Brutelly honest advise for anyone wanting to make money from the online world
Watching other founders succeed is p*rn. You get aroused, you feel something, and then nothing changes. I started coding at 16. All I wanted was to launch a product, get those Stripe notifications, flex the dashboard. The idea of a job never resonated, service work never resonated. I just wanted to build something and have people pay for it. So I did what everyone does. Hormozi. Diary of the CEO. Manifestation videos. Course after course. Book after book. And every time I didn't watch a video or finish a chapter, I felt this anxiety, like that video, that book, that's the one I'm missing. That's what's standing between me and the money. Here's what's actually happening when you feel that: your brain is protecting you. Speaking to users is a threat. Cold calls are a threat. Putting yourself out there and being wrong in public is a threat. So your brain builds a story just one more video, just one more framework and you comply, because it feels like progress. It isn't. It's your brain hiding. The answer you're looking for isn't in any YouTube video, any course, any book. I don't care how good the guru is. Get out in the world. Make connections. Speak to your users. Do the thing that makes you uncomfortable, because that discomfort is exactly where your brain is trying to keep you away from. Stop giving your energy to people who need your attention to build their business. Go build yours.