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You are asking all the wrong questions, son!
Change all those 'whats', 'whens' and 'hows' to Why. If you can answer the why, the rest will follow and you will find a way. It's the why that keeps you thinking and gets you going.
Don't get me wrong here, I really love your enthusiasm. But being young, in most cases except that you have more time is not automatically a positive thing. Quite paradoxical, I admit. But young people (including myself) always think we have an edge over elderly people just because we are young and ambitious. I know a man, close to our family, who is about 55. He runs a chain of grocery stores, a real estate company and is a VC of several other startups around the region. 80 % of all his creations are done by after the age of 50 (might also be correlated to the accumulation of compounding wealth). Fact of the matter is that young people are in most cases very naive about their surrounding world, which is fine, it's how life is.
James Altucher did "nothing the first 27 years of his life." If you would ask him he would probably say that over 80 % of his creations are made after he turned 30.
Your words about being young, hungry and foolish is something that I recall from MJ's profile picture. Those 20 words you've written in bold, those answers your what, and in a way who. "What are you?", "Who are you?". But not the why... Obviously we all know why you are young, but why are you hungry? Why are you foolish?
And don't answer these questions with a combination of the explanation of those words applied to your personal characteristics, answer them with the REAL why. It's almost, sorry, it is a philosophical research venture into your own mind.
Take tons of action, start a business or whatever you want to do, grind it, and eventually you will find your why and when you do - that's when you realize it's a lifestyle and a process, not an event.
Change all those 'whats', 'whens' and 'hows' to Why. If you can answer the why, the rest will follow and you will find a way. It's the why that keeps you thinking and gets you going.
I want to achieve greatness and I'm warning you now: I'm young, I'm hungry and I'm foolish and I believe that I can change the world.
Don't get me wrong here, I really love your enthusiasm. But being young, in most cases except that you have more time is not automatically a positive thing. Quite paradoxical, I admit. But young people (including myself) always think we have an edge over elderly people just because we are young and ambitious. I know a man, close to our family, who is about 55. He runs a chain of grocery stores, a real estate company and is a VC of several other startups around the region. 80 % of all his creations are done by after the age of 50 (might also be correlated to the accumulation of compounding wealth). Fact of the matter is that young people are in most cases very naive about their surrounding world, which is fine, it's how life is.
James Altucher did "nothing the first 27 years of his life." If you would ask him he would probably say that over 80 % of his creations are made after he turned 30.
Your words about being young, hungry and foolish is something that I recall from MJ's profile picture. Those 20 words you've written in bold, those answers your what, and in a way who. "What are you?", "Who are you?". But not the why... Obviously we all know why you are young, but why are you hungry? Why are you foolish?
And don't answer these questions with a combination of the explanation of those words applied to your personal characteristics, answer them with the REAL why. It's almost, sorry, it is a philosophical research venture into your own mind.
Take tons of action, start a business or whatever you want to do, grind it, and eventually you will find your why and when you do - that's when you realize it's a lifestyle and a process, not an event.
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