How to 100x Your Net Worth by Living Differently

Hope you’re all doing great - it’s been a while since my last email. Today, I wanted to talk about something that’s super important for anyone that’s trying to make a lot of money in their lifetime.

The art of being different.

Being different itself isn’t necessarily good, because there’s a reason why a lot of society follows certain rules, traditions, etc.

But what I can tell you is that those rules and traditions don’t govern how rich you’ll get. They won’t help you get there. 

Why?

Because since everyone follows those rules and traditions, it’s now an “average” way of life. It will help you blend into the crowd, but it won’t help you get ahead.

And I assume the top 1% is where most of you reading this want to be at some point.

To be in the top 1% in the US, you’ll need a net worth of about $13 million.

It’s a high number, but it’s easier than most think. But to reach it, you do have to be different in many ways.

If you did the most average actions every day, I think we’d all agree that it would make sense that you’d end up living an average life. And the median net worth for people in the US is about $140,000.

So essentially, you need to 100x that to be in the top 1%.

After I graduated from college, I quickly realized that a normal life wasn’t the right fit for me. I also realized that if you have big audacious dreams, most people won’t understand them. So as a result, you’ll lack the support you’d want from those around you.

This is evident in the way that others view a lot of non-traditional moves in life. If it’s not the norm, then it’s immediately frowned upon in a sense. It can be the right move for you, but it’ll be the wrong move in everyone’s eyes.

I think the framework that I try to follow these days is this: if other people aren’t willing to take the risk, I should take the risk. The reason I like this is because it fits perfectly into life.

There’s a lot of things where yes, we should do what other people do. Those aren’t generally risky things.

Now, the risky things I’m talking about include:

1. Betting on your business

2. Wearing clothes that you like, even if others don’t

3. Starting side quests

4. Learning things that most people won’t learn

5. Putting money into riskier investments

6. Hiring that new team member

7. Trying out a new vertical inside your current business

8. Building a new project that could or could not fail

9. Taking the leap and talking to that person you’ve always wanted to talk to

In each of these cases, there is something to lose. There is risk involved. And yeah - that’s why most people don’t do these things. Things fail all the time, and that’s part of it. But the universal rule in life seems to be this: If you take calculated risks, you’ll lose a lot. But the things you win in will more than make up for the losses.

Hopefully this resonates with you - I know that calculated risks tend to be different than what others are doing because of that element of risk. The fear of losing.

Get over that fear and you’ll crush it. 

Everything great in my life is non-traditional. My career, the way I make money, my friends, my day-to-day, my outlooks on life. Everyone should have more non-traditional actions and thoughts, that’s just my opinion.

Cheers to living a life that doesn’t need to be so normal :)