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- Born in post soviet Latvia, watching the tv and trying to understand how come we don't have the nice things they have in the movies (like buildings that don't look like the same F*cking apartment building that came out of some soviet factory)
- 2010 After high school didn't get in the most prestigious uni in my country and wrote higher education off since I always wanted to be an entrepreneur anyway.
- 2010/2011 Jumped on the online poker bandwagon and realized that there is too much competition and it will not be anywhere close as profitable as it was in early 2000s
- 2012 Moved to UK and got slightly depressed since reality was trying to pop my booksmarts, bromarketing, hyperreality bubble. Got a job at a supermarket. Still read shit load of books and spent all my paychecks on bodybuilding since it made me feel like I want to do something. Years of thinking how I will become super smart, take the shortcuts that all the billionaires take and raise the intelligence level of the average person were now clashing with the real world where there are no shortcuts and the smarter you get the dumber you feel and therefore dumb people prefer to stay dumb and feel smart.
- 2013 One day I was like "Shit, If I don't do things that scare me I will never make it." So I overcame my fear of approaching women and lost virginity at 22 with somebodies slut wife and pretty much immediately fell in love. You could call it my "F*ck Event".
Actually the reason I F*cked her was because I was trying to start a business with her, even though she had the commitment and business understanding of a 5 year old.
- 2014 Was taking shit for all the things I did the previous year and focused on "being the person that will make a lot of money" despite what anybody thinks or says. Random people talking shit turned out to be really motivating in a "F*ck this" way. Thought I would do information products and went to all sorts of business meetings and networking events telling people how I am going to be in the business of information products. It didn't take long before I realized that my products would be so shit that people would ask me for money to consume them. Okay, I still half assedly jumped on the kindle ebook bandwagon before giving up. Very active year, no results apart from gaining experience and good habits.
- 2015 Got really focused on acquiring money to start a business. Got a promotion at the same store and persuaded my boss to give me only certain shifts on certain days instead of random days starting anywhere between 5am and 4pm. That gave me time and predictability for a side hustle. Work, work, work. Made 2x as much net income as last year while doing less hours at the store, and researched several supplement ideas, learned touchtyping. At one point I thought I found a serious, experienced business partner who turned out to be an alcoholic and disappeared.
- 2016 Went to a packaging and labeling conference to get a better grasp of the supplement business which was kinda pointless. Some people were still talking shit about 2013 - it's like they think that if you did something unusual once, it means that you will continue to do it all day everyday for the rest of your life. Some of it was getting to me plus I had to address the back pain I had developed so I finally quit and temporarily moved back to Latvia to work on my back health and find the right business to start. Read some more books. Vote for brexit happened, got a temporary few months job in a relatives business and bought a 20y/o car that cost me in repairs and maintenance another 2x the money I paid for it.
- 2017 Decided to fix up family property where my mother will be living either alone or together with my sister and her two kids if she finally breaks up with her abusive husband. Ended up putting in several months of manual labor and quite a bit of my own money in the property and it's still not done. Refused a better paying offer by the relative. Tried to get EU financing for a supplement idea I still hadn't given up on and realized that at this point in my life buying expensive equipment to produce supplement ingredients is like jumping off a building and hoping I survive.
Lately been feeling shit, because my savings are dwindling, my mother has taken my effort around the property for granted and keeping her fingers crossed that I give up on all this entrepreneur bs and live in the same house with her forever, my sister also hoping that I don't leave so that I continue to maintain the property, babysit her kids and support her when her husband is being a dick to her, because that way life is more pleasant to her than facing the reality and breaking up, even my aunt tried to make me feel guilty for saying that I will go back to UK - all scripted and trying to pull me back in.
Anyway this is neither a comprehensive list of all that I have tried nor a sob story about all the b.s. that I have faced, just sorting out my mind while sharing a bit of my experience.
TLDR - if you are an INTJ (myers-briggs) born in a post soviet country and want to become 'the most successful person ever' and maybe even change the world for the better once you have acquired all that power, then life will probably suck and everyone will think you are the bad guy.
Oh and btw don't punch walls no matter how underslept and angry at yourself for not performing the way you expect yourself to perform, it can permanently reduce your typing speed.
- 2010 After high school didn't get in the most prestigious uni in my country and wrote higher education off since I always wanted to be an entrepreneur anyway.
- 2010/2011 Jumped on the online poker bandwagon and realized that there is too much competition and it will not be anywhere close as profitable as it was in early 2000s
- 2012 Moved to UK and got slightly depressed since reality was trying to pop my booksmarts, bromarketing, hyperreality bubble. Got a job at a supermarket. Still read shit load of books and spent all my paychecks on bodybuilding since it made me feel like I want to do something. Years of thinking how I will become super smart, take the shortcuts that all the billionaires take and raise the intelligence level of the average person were now clashing with the real world where there are no shortcuts and the smarter you get the dumber you feel and therefore dumb people prefer to stay dumb and feel smart.
- 2013 One day I was like "Shit, If I don't do things that scare me I will never make it." So I overcame my fear of approaching women and lost virginity at 22 with somebodies slut wife and pretty much immediately fell in love. You could call it my "F*ck Event".
Actually the reason I F*cked her was because I was trying to start a business with her, even though she had the commitment and business understanding of a 5 year old.- 2014 Was taking shit for all the things I did the previous year and focused on "being the person that will make a lot of money" despite what anybody thinks or says. Random people talking shit turned out to be really motivating in a "F*ck this" way. Thought I would do information products and went to all sorts of business meetings and networking events telling people how I am going to be in the business of information products. It didn't take long before I realized that my products would be so shit that people would ask me for money to consume them. Okay, I still half assedly jumped on the kindle ebook bandwagon before giving up. Very active year, no results apart from gaining experience and good habits.
- 2015 Got really focused on acquiring money to start a business. Got a promotion at the same store and persuaded my boss to give me only certain shifts on certain days instead of random days starting anywhere between 5am and 4pm. That gave me time and predictability for a side hustle. Work, work, work. Made 2x as much net income as last year while doing less hours at the store, and researched several supplement ideas, learned touchtyping. At one point I thought I found a serious, experienced business partner who turned out to be an alcoholic and disappeared.
- 2016 Went to a packaging and labeling conference to get a better grasp of the supplement business which was kinda pointless. Some people were still talking shit about 2013 - it's like they think that if you did something unusual once, it means that you will continue to do it all day everyday for the rest of your life. Some of it was getting to me plus I had to address the back pain I had developed so I finally quit and temporarily moved back to Latvia to work on my back health and find the right business to start. Read some more books. Vote for brexit happened, got a temporary few months job in a relatives business and bought a 20y/o car that cost me in repairs and maintenance another 2x the money I paid for it.
- 2017 Decided to fix up family property where my mother will be living either alone or together with my sister and her two kids if she finally breaks up with her abusive husband. Ended up putting in several months of manual labor and quite a bit of my own money in the property and it's still not done. Refused a better paying offer by the relative. Tried to get EU financing for a supplement idea I still hadn't given up on and realized that at this point in my life buying expensive equipment to produce supplement ingredients is like jumping off a building and hoping I survive.
Lately been feeling shit, because my savings are dwindling, my mother has taken my effort around the property for granted and keeping her fingers crossed that I give up on all this entrepreneur bs and live in the same house with her forever, my sister also hoping that I don't leave so that I continue to maintain the property, babysit her kids and support her when her husband is being a dick to her, because that way life is more pleasant to her than facing the reality and breaking up, even my aunt tried to make me feel guilty for saying that I will go back to UK - all scripted and trying to pull me back in.
Anyway this is neither a comprehensive list of all that I have tried nor a sob story about all the b.s. that I have faced, just sorting out my mind while sharing a bit of my experience.
TLDR - if you are an INTJ (myers-briggs) born in a post soviet country and want to become 'the most successful person ever' and maybe even change the world for the better once you have acquired all that power, then life will probably suck and everyone will think you are the bad guy.
Oh and btw don't punch walls no matter how underslept and angry at yourself for not performing the way you expect yourself to perform, it can permanently reduce your typing speed.
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