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So look little buddy. If you have any

ambition to become successful or you're

already successful, I beg you, please

give me 10 minutes to watch this video

because I am going to save you decades

of depression, decades of problems.

Look, one of the best ways to [ __ ] up

your life is to become rich. I can tell

you this because I've built a net worth

north of $200 million and I've

interacted with countless men who've

made seven figures, eight figures, nine

figures, even a couple of made 10

figures, billionaires. And I've watched

all sorts of chaos arise from the

chronic unhappiness that comes from

making money. and all these silly,

goofy, weird problems that appear once

you make money. And the problem is when

most men make money, they make money for

a certain reason and it leaves them in a

dark, soulless place that makes them

much worse off than when they were poor.

And then on top of this, there's all

these problems that pop up that if

you're not looking for, they come and

then they cling on to you like a

parasite that you can't get rid of. And

so what ends up happening is you end up

more depressed than you were before,

unhappy, but then you have all these

problems that are also going to stress

you out and drain you. And this is

guaranteed going to happen to you. And

if you're already successful, this might

already be happening to you. There's

going to be points where you're looking

back and you're going to be thinking,

"Oh, wow. Maybe I was more happy when I

was poor. Maybe money is the source of

unhappiness." This isn't true. It's not

understanding why you're making money

and the emotions and why you're feeling

a certain way after you make money. And

it's also just not seeing these problems

coming that most men run into. Money is

not going to make you extremely happy.

It's also not going to make you

incredibly depressed. What's going to

make you incredibly depressed once you

make money, is lack of understanding of

all the things that come with making

money and what the money is going to do

to you. And for example, when I was in

my college years, I never went to

college, but I got out of the military

broke as [ __ ] and partied in college

towns. And I would look back and say,

"Wow, I was much happier at that point

in my life." Maybe the secret to being

happy is just being broke. That that's

not the truth. The secret is

understanding what life is all about.

And if you don't understand this, you're

going to end up more miserable. And in

many cases, this is going to drive you

to all sorts of problems that will send

you back to being broke. And there's

only one thing worse than being broke.

It's being broke after being rich and

still having to deal with all the

problems that came from when you were

rich in the deep shame of being a

[ __ ] So please, I beg you, give me 10

minutes. This is going to save your

life. If you're trying to become

successful right now, or if you're

already successful and you're starting

to go down this little spiral that a lot

of men go down, this is going to fix

everything because not only am I rich as

[ __ ] right now, I'm also pretty damn

happy all the time, or at least

consistently good. I'm not sitting

around moping and I don't sit around

looking for purpose and drive in my life

and wondering why I'm not happy after

making oodles of big bags of bucks. So,

let's discuss these things. And by

things, there's actually five things you

have to look out for. If you get these

all done, you nail these all out, you're

going to be good no matter what. and

you're not going to [ __ ] up your life

when you make some money. So now let's

discuss. So there's five ways like I

just said that's going to mess up your

life. And a lot of these come from lack

of identity and ego which I cannot

spell. So I'm just going to draw this

this hoopla up here. It actually all

comes down mostly to lack of identity

and blah blah and misunderstanding why

you're making money in the first place.

So let's talk about problem number one.

And this is what I like to call the end

of Zelda concept, beating the game

concept. So, if you want to know what

making money is like, making tons of

money is like, if you don't understand

why you're making money, and why you're

building businesses in the first place,

it's like this. If you ever played a

video game, which I assume you have cuz

you're a giant dork watching this

channel who's 5'2 with a neck beard,

that's exclusively what my audience is.

What making a lot of money is like

originally, if you don't understand why

you're making the money or why you're

building businesses, is it's like

beating a video game. So, I learned this

one time when I was playing Zelda:

Breath of the Wild, and it was so much

fun. I got like 100 hours in the game.

It was super duper fun. I got all the

things. It was super enjoyable. And then

I got 100 hours in. I beat everything. I

got the motorcycle. I had all the

weapons and everything. And then I just

drove around the planes in Breath of the

Wild aimlessly, really bored with

nothing to do. It was just like, okay,

this world that was suddenly so happy

and full of life and and and ventureful

to me is now boring. I have no purpose.

And I kept driving around wanting to

refine that purpose and refine that

reason for playing the game. And I

didn't. But I still drove around and did

aimless [ __ ] for like an hour or two

hoping it would come back. And

eventually I was just like, "Well, it's

all gone now." And so there's no purpose

to this game. There's no purpose to

anything I could do in this game. And

then I turned it off. This is the

experience you're going to have with

making money and business. Because the

reason why people make money is they

think they're going to s find some

fulfillment. And it's just like the

[ __ ] Zelda game. It's so much fun.

You're getting excited from all these

numbers and suddenly at one point you're

making enough money that you no longer

get excited about the money that you're

making. So, for example, when I had my

first $1,000 day way back when or my

first $50,000 a month, it was euphoria.

Now, I don't even feel anything if I

make under $50,000 a day. In fact, if I

don't make a couple million in a week, I

don't really like even it doesn't even

register with me. Now, that might sound

spoiled and greedy and all sorts of

stuff like that, but you're going to

understand it here in a second. It's

just because what happens, just like in

a video game, is once you achieve

certain goals, they no longer are going

to give you huge euphoric boost. more so

if your goal and the reason for making

money is simply making the money. Once

you make the money, guess what? It's

going to be just like that Zelda analogy

I gave you. Okay? It's going to be just

like that. You're going to have so much

fun going towards this goal, which is at

one point the money, and then you're

going to get to the point where you have

the money, and you're going to be like,

"Well, I guess the next goal is to make

more money." And then you'll go make

more money. And then it's like, "Okay,

well then the next goal is to make more

money." And eventually you're going to

get to the point where you're like,

"What's the [ __ ] point of all this? I

can buy everything I want." and then

suddenly you're driving around the

planes on your little motorcycle in

Zelda wondering why the [ __ ] you're even

doing this and you're just considering

like turning off the game. I'm not

saying commit suicide or something like

that. I'm just saying you're going to be

super bored and that really fun sense of

fulfillment that you had the entire way

through is going to be gone and now this

is the thing that's actually making you

happy, not the actual goal. Getting the

motorcycle and the master sword in Zelda

is not where the happiness comes from.

It's pursuing getting those things.

Also, in this video we're talking a lot

about what happens when you make the

money. But if you want to actually get

into the making of the money parts, I

have a sweet mastermind. I want I'm just

kidding. I don't have anything to sell

you. What I will give you is all the

courses and everything I used to make.

It's about $20,000 worth of courses. I

no longer sell them because it's way

more profitable for me to just build

businesses and tech companies. But I

will give them to you for free if you

subscribe and then once a month in my

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You have to be subscribed or you won't

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why not? The first thing you need to do

when it comes to making money is yes,

make your goal, paying your rent, and

getting your life needs covered, paying

for your family, all that stuff, being

able to live without stress. But

secondly, you need to understand that

all your happiness is going to come from

playing the game. So, you might as well

focus on playing the game. You'll notice

that people that actually don't make

much money from their businesses, but

they're growing their business a lot.

For example, you've probably seen a lot

of tech founders, they take no profits

from their company or they live pretty

frugally or they pay themselves very

little. For example, like I have a

friend whose company's worth a billion

dollars, but he pays himself a million,

$2 million per year. He could easily

cash flow the [ __ ] and pay

himself like $50 million per year if he

wanted to. And yes, he makes all of his

money from his stock. But the reason why

he's having so much fun he's fulfilled

is because he likes building the bigger

thing. He's enjoying playing the game.

If you're playing the game for money,

eventually you're going to get the money

and then you're not going to enjoy the

game. So, understand that first. The

Zelda analogy is everything. This is why

people can play online multiplayer games

because it's an infinite game. So, seek

businesses that you once you have enough

money, seek businesses you really enjoy

working on, the path you enjoy and

create infinite games out of the

business that you can play forever and

you enjoy playing because of ultimately

the business is just a game there to

entertain you. you're going to get to

the point where the financial needs are

covered and making more and more money

is not really going to trigger some

sense of fulfillment and you're going to

be stuck playing games that you don't

actually like to play or reach a goal

that you don't really enjoy or get any

long-term value from just like those

goals in Zelda that I mentioned. Now,

tying into this, this is 1.5 before I

move to the next one. You're going to

start pursuing replacement highs. And

this is where a lot of danger comes from

with young men. What they do is because

they don't obsess over the game, they

don't get fulfillment from the game

itself. They get fulfillment from the

money or that's where they think they're

supposed to be getting fulfillment from.

When they stop getting fulfillment for

the money, they start trying to use the

money to gain fulfillment. So, this is

why you see people buying cars and fancy

things because they think they're going

to get some type of fulfillment from

these objects. They start partying. They

start trying to increase their social

value. all these things because they're

no longer getting enjoyment from playing

Zelda. So, it's be like imagine you were

stuck in Zelda. You got all the things

and then suddenly you had like nothing

to do in the game. So, suddenly you

start like killing all the towns in the

game and lighting stuff on fire and like

making Link jump off buildings and doing

all sorts of [ __ ] up weird [ __ ] to

like try and get some new life out of

the game. This is the same thing other

people are doing. And so one thing you

need to look for once you make some

money is when you start getting bored

and you start trying to replace the game

that you were enjoying so much with

dopamine driven highs. Now look, I have

a nice car mostly to get attention on

this YouTube channel. But don't get me

wrong, I enjoy spending money. I enjoy

nice things. I enjoy living in a big

house and so on and so forth. I deeply

understand at this point in my life that

none of this is going to make me happy.

I've lived at one point when I was

building my business, still making good

money in a empty apartment with just a

bed, a desk, and a computer. And I was

very happy. So, I ultimately know that

nothing that I buy or do is going to

bring me any type of success or joy. And

it's okay to do nice things and have

nice things as long as you understand

that. It's all pointless. Like, you're

not going to get the car and be good.

It's just not how it works. It's not

like I buy a Lamborghini and suddenly

life seems happier and brighter. No,

it's going to be the opposite if you're

trying to find it in those things

because you just can't. It's not that

there isn't like some moral soap box you

have to get on or it's like about

fulfilling your soul or anything like

that. It's just you can't get long-term

happiness or any type of happiness from

objects or houses or things. You you

just simply can't. It's not there. And

so if you try to, you're going to be

again like it's like you go and pursue

getting another master sword in Zelda.

You're going to end up in the same spot

you were before. Now, the things that

start to get really nasty about this too

is if you're not playing the game for a

joy, you start having this defensible

thing tied to your ego, which is your

money. And then you start adding objects

to it as well, which gives you again

something even worse than you were

before, which is fear of loss. See, when

you were broke, you didn't have fear of

loss. But now, as you do, oh, you're

kind of [ __ ] Which is why when I talk

about living in a one-bedroom apartment

with just a bed and a studio is good cuz

you realize that you don't need any

[ __ ] whatsoever. Like, as long as you

can play the game, you're going to be

happy. Some of my happiest times are

just sitting in an empty empty apartment

with just a desk coding video games that

didn't make me any money. So, I

ultimately know that if even if I lost

everything, like it doesn't really

matter. And this makes it so you can

actually play the game and enjoy it a

lot more cuz you're no longer afraid of

losing the game. And look, I'm not

saying you need to go out there and take

massive risks that could ruin your life

or uh be gambling with your life savings

every single day cuz you no longer care

about loss. I'm just saying that when

you stop operating from a point of fear,

you're going to like pursue greater

feats in your business and try to play

the game in a more enjoyable way because

the point is really just the game. So,

for example, when I was building Hyros,

which is a business I have that's valued

at hundreds of millions of dollars right

now, or any of my other tech companies,

when I built it from that apartment,

it's not that the apartment or doing

this is the key to anything. But I just

realized that like, hey, all the

happiness comes from building this

thing. So, let's just like double down

and not really invest in my lifestyle

and just go and focus on this thing. And

now, even to this day, like I don't need

to invest in my lifestyle and I don't

really care if I lose the lifestyle. And

also my lifestyle is kept extremely low

because I'm not pursuing adding to it as

some important thing in my life. It

might seem like I have a lot right now,

but I'd really spend about 10% of what I

make and investing in the business and

playing the game is easily always the

priority. That said, coming back to the

main point right here, you end up with

this huge fear of loss and this little

devil that's going to make you sad and

make you feel very unimportant whenever

your money-making goes down or anything

like that. This is a little nasty bugger

that if you aren't aware of it is going

to drive you to do insane things and

become very money clingy which is going

to end up destroying your business and

making it worse. For example, in my

first businesses when I got to $100,000

a month, my main goal in life was to

never go back to $20,000 per month. And

therefore, I did everything I could to

cash flow and maximize those businesses

versus grow them because I was afraid of

going backwards. You also end up then

killing your business because if you're

complacent or you try to stay in the

same place in business, you end up

slowly going backwards always. This is

the second thing that really messes you

up. The solution to it again is just

understanding you're not going to get

happiness from the money or any of the

things. So, you don't really have to be

afraid of losing them. Just just do

things and don't ever put yourself in

the position where you're going to end

up stressed out due the money. A lot of

guys make this mistake and it ends up

really [ __ ] with their head and and

locking them down for years. Now, number

three is a nasty one, which is

complacency. See, if you're not playing

the game to play the game, as soon as

you make enough money from the game,

you're going to not want to play the

game, and you're going to get

complacent. And so, suddenly, that

really remarkable person that you knew

that was working all the time and

ambitious and reading books and trying

to do things, you just stop doing all of

it because you're not playing the game

for joy anymore. And what results is a

person, you're going to see all these

bad habits pop up. You get back in the

video games, partying, drinking, uh just

wasting your time away. You're going to

get complacent, especially in your

business. You're also going to get to

the point where you start ignoring your

business because you're not playing the

business for fun anymore. You have the

money from the business. And so you're

going on vacations, you're going and

chasing chicks or doing whatever you're

doing. This is complacency. And so what

it ultimately ends up doing is killing

you because all the things that made you

great, you put aside because you're not

getting joy from the business. And the

reason why you did all those great

things was the joy you were getting from

the business or building the businesses

in the first place. So what you need to

look out for is complacency. So for

example, right now I'm making more money

than ever. Our business is growing

faster than ever. It's it's it's wild

how much money is coming in right now.

I'm pissed off because I want the

business to be much higher. I want to be

an all-time great SAS entrepreneur. I

don't really care about like I don't

there's nothing left for me to buy. But

it could be very easy for me to come

complacent right now and just travel

around and and be drinking going on

vacation and buying scrabbiest blabbish

things and not working on the business

and it would eventually kill the

business because SAS especially the

level I am at is very very competitive

and someone else wants that cookie. In

the past I get very complacent with

businesses because I was doing it for

money and then I had the money and then

I would just like find ways to keep the

business still going while just focusing

on making the money. It's no way to

live. it's going to kill your business

and kill the thing that's making money

in the first place and it's not going to

bring any happiness. So, just recognize

this right here and you have to get to

the point where you're playing the game

for fun and not playing the game purely

for money or you're going to get

complacent right now because my identity

isn't really attached to the money I

make or anything like that. I'm playing

the game because I want to be an

all-time great at it. That's literally

the point. And so, I'm not complacent

because I look at the business and say,

"Does this make me an all-time great?"

No, absolutely does not. I'm absolutely

a [ __ ] nobody when it comes to SAS

and tech. having a business making mid

to high eight figures a year isn't

really that impressive when you see all

these little AI companies popping up

making hund00 million a year in their

first year scaling to billion dollar

valuations. I that I I want to do much

better than I currently am and I do it

for joy and fun and playing the game.

You have to get at that point right

there or you're going to get complacent.

You're going to kill everything that

made you great in the first place and

brought you joy and kill the thing

that's paying for all the [ __ ] [ __ ]

that's paying for your life. So, it's

just a triple whammy right here and this

messes up a lot of dudes. The fourth

that really gets dudes is the problems

it brings into your life. A lot of

people say fake friends and fake women

and and debt and it's all actually true.

So look, it's not like the entire world

wants to vampire off you as soon as you

get rich. It's the fact that you almost

want to vampire off the rest of the

world because you're really bored. Okay?

And what's going to happen is you're

going to probably pursue a lot of things

that you were lacking before. For

example, when you get rich, you're

probably going to want women. You're

probably going to want social status.

You're probably going to want these

things right here. And the problem is

you can definitely go and actually

achieve these things if you do it from a

place of identity security. Okay? So, if

like if you like girls, great. But

you're not going to go and get tricked

into stuff by bad women if you're not

desperate for women. If you want friends

and social status, great. You go out

there and work and you build a really

healthy social status circle where

you're actually doing it from a point of

enjoyment of the people and not

desperation to be liked. And it's a very

very subtle coin flip. There's there's

very little there's this blurry line

between wanting to be liked because

you're desperate to be liked and wanting

to go out there and just build social

status and truly enjoy people. It's very

difficult to address when you first get

into it. And so what you see most guys

do is they end up with bad women. Women

will [ __ ] ruin you faster than

anything else. They end up with bad

friends or even worse people that want

to take advantage of you. I can't tell

you how many times if you make millions

and millions of dollars, you start going

out with people. There's a lot of people

that will film you when you're [ __ ]

up or something like that. I've seen so

many rich dudes I know, they get in with

bad women who get some leverage on them.

They get in with bad friends who get

some leverage on them. They rack up a

ton of debt and a lifestyle and a social

status is all based around spending

money. And then suddenly they end up

complacent. They have all these people

trying to take advantage of them and

they have all this debt and crazy stuff

weighing them down. And then suddenly

they don't even have the choice to play

the game out of love anymore. They have

to make money from this business. They

end up doing all sorts of weird [ __ ]

I'm sure you've seen lots of influencers

and koss who got in all sorts of

financial trouble they didn't have to

because they built this huge lifestyle

of being famous and and living this

luxury lifestyle and they have all these

fake friends and all these fake women

and all this fake stuff around them and

then suddenly they have to like do and

do all sorts of weird stuff to sustain

it because they're going to go in debt

and lose all it and then they're

operating from a place of fear number

two. So what you need to understand is

when you make some money it's not that

you have to go and be some humble

[ __ ] You just have to really

get your head straight and make friends

for the right reasons and pursue women

for the right reasons and actually just

the really comes down to holding value

in yourself and believing you're a

valuable person period. And then you're

not going to go out of your way and open

yourself up to stupid people. And you

can need to take two seconds to look at

people around you and think about why

they're really there and what their

goals are and what could be the worst

case scenario with these people. You

need to be a little bit wiser about

that. And then you need to keep your

lifestyle super duper low compared to

how much you make so that you never end

up in trouble in the first place and you

end up stuck in this big bubble bath of

[ __ ] It's not that you have to go

around the world being skeptical and

fearful, but you need to think that you

have something that people want and if

they're bad people, they're going to

find ways to find leverage on you and

stuff like that. I luckily have not had

these problems, but I have so many

friends and stuff like that who have had

this. And the real solution to all these

things is really just getting yourself

straight because then you're not going

to go and put yourself in stupid

positions with stupid people because you

don't need the people in the first

place. So look out for this. Now number

five, the final bad one. The final bad

thing that's really kind of inevitable

is you're probably going to lose friends

when you get rich. One, because you're

going to work more than everybody else.

Two, because your priorities are going

to be different. Okay? Some people they

they get out of college, they want to

get married and have kids, and then they

want to hang out with their kids. That's

fine. I'm not here to tell anybody what

type of life they should have. There's

no such thing as a good or a bad lived

life. We all just die and none of it

matters and we forget everything we ever

knew. So, it's all just kind of

irrelevant. You can define whatever you

want your life to be. That's not what

this video is about. The thing is that

90% of the people that you know in your

20s are going to have different

priorities than you. Even if you guys do

stay in touch, you're going to have a

different life than they do. So, for

example, I'm just going to be straight.

There's a lot of things I like to do

with my wife and go travel. A lot of my

friends growing up, they just can't come

do these things. going and traveling or

going places or or doing a lot of the

experiences I want to do. It's just not

approachable for normal people. And so

if I want to go and take vacations with

a lot of people I knew growing up, I

usually have to cover a lot of it, which

is fine in some instances. But a lot of

times, a lot of people are not as lucky

as I am to have some of those deeper

connections and whatnot. But at the same

time, you have to realize you're going

to have to work extra hard to stay in

contact with people you grew up with

because they just have different

priorities. They're not going to be able

to do the same things as you. They're

not going to want to work as much as

you. They're not going to really

understand the things and why you're

doing because it's not their priority.

They're not going to want to talk about

these things with you. And when you want

to go and do things that cost a little

bit of money and stuff like that, people

are not going to be there to do it for

you unless you pay for all of it. You

put all these things together, you're

probably going to need to start looking

for friends that have the same interest

and want to live the same type of life

that you do. I'm not saying anyone's

better or worse, but there's you want to

do certain things, you're probably going

to want to do it with people that share

the same values in you and are able to

keep up with you. That's usually going

to result in you losing a lot of friends

and having to actively go out there like

a weirdo and pursue making friends with

people. You're gonna have to actually

find dudes on the internet who are into

the same things you are and living the

type of same life that you are and you

say, "Hey, do you want to be friends?"

And you have to put effort into making

friends with people or it's just not

really going to work out. Or you're just

going to be super duper lonely because

that's just the case of all these things

I talked about right here. You're not

going to get along and you're not going

to be able to completely relate and do

stuff with people that want to work a 9

to-ive job and just raise their kids and

hang out at home and watch sports.

That's just not some. You're not going

to be able to be friends with these

people or you will be able to maintain

friendships if you really try at it. But

again, you're going to be very lonely

because this is not you. So, you're

going to have to find new people that

are more like you. And that's just what

it is. And it kind of sucks losing

friends and changing that or like not

being able to invest in the same

relationships, but that's just what it

is. You can either be lonely as [ __ ] and

chasing a bunch of people that you don't

relate to and cannot keep up with you in

life or you can go and actually find

people that relate to you and can do the

things you want and you're not

constantly having to bring yourself

down. And I'm not saying bring yourself

down in a value way. I'm not saying that

anybody that has any type of lifestyle

is more valued than other. But you're

going to have to bring yourself to

another level that you're not at to

relate to other people at their levels.

You need to just find people that are at

your level or where you want to be at in

life. And so that my little friend, my

little padawan, are the things you need

to look out for. There's other things

that are going to happen, but if you

nail those five things right here and

you're prepared for them, it's going to

save you all sorts of turmoil. You're

not going to end up in that weird Zelda

situation I talked about in your life.

You're not going to end up in tons of

weird situations due to your fear and

lack of identity and people you bring

yourself around. You're not going to be

looking and wondering why you're lonely

because you can understand, hey, you

know, maybe I need to go find people. If

if you're a professional black belt in

jiu-jitsu and that's everything you do

all day, you probably are not going to

relate to people that don't do any form

of self-defense and don't work out and

exercise. Okay? Same thing right there.

Same thing with business. Okay? So, if

you do these things right here and you

understand that, you're going to be

fulfilled the entire way through because

you're playing life for joy. You're

playing business for joy, which is

ultimately the point you want to get to.

And it's not hard to get to that. You

get to 50,000 a month, you're

financially freeish. You can play the

game for fun and you're not going to end

up getting complacent. You're not going

to end up operating out of fear. You're

not going to end up putting yourself in

all sorts of chaotic traps that most

people put themselves in and you're not

going to be lonely all the time. And if

you are just a super introvert like me,

you're not going to give a [ __ ] because

you understand why. So that's it,

gentlemen. That's the video. Don't do

these five things. It will save your

life. Now, that also being said, if

you're interested in the actual making

money part, I give away all my old

courses, like $20,000 worth of courses.

I don't sell these anymore because it's

not profitable enough. It's better for

me to make tech companies, but I'll give

you the courses if you subscribe to this

channel. And then once a month in my

community tab, I make a post giving away

all my other courses, copywriting,

sales, advertising, how I run my ads,

how I build all my funnels, everything.

I give these all away. But you have to

be subscribed or you won't see that post

once a month in the community tab. So,

subscribe and I'll see you in the next