Pick one skill you love, get really good at it, and use that expertise to make money. The speaker chose investing, became skilled at spotting deals, built and sold a company, then had the freedom to do something new. That's how you get alpha.
Find a skill that you can be passionate about and develop that skill. That will lead you to a place where then you can start making decisions about what you want your career to look like. So for me, that skill was investing. I love The Art of the Deal and being able to identify the right investment and make returns. So I focused on getting really good at that skill. That was a means to the end of then selling that company and giving me the space and the freedom to find this new career path. But I never could have gotten here without that first part.
