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yankees,<br />
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I've checked out a bunch of your posts. You are 16, and seem to have the right start for having a good mindset to want to get started. It seems that you are jumping around to a lot of different ideas trying to find one you can get going to build some capital to enable you to do things you want to do. seems very similar to me as i was growing up. obviously at 16 most people aren't sitting on much, if any money to play with. imo, to build some capital up i think you should try poker. i believe learning poker and learning to play profitably is one of the fastest ways in the world to build capital from very little. i'm not just saying it because it's my profession either. i've looked at a lot of different businesses/ways to build capital, and i think it's one of the fastest ways to build capital starting with close to nothing. you can start with $100 and have pretty much an infinite return. i definitely wouldn't suggest it if you didn't like to play though, because you won't improve like you should if you don't enjoy it.(saw poker was a hobby of yours though<img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-thumbsup.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumbsup:" title="Thumbs Up :thumbsup:" data-shortname=":thumbsup:" />) it's one of the things i rarely/and actually never see talked about for starting out to build wealth because most people assume you can only build wealth by ways people read in get rich books: real estate, stock market, etc.... there's a lot of things people don't think about because they don't hear about them. if i had heard of web businesses years ago like what MJ does I probably would have tried to go that route as well.(and may still) I didn't know anything about things like that though because I never read about it, so I didn't really know people could make money doing things like that. same with poker. 99%+ of people don't understand that you can actually study with poker, and create a huge edge for yourself against your opponents. Once you get to that point you are able to build money as much as you want to put the time in. If I was 16, and in your shoes, I would learn to play poker.(and I'm definitely not just recommending it because I'm biased)
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</blockquote>Thanks for the advice! I actually just lost $20 yesterday in a tourney with my friends -- luckily I cut my losses and sat out the second one. Anyway, I appreciate the thought you put into that post as well as the advice, but I believe my focus will be geared towards a business I'll be starting with my friend next summer (explained <a href="http://www.thefastlanetomillions.com/showthread.php?t=71" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">here</a>). I definitely understand what you're saying, though. Focus seems to be a pretty big problem of mine; well, lack there of. I think it's because I get excited too easily (luckily that doesn't cause me to piss all over my kitchen floor like my dog would have when she was a puppy). In the meantime, I guess I'll be working on gaining knowledge for the future. I'm pretty set on real estate investing at some point in my future, so I think it's safe to continue down that path. Again, thanks for the advise. I prefer to just keep it as a hobby, though.</div>
