Myth Buster24:30
Alternative-asset diversification is mostly status flexing
“you're much better off just putting all of that in s p 500”
“complexity is just a demon that most people run into along the way”
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Sahil Bloom04 August 2022
How I Grew from 0 to 500k Followers In Under 2 Years - Sahil Bloom
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Frameworks in this episode
Entrepreneurship7 steps
Building a Side Hustle Inside a Full-Time Job
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Marketing7 steps
Get Going, Get Good, Get Smart: Starting a Channel
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Finance7 steps
Income vs Wealth: The Default Alive System
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Self-Mastery6 steps
Line in the Sand Core Values
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Productivity6 steps
The 20-10-3 Priority Cut
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Communication6 steps
The Mute, Message and Empathy Protocol for Critics
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Insights & moments
The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
Myth Buster· 2
Myth Buster1:21:30
You don't find your passion first, you find it in the weeds
“i just think you don't realize you're passionate about something until you get into the weeds”
“go experiment try things you know and be quick to switch like test and learn very quickly”
Hot Take· 4
Hot Take08:30
Money is the measuring stick because it's the easiest scoreboard
“i met way too many people that had astronomical amounts of money that i would not qualify as happy by any stretch of the imagination”
“we get on this hedonic treadmill and we're never happy”
Hot Take28:00
Feeling FOMO and not acting on it is a superpower
“the ability to feel and not take action against fomo is like a superpower of some of the highest performers in the world”
“i don't fear the man that has ten thousand kicks i fear the man that has one kick and has practiced it ten thousand times”
Hot Take53:30
Growth can mean taking less of your time, not more revenue
“growth doesn't doesn't just have to be in terms of revenue”
“the best business decision and the biggest mental unlock i've ever made was canceling a 10 000 a month client in my agency business”
Hot Take59:00
Paying more tax to live near people you love is worth it
“i actually do value the freedom to come and go as i please and just hang out in the uk”
“i'm super willing to pay a tax uh you know like friction cost for having the life that i want to live around these things”
Explainer· 4
Explainer11:00
Happiness is short-term, fulfilment is long-term, and you have to register it
“happiness is short-term um and fulfillment is like the long-term”
“when life is sweet when you have those like sweet moments in life pause and look up at the sky and say if this isn't…”
Explainer1:19:30
The hack is consistency: 250,000 words on Twitter in two years
“the biggest driver of my success in anything in life has always been that i am consistent”
“the hack is that i wrote 250 000 words on twitter over the course of the last two years”
Explainer1:35:30
The venture barbell: why a creator with distribution can win deals
“then on the other end of this barbell you have people like me who have one very clear lever of value that they can bring…”
“i'm only going to invest in companies that i'm really passionate about that i believe strongly in and so when i'm talking about them i'm…”
Explainer1:39:00
An almost empty calendar: no calls, nothing before 11am
“i don't have a single thing on it before 11am”
“i'm like huge on the unstructured schedule if you look at my schedule on any given week it's like massive blocks of open time”
Story· 3
Story02:00
Becoming a father made him feel he finally had enough
“for the first time in my life feel like i really have enough”
“i want to spend time with this child i don't want to be working 100 hours a week to try to like make more money…”
Story55:30
Ali turns down a 15k sponsorship for a product he doesn't use
“i sent a message to the agency being like sorry guys we're not we're not going to do this deal because i don't use the…”
“knowing that i value authenticity more than like cash is nice to know”
Story1:25:00
The hill: 30 days from hard mode to easy mode
“i'm gonna run up that hill every single day for the next 30 days and i don't care like whether i feel good or not”
“30 days is really all it takes sometimes to go from feeling like you know beginner mode to expert mode on something i mean it's…”
Q&A· 1
Q&A17:30
On the scarcity fear that follows early success
“my general bias on these things is that you'll figure it out”
“if a year ago you could have predicted where you are today i would call bs”
Tool· 1
Tool1:31:30
How Sahil actually makes money: agency, fund, media and cash-flow businesses
“i have my fund which is a 10 million venture fund that i invest in early stage technology companies 100 to 250k checks”
“angel list as a as a platform makes it very easy to go create a fund”
Takeaway· 2
Takeaway14:30
Find the thing you're uniquely suited to for maximum impact
“my whole mental model for life is you should find the thing that you are most uniquely well suited to create the maximum impact around”
Takeaway42:30
AI will automate content, so build personality and connection
“content was eventually going to be automated like ai is going to replace all written content video content”
“i want to build a personality and a connection with my audience a community with my audience that they just care about the things that…”