Building mindset is the crucial first step in this journey and a habit that must continue every day. It provides the foundation of pushing through when you feel like giving up.
How we think determines what we do, what we do determines where we end up. Simple enough, isn't it?
Here's a few short points on how to think about the upside of making yourself into an asset, and the mental barriers it'll be necessary to smash through consistently.
It?s on you to create an asset that?s going to look after you and your family over the long-term. It?s going to be uncomfortable, it's going to be competitive, it's also going to be worth it.
The potential downside of building a decentralized network of people that value what you do is low. The upside is huge.
Building your reputation on the internet is an asymmetric bet.
Embrace the risk that comes with trading under your own name. Put skin in the game and you will force yourself to get better. Engage in this pursuit with honesty and integrity and you will learn a great deal about yourself, the world, and other people.
You have nothing to offer until you get started. In the words of Naval Ravikant, "Learn to sell, learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."
You will experience failure.
You will experience embarrassment.
You will experience growth.
Most people are more reluctant to rely on a network of 4.5 billion people for their entire future than on one employer at a time. That's nuts.
You don't need permission from anyone but yourself.
I didn't need permission from anyone to sell you this product, I just posted thousands and thousands of times until you believed I had something of value to offer you.
And now, here you are. (And I appreciate you.)
So, understand that this is simply a game of iteration. The sooner you put yourself out there, the sooner you'll get the feedback you need to grow.
