Practice #79 - High School Lays Out The Foundation For Your Life

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One amazing thing that happened to me is I actually worked on myself during high school.

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Crazy, right?

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High school, I'm realizing now, literally lays out the entire foundation to your life.

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Literally, think about this.

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So you are right here, you're in high school, and you're going through the career world,

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where you go through high school, go through college, and you kind of are living a narrow

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path.

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But what you can do is you can actually start to work on yourself.

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You can lift weights, read books, and especially reading books, literally expands your foundation.

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Because think about this, when you're only going through high school, you're only getting

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the knowledge that they put into your mind, which basically is only the knowledge required

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to live.

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It's like the knowledge optimal to live how they want you to live, like go through society's

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norms.

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But if you actually start reading, then reading good, important books like The Millionaire

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Fastlane Unscripted, Four Hour Workweek, Expert Secrets, Dotcom Secrets, Reality Transurfing,

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literally any book that goes against the norms, well, look what you do.

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Your foundation just from school education is like this.

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But once you start reading, it starts to expand, and you actually build a much greater foundation.

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And look at this.

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You can only go up from your foundation, right?

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You build a house, you can only build up from that foundation of the house.

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So if you have a larger foundation, let's say your foundation has expanded all the way

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over here, where everyone else is right here.

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That means that you know that you can do some things over here.

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Like I didn't realize that I could actually not go to college until I expanded my foundation

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just outside of the high school, like education, like knowledge base.

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And I did that through reading Unscripted by MJ DeMarco.

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So your foundation is like this, just from a high school education.

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But if you educate yourself and read the right type of books, you start to expand it, and

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then eventually you can literally just leave.

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You don't have to do that crappy whatever this career path that they want you to do,

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where you work for the rest of your life and work for somebody else that is terrible, and

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you don't get any return on investment, other than a couple thousand dollars a year.

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Like that's terrible.

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Now you're over here.

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Look at this.

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Right here.

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This is where the money's made.

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Like this is where you're working for yourself.

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Over here is where there's a boss.

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People don't know, but there's actually a hidden figure right here that is puppeteering

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you, and then it actually has tentacles sucking your life force out of you, and then it takes

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all the money.

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So it pays you just barely.

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But over here, you can become that boss.

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Now you can choose if you want to suck the life out of other people or not, but that's

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a different story, a different topic for another day that I haven't learned about yet.

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I personally don't think it's right to suck people's life force, but now you've literally

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built your own life, or at least now you can start to build your own life.

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But that's where I'm at right now.

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It takes time.

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It takes courage to even move away, but before you can even have the courage, you have to

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actually know that you can move away, that this is an option.

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And then once you do that, you're down here.

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Like right now I'm down here.

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But in order to get up here, where you actually start making money, the difference this region

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is just a skill gap.

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It's really just skill.

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So people think that it's chance or luck in order to get up to here where people are making

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money, but no, it's just a matter of skill.

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And you can build that skill.

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Literally, you just have to figure out what does this person have that I don't, and then

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you work on that.

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And then eventually you start to get up and then boom, you made it.

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That's all there.

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That's my theory.

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I haven't proved it yet, but I have proved the fact that you can move away.

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And I have proved the fact that knowledge can open you up to other sources.

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So right now I say I'm around here.

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I have a little bit more knowledge and experience and skill than I did when I first started on

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the ground, but I have not made money yet.

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So that is something that's very interesting.

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And high school basically lays out the foundation for your life.

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So you want to actually take advantage of your time in high school and start to expand

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your foundation so you can see many different opportunities.

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Because when I was first starting to expand, like when I was right here after a couple

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months of reading, I started working on things, like going up a little bit, but then I realized

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that was kind of stupid.

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And then I expanded a little bit more and I started working on another thing over here

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that is kind of bad.

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So then I eventually found my thing that I've been working on for like eight months.

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Build your foundation in high school.