If you're not choosing what you want to do and who you want to be in life,

someone else is going to do the choosing for you.

I was a financial pundit for many years.

I would talk about what my feelings were on the economy and so on.

To build trust and transparency, you have to be vulnerable. Once I started being more vulnerable,

oh these times I went broke, these times I was suicidal, and then people

say, oh, what you see is what you get, so I trust what he's saying.

Vonerability is a way of trading some aspect of your privacy for freedom.

Being free allows you to be yourself.

College is so distorted in its incentives, that's increasing income inequality. The government will ruin your life if you try to stop paying your student loans.

Drop out of college.

The price of college has gone up 10 times faster than inflation

over the past four years.

It doesn't make economic sense. So you can learn

classroom skills in the classroom. You only learn the skills of what you love

doing what you love. Saying no is so valuable for carving out freedom in your life.

I started kind of practicing saying no in uncomfortable situations to things I normally would say yes at

and I realized I was getting so much more productive in my life.

So I just want to do my agenda, not someone else's agenda that I strongly feel doesn't 100% align with mine.

It's a very important role for me.

Never take time from the things you love

to do more of the things you hate.

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