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I coulda sworn this guy died years ago around the same time as Kimbo Slice or Rich Piana

What online university or online course alternatives are there? How long will it take me to pay off 3 more years of university debt vs if I just become a hairdresser now but earn less, will I be ahead or behind? Am I more likely to get a job or work for myself (only employers care about degrees, no customers will ask a business owner to see their qualifications unless it's a legally required certification like law or medicine.) What courses will my university program include? What % of the content is actually related to what I want to do with my life? What % is filler elective courses I don't need, or outdated information about print/tv/radio marketing that I don't need? How much faster could I teach myself relevant skills without all the unnecessary courses? How much do I need to start earning to prove to my parents that university isn't necessary to be successful? How can I leverage my existing knowledge creating brands to help companies with their marketing and start earning money today?

Type "business ideas that require very little capital" into google. Articles with 12, 25, 40 suggestions right at the top of the results Lots of freelance stuff or things like dog walking you can do with no existing skills. Lots of jobs like music lessons where you can exploit any current skills you already have. Lots of things like photography or designing logos you can teach yourself in your spare time in a couple months. Go watch some entrepreneurial channels on Youtube like Project Life Mastery, Dan Lok, Grant Cardone, Tai Lopez. Just realize they are memes and don't buy their courses, but their free stuff will get you in the right mindset.

Literally everything I've ever seen you write on this forum bro. I've thought about calling it out so many times, you write like it's a horoscope or something lol. If you wanna talk in riddles about enlightenment it's one thing, but it doesn't make sense for practical topics like entrepreneurship.

There is a whole community doing this called FIRE (financial independence, retire early), lots of people retiring in their 30s. You probably can't do it in less than 10 years unless you make $100k+ a year and are extremely frugal Regardless of your overall strat, investing early is overpowered due to the power of compound interest. Even if you're in your 20s working at McDonalds, if you can save away a few extra thousand dollars per year and invest it, you'll be way ahead.

Pretty much anything finance-related is devilry, low-consciousness, and a net-negative to the world if it's just siphoning off money without producing any real goods or services. What about leaving the entire paradigm of hedge funds and banks behind for something radically different? Could you start some sort of investment firm / charity hybrid? Where you take a nice salary for yourself, like $200k or something, and the rest of the gains each year go toward charitable causes? Is there some way that you can earn money for yourself or clients, but then get tax advantages of charitable causes, all while helping the world and making it a better place? Could you invest in sustainable companies that help the world and still make a profit?

You should have a long-term plan and concrete goals, but you shouldn't be married to them. If your interests change then you need to change your goals with them (as long as you aren't just dabbling.) 1 - 2 year goals are good. 5 or 10 years is too far out for most people. My life is consistently nothing like I expected 5 years ago. It doesn't hurt to have lofty goals either. I have some things I want to accomplish by 2030 or later... but most of these are things I want to do on top of my life purpose. If you want an authentic life purpose then you need to ignore the fears of not having enough money, etc. The life purpose course has whole videos with exercises to release these negative motivations. "What you want" should be the best option by default. The best option isn't the best option if it just means a stable well-paying job, butit comes at the cost of you being miserable.

You're uncomfortable dealing with people because you've never done it before. If you don't change something, it will always be this way. You have to push your boundaries a bit and take that sort of job to start building your social skills and extroversion. I am extremely introverted and used to be the same way. My parents made me get a part-time job at a grocery store and it helped a lot. I'm still very introverted and I hate talking to people, but now I can do it if I need to. At least give it a chance for 6 months or so. Then if you absolutely hate it, you can retreat back into your hole forever. But being scared to interact with people will seriously hold you back in almost every aspect of life. Watch a bunch of Youtube videos on how to be social, how to make smalltalk, or anything else you're nervous about. It's a new skill you need to learn just like anything else. There are whole channels with dozens of videos to help introverts overcome social anxiety.

Life purpose course can be completed in a week or so if you're serious about it and devote 3-4 hours a day. Listen to the bulk of the material at the start (core concepts) at 1.5x speed to get through it faster, but give proper time to the exercises. Get the course out of the way first before you start planning to explore, travel, or anything else. Because if your life purpose isn't aligned with all the stuff you're doing, it might be a waste of time. If your top 10 values don't include at least 1 of adventure, nature, beauty, travel... then it'll have a negligible effect on finding your life purpose. Maybe the answer is to stay at home and work on your passion. If you wanna travel because it's cool to see new places and eat new foods and have new experiences, that's one thing. But don't delude yourself into thinking that travel is an effective one-size-fits-all method of "finding yourself". You aren't out there, you're right where you are already. Your life purpose isn't necessarily some mythical thing "out there" to be discovered. It's probably hiding in plain sight and has been popping up throughout your childhood and teen years off and on already in various ways. Looking within and backward might be more effective than looking out into the world and forward.

Conscious copywriting is just honesty lol. If you have a good product to sell and genuinely help people, you don't need to push so hard and be salesy or manipulative. In that case, you just speak (or write) confidently and tell people what you can offer. High consciousness people usually offer tons of free value up front, and then just use a sales page as a final push when they do occasionally launch a free product. So I'd look for people that have a Youtube channel or blog that's offering tons of really useful free advice.

If you listen through the Life Purpose course carefully, you'll pick up some names. Specific biographies he recommends reading, names that come up over and over in reference. Probably some authors of 5/5 books on the book list. I don't know if these are necessarily role models, but you can at least work out a fair number of people he respects.

You're demonizing dabbling too much. If you have no experience, dabbling is the only real way to find what you like and what you're good at. We expect kids to pick their lifelong career before they leave high school, but what % actually get it right the first time and love what they're doing for the rest of their life? I'd hazard to guess that it's not many. If you go too far in the non-dabbling direction at the beginning, you'll fall prey to the sunk cost fallacy. You might pick one thing that doesn't really suit you, but feel you've put too much time and effort into it to "dabble" and change paths again. I've found my life purpose and I'm still dabbling on the side to see if there's anything I might like even better. I still want to start a webcomic, podcast, maybe try voice acting, 3D modelling, make a synthwave album, make a standup comedy routine, create a video game, and other stuff on top of my life purpose. Maybe one of those will click more and it'll become my new life purpose. I'm about to restart the Life Purpose course again for about the 4th time just to see if anything's changed. You just gotta follow your heart and see what happens. For now, just pick something you can practically apply yourself to and try it for a few months, see how it goes. You can always change later. But if you allow yourself to get paralyzed and not make a decision, you'll just be mentally masturbating still again this time next year. The most important thing is to pick something and just start actually working on it. Most people just get overwhelmed and never do anything. That's why people like Elon Musk who just go for things look like gods. Tell him that he shouldn't be starting an electric car company, spaceship company, neuroscience company, and tunnel boring company at the same time because it's dabbling. Tell people with 5-10 different passive income sources they shouldn't be dabbling LOL.

Make a spreadsheet that lists your income for the month, and then all of your monthly expenses. Ideally do it for the whole year, even listing out stuff like dentist appointments, clothes, money you spend on Christmas presents and holidays, etc. Then start being honest about what expenses you can cut out to start saving. Your biggest expense is probably going to be where you live. So that might mean sucking it up and getting a roommate, or even a 3rd roommate if you already have one, or taking other unconventional steps to cut down on spending.

If this is a common theme that keeps popping up in all areas of your life, then it's a problem with you, some weakness that everyone around you is sensing. Go listen to interviews with people like Jocko Willink and David Goggins and emulate them. You can be a tough guy without becoming a dick about it.

Take the job that pays 4x more, save wisely, and retire 4x earlier. If you would normally work from age 18 to 65, this means you get to retire at 30 instead. At age 30 you still have your entire life ahead of you to do whatever you want. But your energy will already be really starting to wane compared to in your 20s. I'd rather do something I hate 100% of the time for a little while and be done with it, instead of doing something I hate in little increments for my entire life. The important thing is that while working the 4x better paying job and for the rest of your life, you need to live a lifestyle as if you were working the lower-paying job.

I can understand how something like sustainability management would seem quite big-picture and abstract, hard to make practical. Can you think of any ways that you could encourage sustainability or care for the environment at a local level? Maybe you could organize a group of local people who care about the environment to go out and pick up trash in various places around your city every weekend. Write to your city counsellors about the importance of green space and try to get more added to the city. Host a presentation at your local library about how people can save money and help the environment by installing more water efficient fixtures. Maybe a not-for-profit related to sustainability already exists in your city, or maybe you can be the one to set one up. If you try to do something big, it can take years to see any difference and it can quickly become discouraging. But if you start with something small like picking up garbage, it's easy to immediately see the benefits of what you're doing.

You can build your skills and get paid for it at the same time. Don't be afraid or feel like you aren't good enough. Everyone has to start somewhere and fake it a bit. Everybody has a first client where they've never worked with someone before, everyone has invoice #1. If you have to start by working for less than minimum wage just to get some experience and confidence then do that. 1. I don't. Websites like Upwork or Fiverr are a great place to get started and get some freelancing experience. But eventually you have to break out of them or it's not much better than being a wage slave. Upwork takes 20% for the first $500 you bill to a client... that's f***ng absurd and you'll never get rich that way. To be a successful freelancer you have to be a business owner and learn to do your own client acquisition and marketing. To start off you can look at job boards related to your freelancing topic if they exist. The pay rates aren't that high, but it's better than paying 20% to the platform like Upwork. Eventually you want to start cold pitching companies and asking if they want to work with you. The way to get work is to just go out and ask people to pay you to do stuff. Counter-intuitively, the really low-paying clients on sites like Upwork and Fiverr are also the biggest dicks and the most petty and picky when it comes to your work. Good paying clients tend to be a lot more chill and easy to work with. 2. Writer but it doesn't matter, do what you love. I love writing. If I decided I want to be a freelance photographer or video editor or voice actor or logo designer, I could get all the knowledge and start earning $1,000/month in any of those areas in 2 months. I've actually been debating getting into voice acting just to see what it's like. 3. No formal education or training related to my freelancing. I went to school for something totally unrelated. I have 3-4 years experience now, but when I started I had 0 days in writing aside from maybe being a little above-average at English in school. Here is all you need to get started as a freelancer... Watch like 5 hours of Youtube videos related to your freelancing skill to get a feel for what it's like and if it's a good fit for you, then find the best online course related to it that you can for $200 or less (probably it will be offered by one of the Youtubers you already watched), then make a website with a couple example pieces of your work and start applying for jobs. You don't know how to make a basic website? I didn't either. There's Youtube tutorials for that. A big part of having your own business is being able to Google stuff and figure it out for yourself. Don't let not knowing how to do something stop you from getting started or making progress. Don't let yourself say "I don't have experience" or "I don't know how" any more. You don't need a university professor for validation to tell you that you're right, you can just go learn it yourself and do it without getting permission from anyone.

2-4 hours per weekday to make $20k - $30k a year, never work weekends. The only time I'll work 8-10 hours per day is if I have a really busy month where I want to earn like $10k in a month or something. Raise your rates. The people paying for your services don't have to pay all of the payroll expenses of having an employee like employment insurance, tax, vacation pay, pension, etc. So you should be aiming for at least $50 - $100 per hour or you will end up needing to work weekends and burn yourself out. Otherwise it isn't any better than a job.

Moving to a bigger and better area, it's important to keep in mind that your cost of living will likely go up too. So you'll want to crunch some numbers with rent and other expenses (or gas if you're going to commute -- and don't forget to factor in your extra driving time too) to see if it makes sense. There's no point working harder or longer but ending up with the same bottom line. Have you attempted automating any parts of your business? My guess is that your biggest strength in the business (and probably the most fun part) is going out and identifying items that are profitable to resell. I'm guessing the more repetitive and grindy part is creating listings, which you could probably outsource to a virtual assistant fairly inexpensively, and free up a lot of your time to explore other things. I used to watch a bunch of flipping/reselling videos on Youtube and watched a few guys progress from doing it all themselves, to getting a small warehouse and some staff. If you're able to completely remove yourself from the process and create a system that works without you, that's where I think big growth can happen. Most people never get to that step because hiring good staff, training them, and developing all the systems to have your business run without you can be a huge headache. I've debated doing the same thing in my freelance writing business and hiring a bunch of other writers below myself and working more as just an editor. But it's definitely a daunting task. Personally I'm planning to shift to other things within the next few years, so I don't know if it makes sense for me to set all that up. But if you're planning to be reselling for the next 10 years, it might be worth the upfront time and investment to try and automate a bit. Then in the long run you'll hopefully have a lot more free time to explore Youtube or other options.

That's the point of life... that's survival. Most people would be even more unhappy if they kept getting less and less, or stagnated and kept only getting the same. More is what drives us. It makes us reproduce, it builds civilization. If you have like 60 more years here, do you just want to sit around and do nothing? Or experience more? You don't have to feel overwhelmed or defeated by the idea of more. You don't have to do absolutely everything. You can prioritize and do the stuff you want more of. Scarcity mindset, there's enough to go around for everybody. True but once you become aware of this you can break free from it to a degree and be satisfied with what you've got.

I feel like to escape wage slavery, paradoxically, first you have to be able to just put up with working a job. To get fired from a new job after days/weeks/a couple months you have to really screw up or have a pretty bad attitude. If you can't just grin and bear it for even a short period of time, that seems like an ego problem to me. People who get too much in the "I don't want to be a wage slave" mindset and have distain for any kind of employment can come off as a "holier-than-thou" jerk even if they lack any sort of skills or experience. If you can't suck it up and work a regular job for more than a few months, you probably lack the discipline to start a business or anything necessary to escape wage slavery.

You can't erase suffering. You can only remove attachment to the things that cause suffering.

7 per hour is 56 coffees per day. 56 coffees per day if you work 8 hours a day, 7 days a week is 20,384 coffees per year. That's 61,152 coffees sold in 3 years Even if I grant that you can sell 7 coffees an hour (unreasonable), how are you ending up with $16 per coffee? (Or an average order of $16 per customer, at least.) Even if you work 12 hours per day, every single day, that's 91,728 coffees sold in 3 years. That's still $11 per coffee. If somehow you never need to sleep or use the bathroom and you can work 24/7 without hiring any extra staff, that's 183,456 coffees sold in 3 years. That's still over $5 per coffee. Please show your math. Let's work backwards here.... If you want to earn $1,000,000 in 3 years ($333,333 per year).... If you can reasonably sell an artisan coffee for $3 (somewhere between Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks)... You gotta sell 111,111 coffees per year That's 304 coffees per day, every day of the year. Or 25 coffees per hour for an entire 12-hour day. Then realize that $333,333 is your gross profit, not including all of your expenses like raw ingredients, advertising, staff, permits and licences, taxes, and many other things. Then realize coffee is coffee, it's basically a commodity. Unless you absolutely nail it with the branding, you're just going to be some generic guy selling coffee in plain white cups on the corner. Your coffee is totally interchangeable for anyone else's. Car dealerships and churches will give you the stuff for free when you come in.

You're at the peak of Axie Infinity, like 6 months too late. Not sure how much longer it can go on for before the bubble bursts. Why not just invest in stablecoins or any number of altcoins that are paying 5%+ and also appreciating at a healthy percent per year?

Both. It's not as bad as roulette or something that's just dumb luck, but it's still gambling. You can have the right cards, play based on the correct statistics, and still get a bad beat. It's possible but probably not as glamorous as you'd expect. It's not going to WSOP tournaments in person and being on TV and winning big bucks. It's going to your local casino and fleecing money from gambling addicts and drunks. Or grinding 6 low-stakes tables online simultaneously for 8 hours straight. Bad idea. Professionals don't want to play other professionals, it's not a winning proposition. They want to play fish. You might be able to create a platform that bankrolls promising up-and-coming pro poker players, or you represent them almost like an agent. But if you're looking to create another Pokerstars or similar gambling platform, chances are you won't be able to make one better than what already exists. Pure stage orange. This isn't a life purpose or business idea that would give anything back to the world. Poker is a win-lose game. Someone wins, someone loses, plus the house takes a rake from both of you. In the US you have online gambling laws to contend with. Bringing poker to Africa seems like an evil thing to do. The most profitable solution would be to train a bunch of people in 3rd world countries who have a natural aptitude for math to play poker. Then basically put them in a sweatshop and force them to play Poker for 12 hours a day. Similar to Chinese World of Warcraft gold farmers. But that's also probably one of the most cruel things you could do.