How to ACTUALLY get ahead of 99% of people

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There are tons of videos on youtube and posts online about getting ahead of 99% of people.

And it sounds great on the surface. After all, why wouldn’t you want to get ahead of 99% of people??

Living that ONE PERCENT life!!

But what does it even mean?

You can define this a 100 different ways.

So, let me define it in a way that I CAN speak to personally, that I think IS actually achievable.

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There are over 8 billion people on this planet.

1% of that number is 80 million.

Right now there are about 62 million millionaires on the planet.

So in terms of net worth, you don’t even need to be a millionaire to skate by and get into the top 1% globally in terms of net worth.

That said, I think being a millionaire (at least) should be the goal. After all, who wouldn’t want to call themselves a millionaire? You’d feel special just saying it.

It’s actually pretty straightforward to do this… it just takes time.

-Spend less than you make
-Invest the difference into safe and proven investments (like the S&P500)
-Doing this for several decades
-Retire a millionaire

But what if you want to be in an even more elite group that will achieve this status LONG before most people? Becoming a millionaire in your 20s or 30s?

How can you achieve this status as fast as possible?

You CAN do it faster going the traditional route. You just have to make huge amounts of money ASAP.

Well as someone who wasn’t making $300-500K a year in my 20s, I still went from being worth $0 at age 29 to being worth about $1.6M at age 38. So, I can at least speak to how I did that.

1) To get ahead of 99% of people, by definition, you need to do things that 99% of people won’t or can’t do.

DUH, Andy!

Ok, let me be more specific. You have to be a contrarian to a degree.

The problem with being a contrarian is that most contrarian views are garbage and will get you nowhere. Just being a contrarian for contrarian’s sake is not helpful. Hello, flat earthers!

You need to have alternative views and beliefs ANDDDDD you need to be RIGHT.

No easy combo.

For me, I have had many contrarian takes. While I am not alone in having my specific ones, I am alone on the whole if you were to ask most people. I was certainly alone when it came to most of my family and friends.

For example, me buying crypto with most of my money and ignoring my retirement account, traditional stock market investing, etc… all while it was very UNpopular to be doing so (2018-2020) helped in a big way, to make me a millionaire.

My friends and family thought I was a nutcase

2) You not only need to do what other people think is crazy, but you need to do it consistently.

It’s not enough to do the crazy thing once. You need to keep doing it and you need to be consistently doing other crazy things you believe in.

And again, you need to end up being right about them.

And you have to be okay with doing them and receiving no praise if you DO end up being right.

People will laugh at you and think that you are stupid for taking contrarian stances.

And IF by some miracle you end up being right, they will not pat you on the back. They will write off your success as “just getting lucky” or tell you “I guess you were right… for now. Just wait!”

You have to be okay with all that for this to work.

3) You have to commit.

When I formed my thesis for crypto investing. I went all in. I sacrificed so much of my free time trying to make as much money as I could doing odd jobs, side hustles, selling my stuff, etc.

I was committing to pouring as much into my idea as I could.

Same for leaving my very safe and comfortable day job to run my own business. If you want real success, you cannot do it half-assed.

And this is scary because you have a very real chance of being wrong and losing everything.

But to be in the 1% requires risk if you want to achieve it sooner and better than other people.

Getting ahead of 99% of people is no easy task no matter how you slice it.

But as someone who has done it (at least by one metric), I can say it IS possible.

Best of luck to you on your wealth journey!

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See you next week,

Andy