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Gonna go to university this year, which i will attend for the next 4 years- until 2025.
And i want to become financially independent by the time i graduate. 4 years is a lot of time to do a lot of stuff.
I don't have to pay for university either. So i do consider myself quite lucky right now. But time passes quickly, and i already wasted 2020.
Last year i tried copywriting, web design but didnt really get far.

So what does the fastlane recommend those who will attend university but don't want to be stuck in the corporate world?
What are the basic fundamentals?
 
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What are the basic fundamentals?

Read the two books I wrote, it is about 25 hours of "basic fundamentals" (audiobooks) -- if you're still asking for "basic fundamentals" after reading, then it's probably best you stick to Slowlane methods; jobs, stock markets, etc.
 

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Gonna go to university this year, which i will attend for the next 4 years- until 2025.
And i want to become financially independent by the time i graduate. 4 years is a lot of time to do a lot of stuff.
I don't have to pay for university either. So i do consider myself quite lucky right now. But time passes quickly, and i already wasted 2020.
Last year i tried copywriting, web design but didnt really get far.

So what does the fastlane recommend those who will attend university but don't want to be stuck in the corporate world?
What are the basic fundamentals?
Wow. I'll be impressed IF you fit that steep learning curve and then the heavy job of execution into a mere 4 years. There are people who have done it, but I'm not sure that they did it in 4 years. They started things that they developed into amazing businesses. I have seen children develop businesses that have made them financially independent by the time they were adults. What have you done so far?

Also, most people don't know how to keep their success once they cross that "finished" line. Most people must make their fortunes 3 times before they acquire the skills to keep that asset or collection of assets.

I'm NOT saying you shouldn't try. I'm NOT saying that you can't make a lot of progress. Yes, do your best. And I wish you the best of successes. I am saying that this is all about the journey. I assume that you are just beginning and you have a lot to learn. Most people live through a lot of cycles of failure and success before they find their path that leads to their north star. As I said, it takes a learning curve.

Jump in and learn everything you can. Try stuff. Read. Ask questions. Talk to everyone around you about how they do things. GET A JOB and try out what you think you want to do before you commit to a path. Yes, your education may not be costing you money, but do NOT squander that gift. Stretch your brain and wring every bit of education out of that system.
 

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Work for McDonalds on the side until you figure out how to get into fastlane and try to learn as much as possible.
I have been blessed with a mentor who owns all McDonalds in my state and it is just amazing how they operate. Try to pick up everything from logistics, HR questions, daily routine controll etc. You can learn alot.
See it as extra material you get paid for to study.
 
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What a gigantic waste of time to use as procrastination to avoid working on anything relevant. Does school have anything to do with your goals? No? Then don't go. It is opportunity cost keeping you from spending time on what you should be doing with your life. You already know it's pointless but you're going anyways? Don't.

"network and become a writer!"
"work at mcdonalds"

Jesus christ that is awful advice.

Go out and get your hands dirty and stack cash, grow a business if you see an opportunity to start one, or keep it simple and get started in real estate. Get some money, get an FHA loan, buy a 4-plex and live in one of the units, fix up the other units and rent them out, roll your equity into another property and be making bank in your 20's. You could never have to have a "job" again before you're 30. Do that or start a business.
 

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What a gigantic waste of time to use as procrastination to avoid working on anything relevant. Does school have anything to do with your goals? No? Then don't go. It is opportunity cost keeping you from spending time on what you should be doing with your life. You already know it's pointless but you're going anyways? Don't.

"network and become a writer!"
"work at mcdonalds"

Jesus christ that is awful advice.

Go out and get your hands dirty and stack cash, grow a business if you see an opportunity to start one, or keep it simple and get started in real estate. Get some money, get an FHA loan, buy a 4-plex and live in one of the units, fix up the other units and rent them out, roll your equity into another property and be making bank in your 20's. You could never have to have a "job" again before you're 30. Do that or start a business.
Damn good advice.
 

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Yes, your education may not be costing you money, but do NOT squander that gift. Stretch your brain and wring every bit of education out of that system.
I agree, never compromise on learning, even if it's learning in the university. I almost sabotaged this year for myself until I realized that academics are not something to be thrown in the garbage.

Some people still value degrees lol. If I'm going to get a degree(which I will), it will be simply for the sake of opening more doors of opportunity for business and peace of mind for my parents.
 
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What a gigantic waste of time to use as procrastination to avoid working on anything relevant. Does school have anything to do with your goals? No? Then don't go. It is opportunity cost keeping you from spending time on what you should be doing with your life. You already know it's pointless but you're going anyways? Don't.

"network and become a writer!"
"work at mcdonalds"

Jesus christ that is awful advice.

Go out and get your hands dirty and stack cash, grow a business if you see an opportunity to start one, or keep it simple and get started in real estate. Get some money, get an FHA loan, buy a 4-plex and live in one of the units, fix up the other units and rent them out, roll your equity into another property and be making bank in your 20's. You could never have to have a "job" again before you're 30. Do that or start a business.
Damn, this advice rips through all excuses one can think of.

Simple, solid advice.
 

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First of all: Why are you seeking financial freedom? Is it because of somekind lifestyle you have to achieve or you want talk about at a party like doing yoga and meditation because it is somehow "trendy"? If you dont have deeper reasons than that, then maybe the old fashioned way of receiving of high income job is the better choice.

If you cant find the motivation in what you are doing, nobody can help.

Or maybe you can combine your study experience with your future business opportunity. If you study for example Accounting you could open your open office. If you study psychology, also.

You dont need Copywriting or Web Design, if you don't know why you do it. Talking my own experience here. You should rather focus on focus things YOU want to create and not what OTHERS have done.
 
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First of all: Why are you seeking financial freedom? Is it because of somekind lifestyle you have to achieve or you want talk about at a party like doing yoga and meditation because it is somehow "trendy"? If you dont have deeper reasons than that, then maybe the old fashioned way of receiving of high income job is the better choice.

If you cant find the motivation in what you are doing, nobody can help.

Or maybe you can combine your study experience with your future business opportunity. If you study for example Accounting you could open your open office. If you study psychology, also.

You dont need Copywriting or Web Design, if you don't know why you do it. Talking my own experience here. You should rather focus on focus things YOU want to create and not what OTHERS have done.

So much this. Main thing I realized with myself and especially us Gen Zs is that we can have everything at our feet. Resources, knowledge, courses, utility... but we don't take action because we don't have the motivation. I've a few theories on why that is but mostly us young people; most important factor working against us is that we get caught in the dopamine matrix.

I'm aware of it and it's still hard for me. When you've spent most your life that way it's hard to unplug but I'm getting better.

Long story short: When you're playing video games all the time then hopping to porn to then hopping to checking your instagram then watching youtube all day (yes youtube counts as 'using social media'!) then you might read some self help stuff and watch Gary Vee. Go yeah!!! Im motivated then do something for one day then fall back into the loop... you won't ge anywhere.

You gotta limit your exposure to quick cheap dopamine hits. When your brain knows you can just game, watch porn or tiktok to get pleasure it kills a lot of your drive to get out and conquer shit. You had your fun, stimulated your brain and chilled. Why do more?

That's how we get trapped. IMO.

Granted, since the late 80s this was a thing. Just instead of tiktok, watching YT all day and playing a Playstation 5 you'd watch TV, and play your NES all day. Us 00s kids it was using the internet, PS2/360 and MSN messenger.

And it makes sense 'cause the 80s babies is where we start to see the massive shift in how much we consume media and stuff.

"You dont need Copywriting or Web Design, if you don't know why you do it. Talking my own experience here. You should rather focus on focus things YOU want to create and not what OTHERS have done."


Lastly this, I agree but if the world doesn't want what you want to create it's nigh pointless for the fastlane. If you're really that lucky and what you love is something the world also needs in demand (say IT or being a really hot chick who knows how to twerk) then sure.

Wish I was that fortunate.
 

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It's quite comical actually.
What he is saying I have heard from almost every single self help book (I've read atealst). Roberto Blake of youtube, Tim Ferris, MJ DeMarco, Grant Cardone, Gary V that dude who wrote the compound effect, Tony Robbins, the scam artist Dan Lok, Dan Pena, that dude from Valuetainment etc etc etc

It's like now everyone has become like... Agent Smith's of self help and motivation. We all took each others information and consumed it, and now we all parrot each other. It's kind of bizzarre when you think about it.

But yeah I agree. Isn't there a book on this? Something like "become so good they can't ignore you"?

Yup, found it.

Also The Talent Code is a great book how people develop skills. The author of taht one pretty much says theres no such thing as being 'talented' just learning skills the right way and invest the right amount of time at sometimes the right time(early age but not required).

Also the grey to back to normal over and over again and the 2 minute prelude to the point is kinda tryhard. But im sure he is just passionate. Still kinda annoying though. After finding out how Gary V really ran his business Im not gung ho about these kinda guys anymore but it's great stuff to reinforce in yourself.

Lastly yes, you can put your nose to the grindstone. But in a thread I made about work ethic vs working hard. We establish it isn't all about hard work and in fact can be quite the opposite. You can be living out of your car spending 12 hours a day working hard on something and just "shutting up and doing the work"(Gary V) but that doesn't mean you'll be successful. In fact that was my case when I was homeless. Yes sometimes you can just "do it" but it doesnt mean you're doing it right. ANd many many people work their asses off and still don't get the results they want because they didn't follow the right path, test the product with an audience or just didn't have intel like CENTS.

It's 2021, that whole work work work be motivated work work work shouldve died in 2019 IMO when most(not all) those people doing amazon, dropshipping and Ecommerce went belly up.
 
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So much this. Main thing I realized with myself and especially us Gen Zs is that we can have everything at our feet. Resources, knowledge, courses, utility... but we don't take action because we don't have the motivation. I've a few theories on why that is but mostly us young people; most important factor working against us is that we get caught in the dopamine matrix.

I'm aware of it and it's still hard for me. When you've spent most your life that way it's hard to unplug but I'm getting better.

Long story short: When you're playing video games all the time then hopping to porn to then hopping to checking your instagram then watching youtube all day (yes youtube counts as 'using social media'!) then you might read some self help stuff and watch Gary Vee. Go yeah!!! Im motivated then do something for one day then fall back into the loop... you won't ge anywhere.

You gotta limit your exposure to quick cheap dopamine hits. When your brain knows you can just game, watch porn or tiktok to get pleasure it kills a lot of your drive to get out and conquer shit. You had your fun, stimulated your brain and chilled. Why do more?

That's how we get trapped. IMO.

Granted, since the late 80s this was a thing. Just instead of tiktok, watching YT all day and playing a Playstation 5 you'd watch TV, and play your NES all day. Us 00s kids it was using the internet, PS2/360 and MSN messenger.

And it makes sense 'cause the 80s babies is where we start to see the massive shift in how much we consume media and stuff.

"You dont need Copywriting or Web Design, if you don't know why you do it. Talking my own experience here. You should rather focus on focus things YOU want to create and not what OTHERS have done."

Lastly this, I agree but if the world doesn't want what you want to create it's nigh pointless for the fastlane. If you're really that lucky and what you love is something the world also needs in demand (say IT or being a really hot chick who knows how to twerk) then sure.

Wish I was that fortunate.
It is true. The prison over your mind is even more difficult to leave for your generation than for me, who counts as an Millennial.

The good thing is, you are aware of your current situation. Now find a way out. Stop reading or watching Motivational BS, is a first good step. If you do it often times.

Consume less. Create more. Feed the demand. Make more money.
 
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It is true. The prison over your mind is even more difficult to leave for your generation than for me, who counts as an Millennial.

The good thing is, you are aware of your current situation. Now find a way out. Stop reading or watching Motivational BS, is a first good step. If you do it often times.

Consume less. Create more. Feed the demand. Make more money.

To put it concisely yes. That's exactly it!
It's even harder to escape the dopamine matrix when so many of us young men don't have purpose out here. But like you said at least some of us are aware and that's half the battle. I'm glad I'm learning this stuff in my 20s. Just being on this forum in my 20s I feel is a gift. No way I'm gonna squander it.

I've got an addon on my browser called "unhook youtube". It hides the youtube sidebar, homepage and you can even hide things like comments, avatars etc. I have mines old school forum style so my mind isn't constantly looking at all that stuff on the sidebar. That's how you get trapped. You click one vid, then you see a recommended video, then its on autoplay then next after next after next... similar to tiktok. And now youtube has youtube "shorts" I consider it brainwashing, dulling the shit out of your mind. After a few hours you can feel the burnout and don't even have mental energy to work on stuff IMO.

I set a timer for forum usage even on here so I don't fall too far deep here as well.
 

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Damn good advice.
How do you know what you will need to know before you go do it?????

Since the human brain doesn't finish maturing until one is in their mid-twenties, does a young person need this time, experiences, education, and discipline to shape that process?????

Is the college system the right place to launch a young person into their adult life?????
 

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So much this. Main thing I realized with myself and especially us Gen Zs is that we can have everything at our feet. Resources, knowledge, courses, utility... but we don't take action because we don't have the motivation. I've a few theories on why that is but mostly us young people; most important factor working against us is that we get caught in the dopamine matrix.

I'm aware of it and it's still hard for me. When you've spent most your life that way it's hard to unplug but I'm getting better.

Long story short: When you're playing video games all the time then hopping to porn to then hopping to checking your instagram then watching youtube all day (yes youtube counts as 'using social media'!) then you might read some self help stuff and watch Gary Vee. Go yeah!!! Im motivated then do something for one day then fall back into the loop... you won't ge anywhere.

You gotta limit your exposure to quick cheap dopamine hits. When your brain knows you can just game, watch porn or tiktok to get pleasure it kills a lot of your drive to get out and conquer shit. You had your fun, stimulated your brain and chilled. Why do more?

That's how we get trapped. IMO.

Granted, since the late 80s this was a thing. Just instead of tiktok, watching YT all day and playing a Playstation 5 you'd watch TV, and play your NES all day. Us 00s kids it was using the internet, PS2/360 and MSN messenger.

And it makes sense 'cause the 80s babies is where we start to see the massive shift in how much we consume media and stuff.

"You dont need Copywriting or Web Design, if you don't know why you do it. Talking my own experience here. You should rather focus on focus things YOU want to create and not what OTHERS have done."

Lastly this, I agree but if the world doesn't want what you want to create it's nigh pointless for the fastlane. If you're really that lucky and what you love is something the world also needs in demand (say IT or being a really hot chick who knows how to twerk) then sure.

Wish I was that fortunate.

There's one big issue, you can literally get instant gratification for free. Look at people nowadays using social media, playing games, watching stuff. Like it's such a deep hole that once you fall in, you don't want to get out. It's like "Well, I'll just watch this one video and then we can get to work." That doesn't work for me and hasn't worked for anyone I've known.

One way I see is to delete the time-killing apps from your phone. Delete them. Delete accounts. Sure, it's a hard thing and you might even relapse, but you'll be thanking yourself in the future.

When you tell yourself that it's just one last time and I'll quit after this, you'll never quit.

Don't delay action
, our brains always seek the easiest route to comfort.
 
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I've got an addon on my browser called "unhook youtube". It hides the youtube sidebar, homepage and you can even hide things like comments, avatars etc. I have mines old school forum style so my mind isn't constantly looking at all that stuff on the sidebar. That's how you get trapped. You click one vid, then you see a recommended video, then its on autoplay then next after next after next... similar to tiktok. And now youtube has youtube "shorts" I consider it brainwashing, dulling the shit out of your mind. After a few hours you can feel the burnout and don't even have mental energy to work on stuff IMO.
I'll be using the add-on too. Thanks man, for the recommendation.
 

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How do you know what you will need to know before you go do it?????

Since the human brain doesn't finish maturing until one is in their mid-twenties, does a young person need this time, experiences, education, and discipline to shape that process?????

Is the college system the right place to launch a young person into their adult life?????
You won't for sure. But the internet is a perfect example of how you can make calculated decisions and even see other people's experience. Just remember that's exactly what it is, their experience. Not everyone's, not yours. Imo.

Depends on what they go through and their exposure. By 25 I had already moved and lived in 8 different major cities, been homeless, tried and failed multiple online hustles, worked a variety of jobs and been to school. In contrast some 25 year old's only know high school, their mom/dads house, the security net of family, taken no risks and a college campus. Maturing is about exposure , responsiblity and risk imo. In my late 20s now and that's how I'd define it. Discipline automatically can come when you know you gotta get your shit together and it's all on you. Not when you can run back or call Mom or just take out another loan. Only thing that can hamper that is lack of confidence and will imo, which is another topic.

If they just want to get by in life and have relinquish accountability of their income for the comfort of a livable income, sure. If they are to think independent and take autonomy over their life not so much. Unless they're privy of the scripted world and only use it as a stepping stone. But socially it could be beneficial. But even then they have to seek out more than just gossip, partying and studying all day to truly excel over their peers imo.
 

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You won't for sure. But the internet is a perfect example of how you can make calculated decisions and even see other people's experience. Just remember that's exactly what it is, their experience. Not everyone's, not yours. Imo.

Depends on what they go through and their exposure. By 25 I had already moved and lived in 8 different major cities, been homeless, tried and failed multiple online hustles, worked a variety of jobs and been to school. In contrast some 25 year old's only know high school, their mom/dads house, the security net of family, taken no risks and a college campus. Maturing is about exposure , responsiblity and risk imo. In my late 20s now and that's how I'd define it. Discipline automatically can come when you know you gotta get your shit together and it's all on you. Not when you can run back or call Mom or just take out another loan. Only thing that can hamper that is lack of confidence and will imo, which is another topic.

If they just want to get by in life and have relinquish accountability of their income for the comfort of a livable income, sure. If they are to think independent and take autonomy over their life not so much. Unless they're privy of the scripted world and only use it as a stepping stone. But socially it could be beneficial. But even then they have to seek out more than just gossip, partying and studying all day to truly excel over their peers imo.
I started very early too. I was an adult when I was young.
 
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Gonna go to university this year, which i will attend for the next 4 years- until 2025.
And i want to become financially independent by the time i graduate. 4 years is a lot of time to do a lot of stuff.
I don't have to pay for university either. So i do consider myself quite lucky right now. But time passes quickly, and i already wasted 2020.
Last year i tried copywriting, web design but didnt really get far.

So what does the fastlane recommend those who will attend university but don't want to be stuck in the corporate world?
What are the basic fundamentals?
well first things, I would recommend TMF if you want to learn some basic fundamentals. After that I would look around you and see things through a producer lens and see what you can improve upon. all because you are in college doesn't mean that you can't do any of this. Read books, look around, ask people in here (you will get help from people in this forum) im currently at a community college (2year) but that doesn't mean I stop learning and trying to create something while im at home or on free time at school im working on my next venture.
 

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