Education is the acquisition of knowledge, while intelligence is the ability to use that knowledge to think and reason.
One can be highly educated but not necessarily intelligent, and vice versa.
- Richard Feynman
I found three guys who go around asking multimillionaires how they made their wealth.
Surprisingly all of them said the one same thing.
Here are the best 7 videos:
Your achievements are proportional to the amount and quality of feedback you get.
Kobe obsessively watched his game film so he could improve every little detail.
Collect your own game film by tracking:
• The $$ value of each task you do
• Productivity during work
How to reinvent yourself:
1) Map out your ideal future in as much detail as possible.
2) Throw yourself into a new physical and digital environment. Drown yourself in knowledge & potential.
3) Stick with the discomfort. Resist the urge to retreat to your old comfortable ways.
I want you to say it with me:
I will not reinvent the wheel.
I will copy what works.
I will use proven methods to make money in boring ways.
I will do common things uncommonly well.
If it isn’t broken, I will not try to fix it.
I will keep it simple.
Repeat this over and over again until it's burned into your brain.
It is the best way to succeed.
Everything in business is about building momentum and leverage.
Here are some examples of high leverage activities:
1) Raising money for a new venture
2) Recruiting and hiring talented people
3) Funding a company or a new department with $200k to kick it off with the right first hires and equipment
4) Building a social media audience that can bring in a ton of customers and talent
5) Improving your management and delegation skills so that you can build teams that can get a lot of work done without you
6) Building a big network of competent people that you can work with or hire
7) Sales experience and the ability to secure work / contracts / clients on demand
8) Charisma and the ability to get other people excited to work for you
All of these things are incredibly valuable.
If you are leading a business that’s making real money, this is where you should be spending most of your time.
"All that you've done before, or failed to do, is of no account. The past is dead and gone. Why carry yesterday's regrets on your back?
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Live now according to your principles."
- Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations