If you want to secure your future, read this: 
The conventional career path never sat well with me:
- Go to school
- Think you know what you want do at 18
- Possibly get a job you like on your first try
- Possibly enjoy life while having zero control over your day
- Possibly have freedom when you retire at 65
- Go to school
- Think you know what you want do at 18
- Possibly get a job you like on your first try
- Possibly enjoy life while having zero control over your day
- Possibly have freedom when you retire at 65
Nope.
Didn't like that.
That "secure" future didn't sound so secure.
So I spent my time:
- in the gym
- failing at 7+ business models
- studying people I aspired to be like
- learning whatever skills could help me
Didn't like that.
That "secure" future didn't sound so secure.
So I spent my time:
- in the gym
- failing at 7+ business models
- studying people I aspired to be like
- learning whatever skills could help me
After much study, action, and direct experience — things started to click.
Throughout the last 4 years, I've pieced together the puzzle for success in the modern world.
Here's what I wish I knew at 18:
Throughout the last 4 years, I've pieced together the puzzle for success in the modern world.
Here's what I wish I knew at 18:
The future of work will not be work.
It will be play. If you can use the internet to:
- Pursue your genuine curiosity
- Develop your skillset
- Build distribution & leverage
- Build digital products / services
You won't have to worry about your future.
It will be play. If you can use the internet to:
- Pursue your genuine curiosity
- Develop your skillset
- Build distribution & leverage
- Build digital products / services
You won't have to worry about your future.
For the first 18+ years of our lives, culture is designed to strip our child-like curiosity away from us.
- Go to school
- Learn the set curriculum
- Do your homework
Most of us get caught up in TV shows and video games rather than learning something WE are interested in.
- Go to school
- Learn the set curriculum
- Do your homework
Most of us get caught up in TV shows and video games rather than learning something WE are interested in.
Curiosity is the path to doing what you want to do.
You pursue curiosity by asking:
“What if I learned that skill?”
“What if I improved my health?”
“What if I started that business?”
“What if I failed? What if I didn’t?”
You pursue curiosity by asking:
“What if I learned that skill?”
“What if I improved my health?”
“What if I started that business?”
“What if I failed? What if I didn’t?”
What follows is exploring the unknown.
Taking action.
Finding resources to self-educate.
Letting new discoveries lead you down new paths.
Repeating the process until you've connected all of the dots.
Taking action.
Finding resources to self-educate.
Letting new discoveries lead you down new paths.
Repeating the process until you've connected all of the dots.
Creators, personal brands, and online educators are accelerating the rate of human evolution.
Condensing information through courses, systems, and mentorships.
Distilling years of experience into a digestible form.
Condensing information through courses, systems, and mentorships.
Distilling years of experience into a digestible form.
Humans can process ~126 bits of information per second.
What used to take 60 million bits of information to process (i.e. a 4 year degree)
Now takes 10 million bits of information to process (with condensed knowledge in online education).
What used to take 60 million bits of information to process (i.e. a 4 year degree)
Now takes 10 million bits of information to process (with condensed knowledge in online education).
With this education boom we can:
- Learn more
- Act faster
- Make new discoveries
- Pass down our insights
The internet has opened up cross-world communication. This in itself is a miracle that shouldn't be taken for granted.
- Learn more
- Act faster
- Make new discoveries
- Pass down our insights
The internet has opened up cross-world communication. This in itself is a miracle that shouldn't be taken for granted.
This is what we do as humans.
- Process information (curiosities)
- Imitate others (for survival)
- Condense what we learned
- Communicate our stored information to others
Post your unique perspective of the information online and you start to build leverage
- Process information (curiosities)
- Imitate others (for survival)
- Condense what we learned
- Communicate our stored information to others
Post your unique perspective of the information online and you start to build leverage
How do we puruse our curiosities full time in the new world?
You must understand 2 things:
- Code (the medium)
- Media (the message)
Media and code have leveled the playing field for getting an impactful message in front of anyone with an internet connection.
You must understand 2 things:
- Code (the medium)
- Media (the message)
Media and code have leveled the playing field for getting an impactful message in front of anyone with an internet connection.
1) Media
Media is the front end of the internet, how we communicate with others without being with them.
Media is how you capture attention and deliver information.
Media is how you attract an audience, learn in public, and distribute your own condensed knowledge.
Media is the front end of the internet, how we communicate with others without being with them.
Media is how you capture attention and deliver information.
Media is how you attract an audience, learn in public, and distribute your own condensed knowledge.
To master media, study the mind:
- Study persuasion
- Study decision making
- Study philosophy & spirituality
- Study psychology
Study everything that allows you to capture and hold attention with writing, speaking, and visuals.
- Study persuasion
- Study decision making
- Study philosophy & spirituality
- Study psychology
Study everything that allows you to capture and hold attention with writing, speaking, and visuals.
You learn how to do this quickly by getting started.
- Build out real-world projects by starting a curiosity basedsocial media account
- Create videos, podcasts, articles, and other forms of content
Treat it like a game where you're learning what makes humans tick.
- Build out real-world projects by starting a curiosity basedsocial media account
- Create videos, podcasts, articles, and other forms of content
Treat it like a game where you're learning what makes humans tick.
At minimum, you'll create a public portfolio and develop modern skills.
You can get a high-paying media job without a degree.
Or you can work for agencies, creatives, and other personal brands.
You'll be able to use that income to fuel your entrepreneurial journey as well.
You can get a high-paying media job without a degree.
Or you can work for agencies, creatives, and other personal brands.
You'll be able to use that income to fuel your entrepreneurial journey as well.
At maximum, you build leverage for your future.
You create a curiosity-based income for yourself given time and effort.
You open up the potential to make more than enough money to live a happy life.
Either way, you win.
Start creating.
You create a curiosity-based income for yourself given time and effort.
You open up the potential to make more than enough money to live a happy life.
Either way, you win.
Start creating.
2) Code
Tech is the back-end of the internet.
Tech — specifically code — is the vessel for media.
It allows us to package up the information we learn in a structured way.
It allows us to house the info, products, services, and everything else in the digital economy.
Tech is the back-end of the internet.
Tech — specifically code — is the vessel for media.
It allows us to package up the information we learn in a structured way.
It allows us to house the info, products, services, and everything else in the digital economy.
Again, You can learn to code and get a job in ~6 months without a degree.
Jobs in code and media are allowing more and more people to make good money through online self-education.
You can then use that money to transition into a SaaS, freelancing, or education business online.
Jobs in code and media are allowing more and more people to make good money through online self-education.
You can then use that money to transition into a SaaS, freelancing, or education business online.
3) The Brutal Combo
The beautiful thing:
Coders have gotten so good that no-code tools are everywhere.
Anyone can build a website, email list, blog, product, membership, community, and other things allowing them to harness their media skills online.
The beautiful thing:
Coders have gotten so good that no-code tools are everywhere.
Anyone can build a website, email list, blog, product, membership, community, and other things allowing them to harness their media skills online.
With these modern tools, the average person will learn both media and code just by starting a social account.
You educate yourself on media by learning and posting.
You educate yourself on 'code' by housing that information on your website, landing page, and email list.
You educate yourself on media by learning and posting.
You educate yourself on 'code' by housing that information on your website, landing page, and email list.
How do you get people to see the media you produce?
By building distribution:
- an audience
- an email list
- communities
- your network
All potential traffic sources that can be sent to your digital product or service (how you make money online).
By building distribution:
- an audience
- an email list
- communities
- your network
All potential traffic sources that can be sent to your digital product or service (how you make money online).
The world is craving human connection more than ever.
People are losing trust in formal education and corporations.
Decentralization is a hot topic.
Individual distribution centers (personal brands) give that human connection.
People are losing trust in formal education and corporations.
Decentralization is a hot topic.
Individual distribution centers (personal brands) give that human connection.
Everyone can pursue their curiosity and do what they love — IF they realized and open their mind to this opportunity.
https://twitter.com/naval/status/33052435161288704
You've built distribution (like a social media following) by posting about your curiosities, what's next?
Digital products and services.
Things that impact someone's direct human experience (the only thing that matters) through problem solving or rapid education.
Digital products and services.
Things that impact someone's direct human experience (the only thing that matters) through problem solving or rapid education.
There are 3 ways to create a product or service:
1) Done For You
Done for you services are things like freelancing or agency work.
Someone has a problem, you have a unique system for solving that, they hire you, and you solve the problem for them.
1) Done For You
Done for you services are things like freelancing or agency work.
Someone has a problem, you have a unique system for solving that, they hire you, and you solve the problem for them.
2) Done With You
Done with you services are things like consulting, coaching, or mentoring.
Rather than doing something for someone, you are walking them through your system.
You are teaching them, educating them, on how to improve a certain aspect of their life.
Done with you services are things like consulting, coaching, or mentoring.
Rather than doing something for someone, you are walking them through your system.
You are teaching them, educating them, on how to improve a certain aspect of their life.
3) Do It Yourself
Do it yourself is for digital products like:
- Courses
- Cohorts
- Info products
- Membership sites
You package up your knowledge in a digestible (and infinitely replicable, high profit margin) way.
Do it yourself is for digital products like:
- Courses
- Cohorts
- Info products
- Membership sites
You package up your knowledge in a digestible (and infinitely replicable, high profit margin) way.
Start with freelancing or consulting.
Start for free and soak in all wisdom you can.
Start developing a unique system for getting results.
Raise your prices and build distribution along the way.
Then, package up your system into a digital product and distribute it.
Start for free and soak in all wisdom you can.
Start developing a unique system for getting results.
Raise your prices and build distribution along the way.
Then, package up your system into a digital product and distribute it.
This is how you make a fortune:
- Pursue your curiosity
- Talk about it online
- Attract like minded people
- Build distribution
- Sell your value
Become a personal school for others losing trust in the system.
- Pursue your curiosity
- Talk about it online
- Attract like minded people
- Build distribution
- Sell your value
Become a personal school for others losing trust in the system.
https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002106317064949763
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