Die for your dreams.

There is this quote from Naval’s book or podcast which I vaguely remember but it goes “There were a million years before us and there will be a million years after us“

Time is endless, when we compare our lifetime to the existence of time, it is negligible. Our entire life is 1/millionth which is like 0.0000001? something like that. how tiny?

In this life, in this span .. you are going to be put into a lot of systems to put up with. Such as school, college, 9-5, Financial stability and yeah. other things

Some of these are non negotiable, you gotta go to school and you gotta find your own ways to make money and be stable.

but there are certain systems , which we can get ourselves out of.

one such classic example is probably a job you don’t love.

You see most of you do this anyway cuz that doesn’t break the made up system of stable life and societal influence.

Yes a stable job you don’t love gets you money and that powers everything around your life so you don’t look silly to the society.

Why do you want to play such a safe game? Would you actually find a cricket game where the chasers have to score 100 runs in a ODI match interesting?

Don’t you wanna live? Don’t you wanna die for something you love so bad?

Dream big, the constraints for it is should be all of your time and life.

Something has to drive you everyday, you wake up knowing what you should do today, you cant be productive everyday but everyday can become productive if you are in the zone. Thinking, making small moves, taking notes, planning for the ultimate dream of yours and fun fact you wont be actually forcing this out of you when you are pursuing something you love.

Find happiness in doing things that makes you progress towards a better future.

all these compound like the e^x graph. It is surely gonna be boring at the beginning. you are likely to see no results for a significant period of time but in reality you would be a little closer to the person who you would want to be.

I saw a brilliant post , which said that “Growth requires inefficient effort“

The days you put in work with no results are ultimately what build you and would make you an expert.

In my humble opinion there are 3 currencies in life,

Time, Energy and Money.

Time is tricky you have a lot with you but it gets spent no matter what and its gonna end someday.

Energy is strategy, you make efforts to gain it and you spend it.
The more you spend it on non-productive stuffs, the more you waste everyday.

Money is the ultimate currency which would help you be whoever and get whatever you need in life. Basically the ultimate goal

you see, personally i think you should think in terms of trading these currencies for progressive outcomes to make good decisions in life.

Watching content all day is a ridiculous deal of wasting energy and time for almost 0 progress.

Building a prototype for the silly idea is a great deal of putting in energy time and money for resources for great knowledge and experience in the process.
Incredibly progressive.

Working 40+ hours for a job you don’t like.
Bad trade - Energy and Time traded for money.
Two coins out - One coin in.
(Even worse if you are not getting paid well)

Learning something new? great deal. Progress.

By the way, don’t be silly.

Rewatching that beautiful show again and the hobby that you simply love to do are great deals. because you build your energy and you spend the time on something thats worth it.

Be smart. Be aware.

Start thinking from this perspective and see yourself make incredibly good trades, inevitably building your future.

Everyone things they have a lot of time, how much time you can actually spend in a week the way you want it?
Deduct the inevitable sleep hours (7x5) and your 40hrs a week job. thats almost 2/3 gone

in the rest 1/3, you are 90% likely to rest and recover and thats needed.
When you are in a system like this its hard to learn new skills, its hard to make room for new habits.

It is not that the most people’s life stay the same, its simply that they chose to. Forget about changing things, some people are not even aware of whats going on.

Even if someone randomly decides to change trajectory, there are certain category of people and families who cant afford a month without a paycheck. (Indian lower middle class).

a lot of us are forced to do this, its rigid as a rock.

It takes enormous amount of courage, confidence and clarity to take such risks as a person from this category.

What a painful and ugly system.

Equation of money

Coming back to the trades, you saw how much of a bad trade a bad 9-5 is when it comes to self progress? people who quit the job for a business today do not do that to earn more money.

They simply want to manage the time and energy to find their equation of money making.

People call them an Entrepreneur or a business man.

To prove this, imagine you provide a service with your skills to people out there who believe that its of great value and pay you for it.

you make a living simply doing what you love.

Sounds incredible right? same money but in a beautiful way.

but the thing is you gotta create it, it can be a business, agency or freelancing.

you gotta build that while working or quit the job to ruthlessly create the system you want so it makes money effortlessly and remember good things take time.

in a nutshell,

Find a way to provide value to the world by using the skills you are good at , money follows.

False goals - infinite loop

False goals speed run people’s entire life. Letting materialistic desires drive you is the worst thing you can get yourself into

In india you would see a food delivery guy on a KTM. He probably did that to show off or to pick his girl up in style.

Hopefully he got what he want, now he has to work so hard to pay it off the loan.

A lot of people wait for appraisals in corporate jobs and put in extra effort only to be offered the bare minimum at best. Assuming they do, from a bigger perspective that is just another bait to bite which is gracefully taken.

Uncles work way beyond retirement to buy another home in “soon to be developed“ area.

They would be 65 years old , looking straight in your eyes and tell ya “ In 10 years it would be worth X“

The urge to ask “But , would you be there to live in it?“

I don’t even wanna talk about people who accept a mortgage of 30 years for a new home with a volatile job and no backup.

I call these false goals because once achieved, these people still wont feel complete. Most likely to start another chase for more of the same.

Risks

What risk are you talking about? are you gonna starve? are you gonna die? society might judge you? what the hell are you talking about.

Let me put this to you very cleanly, all the definitions of “bad“ are inside your head.

Failing isn’t bad, not trying is worse.

Embarrassment isn’t bad, not exploring is worse.

Disappointing people isn’t bad, Disappointing yourself is worse.

Being ambitious and not putting in the work is sinful.

if you have a way for food and shelter, consider you are one of gods favorite.

there is nothing to lose, everything to gain.

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Don’t play the status game, Don’t play the safe game. Don’t try to impress useless people nor listen to their opinions, Have beautiful dreams, Spend 2-3 years ruthlessly building the money equation that works for you, delegate heavy workloads to AI, Be creative, learn new things and just keep going man.

You are completely capable of building the exact life you want. Be courageous.

“The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!”

-Friedrich Nietzsche’s

Life is very much good smooth, life should not be uncertain. A rational person would think such way.

but me, personally.. great people were irrational, went against odds and incredibly delusional.

Elon Musk has all the money in the world, why does he work so hard still?

why does he want to build a 1000 miles long rocket base tryna extend humanity outside earth. why? WHY? think.

He planned to spend several billions into this, probably the rest of his life , all that energy and sleepless nights to come for this mission

He could fail , the odds are against him, science is ruthless BUT WHAT IF HE WINS?

Fuck comfort, i wanna die for my dreams.