Practice #79 - High School Lays Out The Foundation For Your Life

Expand your foundation.

Episode Transcript

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One amazing thing that happened to me is I actually worked on myself during high school.

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Crazy, right?
High school, I'm realizing now, literally lays out the entire foundation to your life.
Literally, think about this.
So you are right here, you're in high school, and you're going through the career world,
where you go through high school, go through college, and you kind of are living a narrow

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path.
But what you can do is you can actually start to work on yourself.
You can lift weights, read books, and especially reading books, literally expands your foundation.
Because think about this, when you're only going through high school, you're only getting

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the knowledge that they put into your mind, which basically is only the knowledge required
to live.
It's like the knowledge optimal to live how they want you to live, like go through society's
norms.
But if you actually start reading, then reading good, important books like The Millionaire

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Fastlane Unscripted, Four Hour Workweek, Expert Secrets, Dotcom Secrets, Reality Transurfing,
literally any book that goes against the norms, well, look what you do.
Your foundation just from school education is like this.

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But once you start reading, it starts to expand, and you actually build a much greater foundation.
And look at this.
You can only go up from your foundation, right?
You build a house, you can only build up from that foundation of the house.
So if you have a larger foundation, let's say your foundation has expanded all the way

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over here, where everyone else is right here.
That means that you know that you can do some things over here.
Like I didn't realize that I could actually not go to college until I expanded my foundation
just outside of the high school, like education, like knowledge base.

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And I did that through reading Unscripted by MJ DeMarco.
So your foundation is like this, just from a high school education.
But if you educate yourself and read the right type of books, you start to expand it, and
then eventually you can literally just leave.
You don't have to do that crappy whatever this career path that they want you to do,

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where you work for the rest of your life and work for somebody else that is terrible, and
you don't get any return on investment, other than a couple thousand dollars a year.
Like that's terrible.
Now you're over here.
Look at this.
Right here.
This is where the money's made.
Like this is where you're working for yourself.

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Over here is where there's a boss.
People don't know, but there's actually a hidden figure right here that is puppeteering
you, and then it actually has tentacles sucking your life force out of you, and then it takes
all the money.
So it pays you just barely.

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But over here, you can become that boss.
Now you can choose if you want to suck the life out of other people or not, but that's
a different story, a different topic for another day that I haven't learned about yet.
I personally don't think it's right to suck people's life force, but now you've literally

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built your own life, or at least now you can start to build your own life.
But that's where I'm at right now.
It takes time.
It takes courage to even move away, but before you can even have the courage, you have to
actually know that you can move away, that this is an option.
And then once you do that, you're down here.

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Like right now I'm down here.
But in order to get up here, where you actually start making money, the difference this region
is just a skill gap.
It's really just skill.
So people think that it's chance or luck in order to get up to here where people are making

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money, but no, it's just a matter of skill.
And you can build that skill.
Literally, you just have to figure out what does this person have that I don't, and then
you work on that.
And then eventually you start to get up and then boom, you made it.
That's all there.
That's my theory.

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I haven't proved it yet, but I have proved the fact that you can move away.
And I have proved the fact that knowledge can open you up to other sources.
So right now I say I'm around here.
I have a little bit more knowledge and experience and skill than I did when I first started on
the ground, but I have not made money yet.

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So that is something that's very interesting.
And high school basically lays out the foundation for your life.
So you want to actually take advantage of your time in high school and start to expand
your foundation so you can see many different opportunities.

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Because when I was first starting to expand, like when I was right here after a couple
months of reading, I started working on things, like going up a little bit, but then I realized
that was kind of stupid.
And then I expanded a little bit more and I started working on another thing over here
that is kind of bad.
So then I eventually found my thing that I've been working on for like eight months.

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Build your foundation in high school.