Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you

There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.

Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.

Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.

Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.

Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.

Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.

“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”- Archimedes

Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.

If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.

Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).

Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.

Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.

The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.

Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.

Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.

Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.

The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.

Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.

Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

You should be too busy to “do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.

Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.

You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.

Labor means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.

Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.

An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.

When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day. 📚 I talk about more of such life-changing ideas in <a href="https://binsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe">my free weekly newsletter here</a>. In the next week's letter, we will talk more about this thread, combine perspectives of many others and talk about how to earn while doing what you love.

Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.

This is not a summary, nor anything of my own. This is a life-changing thread from Naval's twitter account. Follow him on X, @naval

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