine.
For anyone who needs to hear this:
You never feel like you know what you’re doing.
Figuring it out isn’t part of the game, it is the game.
And the fact that you don’t know means you’re growing rather than staying comfortable.
They’re called growing pains for a reason.
If you treat your spouse like you’re still dating, you’ll stay married.
If you treat your customers like prospects, they’ll keep coming back.
There’s no way around it.
The moment you take things like you can never lose them, is the moment you do.
When I was 19 years old I pledged a fraternity, and I learned one of the most important lessons of my life on how to deal with women (and others)…
*context*
So when you’re a pledge you have to drive drunk brothers around. You’re the designated driver.
One night, I was driving an…
The other great reason for working harder is:
The harder you work the more you realize what you used to think was hard work, is not even close to what you’re capable of.
You’re gonna lose sleep.
You’ll doubt whether it’ll work.
You’ll stress to make ends meet.
You won’t finish your to do list.
You’ll wonder if you made the right call - and have no way to know for years.
This is what ‘hard’ feels like.
And that’s okay.
It’s arrogant to think you can do multiple things at once and beat someone who does one thing with all their effort.
Pick one thing. Go all in.
Then you become the one who’s hard to beat.
I lost $10k on my way to my first $100k.
I lost $100k on my way to my first $1M.
I lost $1M on my way to my first $10M.
I lost $10M on my way to my first $100M.
The bigger your goals, the more expensive the lessons.
It’s not a loss, it’s the price of tuition.
Privacy is the price of fame.
Loneliness is the price of ambition.
Pleasure is the price of discipline.
Novelty is the price of loyalty.
Discretion is the price of trust.
So many people want the benefits of these traits but cant afford the price.
My biggest regret from my younger years:
Not taking enough pictures of the shitty times.
Take them. Be proud of them.
They’ll be part of the story you someday tell.
Sadness comes from a lack of options. —Which is why it it feels like hopelessness.
Anxiety comes from many options but a lack of priorities.
—Which is why it feels like paralysis. Looking everywhere but moving nowhere.
Solve sadness with knowledge & anxiety with a decision.
You’re going to die.
And a few months later, no one will think about the risks you took or didn’t take.
What a waste to live your entire life to please people who will never think of you again. (Or ever to begin with)
At your funeral, friends and family will argue over who gets what.
People will want food to eat.
The topic will shift from your life to their lives.
They'll drive away thinking about their looming todo list.
Some people won't be able to make it because "something came up."…
What makes entrepreneurship hard isn’t the work, it’s not knowing whether it’ll work.
We’re afraid of wasted work.
But if it makes you better, no work is wasted.
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If you have your back against the wall and you have nothing left…it also means you also have nothing to lose.
And that makes a very dangerous person.
Which is why there will always be room for the underdog.