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When you beat the money game, you get to go on side quests. Unless, of course, your goal is to make even more money. Then you re-start the game on hard mode and play again. To try to 10x or 20x your money.
That’s what it feels like Elon Musk is doing. He beat the game three times over and is back for a fourth. I mean, he did tell Joe Rogan that he believes we live in a computer simulation. To me though, all his
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How You Test Ideas Determines Your Success
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Michael Jordan said “I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
On the surface that sounds like a quote about perseverance, but it’s really not. It’s a quote about systems.
In business and art, the winners rarely have the most resources. If that were the case, why did Apple—a company started in a garage—beat IBM at personal computers in the early 80s? IBM had
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Why the Powerful Work Like Lions
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A kind of panic sets in once you’ve leveled-up your earning power.
Your first taste of it comes in your teenage years when you’re working at McDonald’s or the ice cream shop. You start in the kitchen flipping burgers or at the cash register. Then a couple weeks or months in you get promoted to assistant shift manager. The nametag or tie changes color.
And suddenly you’re doing less work, but you feel
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Why Good Ideas Need Great Names
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Austin Kleon said “an idea is gold only if you name it.” I think he understood that ideas are a dime a dozen. And that the value is not in the idea itself but in the execution.
Part of the execution lies in the name you give it. Because really, most of the time the only protection you have from someone stealing it is the trademark on the name. A brand name becomes the fence you put around your land to mark it
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Your Price Is Never High, Just Misdirected
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Maybe you’ve heard this one before: as a graduation present, a father gave his daughter a car he had bought many years ago. She already had a car, it was cash she needed. So he asked her to take the car downtown to the used car lot and see how much they would offer for his car.
She came back and said “they offered me $1,000 because it looks very worn out.”
The father then said “take it to the pawn shop, and
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A Normal Life Is Far From Normal
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The Roman general Vegetius had a saying: “if you want peace, prepare for war.”
Later, this was condensed down to “peace through strength.”
And it applies just as much to individuals as it does to nations.
Everyone over 25 wants similar things: we all want to find the love of our lives, and to have 3 children with them, with the nice house in the suburbs and the saturday morning
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Everyone Should Be a Business
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You’re playing a rigged game. So it’s on you to learn the way it’s rigged, then use that in your favor.
Capitalism is the living, breathing system inside which we all live. And money is its blood.
The organism only survives when blood circulates to all of its organs. If it ever stops circulating, that part of the body dies.
This is why capitalism wants you to be your own
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Money Is Not Material, It Is Spiritual
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Whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” didn’t have either of those. To be fair, love and health do rank higher than money. No arguing against that. But although money can’t guarantee you’ll have love or health, being broke will surely push the other two away.
Those two things require time, which enough money can free up for you.
You see, money is not material; it is
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