It's funny when guys in their 20s are afraid of failure
This is the decade where you should be maximizing the shots you take, even if 99% of them end in failure
I've shut down 10+ businesses in my 20s. I've also made millions and millions of dollars.
Guess what? The businesses I shut taught me something every time. They were the engine behind the successes.
If you only do things that are guaranteed to succeed, you will never amount to more than a wage slave working hard to make his employer's shareholders rich.
You gotta break a few strings if you want to get good.
Most people lack life experience and automatically trust anyone who seems to agree with their opinions.
If you tell someone the "right" opinions on politics, abortion, immigration, etc., many of them will act as if you're "in the team"
When in reality they themselves aren't even on the team. They are just idiots cheering from the side for players who don't care about them
If you are a young man, read these 10 books:
1) Plutarch's Lives (Aubrey Stewart and George Long)
2) Illiad (Emily Wilson)
3) Odessey (Emily Wilson)
4) Ramayana (Bibek Debroy)
5) Mahabharata (Bibek Debroy)
6) The Peloponnesian War (Donald Kagan)
7) Alexander and Phillip (Adrian Goldsworthy)
8) In the Name of Lykourgos (Miltiadis Michalopoulos)
9) Morallia (All volumes by Plutarch)
10) 55 Essays (Corporate Machiavelli - the only modern book in this list)
By the end, you will have very good mental models of how reality works and what actually matters in life.
You will get deceived wherever you don’t know much about a subject.
If you don’t know about life, then parents and society will deceive you.
If you don’t know about business, then clients, coworkers, and managers will deceive you.
If you don’t know about women’s nature, then your wife will deceive you.
If you don’t know about politics, then the government will deceive you.
Wisdom in any particular subject acts as protection — without it, you get deceived and exploited.
@IndexofGujarat This is good.
But still a lot of it yet to be improved.
The amount of illegal alcohol consumption is crazy high in Gujarat as per my observation
Study everyone.
Study the champion.
Study the failure.
Study history.
Study your competitors.
Study your own mistakes.
But never become a copy.
The purpose of studying other people is not to become them. It is to understand the principles underneath their success and incorporate those principles into YOUR OWN WAY.
Reading books means collecting information, and the purification of information in a systematic way is called knowledge.
The Upanishads prescribe three steps:
1. śravaṇa (hearing/reading),
2. manana (reflection and questioning),
3. nididhyāsana (deep contemplation until it becomes part of you).
Seneca warned that
"the abundance of books distracts" — better to dwell with a few great minds than to skim a thousand.
Confucius: "Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous."
If reading alone made people wise, everyone would be smart, healthy, and successful.
They are not — because information is milk, and knowledge is butter.
Milk is abundant. Butter only appears after churning: contemplation, debate, doubt, and living the idea.
So, reading is essential, but contemplation, debates, and understanding are necessary to purge the garbage and form real knowledge.
@TitansVision There are businesses worth 100s of crores with a single share holder. The shareholder holds the highest risk in a business. He may chose to share his profits with employees, but the choice of giving a share of the company lies in the hands of the risk taker.
Every person and every product has a market. The only thing that kills a product is lack of exposure.
The same applies to a man. Lack of exposure leads to lack of money and lack of good women.
Nobody buys what they have never seen — and no women get attracted towards a man they have never heard of. ( Women fall in love with ears )
Now, back to the point.
Every decade buries thousands of products that worked.
They did not die because the idea was wrong.
They died because the founder got tired or settled with enough money.
Before the internet, the son took over the father's work — he had no exposure to anything else.
In the internet era, a father's legacy cannot compete with the freedom and options a young man now has.
So the product dies with the founder.
Or the distribution channel vanished.
Or the market was five years too early.
The need never left.
Men still need to sleep, save, learn, fix, sell, get stronger, look better.
Only the packaging expired.
So the opportunity is not “invent something.”
I did not invent anything about women.
I am presenting knowledge that already existed and transferring it to people with a modern outlook.
That is the whole business.
The opportunity is “dig.”
Old catalogues. Dead patents. Out-of-print books.
Take the mechanism, keep it. Change the delivery, the price and the language to what the market wants now.
But here is why the field stays empty:
1.) Digging ( Research ) or old ideas are boring.
There is no dopamine in reading a 1983 trade journal or an old printed book.
Everyone wants the idea to be new, unique, magical and out of box. It looks unoriginal. The ego wants to be a founder, not an archaeologist.
So men chase the new thing where ten thousand others are chasing it, and call the crowd “validation.”
The crowd is not validation. The crowd is competition.
That is the real red pill.
The money is not hidden. It is sitting under a layer of boredom that 99% of men refuse to dig through.
And boredom is the cheapest moat in the world.
Nobody can copy what nobody is willing to read or expose to...
What you do with this:
1. Pick one category you already understand.
2. Spend 10 hours this week in the past — archive. org and many other goldmine websites , old patents, out-of-print books, dead apps.
3. Write down every product, manual, or anything that solved a real problem and disappeared.
Choose one.
Rebuild the smallest version. Sell it to ten people.
Nobody will talk about it. That is your edge.