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Do what you love but study psychology, marketing, and sales so you don’t become a starving artist.
A quick thread on breaking free:
Entrepreneurship is the natural step after self-improvement. You acquire a skillset and mindset so valuable to your life that you can’t help but share it with others. You solve your own problems, sell the solution that changed your life, and improve humanity as a result.
I see employment as a stepping stone.
Jobs are useful for skill acquisition, status, and opportunity.
But getting stuck in one is dangerous for your psyche which is wired to hunt. You become a monkey in a cubicle. It is against your nature.
Entrepreneurship is modern survival.
Set a goal.
Find a problem.
Learn how to solve it.
Document how you solved it.
Distill into a replicable process.
Give it to others that want to be helped.
Do it offline and it's called growth.
Do it online and it's called business.
If you can write, speak, market, and sell you no longer have to worry about the outcome of your life. All you must do is use those skills to create your path.
The easiest way to build an independent income source is to solve a problem in your life, document the solution, and use your personal experience to market it.
When you stop hiding what you have to offer and put yourself on the market, only then does your luck increase beyond 0%.
Marketing, sales, and persuasion are neutral until put in the hands of the mindful or mindless, authentic or corrupt, good or evil.
The most successful people are those who study unethical tactics and use them in an ethical way. Their work, life, and pursuit of lofty goals are the modalities for integrating their shadow.
The best marketing tactic is pure honesty.
Here's the first post if you want to read it again or share it.
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