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Chapter 1: What principles help build capacity before opportunities arise?
If you're ambitious but not sure what to do, Ownershare six principles, really just actions that have helped me get to where I want. And these are the same six things that allowed me to go from having only a thousand bucks to my name and sleeping on a gym floor to now having a portfolio of companies that last year did north of 250 million a year. And the reason I'm making
this video is because I'm on a mission to get the next generation of men and women to make their first hundred thousand dollars. And there's a lot of reasons for that. But I think that if you can participate in the economy, you will believe in capitalism. And I think that will set up the next generation for much bigger and better things.
So let's just start with principle number one, which is build capacity. And so what to do when you're not sure what to do is you build capacity. So for example, if you don't know what you're going to do tomorrow, you should go and bet on time today when you're not sure what you're going to do. Still, it might as well be rested. That's building capacity.
You can get in shape when you don't have dates lined up, like you don't have one lined up, but it can help you when the opportunity strikes. You can save money when you're not sure where you're going to invest because at least you'll have the money so that when the investment comes, you'll have the opportunity to take action.
And so the thing about opportunities is that they present themselves to everyone and only people with capacity can both recognize and capitalize on them. So don't be in the bleachers when the fat pitch comes. You want to be at the plate, you want to have already practiced your swing, and you want to be ready to go. And I'll give you a case study that actually can drive this point home.
So there was a study they did at Princeton grad school, it was called like the Good Samaritan Study, where they had seminary students who saw themselves as moral people, right? They were studying to become priests. And they asked them to write a paper on being a good Samaritan and then to present it.
And so what was interesting about this is that in the study, they separated them into three groups. And so on the way to give the presentation, there was this very narrow hallway into the auditorium. And in the narrow hallway, they put someone who had fallen and clearly needed help. Group one was people who were 10 minutes late. Group two was people who were on time.
And group three was people who were early. All right, now guess what correlation how people rated themselves in their essay had to do with the likelihood that they would stop and help the person. You're right, fucking zero, all right? You know what did have the highest correlation with the likelihood that they stopped and helped the person? how late they were.
And let me tell you how big of a difference it was. The difference between the people who were 10 minutes early and 10 minutes late was a 6x difference in who stopped to actually help the person. And the reason I see this is so important is that right now, there are opportunities that come to you right now that you cannot even recognize because you do not have capacity to do anything about it.
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Chapter 2: How can saving money prepare you for future investments?
And if you're like younger and you're like, none of us have families and that's fine, then all six of you bunk up in one place, split bedrooms if you have to. And that's what ultimately in the early part of my career, it was like three or 400 bucks a month for me to just keep the lights on. Not hard when you're splitting one bedroom in a six bedroom house. Now,
All of this stuff, we have the last cost, which is time costs. So think about your time like a financial asset. Stop doom scrolling and wasting the two to four hour window you have outside of work. So your 5 to 9 a.m. and then your 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Those eight hours a day, those are the hours where you're going to have to get ahead because you have to basically live for today to pay for today.
but you have to plan and prepare for tomorrow, which is what those other eight hours are for. Number three on this stack here is add skills and practice them. And the second part is just as important as the first. So now you've got some money, right? It should be saved up. Where do you spend that money?
So I recommend spending all excess cash on acquiring skills until you have so much that you can't possibly spend on any more skills. So increase your capacity to earn, which increases the value of your highest cash producing asset. Do you know what that is? You, right? And what's relevant today is that skills are inflation proof.
Whether we're trading in Bitcoin or seashells in the future, if you've got value to give, people will exchange for it. So if you're ever worried about all this technology, what am I going to do? The only thing and the only logical step you can do is double down on skills and make yourself more valuable. Now, understand that learning will never hurt you. It's always additive.
And even in things that are bad, and listen, I paid for all that stuff that I just said, and not all of it was good. The thing is that I believe that winners win no matter what. And so, how can you have something that's bad, and then you think that you get better from it? Well, if I learn all the things not to do, then I learned.
And if it changes my behavior in a way that makes me more likely to succeed, then I got better. And so if you look at the world that way, then everything serves you rather than you serving it. Real quick, I'm gonna show you the exact 10 stage roadmap from zero to 100 million plus. that less than 1% of companies finish, I've now done multiple times.
And so I can say with a lot of confidence that these are the stages, as headcount increases, that you need to get through. And I broke each of these down by eight different functions of the business, what the constraint feels like, like what are the symptoms of it when you're going through it, and then what steps we actually took to graduate.
And we've done this across software, physical products, service businesses, brick and mortar, all of this, and it works. And it's my gift to you, it's absolutely free. And so the link's in the description, but you just go acquisition.com forward slash roadmap, just enter your info and it'll spit it right back to you all free.
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