The Psychology of Making Money

I always think it's a combination of making more money and also saving more money, but let's talk about the making more money piece.

I think that everyone is unique in their own way, right? I would encourage people to kind of lean into what makes them unique and where they've spent a lot of their time.

I think everyone has something that they're good at inherently.

Figuring out what skills you have internally and how you can kind of monetize those.

One of the hidden things to do is you really are a function of who you're surrounded by.

Invest in your network.

And I don't mean that in a kind of cold-hearted, you know, I want to network with these people.

But just surround yourself by people who are also trying to push themselves to push their income, push their opportunity set.

And it makes it so much easier.

If you're the only one doing it and you're around a group of friends, you're the odd one out and you're castigated for it.

Find other people who want to do the same thing, and you kind of help each other in that journey.

So at an early stage, that's just one of the key things, is to find people who also want the same journey as you.

That really helps.

Then it's still about the best leverage of your skill set and being honest with what your skill set is.

Just because you're a doctor doesn't mean you should be a doctor, just because you've graduated, because you can do other things.

And it's figuring that out.

That's not an easy bit, but you figure it out over time by trying stuff.

If you're early, it's the time to make bets in yourself and your network, and that gives you the foundational tools to then earn more income and then invest more.