Steve Jobs explains why motivation can't be forced:
“I’ve never found in my whole life that you could convince someone who doesn't want to work hard to work hard.”
if you can hold 3 jobs, hit a few perfect trades, keep expenses low and then nail that parlay you can live the lifestyle of a moderately successful plumber in the 1970s
Floyd Mayweather’s peak net worth was $560 million. Over half a billion.
Invested in the S&P, that generates $39 million per year.
Now he’s allegedly going broke.
You have to be mentally ill to burn through $560 million in just a few years.
Following a very difficult meeting with my accountant, I just found out how much it is going to cost me in terms of an "exit tax" to leave Quebec and Canada. No human being in a free society should have their hard-earned money stolen in this manner. I'm genuinely numb. I'm speechless.
Patterns I noticed in successful people in my life:
• People think they’re insane
• They’re relentless at follow up
• They reply to emails in one sentence
• They are so high agency it’ll rip peoples faces off
• They understand the enormous value of pattern recognition
• They don��t give a flying f*ck about people’s opinions
• They don’t network and let their work do the work
• They have confidence that comes from action
• They purposely cultivate high energy
• They have an aura about them
• They chase their obsession
• They see writing as thinking
Focus on what you can control.
Build something. Anything.
A product. Yourself. A family. Your community. A team. Relationships.
Or help someone else build theirs.
Don’t complain. Don’t play the victim.
Ever.
What are you building?
#PlayNiceButWin
I’m going to ruin slot machines for you.
And then, right at the end, I’m going to partially un-ruin them by showing you the one rare situation where a slot machine can actually become a better-than-even-money bet. Not luck. Not “because it's due.” Because math.
Want to know how they really work inside? Watch this: