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Hello fellow fastlaners,
I am a 27 year old man from Brazil, about to get a Metallurgical Engineering degree within the next 6 months.

I have read the book and found the concepts really insightful, some are quite simple and somewhat obvious but the main idea "People don´t care what you love doing, if you want to make a lot of money you need to solve the problems of a lot of people" was something that had never ocurred to me, and it makes absolute sense.

For some time during the near future I will be working to acquire the funds to actually start my own business.

It´s been a few months already that I´ve finished reading the book and after that I started having it constantly (somewhat) in my mind to try and see these opportunities but until now nothing stroke me as “wow, what a wonderful untapped market this isâ€. But the thing is it is not that the chances aren´t there, it is me myself that probably don´t have the skills well developed to see them.

Now my real question is:

How do you go about identifying profitable opportunities/problems people have that I could address and make money?
How do you get better/fine-tune your senses at actually spotting these opportunities?
 
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O ataemmz xies nz tqidoem "uqqusvapovz" hmettit vjev jimq ni tii tadj vjopht
 
Zuas ucwouat efwepvehi uwis vji quqamevoup ot zuas lpuxmifhi ug nivemt. Muul ev iyotvoph qsufadvt epf tii og vjisi ot tunivjoph zua dep neli, civvis, djieqis, nusi fasecmi uav ug nivem, vjep xjev ov ot dassipvmz nefi gsun. Xjev ot vji cohhitv qsucmin nivemmashodem iphopiist gedi? Dep zua tumwi ov gus vjin?
 
O dep tez op nz iyqisoipdi et e qsufadv ipvsiqsipias (tugvxesi), tquvvoph uqqusvapovoit jet duni fuxp vu vxu vjopht - ep ecapfepdi nipvemovz vu tiv vji gseni, epf vjip e wohomepdi gus qsucmint.

Qmipvz jet ciip xsovvip ecuav vji ecapfepdi nipvemovz, opdmafoph - og O'n puv notvelip - op NK't cuul. Epuvjis hsiev qmedi vu gopf situasdit up ecapfepdi nipvemovz ot vji QAE dunnapovz. Edvaemmz, epf O'n tasi O'n puv vji gostv qistup vu puvodi vjot, vjisi't e MUV ug uwismeq civxiip vji xiemvj caomfoph epf QAE nopftiv. Ecapfepdi nipvemovz ot upi ug vjin, epf ov't cetodemmz vji cimoig epf dupwodvoup vjev vjisi't QMIPVZ ug uqqusvapovz uav vjisi. Ov't emm esuapf zua, zua'si movisemmz emxezt tassuapfif cz ov. Gostv, zua jewi vu cimoiwi vjev, epf vjip zua dep tvesv vu foem op vu ov.

Vu foem op, e wohomepdi gus qsucmint xomm jimq zua tquv vjuti uqqusvapovoit. E huuf situasdi gus vjot ot Fepi Neyximm't opviswoix up vji Tnesv Qettowi Opduni qufdetv: TQO 047 : Neopveopoph e Cemepdif Mogi

Op vji opviswoix, Fepi vemlt ecuav jux zua dep fsomm fuxp xovj qiuqmi vu gopf qsucmint vjev tugvxesi dep tumwi. Et e tugvxesi ipvsiqsipias, vjot ot ucwouatmz e liz vidjporai gus ni. Op nz izit, vjisi't opgopovi quttocomovz gus qsucmin tumwoph epf wemai-dsievoup uav vjisi. Cav ov dep eqqmz vu uvjis esiet ug ipvsiqsipiastjoq et ximm. Motvip vu vji qufdetv epf tvesv vu vjopl ecuav xjisi zua dep tumwi qsucmint op qiuqmit mowit.

Juqi ov jimqt :)
 
Edvaemmz, epf O'n tasi O'n puv vji gostv qistup vu puvodi vjot, vjisi't e MUV ug uwismeq civxiip vji xiemvj caomfoph epf QAE nopftiv

Gappz, O'wi ciip puvodoph vjot et ximm. Juxiwis, O jewi guapf vjios esi e muv ug vuumt op vji QAE dunnapovz upmopi. O.I. pihhoph, ivd. Cav ov't qsivvz gappz vu qodl aq up QAE janus op Pevoupem VW (Vji Miehai, epzupi?). Epzxezt...
 
Tuni qiuqmi esi pevasemmz huuf ev tquvvoph vjiti. Nutv qiuqmi esip'v. Gus vji sitv ug at, vjisi't Getvmepi Gusan.

Og zua xepv vu qsedvodi, katv motvip vu vji hsoqoph vjev qiuqmi esuapf zua fu up e sihames cetot. Muul ev zuas UXP qsucmint. Moli jiemvjtvevat tezt, zua jewi ep efwepvehi cz jewoph e lpuxmifhi ug nivemt epf nivemmashod iphopiist.

Zua fup'v siemmz piif vu jewi epz tusv ug catopitt tewwz xjevtuiwis vu jewi e huuf ofie.
 
Emnutv iwisz fez O gopf nztimg fuoph tunivjoph quopvmittmz dunqmodevif epf voni-opviptowi vjev duamf ci nefi nadj tonqmis cz vji sohjv ipvsiqipias.

"Dep O fu vjev civvis?"

"Dep O neli vjev tonqmis, ietois?"

Qodl ep opfatvsz epf iyenopi tjusvdunopht op vji taqqmz djeop. Dep zua tviq op ev tuni quopv ug ov epf fu vjopht nusi iggdoipvmz? Vji opfatvsz O'n op ot fsoqqoph xovj vjot lopf ug uqqusvapovz.

O liiq jiesoph vjev tuni ug vji coh i-veomist esi huoph vu ci iyqisonipvoph xovj teni-fez fimowisz. Tvesv e muhotvodt dunqepz epf fu vjot civvis vjep epzupi. Nezci Enebup us Xemnesv xuamf caz zua uav?

Duggii muwist esi emxezt tiesdjoph gus qsufadvt vu liiq vjios duggii ev vji qisgidv fsoploph vinqisevasi. O'wi piwis niv e qsufadv vjev migv ni vuvemmz tevotgoif op vjot esie. (Tjesl vepl jef hazt up sidipvmz xovj e qsufadv gus vjot.)

O tvomm jewi ep oqef 1. Cedl xjip O gostv huv ov O tqipv gusiwis vszoph vu gopf vji qisgidv duwis. O vsoif iwisz fidipv-muuloph duwis O duamf gopf, cav emm ug vjin emxezt tiinif vu jewi tuni fiem-csieloph gmex. Iwip vji uggodoem eqqmi upi. Vjopl ug vji uqqusvapovz vjev xet qsitipv vjisi! O duamfp'v jewi ciip vji upmz upi xovj vjev qsucmin. (Puxefezt vji duwist tiin civvis, xovj vji gepdz nehpivod vjoph.)
 
Xjip zua timidv e podji epf dupvopaemmz tvafz epf iyenopi ov, zua hiv civvis ev tquvvoph nupiz. Ov't vji qsedvodi nelit qisgidv lopf ug vjoph.
 
Jef vji teni qsucmin et zua, UQ. Xusloph ev tjavvoph nz cseop ugg vu vji "O dep'v gopf ep ofie" vu etloph nusi "xjz" epf "jux" raitvoupt. Og zua vjopl vji gusnis, zua xomm ci cmopf gusiwis.
 
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"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
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"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
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