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Self-made millionaires are different because...
Some part of you identifies with the contrarian mindset.
Self-made millionaires distrust traditional wisdom and believe there is a better way.
Society values common sense, but we don’t. We are looking for counterintuitive truths.
But our ideas aren’t enough…
In fact our ideas are worthless.
They are worthless until we execute them.
So what ever your idea is… do it.
You will encounter resistance. The commontards will sneer at you. It won’t be easy. Don’t get married to the idea itself. Get married to the process of constantly testing your ideas.
Most of your ideas will flop. But a few won’t flop. And you will win big.
Grab your ideas when they hit you. Write them down immediately in the note section of your phone.
Most good ideas are a combination of two common things paired in a slightly unconventional way.
And steal other people’s ideas. One trait of billionaires is they are insatiably curious people. A guy had a conversation with Warren Buffett one day, and after the meeting he realized he didn’t learn much about Warren Buffett because Warren was asking him all of the questions. Warren is insatiably curious.
So whatever you weirdos are thinking now. Grab a google doc. Get it out of your head. Map out a brief action plan.
And then do it.
The best professional baseball players bat .300. That means they miss 70% of the time. Million dollar pay days lie in that 30 percent. So get in the batters box and swing as many times as you can.
Be curious, grab your ideas, build out an action plan, then execute your ideas. And repeat as fast as you can.
The most successful people I meet have one thing in common. They are massive action takers. And if you pair a contrarian mindset to massive action you have a deadly combination.
~Blue
P.S. if you have any great ideas I’d love to hear them
And a bonus for the business nerds out there…
After studying some processes of hyper successful people. They just do things differently. When they have an idea they spend a significant amount of time mapping it out and developing the strategy. Putting it in a google doc. Leaving it. Mulling over it. Building the process around the idea. Coming back to it. Improving it. Testing the Version 1. Then constantly iterating until Version 15 or whatever.
The ones that run 100 million dollar companies might write a 100 page strategy document. They spend an incredible amount of time planning, thinking, and mapping out their strategy. Once I realized how the deca-millionaires do it, I started documenting new ideas, all the steps, building out the processes, and then I have an action document.
One thing that will separate you from the commontards is having a process behind your idea. 99% of people attack life unprepared. So if you want an edge… just prepare.
And when you build out your idea, it is best to do it in solitude without distractions. It is best to block some time to let your mind be totally focused on the work. Multi-tasking is very inefficient for focus. I can attribute this solitude to my most valuable solutions and processes. It is time to create.
Most people don’t think of entrepreneurs as artists, but there are a lot of similarities. Your work is your art. And forming an idea in your mind, developing it into a strategy, and then a process that gets put into action is much like writing a music sheet for an orchestra and then composing it… watching each piece play its part and instead of getting a standing ovation…. you get motherfucking cash in the bank.
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