The One piece of advice I'd give to my Younger Self on Making Money

[noodlelover]

If I could only give one piece of advice to my younger-self on making money, it would be this.

Don't switch projects/Ideas EVER.

I'd start something. Work on it for 3-4 years. Decide It's not working because X, and that it really can't work because X, and that I should try another idea. Or it could work but it's not long term sustainable because of Y, so I should try a different idea. Sometimes environment or circumstance changes, and what seemed like a good idea at first, no longer does.

This starting over with a slightly different project, causes you to be a jack of all Trades, but not rich.

What you should do instead, is troubleshoot and find a way to make it to make you rich. Change AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE about your original project/system. Any change is starting over, so you want to change absolutely as little as possible about the idea and make it work.

Sometimes, you'll hit a wall, and think, this idea really isn't possible, I hit a dead end. Let me try something else. Sometimes you'll think for weeks before giving up and trying something else.

Instead, set time aside everyday. Maybe four hours a day, for YEARS if needed, until you find a way to progress on your original idea and make it work. Sometimes I'll realize I could have made my idea 10+ years ago work, if Only I had thought of Y, but now I'm working on a different project.

If you stay narrow, and find a way for your idea to work, you'll be rich.

As counter intuitive as it may appear, if you genuinely believed in your idea at one point in time, then it could have become a product people wanted to buy, or financially profitable asset trading system. There are no bad ideas, only incomplete executions. That's the one gold nugget, that's taken me many life times to fully realize.

 

[PsychoDsk]

bullshit, when you're young you should try everything u can. You're literally a teenager, why would u spend all the free time u have on something u don't know forsure u want.
In your younger years u try everything so that when responsibilities kick in when you're getting older, you know what u want and u already know how to get there.

Accumulating wealth in your younger years is psyop redpill cope
life doesn't revolve around money, def not when you're younger. You should try everything u want and when u decide it's time to give it your all go for it. 90% of ppl at 27 are dead broke, accumulating wealth at 22 is perfectly fine

enjoy your teenage years, it's not worth it

 

[skullmog]

bullshit, when you're young you should try everything u can. You're literally a teenager, why would u spend all the free time u have on something u don't know forsure u want.
In your younger years u try everything so that when responsibilities kick in when you're getting older, you know what u want and u already know how to get there.

Accumulating wealth in your younger years is psyop redpill cope
life doesn't revolve around money, def not when you're younger. You should try everything u want and when u decide it's time to give it your all go for it. 90% of ppl at 27 are dead broke, accumulating wealth at 22 is perfectly fine

enjoy your teenage years, it's not worth it

both are correct tbh

 

[noodlelover]

bullshit, when you're young you should try everything u can. You're literally a teenager, why would u spend all the free time u have on something u don't know forsure u want.

This is the mindset that leads to failure.

In your younger years u try everything so that when responsibilities kick in when you're getting older, you know what u want and u already know how to get there.

That's what I believed when I was younger, but literally any of my ideas had I not given up after about 4 years of 4+ hours a day, would have made me rich, and changed the world to a small degree.

Accumulating wealth in your younger years is psyop redpill cope
life doesn't revolve around money, def not when you're younger. You should try everything u want and when u decide it's time to give it your all go for it. 90% of ppl at 27 are dead broke, accumulating wealth at 22 is perfectly fine

With ANY Project you will go through these stages

1. New Project/Idea - Excited Having Fun
2. Starting to feel like a Job/Chore. Not as Fun
3. Becoming Miserable. You hate it. You're bord out of your mind. It's not making money. You don't want to work on it any more.
4. You hate it and it's not giving you results. You don't see any path forward for it to be successful.

This is where most people quit. You HAVE to find a way to keep going if you want to be successful. And you have to figure out exactly what's preventing growth and fix only that specific cog. Or if it's a risk/vulnerability to the your business/career, figuring out how to continually reduce that risk.

enjoy your teenage years, it's not worth it

You can enjoy your teenage years, and your twenties, and thirties.

What I'm saying is pick one path for a career, self employed business, or business, and stick with it. Let's say your path is lawyer path, then do that. If you have free time to party and find a girlfriend, do that.

Don't dip your toes in other projects to try to make money on your free time, stick with the lawyer path if that's what you want to do.

You'll make more money and be more successful, and enjoy life more, if you go all out with one path, rather than jumping around.

There is no such thing as "your true calling". You can enjoy anything when you get good at it. The point is not to bounce around from idea to idea, when it comes to earning a living. Hobbies, is fine.

 

[PsychoDsk]

This is the mindset that leads to failure.



That's what I believed when I was younger, but literally any of my ideas had I not given up after about 4 years of 4+ hours a day, would have made me rich, and changed the world to a small degree.



With ANY Project you will go through these stages

1. New Project/Idea - Excited Having Fun
2. Starting to feel like a Job/Chore. Not as Fun
3. Becoming Miserable. You hate it. You're bord out of your mind. It's not making money. You don't want to work on it any more.
4. You hate it and it's not giving you results. You don't see any path forward for it to be successful.

This is where most people quit. You HAVE to find a way to keep going if you want to be successful. And you have to figure out exactly what's preventing growth and fix only that specific cog. Or if it's a risk/vulnerability to the your business/career, figuring out how to continually reduce that risk.




You can enjoy your teenage years, and your twenties, and thirties.

What I'm saying is pick one path for a career, self employed business, or business, and stick with it. Let's say your path is lawyer path, then do that. If you have free time to party and find a girlfriend, do that.

Don't dip your toes in other projects to try to make money on your free time, stick with the lawyer path if that's what you want to do.

You'll make more money and be more successful, and enjoy life more, if you go all out with one path, rather than jumping around.

There is no such thing as "your true calling". You can enjoy anything when you get good at it. The point is not to bounce around from idea to idea, when it comes to earning a living. Hobbies, is fine.

agree on some level but when you're young, no one has any clue on what they really want. Wealth isn't that important in your younger years, only when responsibilities kick in and u need to provide.

I don't agree with failure, I can't bind a definition to it. There's no such thing as failure, the only failure in my eyes is giving up on dreaming big. That's where most people fail, once they get older they stop dreaming and that's how they get caught in the 'muh slave for money' mindset. People who are meant to have an abundance of assets all have the same trait and it is they never once stopped dreaming big. Even entering their early thirties.

Imo when you're younger you should just enjoy life, socialise and build connections. When the 2 creeps in on your age, only then is it important to start thinking about a legitimate life path and safety nets. U can research everything in your teens to find what fits you, what u like and what u don't like.

Ofcourse this is just based on my own personal experience, I have a 'rich' social circle and most of them agree that teenage years are for pure enjoyment and figuring shit out. Spending hours and hours grinding towards a goal and 'wealth' in your younger years will lead to isolation and lack of intimacy in most cases.

Even in your case, you're looking back at what could've been, you were young, you weren't supposed to have shit figured out. Your prefrontal cortex was a mess, that's not a bad thing. Still plenty of time to build wealth and freedom now, don't dwell on what could've been bhai. What matters most is if you had fun when you were younger and if you still want to work on your dreams.

If you ever give a yacht party, invite me

 

[User28823]

DNR JUST BUY MEMECOINS LOW AND SELL HIGH LOLOL

 

[Foreverbrad]

bullshit, when you're young you should try everything u can. You're literally a teenager, why would u spend all the free time u have on something u don't know forsure u want.
In your younger years u try everything so that when responsibilities kick in when you're getting older, you know what u want and u already know how to get there.

Accumulating wealth in your younger years is psyop redpill cope
life doesn't revolve around money, def not when you're younger. You should try everything u want and when u decide it's time to give it your all go for it. 90% of ppl at 27 are dead broke, accumulating wealth at 22 is perfectly fine

enjoy your teenage years, it's not worth it

Fine for HTN+ but for sub5 guys there is nothing to enjoy, you need to accumulate wealth to afford surgeries, and then by the time you can afford surgeries you’ll be too old for young foids and stuck with roasties who demand you to have a fat wallet.

 

[LeGrayHonker]

Fine for HTN+ but for sub5 guys there is nothing to enjoy, you need to accumulate wealth to afford surgeries, and then by the time you can afford surgeries you’ll be too old for young foids and stuck with roasties who demand you to have a fat wallet.

True
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