Low overhead = low stress
Low overhead also = more optionality for you to take risks.
Month: October 2022
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Why Capitalism Works
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.” –Adam Smith
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Live, For I am Coming
Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says, “I am coming.” –Virgil
This is one of my favorite quotes. Live your life to the fullest. It will go by in a flash and soon you will be gone. Yes, that is morbid. But it is also true. The sooner you realize that the sooner you will live every moment to its fullest.
Six Feet Under is a great show to watch to realize this. It covers the lifetimes of a bunch of characters that you get close to.
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Your Life Depends On It
When you want to do something big in life, like start a business or a new career, act like your life depends on being successful. Don’t think of your goal as something that would be “nice to have one day if I am lucky.” It has to become your life’s mission, and something you live or die by.
If you approach your goals with this level of seriousness, you can’t lose. The people who do great things in life do so without this deadly serious mentality. Because if you take this mentality, you can’t lose.
Attack what you want to do with everything you’ve got. Most people don’t understand what it is to really go for something.
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You are the Hero of Your Own Movie
As you live your life, imagine that you are the hero of your own movie. Pretend that a documentary film crew is following you around every minute of the day. If that were true, what would you be doing right now? Getting it done, or slouching on the couch? If you were a fly on the wall of your hero, what would that person be doing? Get after it!
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Do the Work
Be a professional in everything you do. Show up and do the work. It doesn’t matter how you feel, if you do or don’t feel like doing it. Do it anyway. It doesn’t matter if your performance sucked yesterday. Or blew the roof off yesterday. Show up and get it done. Day after day, week after week, year after year. This is what a pro does, and what you have to do if you want to be world class.
Good advice from Joe Rogan. Some other advice from him:
It is much easier to take risks when you are young, before you have a ton of responsibilities piled on. If you have dreams, go for it. Don’t get stuck doing what everyone else is doing (like getting a job just for the sake of getting a job). You have to take a path that is risky and dangerous. Most people want to take the safe path.
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Who do you want to be?
A good question to ask yourself, especially when you are young, is who do you look up to and want to be like when you get older? Ideally you have at least a few people who can be good role models for you. It’s even better if you know these people personally and meet with them on a regular basis.
Once you have your short list of who you want to be like, the key then is to “act as if.” Ask yourself how this person would act in a given situation? What would she do with her free time? How would she treat other people? What kind of education would she receive? How would she dress? How disciplined and committed is she? You can model every aspect of your life around what this person or group of people would do.
And the interesting thing is time passes quickly and before you know it you are a peer among this group that you looked up to. It is a self-fulfilling prophesy. In the beginning you are aspiring to be like her and “acting” the part. In the end, you become that person.