The book I have most gifted is The Richest Man in Babylon.

The absolute BASICS of finance.

Timeless, straightforward lessons that are worth MILLIONS over a lifetime.

The lessons are the following:

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Start thy purse to fattening:

PAY YOUR GODDAM SELF FIRST.

Every single dollar that comes in, take at least 10% of it and put it into your savings.

The goverment, your desires, your family, your friends, everyone and everything wants a piece. Pay yourself first.
Control thy expenditure:

SPEND LESS THAN YOU FUCKING EARN.

Grow the balls to say no to the drinks, your friends, the bullshit consumerism that is being fed to you.

Almost 50% of Americans spend more than they earn. Don’t be a fucking sheep.

DISCIPLINE.
Make thy gold multiply:

YOU WILL NEVER BE WEALTHY OFF OF YOUR LABOR.

You need to have every single dollar working for you. That means, invest.

Whether it be in your side business, an ETF or some crypto.. LEARN to invest.
Guard thy treasures from loss:

THE KEY TO MONEY IS TO NOT DIE.

Compounding interest will work wonders... with TIME.

Make sure you are investing properly so you are protected from getting wiped out. The longer you last, the more likely it is that you will win.
Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment:

RUN THE NUMBERS.

Instead of paying rent, does it make sense to buy the home? Lease or buy a car?

Every decision you make must be thought through. Don’t take the herd’s word for it. They are usually wrong.
Insure a future income:

YOU WILL GROW OLD.

Most of America has absolutley no idea how the hell they are going to sustain themselves when they can’t work anymore. Plan accordingly.

Being 30, 40, 50.. AND BROKE.. not a good way to go through life.
Increase thy ability to earn:

INVEST IN YOURSELF.

You will gladly blow $300 on a bottle this weekend but are scared to buy a $35 fitness program. Get your priorities straight.

All knowledge is out there, most of it for free. There are no excuses.
The book is $3.99 on Amazon. Buy 10 and change 10 people’s lives (including yours).

The Richest Man in Babylon: Original 1926 Edition amazon.com/dp/1508524351/…
Since this tweet blew up (thank you @naval @AJA_Cortes @Nappyb0yy), I’m going to do just as I said above:

I’m going to gift 200 copies of “The Richest Man in Babylon”

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Sep 13, 2019
millenials are coming around to the fact that the playbook they received for 20+ years was wrong

degrees don’t get jobs
the food pyramid is wrong
money isn’t happiness
disney movies are not real
adults know nothing
coupled with societal and technological changes:

atomization of society
restructuring of labor
heroin in your pocket
mental warfare
rupturing of moral fabric

it is easy to become nihilistic about the future. it’s trendy.
but viewed from an onlooker’s perspective:

a golden age of prosperity for all
efficiency everywhere
free and infinite knowledge
global opportunity, locally
longevity and health at your disposal
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Sep 4, 2019
chasing leads to unhappiness but doing nothing leads to meaninglessness.

where is the middle ground? how does one “achieve” without feeling empty at the end?
my early 20s were all about chasing money, status and material things.

every “achievement” towards those things was a way to mask myself from seeing the treadmill i was on.

all leading to a pervasive feeling that i was never complete (money, dating, self, etc).
the big lie in achievements might be this:

regardless of achieving your intended outcome or not, you are never satisfied.
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Feb 18, 2019
Spent the weekend with a newborn.

Some thoughts on parenting, life and children:
Time.

When you have children, your time gets cut to 10% of what it is now.

If you are single, without kids, be SELFISH about your time. Use it wisely.

Soon, you won’t have it all to yourself.
Fulfillment.

We are the result of an unbroken chain of procreation. We are wired to reproduce and thus find meaning in it.

Ultimately, evolution dictates what is fulfilling and what is not.

It is naive to think you overcome it.
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Feb 1, 2019
“Life is unfair”

False.

Life just is.

We set expectations that blind us from seeing reality as it is.

Harsh truths to paint the picture:

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You will never “arrive” at the happy place.

Because there is no happy place.

The human exprience is suffering.

Every goal achieved leads to another.

To want is to suffer.

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People don’t love you for just being you.

Women don’t love broke, fat, awkward men.

Men don’t love fat, promiscuous, callous women.

We value what evolution has evolved us to value.

Align yourself correctly.
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“You cannot win, you can only put yourself in positions to win”

This means systems thinking.

Instead of focusing on outcome, you focus on the actions that lead to that outcome.

All about where you FOCUS.

Examples below:

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Twitter:

Focusing on writing “THE” tweet that will go viral

vs

Focusing on writing 20 quality tweets per day.
Dating:

Focusing on finding the “perfect” partner that will become your “one true love”

vs

Focusing on working on yourself to become someone worthy of a worthy partner
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You are leaving A LOT on the table if you think of MATH as some useless subject taught in school.

Math, when taught correctly, is a PRACTICAL skill you can use in your day-to-day to improve your life.

How though?

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A good understanding of Math will allow you to see the world more for what IT IS than for what you would LIKE IT to be.

All the while enabling You to make better decisions while dodging easy bullets:

Some examples:
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Things we fail to see due to biases towards the “surviving” data points.

We focus on the One winner and not the Million losers.

Lebron
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The result is thinking that to Win at that level is Easy.
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