Reduce all expenses as much as possible. I mean it. For this reason, you need to do your craziest stuff NOW. Those you surround yourself with create a kind of “bubble” that pushes you to support the status quo. You will become more conservative over time. This is just a fact. Continuously attempt to be cooler than them (by doing cooler things, being more laid back, accepting, ambitious, etc.).”ĩ. This and the corollary are both important: “don’t attempt to be average inside your group. Find people that are cooler than you and hang out with them too.
Also they know almost everything you will learn later, so ask them.Ĩ. The reason this is so valuable is because people your age don’t usually have the decision-making ability to help you very much. My friend Greg, at the age of 13, met his first future employer sitting next to him on a plane. Have as much contact as possible with older people. Personally, I met people at Podcamps. If you feel weird about something during a relationship, that’s usually what you end up breaking up over.ħ. Don’t waste time being shy. Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true.Ħ. Learn to find something you like in each person, and then speak to that thing.ĥ. Connect with everyone, all the time. Be genuine about it. If he reads 2-3 books a week, you can read one.Ĥ. Emerson Spartz taught me this while I was at a Summit Series event. Read as much as you can. Learn to speed read with high retention. You both learn and get respect from people worth getting it from by leading and doing, not by following.ģ. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. By the time they build the curriculum, it’s likely that the system is outdated– sometimes utterly broken. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness.Ģ. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead.