Zach Yadegari plans to earn $1 million before graduating high school and will document it on YouTube. He's been coding since age 7 and outlines income streams like freelancing on Fiverr, teaching coding, and launching a startup. He breaks the goal into 30 items sold daily at $100 each.
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I'm going to make $1 million before graduating high school, and this YouTube channel is going to document the whole process. What is $1 million? It's enough cash to give you a luxury lifestyle. It makes life more enjoyable and stress-free. It's every kid's dream. Making $1 million can be broken down. For example, if you're trying to make it in a year, it's just $80,000 a month or $20,000 a week or $3,000 a day. All I would need to do is sell 30 $100 items every single day. Seems easy. I'm really making it more simple than it seems, but whatever. They say shoot for the moon and land on the stars, but actually the stars are farther than the moon. So are you really exceeding your goal when you do that? 'Cause if that's the case, I'd be happy to exceed my goal, you know, it would be pretty cool. My skills are mainly with technology. I've been programming since I've been, since I was 7, and I can also do video editing and some Photoshop. So what I normally will do, probably what I, what I probably will end up doing is a lot of things that involve my technology skills. So we'll see where that gets me. Maybe I'll do a startup, maybe some Fiverr. I'm looking— working for people. YouTube is a good way to make money too, so maybe this could monetize me. Fuck off, fuck off! Whether I complete this challenge or not, I want this video series to be something I can look back on when I'm older. Let's say I manage to be successful, really successful in the future. This could become history. So let's see where it goes. Do you like school? Not really. Exactly, nobody likes school. Like most kids, I don't like school either. So that's why I want to do this challenge. It's partially one of the reasons, because if I don't need the stress of doing good in school to go to a good college, to get a good job, to make a good income, to support a family, then— and I skip all those steps— then where's the stress in that? Exactly, it's just going to be fun life, enjoyable life. And that's what this is good for. I think the problem is that school prioritizes test-taking over the actual learning aspects. I love to learn, but I don't like school. See the contradiction? Fortnite, one of the biggest games out there, or at least it was. People are still obsessed with it, but now it's targeting the younger kids, like my brother, who's watching TikTok at the same time he's playing. Attention spans, they're being decreased every single day. The attention span of a goldfish is 5 seconds, and that's gonna be him soon, his attention span. Look, he just— his attention went from the game to the camera. He's gonna, he's gonna— personally, I deleted TikTok because it is not— it does not have you in the benefit. It just has you staying on the app and being addicted. That's what it tries to do. It doesn't have your personal health as something it looks at and cares about at all. It just wants you to be swiping, swiping, swiping mindlessly all day, messing with your mind, influencing you. Like Facebook, they affect people's emotions. Showing negative things makes people have a bad day. It was a proven study. And so that's just one of the terrible things that happens. But the problem is they're designed to do well because the human mind makes it so that they want more of that dopamine rush, so they keep going back to the things that make them unhappy daily. And that has nothing to do with anything in this video. It has nothing to do with me making a million dollars, unless that's something I profit off of. I believe it's called, I have no idea what it's called, but I saw The Social Dilemma and they said something about that. So yeah, it's a great movie, go check it out. Speaking of dilemmas, here's one. Why haven't you subscribed to my channel yet? So you could see all my updates and my newest rants and where I'm at in my journey. Right now, I'm not starting from absolute nothing because I've always wanted to make money. I just haven't been documenting it on YouTube, but I've always been doing small things. I teach kids coding, so that's my main source of income right now, but I wanna change that. I wanna make more. I wanna always want more. Humans always want more. They're programmed to always want more. They're programmed to never be satisfied, and that is the problem. With humans and why they can never be happy. But maybe we could get a glimpse of that, because once you get to your goal, you get like a, a little bit of happiness. So that's what we're going for. So subscribe, stay tuned for the next video. Goodbye.
