To succeed you have to fail. Very few people in history have ever gone zero to hero without any setbacks at all. For most people their trajectory goes like this :
Get some motivation, start a business/skill. Get something wrong and/or lose some money. Maybe if they’re a bit more resilient they’ll try again. But it results in them giving up eventually and resorting to that 9-5 that keeps them poor.
Ask a successful person, tens if not HUNDREDS of mishaps along the way. But if you are intelligent you will take each setback as a lesson or a learning experience. At the end of the day they’re so sure of themselves that they just HAVE to make it and they won’t give up. That’s how you make it.
Resilience. Discipline. Confidence.
And most importantly, the key skill for me that sets winners apart from losers - accountability.
If you ask a loser, it’s always someone else’s fault. A winner accepts they went wrong, if you do this, you can address where to fix for next time.
Be a winner.
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I ran a little experiment on X two days ago. The results blew my mind.
I posted this: “In 3 years people will be saying ‘wow, I really should have bought $MSFT at $385’ while it trades at $668.”
That’s a 73% return in 3 years. Roughly 20% per year. Warren Buffett built one of the greatest fortune in history compounding at that exact rate.
The replies: “Not even a 2x??? Are you serious???”
And there it is, ladies and gentlemen. The exact reason retail never builds real wealth.