Tom Bilyeu

As for the Middle East, if their theologies hold true and God really returns, then all bets are off.

Otherwise, the dominant power there will be determined by how things turn out with Iran.

The new world is not going to be a world ruled by one great power.

It's going to be ruled by several regional powers, each dominant in their own sphere, none strong enough to set global rules.

More contested, more dangerous, with no shared rulebook.

So now, what do you do with this information?

First, and I cannot stress this enough, please don't panic.

The goal of stepping inside of Professor Jiyoung's frame of reference is to understand the framework that helped him see what so many other people missed.

It's not to send you screaming into a bunker.

It's to help you assess more potential outcomes so you can make better decisions based on first principles and cause and effect and have a broader view than the people around you who are stuck inside of a narrative

that was almost certainly handed to them by somebody else, not something that they thought through after evaluating a bunch of perspectives.

Now, here's how I'm thinking about all this.

The economy right now is weak.

It's certainly fragile.

Optionality is king.

I am trying to keep updating my assumptions all the time based on where things are trending.

The more options I have mapped out ahead of time and the triggers that indicate which option I should pursue when, the better off I think I'm going to be.

Most financial and career plans are built on the idea that the world basically keeps working the same way that it always has.

People assume that the dollar is going to stay strong, that U.S.

markets will recover over time.