The Only Reliable Path To Wealth

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There was a question blowing up on X last night: “How do 18-27 year olds get rich, besides crypto?”

My answer:

By seriously skilling up and applying those skills to solve real problems that people are willing to pay to make go away.

This can be a long road (like 10 years, not 1 year) but it is the only reliable path to wealth.

You can either start making your way now or waste years on “get rich quick” lottery tickets and start later.

The path is patient; it will stay there until you’re ready to acknowledge it.

But it is also uncompromising; it won’t shorten or speed you along just because you started later.

If it’s important to you to reach a high level of success early in life, then you would be well advised to start down the path asap.

The benefit of starting young is that most young people have relatively few responsibilities and can put forth an outsized volume of work sprinting down the path like a maniac.

As you get older, responsibilities accumulate and tug at your time (often in a good way, but leaving you with less free time nonetheless).

And the longer you wait before building the life you want in the long run, the more likely you are to settle for something else.

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