Voluntarily taking on hard problems now makes your life easier later. Earning money requires solving market problems, which demands learning new skills and personal development. The speaker contrasts someone who stays comfortable with someone who works weekends on self-improvement, arguing the world rewards those who deserve it.
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Eso, I just wanted to shoot a quick video off the cuff here because I'm feeling inspired. So I was thinking about something. The more problems you willingly decide to endure in your life now, the easier your life will be in the future. And the less problems you are willing to endure now, the harder your life will be in the future. So the harder that you make your life right now, you'll have an easier life in the future. And the easier you make your life right now, you'll have a a harder life in the future. So if you already have a hard life now, you think your life is hard, right? You make— you don't make as much money, you're maybe a single parent or something like that. I'm not saying that's not hard, but I'm saying that as hard as it may seem, in order to get out of that life, you need to be willing to endure more problems and more stress to be able to grow financially, personally, and in all areas of your life, and to eventually be able to escape that hard life and in the future be able to live an easy life. So what does that mean? So what does it mean to endure more problems and endure more stress? Marcel, it already seems that my life is as stressful as it can be. What does that mean? So let me unpack that. So when I say endure more problems. Here's what I'm saying. So in order to make money, you need to solve certain problems in the marketplace, and people will pay you for that. That's a fundamental law of the universe. In order to make more money, you must solve problems in the marketplace, which means generating value. And value— you generate value to somebody or some organization when you solve a problem that they have. And in order to solve problems, you need to know how to solve problems. So you're— in order to know how to solve a problem, you're going to need to learn a skill to solve that problem right now. What if you don't know anything? Then you're going to have to learn. You're going to have to study. You're going to have to read the books. You're going to have to undergo personal development. You're going to have to change your philosophy. Your philosophy of life is what determines the results of your life. So if you think you can or if you think you can't, both people are usually right. So once you change your philosophy and you start thinking that you can make more money and you can change yourself, you start in this personal development journey, personal development journey. You start developing more skills, you start studying, reading the books, buying the courses, doing the mentorships or whatever, and you start improving yourself. You start developing new skills that you can then use in the marketplace to solve more problems, and then you can get paid more money, and then you can live an easier life. So you can— so you're gonna need to endure for a short period of time or a long period of time, right? Maybe years. It took me 7 years to get to where I'm at right now. And so you're gonna have to maybe endure a more problems for a short amount of time in order to live an easier life in the future. So my life today is more, I would say, convenient than it was 10 years ago, but I'm still not at the retirement phase, right? I'm still not retired and not doing anything. So my life is still— I'm still going through the pain and through the hardship and through the problems to solve. I could be living a just a chill life. I could. I have the money to just live a chill life now, but that's not what I want. I want more problems because I'm a problem solver. I like to solve problems. I like to develop myself. I like to challenge myself to learn new things, to develop new skills. And so that's just me, right? That doesn't need to be you. That's just me. You can just decide to, you know, challenge yourself to learn a couple new skills to be able to increase your income, and you're good like that, right? Maybe you're your purpose in life is another purpose. You don't have to grow infinitely. But what I'm saying is, in order for you to have more convenience and less problems in the future and an easier life in the future, you need to be willing to endure more problems now and more stress now so you can, you know, develop yourself to the max, change your philosophy, break certain limiting beliefs, learn new skills, and then you can have everything you want. It's like Charlie Munger says, you know, the world isn't yet a crazy enough place to reward a bunch of undeserving people. So if you work hard enough and you become 1% better every single day, most people will get what they want out of life. But the world isn't just going to reward a bunch of undeserving people. Now, what does it mean to be undeserving. I thought everybody deserved to live a good life. No, everybody doesn't deserve to live a good life. You must deserve to live a good life. Do you think that God, in all his power and might, is gonna see two different people, right? Let's say one guy works 9 to 5, gets home, fights with his wife, watches Netflix all night, you know, does bad habits, smokes, drinks, whatever, and then sleeps and then does it all again the next day. And then come weekends, he just, you know, parties all weekend, drinks, is aggressive maybe, or does just bad habits. Versus another guy that has a 9-to-5 but gets home and is working on himself to become a better man, is developing a better philosophy, developing new skills, reading books, You know, instead of doomscrolling, doomscrolling on social media while watching Netflix or whatever, he's maybe, you know, reading a book. He's developing new skills. He's studying a new course. He is starting a side hustle, starting a side business, right? And then when the weekend comes, he doesn't go party. He stays inside and works more. He tells his wife, baby, I'm going to have to spend a whole year working this whole year, every single weekend. And I hope you can understand that. And I hope you can trust me. But I want to make us have a better life. And she's on board. Board with you, and then you work weekends as well. You take Saturday and Sunday to work, to develop your, your, yourself, to develop your craft, to learn new skills, to develop your, your side business, right? And when you do that, do you think comparing those two people, the first one and the second one, who do you think deserves more success? And so you got to be willing to deserve it. You know, Charlie Munger, I learned so much wisdom from him. He was one of the richest men in the world, Warren Buffett's business partner, right? And he said that, and it stuck with me, you know, the world isn't yet a crazy enough place to reward a bunch of undeserving people. So to get what you want, you must deserve what you want. So anyways, anyways, I was just, uh, thinking about that, wanted to shoot this quick video off the cuff. Hope you enjoy it. If you do, like and subscribe, comment down below what else you would like to see. And remember, in order to live an easier life down the road, you need to willingly put yourself through more problems and more stress and a harder life now in order to get the outcomes you want in the future. Like the video, subscribe, comment what you want to see next. Love you. Bye.
