8. "The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people."
It's wild how accurate this is.
What Shaan is saying is the best entrepreneurs understand human psychology
That's one reason why copywriting is a million-dollar skill to acquire.
“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress," Marcus Aurelius said.
You’re never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. You’re human. So instead, aim for progress, even the smallest amount.
In a room of 120 entrepreneurs, who all made a $1000000+/year, Tim Ferris was delivering a keynote speech.
A woman asked
"Hey, Tim, you seem to get so much done. What is it you do all day?"
“Most people wake up every morning with a task list of a thousand things to do.
I do things differently.
I wake up every morning and I meditate.
I go for a walk, and maybe I read a book.
My whole goal is to slow down and look around.
Instead of looking for all the tasks that I could do, I try to identify the one Big Domino — the One Thing that, if I could knock that down, all other dominos would either fall down or become irrelevant.”
Not everyone has the luxury of waking up and chillaxing every morning.
But I used this idea to gain 9k followers, $40k and quit my 9-5 in my first 10 months on X.
Every day, before working, identify the 1 task that if you complete, would make all other tasks irrelevant.
Make that task a priority above everything else.
“It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.” – Og Mandino
The measure of your intelligence is not your ability to acquire knowledge but how you handle uncertainty and navigate through it and behave when you don't know what to do.
I've built multiple successful companies by 30 and helped thousands to do same.
Here are 9 strategies I use to come up with business ideas that people are more than willing to invest in: