Ryan Shank drives through rich neighborhoods to visualize the wealth he wants, then reverse-engineers the net worth needed for those houses and cars. He sets concrete financial targets and argues that seeing these symbols forces his mind beyond conventional limits, pushing him to create what he calls "a monster" rather than play it safe.
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One of the things I used to do when I was younger, and I still do it now, and I literally have done it for the past few years, but to get motivated, I would literally drive around and I would go to all like the rich neighborhoods and I would just drive through where all the massive houses were, and then I would take a look at the houses and like it just literally motivated me. It's like when you're around that kind of wealth or, you know, all these houses and you think all of these people did it, every single person here made it, right? They all have these really nice houses, these really nice cars. It like just shows you that it's doable. Literally like that house, these houses, that's 60, 70. This is like at least 40, 50 right here. If you're like trying to reverse engineer in here, like, all right, I want that house right there. I gotta get 40 to get that house, so then I need 200. That just makes your mind though start to think about different things, right? All right, if I need to get there, I got to do things like a completely different way to get them. Because like, if you just do stuff inside the box, like, you're not gonna get that. Like, you got to create like a monster. I mean, they did it, they did it, they literally— it's like, if you think about it, like, is it doable? Like, literally, they did it, they did it, they did it, they did it, they did it. So it's like, all these people did it, just inspires me and it shows me that it's real. Like whenever I look at it and I'm saying like, literally that person right there did it, that person did it, that person did it, that person did it. I feel like, okay, this is totally possible. It's totally achievable. Like you got to swing for the fences and you got to do things that other people aren't doing if you want to achieve this kind of level of it. But it also shows you that it's possible. Like literally all of these people did it and it's totally attainable. But these are like $40, $50 million houses. So it's like, how do— what do I have to do in order to get there? How do I get that? It makes you think like big. And it's like, we got to stop doing this little stuff and time matters. And it's like, we got to acquire it fast. 'Cause I don't wanna be sitting in there when I'm 90. I wanna be sitting in there when I'm like 35.
