What is the secret to independence? #Habits

4 Jul 2020 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk (by TJ Walker) reflecting on what it means to become personally independent—financially and professionally—outside traditional employment. The speaker frames the question around Independence Day, recounts spending free time experimenting with businesses and intellectual property, and notes long-term failure followed by eventual success with online courses after about 20 years.

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Today is the Independence Day celebration. In the North American country where I happen to live, it's about independence. The number one question I get from friends and people just like you is how do you truly become independent in this era where you're not dependent on a company hiring firing you, not dependent on an unemployment office giving you a check, not dependent even on one client? I don't have the answers for everyone. All I can tell you is what has worked for me is to spend virtually every second of free time experimenting with creating my own businesses with my own intellectual property. For me, after failing at books and videos and radio shows and podcasts, I struck some success with online courses. But it wasn't an overnight success. I failed for 20 years before I became profitable.