FAQ - How to Escape Mediocrity & Rise Above the Average
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Welcome reader! The more content we post on this website. The more it feels that the key concepts get lost. What is this one about? This is a reminder for you on how to escape the mediocrity and what it takes to run the laps around the average.
Money - Career, Side Business & Investing
1. What is the most important thing one can do to escape mediocrity? There is only one answer: start a business. It is the only way to escape it considering it will allow you to stop trading your time for money.
2. How do I start the business? The year is 2025, and everything you have imagined can be done from your bedroom. The same principle applies to launching a business. There is an 80% chance that your business idea in just a few hours with low to medium effort… All from your bedroom. How do you start the business? The first thing you should do after you settle on an idea is to test the demand. One fake checkout page or a few DMs asking you how to purchase your yet to be available product is all you need to know if you have a business idea. This is the most basic overview of launching your business while keeping your head above water with minimal risk involved.
3. What is the best business model? There is no best business model. This is the wrong approach to starting your business. Everyone’s answers will vary. Ask the SaaS founder what the best business model and ask the affiliate manager… You already know the answer. The "best business model" is a mediocre idea pushed by those trying to sell you a course. What you should do instead is ask yourself: what is my skill - knowledge that others would be willing to pay for? This will allow you to find the business model that provides the most leverage. The same principle applies to those with careers who can leverage that to start their business.
4. You mentioned evergreen online business models. What do you mean by that? Evergreen business models have existed since the beginning of the Internet and will continue to do so. Software, affiliate marketing, and e-commerce are the best examples.
5. What are your predictions for niches and industries that will blow up in the future? Your goal should never be to bet against the degeneracy. Our picks are social skills, eSports, pets, skincare, and gambling. Why? People have never been worse at socializing and communicating. eSports are less demanding and require less effort compared to traditional sports. What about pets? They are the new kids. What about skincare and gambling? One can’t go against the evergreen...
6. Should one prioritize profit above all else? One should always maximize the profit. But as long as you deliver the best work possible without causing harm. Why? This approach enables you to build something long-term and create a legacy that everyone talks about. It allows you to think three steps forward without being blinded by short-term gains and poor decisions. Those who focus on long-term games always win in the end.
7. Are professional careers still worth it? Without any doubt. Yes, they are worth it. One of the best things you could do for yourself as a young person is to get into a professional environment that provides a predictable cash flow. What do you mean by that? A predictable cash flow will allow you to think strategically and see the bigger picture. It gives you leverage by providing funding to start your own business. Going with a clear mission of why you are there and what it takes to win in the environment, such as that one, is something that not many can claim to have achieved. Clear mission + funding + understanding what it takes to win = success guaranteed.
8. Securing a job is rough in the current market. What is the easiest way to get a job? One of the goals should be to bypass HR as much as possible. This approach allows you to focus on impressing those who matter. Sending direct mail to the hiring manager or calling your future colleagues leaves an impact on people. It also enables you to go straight for referrals, which will do you better than any other qualification. This doesn’t mean you don’t have to have a good CV or background… You must. It just means you won’t be playing the game those around you play. Days of spamming CVs and hoping for a call are behind you. The key to securing a job is taking matters into your own hands and learning how to market your story and yourself. For those looking to get the full breakdown of how to get a job in 2025.
9. The most essential thing you will take away from your career? One important takeaway from your career and experience in the professional environment? There is the realization that you will always be underpaid. The second big one is realizing that social skills determine everything. It is not about being the best performer. It is about being the one who can sell the story the best. Impressing those who matter in the process. Similar to the interview and how you should approach interviews. Last but not least? You need a complete plan to get the most out of it.
10. Best career path? There are many. All of them share the same underlying core principles. Sales, tech, and marketing roles, etc... They are the ones driving revenue. Meaning that they are considered profit centers. As long as the role's primary function is to generate revenue instead of being a support one (cost center). Most profit roles will be related to sales, which is a big plus. Considering sales are the skill that has carry over to different areas of your life.
11. Thoughts about personal brands? We all operate in the attention economy, meaning it is not the best and most quality that wins. The one that gets in front of the most eyes wins. Not building a personal brand is straight-up dumb.
12. Best personal finance advice? Optimize for the long term and understand the risks associated with everything you do. The basic concept you should understand is having at least 3 to 6 months of savings. This will help you avoid short-term thinking and unnecessarily rushed decisions. These are the basics. Yet, most people around you can't even achieve that. Having savings and not worrying about fundamental things will make a big difference.
13. Must have investments? There is no right or wrong answer here. The must-have investments offset unnecessary risk but give you enough space to get something out. Your goal should be to find the perfect balance between risk and opportunity. An S&P 500 mixed with a crypto portfolio (BTC) is good. Giving you the best of both worlds. Minimal risk with something that will grow on the long horizon. As your portfolio grows so does your preference for risk and what you consider must-have changes…
14. I am at zero right now. What should I focus on to get rich?
Ensure you have 3 to 6 months of savings
Invest the rest of your money into your business
After you take care of the operation costs of your business, the rest of the funds should go into your investment portfolio (S&P500 and BTC)
Congrats. You have an unbeatable approach to building wealth. Understand how to get richer in 2025
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. - Alan Watts
Life & Lifestyle
1. Things you should never take for granted? Time and health. Both can’t be replaced once they are gone. You want to ensure you don't waste your time in life and do whatever is necessary to keep your health on top. Good diet, cardio, sleep, supplements and everything else that goes with it. They must be in your daily routine to ensure you have enough energy to achieve your dreams.
2. What common lifestyle traps do young people fall into? Debt, bad social circle, and trying to live a lifestyle to impress those around you. Debt should be self-explanatory. Debt = no freedom. Instantly losing one of the most powerful positions you can be in. Not to mention that most people get into it to buy materialistic things to impress others or fit the social norm. If you play the normie game, prepare yourself to get hurt. What about a bad social circle? The individuals you surround yourself with influence how you view the world. What happens when you surround yourself with pessimistic and lazy people? You box yourself into a position you won’t be able to get out of. You want to surround yourself with those who have a positive outlook on life and are willing to put in the work others are not. Winners surround themselves with other winners.
3. What skills should one focus on to improve one's life? Social skills, marketing and sales. The ultimate combination to get your foot in the door, help you start a business, meet people who will improve your life, and provide you with happiness. No matter how antisocial or introverted you are. You should have a well defined and clear plan for how to use yourself to work on those skills.
4. If you had to pick traits that differentiate winners from losers. What would you choose? There are two: high energy and stress tolerance. Both are necessary in all areas of life. Want to build a business? You need both. Want to stay in good shape? You need both. Want to go out and build a social circle? You need both.
5. How do you become someone with high energy and stress tolerance? You build this over time to a point where you don’t have much influence. To become someone with high energy means you have to be operating from within and in a way that your life is structured so that what you do gives you a sense of being in the right place at the right time. The stress tolerance you develop by working and delivering work over the top while being exposed to unknown situations regularly. Both come from something bigger that is hard to have a full on control over.
6. Trick that helps a lot with quality of life? Automate everything. This applies to your career, business, or investments and every aspect of your life. This is a perfect reason why it fits under the lifestyle section. All the things you are doing regularly and you can tell in advance that they will happen. It should be automated. Doing this will free up your cognitive space and save time. Knowing in advance that you will have something to do? You should do everything you can so you don’t have to use energy to think about it. It is one of those strategies that allows you to get more out of life by doing less.
7. Does life start to suck after the 30s, as everyone claims it does? It is a ridiculous take. We always find it funny to see this type of take posted online. The reality is quite the opposite. Life only improves after your 30s if you have navigated your 20s right. Most finally get rid of FOMO and start to do things only for themselves. One could argue that life only gets better if you have done your early life right. Getting more mature brings a certain enjoyment that you didn’t possess in your early life.
8. Hobbies seem like a waste of time. What is your take on them? Never fall for this psyop. You need hobbies, and you want them. Nothing is sadder than someone unable to talk about anything except their 9to5. Our advice would be to pick a hobby and become good at it. Eventually, you might even turn it into something bigger and start living out of it. How to pick a hobby? You can either focus on keeping your body active, sparking your creativity, or improving lifelong skills like sales. All of these would be good points to base your hobbies around.
9. Should one go to college? We would say yes if you know what you are getting into and your end goal. If you aim to get an easy internship or surround yourself with other winners-meaning you plan to attend a prestigious college. The answer is clear. Yes. If you are going to a C-tier college and accumulating ridiculous amounts of debt for it… The better option would be to skip it and focus on something else. Opportunities are endless, and everyone reading this should understand that.
10. What is one thing that will give you an advantage over the others but doesn’t get enough attention? Understanding what works for you and identifying your chronotype is crucial. The moment you start finding work easier is when you begin to realize whether you are an early bird or a night owl. This doesn’t get enough attention but could easily be done in less than a month with some effort. Highly recommended to dive deeper into this. You need to find the daily routine that works for you.
11. Common mistake young people make that holds them back? Spending too much time on things and people that don't deserve it in the first place. You overcome this as you grow older and respect your time more.
12. The best way to stay consistent with a well-defined goal? Keep the journal. It doesn’t matter how you use it or what method you have to keep yourself in line. What matters is that you find a routine. Something that will ensure you always do it. Going for the least friction as possible. Putting things on paper has a huge value and makes things become a reality much easier. If you think this is not true… You have a lot of work to do.
13. What does it take to become as efficient and above average in certain aspects of your life? Not much. This is a common misconception spread even more so now that we live in an age of AI where research has 50x the speed. All it takes is around 2 years of focused effort. This doesn’t mean you will become an expert after it. But you will be able to operate at a level that most can only dream of.
14. Does money improve life? It does, and there is no denying it. Not only does it improve your life, but it also improves the lives of those around you. Those who deny it are coping with it themselves. At the same time, it doesn’t mean it is the most important thing, but it plays a big role. Luckily, everything that has a huge impact on the quality of your life costs up to $2000.
15. The ultimate life advice? Start putting yourself and your work to as many eyes as possible. This applies to everything, from your career to meeting those who inspire you. That is how you build leverage and never have to worry about going broke. Make sure to wish everyone around you success. Be happy for their victories and genuinely look forward to their achievements. If you are putting in the necessary work and operating based on that… You will be rewarded, and the quality of your life will skyrocket.
16. Should one be frugal? No one should ever be frugal. Being frugal is a negative trait to possess. One that often leads you to a position where others start seeing through your attempts to save those $5. The only way to break free from the "poor mindset" is by making more money. This also brings us to the next point. The concept you should be implementing is buying the proper items that will last. Ones that never go out of style will always have a value associated with them. Watches, shoes, jackets, all the way to the tech stuff. Less is more. Learn to buy properly.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Health - Mental & Physical
1. Does woo-woo stuff make sense? It doesn’t until a certain point when it does. Usually, that point happens later in life when you get tired of superficial knowledge and wasting your time. Woo-woo and metalwork make huge sense but have been neglected by modern life and society's progress.
2. A powerful mental trick that has a huge impact on your life? No one is better than you. No one is smarter than you. No one can work as hard as you can. The only reason someone is better than you are at something is because they have been doing it for longer. Remind yourself of this often. You will turn your life around in a month.
3. What is the difference between those who get something from mental work and those who do not? This should be self-explanatory. You will only see the results of your mental work by constantly checking yourself and your internal belief system.
4. Where should you start with the mental models? The resource section is a good place to start. You can find the basic models that you could start implementing right away.
5. If someone struggles with self-doubt, lack of confidence, or anything else is holding them back when it comes to getting out there and expressing themselves. What should they do? If you are asking yourself why we are mentioning this here it is for one simple reason. A big part of the reason you may lack social skills or do not feel it is because it all comes from self-doubt. If you fit this category, what you should be doing is understanding more material around this or watching YouTube videos on how to motivate yourself… Won’t help. Once the problem is detected and it fits any of the above criteria. There is only one thing left to do. Start putting yourself out there and realize you may be your worst enemy.
6. Why have people never been more miserable, yet we have never had more chances? It is a simple answer. It mostly comes from the fact that you are always one click away from someone who has more. There is always a profile with a better car, watch, boat, or bag. The same holds for physical appearance and emotional ones. Look at that perfect body or amazing relationship they have. The reality is that there is always someone who has something better or being better than you at something. That will never change. What needs to change is that you must realize that comparing yourself with others... Won’t get you far. The moment you stop comparing yourself is when you start enjoying your life.
7. One non-negotiable that has a huge impact on your life? Cardio and weights can save you. 3 to 4 sessions per week are all you need to stay in great shape and feel your best. If you often find an excuse not to do it, get a treadmill for your home. Doing cardio will never feel easier.
8. Getting rid of the brain fog seems impossible. What is the trick around it? The fix could not be easier. Start by taking care of your diet and getting more steps in. It is all it takes and you will never feel you are without ideas.
9. When does life change drastically? The general answer is that it happens once you escape "survival mode". Those with a tougher upbringing will have a harder time getting out of it than those who had it easier. To explain our point further, if your parents always had to think about how they would put food on the table. There is a good chance that you were consistently operating in survival mode. On the other hand if you grew up in more comfortable surroundings where you went skiing once a year or always had a travel abroad… There is a good chance your parents didn’t operate fully in survival mode. To get back to our point. Once you get out of survival mode, you finally have time to think about the things you never considered before. This is where mental, mindset and other woo-woo stuff make sense. Why? Because you finally have time to think about them instead of worrying about whether you can pay the bills.
10. How does business impact your quality of life and mental health? What no one mentions about the online space is that running a successful business creates abundance. You lose the feeling of being dependent. There is no dependency on the location or employer. You experience a sense of freedom and a sea of unlimited opportunities. This is yet another reason why starting your own business is one of the best decisions you can make for your mental health and the quality of your life.
11. Is there a method to remind yourself what you should focus on daily that goes hand in hand with your big picture? The secret to remembering everything and being able to reference it quickly lies in creating a mental database. One that should be primarily based on the physical one. Once you start reading it daily and refrain from it. Something that should serve as a basic guideline for what you want out of life and what matters to you.
12. Something that doesn’t get enough attention, but it should when it comes to mental work? We are our own worst enemies. Most people know exactly what they need to do. Most know how to do what they want to do. Most know what results they could achieve in specific time frames. A big part of the mental game comes down to realizing that you are engaged in this nonsense and that it is a huge problem. Once you learn how to work around this problem and eliminate it from your life that is when the game will change and things will start to work in your favor. Another thing worth mentioning is that everything you think for yourself or say publicly becomes your reality. Be careful with your words… They could become true.
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Thanks for making this. Really neat read
"Everyone’s answers will vary. Ask the SaaS founder what the best business model and ask the affiliate manager…" Can you explain it, please?