Thread by @KapilGuptaMD

ON MIND, MONEY, AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE

In our first podcast, "The Truth About Hard Work," @naval revealed that in Silicon Valley, a refusal to pay 10x performers 10x compensation forces these individuals to leave in order to start their own companies

startupboy.com/2018/12/25/the…

Years ago, Harrison Ford was asked if he would do a movie purely for the art, or whether he would require them to raise the necessary capital to pay him his normal salary

He said that he would ask them to raise the capital to pay his normal salary

Harrison Ford also said this,

"A year-and-a-half after I came out here, I was under contract for $150 a week. And the one thing I learned was that they had no respect for a person who was willing to work for them for $150 a week"

This is Truth.

Society views things through faulty lenses

It is for this reason that it is blind to The Truth

It views things through the lens of "What should be"

Rather than through the lens of "What is"

Understand this:

There is no right or wrong

There is only Effective and Ineffective.

There is no good or bad

There is only what works, and what does not work.

There is no correct or incorrect

There is only What Is, and What Is Not.

WHAT IS, is Truth

And the Truth is that human beings are not creatures of "will" and "choice"

They are subject to a Mind that responds in a certain way to certain things

Completely and totally without their consent.

If an author seeks a book contract from a publishing house

He would be wise to seek the largest possible advance.

To get "paid more?"

No.

The publisher that has paid a fortune will put all of its resources behind making the book a success, in order to recoup its investment.

A Truth about the Mind:

Unless it feels a pinch, it will not act

Unless it is on the hook, it will become complacent

Unless its back is against the wall, it will become lazy

Unless there is skin in the game, there is no game at all.

.@PhilMickelson and @TigerWoods recently played an 18-hole match televised around the world

The bet was $9 million

Why $9 million?

Phil said, ""This event needs to be for a number that makes us nervous and uncomfortable."

I used to charge my own two sons for golf lessons

One is now at @OSUCowboyGolf

The younger's successes have been documented elsewhere

I would empty their wallets

For I understand how the Mind works

Had I given it to them "for free," they would not have benefitted from them.

There is nothing in this world more futile than "free advice"

The individual who you go out of your way to "comp" and "help" will become your worst client

The one who will beg, borrow and steal in order to pay your fees will become your best client, and his own greatest success

The one who is Serious will do well to understand:

That the more he is on the hook

The more, as @PhilMickelson put it, "nervous and uncomfortable" he is

The more he will dig into his soul to Arrive at his ultimate vision.

Understand this:

The Human Mind does not understand "value"

It only understands "price."

It does not respond to "willpower and external motivation"

It respond to the "fear of loss."

The Truth is often ironic

In this case, that irony is this:

The more a human being Pays . . .

The more he stands to lose . . .

The more he is "on the hook" . . .

The less time he will waste

The more serious he will become

And the more success he will have

Namaste.