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📖 Take these risks in life Everything good in your life will happen as a result of taking the risk of getting it. There is no return without paying the price and the price is taking on the risk of failure. As a baby, you need to risk falling if you are to learn how to walk. We follow that same trajectory in life and business. Those who are unwilling to take the risk, face an unfulfilled and mediocre life. 🔹 Risk getting incredibly wealthy – especially if you’re young. If you’re under 35, you get 1 or 2 big swings at an extraordinary life. This happens because you have little to no downside: there’s no one depending on you. This is by far the most important piece of advice you can get as a young person: TAKE BIG RISKS. The scary/uncomfortable ones. The risks everyone around you tells you not to take. Want to know something that will outrage the close minded people? Everyone who actually wants to be rich can become rich. There are over 60 million millionaires and thousands of new billionaires in the world. We’re going to soon have our first trillionaire. There’s no limit to the wealth you can get in this life. And honestly, the sooner you solve the money issue in life, the better. When it comes to both life and financial risks: If you don’t play the risk game while you’re young, you’re going to play the blame game while you’re old. At this stage you know my message goes to very few people only, and if its arriving to you is because I believe this isn’t a waste of my time, and that you can come from average to a great life and achievements. I can leave now, retire, and live in the luxuries of this world. But that’s not fulfilling. Fulfilling for me is guiding others on the path to a life that’s worth living. Saddens me to see most people never truly living, but it is what it is… 🔹 Risk ridicule in exchange for making your dreams come true - Criticism and ridicule are part of the process. Think of it as the cost of entry to the joyride that is the good life. Who cares what they think?! Who cares if they don’t like you? You don’t even know THEM! People are intimidated by those who go after it. They’re scared of seeing other people succeed because it serves as proof that success is achievable. Their only hope is to intimidate you into giving up on your dreams, so you don’t get the chance to prove them wrong. The risk fades away when you realize that these people are irrelevant to your journey, even if they’re part of your inner circle and their words might hurt. Be strong. It’s your future. It’s your life. You only have one. 🔹 Risk Dropping out or quitting to start your own business - Here’s a gold nugget that’s going to change your life forever if you allow its value into your beliefs. It’s called: The Simulated Outcome Theory How it works: look at the way your life is going right now and imagine doing what you’re doing for the next 10 years. What does your life look like if you progress in a linear fashion? If you’re happy with the result, keep doing what you’re doing. But what if you realize this future sucks? That’s when you drop out or quit your job in order to start living life on your terms. You will end up working longer hours, but you’ll have the satisfaction that you’re building for yourself. For as long as you live just remember: If you don’t build your own dreams, someone else will hire you to build theirs. 🔹 Risk investing in yourself - People complain that investing in yourself is expensive…but what the hell is the alternative?! What is there to invest that gives you a better ROI than…well…YOU?! If you’re unable to at least invest in yourself where you control the outcome, how do you expect any other investment to work out?... Treat your investment in yourself the same way venture capital works: Some will be shi*, some will be ok, but one or two of them will be life-changing. I’ve read hundreds of bad books before finding the few that worked well for me. I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars going to events, seminars, courses, classes, and meet-ups, in order to compound my knowledge and build freedom. Ask yourself, what percentage of your income do you reinvest in yourself? I’m not talking about your comforts, but in your skillset, your knowledge, and your tools of the trade. If you’re spending less than 5% on you…it might be a good time to re-evaluate your priorities. The brutal truth is: People’s lives are cheap because they think investing in themselves is expensive. Why? - Because the've learned to have instant gratification for work done, and when they don't, they have no belief. They don't understand how money and life works, so no matter what they do, they will not find the path to freedom. 🔹 Risk starting over - Even if you’re starting from scratch. Even if it’s in a new place. Even if you know nobody. Even if no-one supports you. Risk starting over. It will be scary because it’s always scary when you venture into the unknown. But you see, Darkness is the mere absence of light. The moment you overcome your fear, you begin to generate light into the darkness of your world. The more you do and learn, the brighter you shine. Deep down we’re all scared of our luminosity. But it’s a necessary part of success. You might be thinking it’s easy to say this when I don’t know your story, but I actually know you, because I’ve been in similar environment as you are today, and I’ve seen your story in other people as well. It might not be obvious to you at the moment, but if starting over is your objective, the road will reveal itself to you. Remember this: If you see nothing around you but walls, start building a door. You've got the tools, and you can find the time. 🔹 Risk going against the consensus and be right - This is the straightforward path to massive success in life. The more you think about it, the more you realize it is true: If you want to be successful in life, you have to go against the consensus - what everybody thinks - and be right. People will tell you that something is impossible, they’ll tell you to not even try because it won’t work, you’re not good enough, smart enough, talented enough, not born in the right country, not born with the right parents, skin color, gender or simply…that nobody was able to do it. The thing is… Everything is impossible until someone does it. Our growing wealth is the result of ignoring everybody else and focusing on the process. I said this before, but if we’re living in a simulation, then self-belief is the cheat code to getting everything you want. Risk believing in your idea and following through. 🔹 Risk being yourself when everyone else wants you to be someone else - Who are you? You’re more than your clothes, the things you buy, the home you live in…You’re more than what your parents taught you when you were young. You’re more than the trauma you’ve suffered growing up. You’re an individual. You’re separate from everything else. You’re not what your uncle thinks you are or should be. You’re not what your parents wish you were. You’re not what your friends see you as. You’re not even all of those things combined. You’re an ever-changing identity that absorbs what it needs and finds useful in order to craft itself out of pure chaos. The moment you realize how short life is and how meaningless the expectations of others are in terms of real impact on your existence, the second phase of your life begins. 🔹 Risk finding your true limits - The brutal truth: Most people quit at 40% of their ability. As humans, we fail to understand our true limits because our mind and body is designed to shelter us from harm and into comfort as quickly as possible. Most people go through life never knowing what they can do. They choose to underperform, doing the universe a big disservice. You were put on this planet to find out what you’re capable of… Going to the grave without discovering that is just wasted potential. Why are you scared to find out? Why do you quit before your limits? Why don’t you test yourself to see how far you can go? Something extraordinary happens if you do…You find the truth. You find where your ability stands at this point in your life. You have a clear benchmark. From work to life, to relationships, go the extra mile and make them extraordinary. For the man who risks finding his own limits, the world opens up with limitless opportunities. Are all those successful people just smarter than you? Look closely...they aren’t. They worked and worked, and worked some more. Results started showing because they outworked everyone else and were noticed for providing more value. 🔹 Risk having your own metric for success - Here’s the paradox of success: Success is a self fulfilling game. The only real way to win is to decide that you have won the game. Otherwise, you will be in constant pursuit of something that you’ll never catch up with. Even if you achieve what other people consider success, if it’s not your own consideration, you will not feel like you’ve made any progress in life. This is how people end up hating their lives despite having a high -profile job or making a lot of money. If it doesn’t meet your own metrics for success you will feel like a failure, like you could’ve done more or be happier doing something else. People will judge you based on their own metrics…please note that you are under no obligation to live by them. Risk having your own metrics... That’s what the phrase: “YOU DO YOU!” actually means. 🔹 Risk a “bad meal” to find the magical one - I know you weren’t expecting a food reference at this point in the talk, but this is actually a deep metaphor for life. You have to risk going through the bad in order to find the exceptional. You don’t know where the magic is in life, but it won’t find you, you have to go look for it. Look everywhere you think you might be able to find it. Most will be disappointments, but once in a while, you will stumble upon something that made the entire search worth it. These are the life-changing pieces of the puzzle that makes up your existence. Do you know why this is true? - Because unearned prizes bear no value. In a screwed-up way, the bad justifies you being deserving of the good. You truly appreciate a good meal if you’ve been eating shi* for a while. You really appreciate a good job if you’ve been working miserable ones for the past few years. You will never take for granted a loyal partner if your previous one tore your heart to shreds… If you want to win this freaking game, you have to embrace risk. You won’t get many chances. Time has picked up speed and I know you feel it too. The next few years will go by in the blink of an eye…Don’t regret it.