La Juan

Summary of my thoughts.

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14. Creativity is the highest power. The more thought goes into something, the better it becomes. The better something is, the more people will want it. The more people want it, the more power you have to create.

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13. Money is an exchange of energy. Your time worked exchanged for my product. If energy can only be transferred, it explains the itch to spend aimlessly. It also means money should be spent to accumulate more.

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12. A purpose of money is to buy time. Time is to spend freely in Joy. Every year I don't have enough money to buy my time is a year of freedom I've lost.

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11. Prices are never too high, the price is too high for what you're offering.

If I could save your life tomorrow and charged 1,000,000,000,000.00 to do so, you'd take a payment plan to live.

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10. Doing something you know isn't going to add exponentially to your life when you know it's possible is wasting life.

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9. I have no obligation to anyone or anything, even myself. I reserve the right to self delete if I so choose. I edit videos, I often don't complete personal projects and beat myself up. It turns something born of passion into a whiplashing. So stop it.

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8. Wisdom is suffering and knowledge in action.

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7. Unpopular belief - it's possible to monetize 99% of your interests because of the internet if you're clever enough, objective about your ability and care about others enough.

You don't have to, but it's possible.

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6. I haven't read enough classic books to learn the basics of broad topics. If all new information is based on old information then the old information is true enough that it was built upon and therefore worth understanding personally rather than through another writer.

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5. Quick triggers for decision making can say days or weeks of dwelling over pros and cons. Example.

Leverage =

Output (result in emotional satisfaction, financial satisfaction, etc)
/

Input (time, energy, other resources)

If the answer isn't double minimum I won't do it.

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4. If I'll spend 20 minutes arguing over $5 my time is worth $0.25/minute or $15/hr.

I won't inconvenience myself for anything less than my own acceptable hourly rate.

This was learnt from Naval Ravikant

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3. Happiness is completely internal. The external world can amplify or reduce your happiness level, but the baseline of 2/10 or 9/10 is completely internal.

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2. The fact that we don't know our great great grandparents is proof to me that nothing we do actually matters. You can run their business 300 years later and be completely removed from the original mission. If nothing matters, waste no precious time in discontent.

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Things I've learned this week.

1. The feeling of a lion attacking and being late for work is the same but only one is actually dangerous.