Why most people never reach success:
They're unable to handle the boredom of repetition.
They do the work for one month, see no results and switch goals because the novelty wore off.
This happens with the next goal and the one after that.
Constantly switching, never allowing compounding to take effect, and eventually wasting their precious time.
They're going in circles.
The first time your investments earn more than your paycheck while you're asleep, at the gym or on vacation, something changes in your brain.
You finally understand why wealthy people obsess over assets.
I was a professional poker player for a decade & still play as a profitable side hustle.
The amount of great poker players I have seen go broke & lose everything from sports betting is insane & sad.
Players 100x better than I was, but addicted to gambling & the action & could never KEEP MONEY.
The house ALWAYS wins & call me a conspiracy theorist all you want, but I truly believe a lot of the action in sports is rigged.
There's been some really shady stuff over the years.
Vegas doesn't build the billon dollar buildings because you win at sport betting or any other gambling games long term.
I've bet once in the last 10 years & that was the maximum I could bet on Floyd Mayweather beating Connor McGregor which didn't seem like gambling to me.
Crazy how all you hear is how average people are struggling so much financially..... yet, they are somehow gambling away billions betting on sports.
STOP. You can't win. 🤝
Buy $VOO $SCHD $QQQ & $SPYx bitcoin:native
You can't lose longterm with these. 🤝
Where were all the pessimists in September and October of last year? The herd was bullish for Q4.
Now the herd is pessimist and coralled looking for bearish Q4.
They always move together.
Most people don’t realize this, but a normal job usually limits how you think. The reason for this is that it narrows your ambition. It consumes all of your energy. It trains you to optimize for small, predefined goals instead of exploring asymmetric opportunities.
I’ve seen it over and over. Friends quit, and within a few months, their thinking changes completely. They start seeing things they were blind to before. New ideas, new paths, new leverage.
The opportunities were always there. They just didn’t have the time or mental space to notice.
I am not saying everyone should quit their job, but you'll be surprised to see that you're probably capable of so much more than pushing papers in your 9-5 cubicle.
I'm convinced that 99% of success is just avoiding the traditional path at all costs. The person who gets called weird and doesn’t give a f*ck will win.
Dumb bulls will always outperform smart bears.
The oldest lesson in markets, and one that’s held true for decades.
Inflation isn’t going away.
Money printing isn’t stopping.
The cost of living will keep climbing.
Your cash will continue losing purchasing power every single year.
This is the game. It’s been the game for centuries.
Smart people don’t sit in depreciating currency. They park their wealth in scarce assets. Gold, silver, real estate, watches, antiques, legacy markets.
$BTC is still an infant asset. Whether you believe in the fundamentals or not is almost irrelevant. Scarce assets with fixed supply are naturally repriced higher in a world where fiat expands forever.
The real Ponzi is the constant debasement of fiat currency.
Bitcoin doesn’t need to solve every problem tomorrow. What matters is that it has consistently outpaced inflation and I expect it to continue outperforming.
So once again: dumb bulls will always make more money than smart bears in a market that is rigged to go up.
.@danawhite says one of the keys to longevity is to block out all negativity:
“It never even crosses my mind that something's not going to work. I just keep going until it does work.”
“There's this Bruce Lee quote where he says, ‘Never say negative things about yourself or what you're working on even if you're joking, because your body doesn't know the difference.’”
“I never take in any negativity.”
The man who can delay gratification for 5 years will live the next 50 in freedom. Most people do it backwards. They live free for 5 and struggle for 50.
Jeff Bezos explains the Wandering Rule behind real invention:
"When I sit down to work on a problem, I know I don't know where I'm going."
"To go in a straight line, to be efficient, efficiency and invention are sort of at odds."
"Real invention, not incremental improvement... real lateral thinking... requires wandering."
"You have to give yourself permission to wander."
"A lot of people feel like wandering is inefficient."
"I don't know how long the meeting is going to take if we're trying to solve a problem."
The useful distinction:
Use efficiency when the path is known.
Use wandering when the problem is still being discovered.
Most teams kill invention by demanding a straight line too early.
I was in Qatar and sent my wife $6,000 in $BTC who was in New Orleans and it got there in 5 mins. No business days, no banks. Still pretty awesome to me.
Nick Fuentes says he would be homeless if he were forced to work a normal job 😂
“I can’t do anything on time, I hate being told what to do, I’m kind of lazy. What job could I even hold down?”