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If you want to get rich you have to look for ways to invent new tools that change the odds in your favor. To do this, you need to learn how to think clearly.

Create a compelling vision. Not a goal. There’s a level above goals, which is vision. Learning to manage your emotions. Getting to the bottom of the beliefs that are holding you back, and rooting out those beliefs. Strategy. Basically learning about something, how it’s made of different parts, and then manipulating the parts, doing this tirelessly, until some kind of magic happens.

Now he gets it. How the game works. How the machine works. Money is lascivious and narcissistic. It lusts after itself. Then it replicates. To make money, you have to be a matchmaker. You have to introduce the money to the money. That’s why people like to gamble. It’s because the money inside them is itching for some action, it’s always hungry, like an addict.