It took me 8 years to make my first real money in business.
Not 8 months. Not a "6-figure launch."
8 years of reinvesting, cutting mistakes, and doing unglamorous work while everyone posted their wins.
Overnight success is almost always a decade of quiet compounding nobody watched.
to succeed. Do you agree with this extreme hustle? 🤔👇
A) Yes, absolute sacrifice is the only way. 🔥
B) No, smart work & health matter more. 🧠
C) Only works if you love your work. ❤️
D) It’s toxic and leads to burnout. 📉
Comment your choice! 👇
Elon Musk: “I wake up, I work, I go to sleep. Wake up, work, and do that seven days a week. My workload went up from 70–80 hours a week to probably 120.”
Nobody works harder than Elon Musk. He has done more for humanity than anyone else.
🚨ELON MUSK'S BROTHER SOLD HIS COMPANY FOR $307 MILLION AT 26..
THEN GAVE UP TECH COMPLETELY TO COOK FOR FIREFIGHTERS IN THE RUBBLE OF 9/11.. THIS IS THE MUSK NOBODY TALKS ABOUT..
Most people only know Kimbal Musk as Elon's younger brother.. But his actual life path makes almost no sense on paper..
In 1989, at 17, he left South Africa for Canada with almost no money.. He paid his way through university running a house-painting franchise.. And won manager of the year doing it..
Then in 1995 he moved to Palo Alto with Elon and they started Zip2.. An online city guide and mapping company, years before Google Maps existed..
They were broke.. They slept on the office floor and showered at the local gym.. To impress investors, they built a giant fake casing around a normal PC to make it look like a supercomputer..
In 1999 Compaq bought Zip2 for $307 million.. Kimbal, at 26, walked away with around $22 million..
He could have done anything.. Retired.. Started another tech company.. Coasted on the PayPal and Tesla fortunes that were coming..
Instead he enrolled in culinary school in New York to become a chef..
His timing was brutal.. He graduated in 2001.. Right as 9/11 happened.. He lived steps from the World Trade Center..
So he grabbed his new skills and spent six weeks cooking for firefighters and rescue workers at Ground Zero.. 10 to 12 hour days in the wreckage.. Feeding the people pulling bodies from the rubble..
He said that experience changed everything.. Watching exhausted workers find comfort in a shared meal convinced him that food was his actual life's purpose..
He moved to Colorado and started building farm-to-table restaurants that sourced straight from local farmers..
Then in 2010 came the second turning point..
He broke his neck in a tubing accident and was temporarily paralyzed for three days.. He called it a near-death experience.. And it pushed him even harder into his mission..
He started a nonprofit that built outdoor learning gardens in hundreds of underserved schools.. Reaching hundreds of thousands of kids..
He co-founded an urban farming company growing food inside shipping containers in cities.. Each one producing the equivalent of two acres of farmland..
And then in 2022 he did the strangest pivot yet..
When Intel decided to shut down its light-drone division, Kimbal bought the whole thing.. 9,000 drones and the engineering team..
Now his company flies massive drone shows that act as pixels in the sky.. Including over 3,000 drones above St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.. Recreating Renaissance art in the night sky..
One brother is trying to colonize Mars and build humanoid robots..
The other made his fortune in the same rooms.. Then spent the next 25 years on something almost nobody expected..
Feeding people, teaching kids to grow food, and turning the sky into art..
Same beginning.. Completely different definition of what to do with a fortune.
@DonaldMills142 Indeed. It’s not that good ideas aren’t important, they’re just overrated relative to implementation.
The IDEA of going to the Moon is EASY, but GOING to the Moon is HARD.
If it's hard, good. It means no one else will do it. More for you.
The lonely chapter isn't a warning sign. It's the selection effect doing its job.
You have to be the one clapping for yourself long before the auditorium joins in.
u need to be ballermaxxing
spend every dollar you make, go into debt if you have to
travel the world buy fast cars get as many women as you can take a risk or 20 on a business and have experiences you can tell stories about when you’re old
just have fun with it
if i'm being honest...
i never seen one of these tech billionaires put 40 bad bitches on a yacht and do a money spread with a hundred thousand
so are they really rich???
I’ve seen a handful of people now lose everything they worked so hard to build just because they had a fundamental misunderstanding of how running a business works.
It usually goes like this.
Guy who tried to make it for a while finally started seeing consistent success, but is now completely bored of the discipline that got him there and doesn’t like his day to day. Now he has convinced himself he should be doing something more enjoyable, something he’s passionate about, and something that actually excites him.
So he pivots.
Now he’s chasing the thing that excites him instead of the thing that built him & he’s about to fall off the cliff and lose everything he built.
You would be surprised how many people have sabotaged themselves like this.
Think about the discipline it takes to get in shape, build wealth, or raise kids. None of that is fun in the moment, which is why it’s hard to succeed while doing it.
I don't enjoy 80% of what I do day to day but I'm disciplined enough to know that's the part that keeps everything moving forward. If I tried to make every hour of my day enjoyable, I'd be nowhere near where I am today.
I’m not saying you can’t have passion projects or run a business on the side you’re passionate about, but you should also know how many people lose everything trying to do that.
Sometimes it’s better to just stay disciplined on the things that built you, & let the result be the reward.