This is like when we talk about these these perspectives that we have that are false that we think are true like this is this is what I thought reality was and it was false and I tried to I couldn't even fathom the goal because literally how I thought I was achieved was wrong you don't make a billion dollars you worth a billion dollars that's how you know

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I made this tweet that was just like how to stay poor right because I'm a big Charlie Munger guy right because everyone's like I was talking about how to get rich I was like let me say how to get poor like no one's ever told you how to get for outside of the state board right

and so I made a tweet and it like blew up and so then the next day I made another tweet on how to stay poor and then it blew up again and then I made another tweet and so like 28 days in a row I just tweeted another way to stay poor and it had become this big thing and we made a video on YouTube and I just consolidated on 28 and so they're surprisingly simple and the reason I talk about them in the anti is that Charlie Munger talks about inversion thinking and so when we try and solve problems it's actually easier to solve them in reverse

and especially when it comes to like making money and things like that because we are naturally programmed to look out for threats and so it's so much easier for us to find problems and things that is like why is this much harder to be grateful than it is to find problems so easy to find problems but you can you can trick your mind into using that naturally ingrained mechanism but to make you prosper but you just trick it by saying I want you to tell me how to stay poor you're like hey brain tell me how to destroy my business

and you think about every way that you could destroy your business and if you really want to add a little juice to you say how can I destroy my business in as few decisions as possible

and then you reverse those decisions and you say these are the strategic anchors that fuel our business right like if I had an email marketing business like the first thing I would do is stop sending emails

right this first thing I would do the second thing I would do is probably treat my entire team like crap and if I didn't incentivize them to do things that would be against the benefit of the business

right so it's like you think through those few moves that would have the biggest swing on destroying your business and those become the anchors for your strategy

right so from a personal perspective you can think about the same way in terms of like rather than saying like I want to get rich how do I get rich

it's like how do I stay poor and then avoid that and then by default become rich

do the opposite yes so number one is how to stay poor start tomorrow whatever it is

that's a good one just start tomorrow whatever even if yeah just wait yeah fine no number one number two read books do nothing

so just keep reading keep consuming take no action it's the best way to just stay poor right because that one's a good one because it makes you feel like you're making progress

you're still poor because you didn't do anything next one take advice from poor people on how to get rich

right best best people to talk to right and all your friends report you should totally listen to them on how to get rich because they've never achieved it so you should listen to that

it's a great way to stay poor they have no idea right don't listen so and obviously with each of these you can take the equal opposite

and so instead of starting tomorrow start today instead of reading books and doing nothing read the books and then take immediate action

instead of taking advice from poor people on how to get rich take advice from rich people on how to get rich

and number four how to stay poor pick a spouse who makes you feel guilty about working oh man that's the worst

yeah have the number one person in your in your who who literally influences you more than anyone else make you feel terrible about the thing that's going to help you achieve your goal

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