The Open Secret of the 1%
Elon Musk, Thanos and Batman use this secret to stay on top of their everyday lives.
The Doge Father has conquered every industry he has ever set his sights on.
In the year 2000, Elon Musk made online payments easy, paving the way for the FinTech industry to grow and thrive.
Then he went to the space industry, created electric cars, created an easy way to charge those electric cars and became such a god on twitter that a single tweet from his account would shift the global markets, especially the crypto markets.
And the question on your mind right now is
How does he do it?
And let me ask you one right back…
How the fuck should I know?
If anybody could figure it out I’m sure they would do it too…
But there is something I know about him though. An open secret he uses to stay on top
It’s the same secret Batman uses to stay ahead of the curve and stand toe to toe with gods in the Justice League
It’s what Thanos used to get the infinity gauntlet
And it’s something you should learn too if you want to become part of the 1%
And the secret is
Get Comfortable With Doing Difficult Things.
This isn’t something I know how to do yet.
But I know it’s important, and I know I'm not the only young person grappling with this problem
I won’t claim to have solutions or mind maps to lead you out the way, because it’s not something you plan your way out of. It’s a simple reality you accept, and integrate into your everyday life.
This is different from setting goals and hitting them or doing hard tasks like saving the world by taking the life of half of the universe.
Yes those things matter, but it’s more than that.
It’s learning to be consistent doing the difficult thing every day.
It’s learning to stay the course even when you don’t know what’s going on or what it is that you’re doing.
It’s learning to walk through the fog till you find your way out.
And these are very difficult things.
I face this problem everyday
If you ask how I cope, I’ll be honest and tell you that I don’t know.
I just show up when I can.
And unfortunately, I don’t show up every day.
I'm learning to, but like I’ve said, it’s difficult, and the point of writing this letter is to learn to get comfortable doing difficult things or being in difficult situations.
This letter is a letter to me as much as it is a letter to you.
If you’re reading this, you're the kind of person who wants to succeed in your own way at this life thing.
You want to be financially free, you want to save your family from poverty, you want to buy your mama a house, you want to be the biggest name in your industry, and you want to create the next Bitcoin or Amazon.
But achieving these world changing feats aren’t easy.
I know you know this but I’ll say it again, these aren’t things that are easy.
For example, if you're not a person with a stable mental health, a strong immune system and lots of energy, it will be more difficult for you to deal with the stress that comes with building anything great than it would be for someone healthy in all ramifications.
If you're a person who needs emotional support to keep going through the difficult times, how will you cope when you at some point in your life you’re inevitably left alone?
Everybody’s journey is different because everybody is built different.
The difficulty you’ll face won’t just come from the difficulty of the task at hand.
It will come from the difficulty of convincing your mind everyday not to give up.
The difficulty of convincing your body to show up every blessed day
The difficulty of loving and taking care of yourself, by yourself, for yourself, everyday no matter what happens.
The difficulty of understanding that our journeys are different, that the fact that your friend who doesn’t seem to work as hard as you, succeeds at their thing before you do, doesn’t mean that you're on the wrong path.
The difficulty of understanding that life is unpredictable. Shit happens, and sometimes there’s nothing you can do about it.
Getting comfortable with the difficulty of things is willingly staying in the fog and trying to figure your way out without turning back. It’s resting but not quitting.
It’s not something I have been able to break out of yet.
But I know damn well that I am trying.
Since the beginning of this year I have done different new things, engaged in tasks I never knew I could, talked to some great people, and created a newsletter with the best audience in the world.
And still, I'm not a disciplined master who manages their time efficiently nor am I willing to comfortably dive into any kind of challenge
And I know why.
Before now I was not a person who liked to face challenges or do hard tasks.
And even though I have been doing it for 6 months plus now, it doesn’t mean that my body has entirely internalized it.
This year has been my intentional growth year, and growing takes time.
Learning something and internalizing it is not the same thing.
New habits are difficult to form, and old habits are even more difficult to drop.
But I will get there
And you will too.
Like I said, I have no solution
I have simply accepted the fact that if I want to be the rich ass motherfucker, the top 1 percent of this world, then I have to get comfortable doing difficult things.
I have to get comfortable showing up every day no matter what.
And I have to do this every day until I grow, then do it again until I grow some more.
That’s all from me today.
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Dave.
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