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<p>![[Naval-Ep4.mp3]]</p>
<p>Become the kind of person who makes money</p>
<p>Making money isn’t about luck</p>
<p>
<strong>Naval:</strong> Obviously, we want to be wealthy, and we want to
get there in this lifetime without having to rely on luck.
</p>
<p>
A lot of people think making money is about luck. It’s not. It’s about
becoming the kind of person that makes money.
</p>
<p>
I like to think that if I lost all my money and if you drop me on a random
street in any English-speaking country, within 5, 10 years I’d be wealthy
again. Because it’s a skill set that I’ve developed and I think anyone can
develop.
</p>
<p>
In 1,000 parallel universes, you want to be wealthy in 999 of them. You
don’t want to be wealthy in the 50 of them where you got lucky. We want to
factor luck out of it.
</p>
<p>
There’s four kinds of luck that we’re talking about. This came from a
book. Marc Andreessen, wrote a
<a href="https://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur.html"
>blog post</a
>
about it.
</p>
<p><strong>1. Blind luck</strong></p>
<p>
The first kind of luck you might say is blind luck. Where I just got lucky
because something completely out of my control happened. That’s fortune,
that’s fate.
</p>
<p><strong>2. Luck from hustling</strong></p>
<p>
Then there’s luck that comes through persistence, hard work, hustle,
motion. Which is when you’re running around creating lots of
opportunities, you’re generating a lot of energy, you’re doing a lot of
things, lots of things will get stirred up in the dust.
</p>
<p>
It’s almost like mixing a petri dish and seeing what combines. Or mixing a
bunch of reagents and seeing what combines. You’re generating enough force
and hustle and energy that luck will find you.
</p>
<p>
We, as a group, you could argue, got together because of that.
<a href="https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCmvhCWvHk3-SJqljh5cCm8A">Nenad</a>
had put up these great videos online, I saw them on Twitter. In that
sense, he generated his own luck by creating videos until people like me
keep finding him.
</p>
<p><strong>3. Luck from preparation</strong></p>
<p>
A third way is that you become very good at spotting luck. If you are very
skilled in a field, you will notice when a lucky break happens in that
field. When other people who aren’t attuned to it won’t notice. So you
become sensitive to luck and that’s through skill and knowledge and work.
</p>
<p><strong>4. Luck from your unique character</strong></p>
<p>
Then the last kind of luck is the weirdest, hardest kind. But that’s what
we want to talk about. Which is where you build a unique character, a
unique brand, a unique mindset, where then luck finds you.
</p>
<p>
For example, let’s say that you’re the best person in the world at deep
sea underwater diving. You’re known to take on deep sea underwater dives
that nobody else will even attempt to dare.
</p>
<p>
Then, by sheer luck, somebody finds a sunken treasure ship off the coast.
They can’t get it. Well, their luck just became your luck, because they’re
going to come to you to get that treasure. You’re going to get paid for
it.
</p>
<p>
Now, that’s an extreme example. The person who got lucky by finding the
treasure chest, that was blind luck. But them coming to you and asking you
to extract it and having to give you half, that’s not luck.
</p>
<p>
You created your own luck. You put yourself in a position to be able to
capitalize on that luck. Or to attract that luck when nobody else has
created that opportunity for themselves. When we talk about “without
getting lucky,” we want to be deterministic, we don’t want to leave it to
chance.
</p>
<p>
<strong
>In 1,000 parallel universes, you want to be wealthy in 999 of
them</strong
>
</p>
<p>
<strong>Nivi:</strong> Do you want to elaborate a little bit more on the
idea that in a 1,000 parallel universes you want to get rich in 999 of
them? I think some people are going to see that and say, “that sounds
impossible, it sounds like it’s too good to be true.”
</p>
<p>
<strong>Naval:</strong> No, I don’t think it’s impossible. I think that
you may have to work a little bit harder at it given your starting
circumstances. I started as a poor kid in India, so if I can make it,
anybody can, in that sense.
</p>
<p>
Now, obviously, I had all my limbs and I had my mental faculties and I did
have an education. There are some prerequisites you can’t get past. But if
you’re listening to this video or podcast, you probably have the requisite
means at your disposal, which is a functioning body and a functioning
mind.
</p>
<p>
And I’ve encountered plenty of bad luck along the way. The first little
fortune that I made, I instantly lost in the stock market. The second
little fortune that I made, or I should have made, I basically got cheated
by my business partners. It’s only the third time around has been a charm.
</p>
<p>
And, even then, it has been in a slow and steady struggle. I haven’t made
money in my life in one giant payout. It’s always been a whole bunch of
small things piling up. It’s more about consistently creating wealth by
creating businesses, including opportunities and creating investments. It
hasn’t been a giant one-off thing.
</p>
<p><strong>Wealth stacks up one chip at a time, not all at once</strong></p>
<p>
My personal wealth has not been generated by one big year. It stacks up
little bit, chips at a time. More options, more businesses, more
investments, more things that I can do.
</p>
<p>
Same way that someone like Nenad, illacertus, he’s building his brand
online. He’s building videos. It’s not like any one video is going to
suddenly shower him with riches overnight. It’s going to be a long
lifetime of learning, of reading, of creating that’s going to compound.
</p>
<p>
We’re talking about getting wealthy so you can retire, so you have your
freedom. Not retire in the sense that you don’t do anything. But in the
sense that you don’t have to be any place you don’t want to be, you don’t
have to do anything you don’t want to do, you can wake up when you want,
you can sleep when you want, you don’t have a boss. That’s freedom.
</p>
<p>
We’re talking about enough wealth to get to freedom. Especially thanks to
the Internet these days, though, opportunities are massively abundant. I,
in fact, have too many ways to make money, I don’t have enough time. I
have opportunities pouring out of my ears and the thing I keep running out
of is time.
</p>
<p>
There’s just so many ways to create wealth, to create products, to create
businesses, to create opportunities, and to, as a byproduct, get paid by
society that I can’t even handle it all.
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