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Hur dur dur “give value and you’ll become rich”

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It can’t be that simple, yet it F*cking is. I’ve searched night and day for the holy grail. I’ve read about nearly everything and tried a few things. After two years of searching, I’ve realized that everything I know can be summed up in that one sentence. I might not want to believe it, but it’s true. You have to give something before you receive. END OF STORY. Stop looking for the holy grail. There is none. If there is a secret to becoming wealthy it is providing the world with something it needs and delivering it.


Seriously, this is all you need to know about life. If you don’t fill another person’s need then you are useless to that person. No one F*cking cares about your dreams. No one F*cking cares how many books you read. No one F*cking cares about your thoughts. All that matters is do you produce results that the rest of the world gives a shit about?


I haven’t been on this forum in a while and just taking 10 seconds to browse the recent posts pisses me off. Reading another article on entrepeneur.com isn’t going to make a difference. Reading another book isn’t going to do jack shit. Just F*ckING DO IT MAN.


But you see, the hard part isn’t realizing this fact, it’s doing all the work that comes after.


TLDR: Give value like every successful person says on this forum says even though 99% of us don’t follow it. The holy grail is you.
 
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It can’t be that simple, yet it F*cking is. I’ve searched night and day for the holy grail. I’ve read about nearly everything and tried a few things. After two years of searching, I’ve realized that everything I know can be summed up in that one sentence. I might not want to believe it, but it’s true. You have to give something before you receive. END OF STORY. Stop looking for the holy grail. There is none. If there is a secret to becoming wealthy it is providing the world with something it needs and delivering it.


Seriously, this is all you need to know about life. If you don’t fill another person’s need then you are useless to that person. No one F*cking cares about your dreams. No one F*cking cares how many books you read. No one F*cking cares about your thoughts. All that matters is do you produce results that the rest of the world gives a shit about?


I haven’t been on this forum in a while and just taking 10 seconds to browse the recent posts pisses me off. Reading another article on entrepeneur.com isn’t going to make a difference. Reading another book isn’t going to do jack shit. Just F*ckING DO IT MAN.


But you see, the hard part isn’t realizing this fact, it’s doing all the work that comes after.


TLDR: Give value like every successful person says on this forum says even though 99% of us don’t follow it. The holy grail is you.
Sounds like you just had one of those "Aha!" moments....Something you've been hearing for years and years, seeing that it made sense...but then it finally clicked where you had perfect clarity in how powerful it really is!
 

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What you do next may be the most important thing you have ever done. Will you go back into the mental masturbation loop or will you take action??
 

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Stop looking for the holy grail. There is none.

But there is a holy grail and you just mentioned it. Value. The problem is the holy grail can't be ordered from Amazon, isn't found on a beach or in front of a TV, and it isn't found in the well-worn pages of Alibaba. It's found on a long journey of hard work, obstacles, learning, self-discovery-- a journey that so few are willing to make.
 
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But there is a holy grail and you just mentioned it. Value. The problem is the holy grail can't be ordered from Amazon, isn't found on a beach or in front of a TV, and it isn't found in the well-worn pages of Alibaba. It's found on a long journey of hard work, obstacles, learning, self-discovery-- a journey that so few are willing to make.

It is a hard, hard journey and it will nearly batter you into the ground on the way. Biggest lesson for me on this journey. Embrace the scratches, bruises and most of all those deep wounds that feel like they're never going to stop bleeding... because it is taking pride in those scars and not trying to hide them that will give the power to keep on driving forward.
 

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I'll agree that people love to over-complicate things and that the rubber does need to hit the road, but I also have found that reading those articles and books can be helpful in getting some ideas to click for you, as well as teaching you some new tricks on getting the rubber going. Last night, I attended a free session on starting a new business, and while the presenter didn't say anything I haven't heard before, he did give what I found to be useful way to generate and test ideas. Definitely need to balance out learning with action.
 

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It can’t be that simple, yet it F*cking is. I’ve searched night and day for the holy grail. I’ve read about nearly everything and tried a few things. After two years of searching, I’ve realized that everything I know can be summed up in that one sentence. I might not want to believe it, but it’s true. You have to give something before you receive. END OF STORY. Stop looking for the holy grail. There is none. If there is a secret to becoming wealthy it is providing the world with something it needs and delivering it.


Seriously, this is all you need to know about life. If you don’t fill another person’s need then you are useless to that person. No one F*cking cares about your dreams. No one F*cking cares how many books you read. No one F*cking cares about your thoughts. All that matters is do you produce results that the rest of the world gives a shit about?


I haven’t been on this forum in a while and just taking 10 seconds to browse the recent posts pisses me off. Reading another article on entrepeneur.com isn’t going to make a difference. Reading another book isn’t going to do jack shit. Just F*ckING DO IT MAN.


But you see, the hard part isn’t realizing this fact, it’s doing all the work that comes after.


TLDR: Give value like every successful person says on this forum says even though 99% of us don’t follow it. The holy grail is you.

If you read the @MJ DeMarco 's book, you will discover just that: "To become a millionaire, help one million people."
 
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But you see, the hard part isn’t realizing this fact, it’s doing all the work that comes after.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but the above quoted not so much.

I'm finding with myself, and the immediate circle of friends that I have, that one of the hardest parts is in-fact realizing this truth.

You may have heard it a million times from a thousand different people, but that doesn't mean you "realize" this as truth, deep down inside of you.

Enough for you to push aside the creature comforts of life that your family/friends/society push you towards (damn it, you deserve it!) and instead focus fully on an unbridled work ethic. How can you push that hard against the current, over the long-term marathon that this is, without a deep, fundamental, visceral understanding of this truth?
 

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Yes you provide value, but value can be very very abstract. Also most of our purchased aren't exactly needs but rather wants

EDIT: abstract isn't the right word.. maybe vague
 
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Yes you provide value, but value can be very very abstract. Also most of our purchased aren't exactly needs but rather wants

Why does any of that matter?

Value is value is value as long as your customers perceive it to be valuable.

It doesn't matter if it's craft beer, a talking children's toy or the status symbol du jour. If the customer based perceives it to be valuable, it is valuable. When it ceases to have value, it vanishes.

At one point a pet rock had huge perceived value. The fact that it was a very abstract form of value didn't change his tremendous bank account by the end of that fad.
 
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Yes you provide value, but value can be very very abstract. Also most of our purchased aren't exactly needs but rather wants

Bullshit.

Why does any of that matter?

Value is value is value as long as your customers perceive it to be valuable.

^^^This
 

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Yes you provide value, but value can be very very abstract. Also most of our purchased aren't exactly needs but rather wants

EDIT: abstract isn't the right word.. maybe vague
I agree with this. We live in a consumption society. Where people want the new thing, just because it's the new thing. So value is not always value but brainwashing people to believe they need things they don't need. Last year I got my first smart phone because the battery shut down on my 3310 Nokia.

I sold my wide screen computer monitor a few years ago to get one big a$$ old a$$ screen.

I just like the old ones more.

No... value is not always value because people believe it is valuable. It's the same as religion. People believe their religious belief is the truth. While not one of them are truer than another.

But in this case it's brainwashing certain people to become mega consumers. With media telling us to get the latest thing this and that.

I'm specfically talking about mobile phones and gadgets and shit that people seems to never get too many of.

It's all PR, marketing and advertising that controls many of us.
 

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In other words, perception is reality. Control perception, control reality.


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Value is value is value as long as your customers perceive it to be valuable.
You mean like all those Get-Rich-Quick-Scams you can find on the Internet?

Some times people believe they get something out of totally worthless products too. LIke looking up to some washed up motivational speaker. It's not that they are less intelligent. It's just that they are less educational and may not run on critical thinking yet. Or may lack any sort of direction on what standards to look for. (Sort of like MFL against AVERAGE JUNK BOOK, if you've only read average junk books, you may think they are all great...)

When you've been burned by MLM's and get rich quick junk a few times. Most people I believe involve their brain into critical thinking mode.

That's what happened to me.
 
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But... but... reading business books makes me feel so accomplished! Putting in the hours and doing the work isn't sexy. I'd much rather talk business than do business! :(
 
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Yes you provide value, but value can be very very abstract.
Agree, it is often easy to say provide "value", if it were that simple and obvious I am sure we would all be where we want. It is trying to understand what is value in a practical and actionable sense. I find the best way for me to understand value is to look at other successful business ideas and model from them. It certainly is a challenge.
 

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It can’t be that simple, yet it F*cking is. I’ve searched night and day for the holy grail. I’ve read about nearly everything and tried a few things. After two years of searching, I’ve realized that everything I know can be summed up in that one sentence. I might not want to believe it, but it’s true. You have to give something before you receive. END OF STORY. Stop looking for the holy grail. There is none. If there is a secret to becoming wealthy it is providing the world with something it needs and delivering it.


Seriously, this is all you need to know about life. If you don’t fill another person’s need then you are useless to that person. No one F*cking cares about your dreams. No one F*cking cares how many books you read. No one F*cking cares about your thoughts. All that matters is do you produce results that the rest of the world gives a shit about?


I haven’t been on this forum in a while and just taking 10 seconds to browse the recent posts pisses me off. Reading another article on entrepeneur.com isn’t going to make a difference. Reading another book isn’t going to do jack shit. Just F*ckING DO IT MAN.


But you see, the hard part isn’t realizing this fact, it’s doing all the work that comes after.


TLDR: Give value like every successful person says on this forum says even though 99% of us don’t follow it. The holy grail is you.

I'm waiting to see what are you going to do now. Big Brother is watching you ;)
 
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