The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

If I say, “write down ten ideas for books you can write,” I bet you can easily write down four or five. I can write down four or five right now. But at six it starts to get hard. “Hmmm,” you think, “what else can I come up with?” This is when the brain is sweating. It’s like when you exercise in the gym and your muscles don’t start to build until y

your brain is going to spend a lot of time figuring where you are in the hierarchy. Then it’s going to govern your behavior, often without your conscious permission, based on where it concludes you belong. The only way a mammal can choose itself is by fighting a mammal above it in the hierarchy and winning, even if this means maiming or killing. So

We spend years building a garden. We plant the seeds. We tend the soil. We water the plants. But we are also the sun. The sun shines no matter what. It doesn’t care which flower blossoms. The sun is always there providing value every second of the day. Be the sun and you will create abundance.

ideas are the most valuable currency of our time. Nothing else.

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility. Let me tell you—there is no such thing as credibility. In one hundred years there will be no buildings named after any of us. Somebody has to be on stage and some people have to be in the audienc

Try the following exercise: Come up with ten ideas you can write newsletters about. They don’t have to be in the above three categories.

The old way of doing things is to not try. To think that the best course of action is to climb the corporate ladder and hope, hope, and hope that the ladder is not crooked or broken or that there isn’t someone at the top that’s about to throw the ladder off the building. The new way of doing things, the red pill, is to jump into the abyss. To try a

I think we’re meant to often feel lonely and scared. It allows us to recalibrate where we are and ask the important question, is this what I’m supposed to be doing right now? When I am filled with fear is exactly the time when I want my idea muscle humming, when I must write those ten ideas a day down and become an Idea Machine.

We don’t write about the things we know. We write about the things that are deep down challenges for us right now.