Here's How to Outperform 95% of the Population

Remember that 1 + 1 = 3

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Dreams you have while you sleep don’t need to be naughty.

(Like humping your favorite Hollywood star on a first date.)

Recently, I’ve had a recurring dream about high school. The problem is by the time I wake up, I’ve already forgotten it.

Except the other night.

I woke up and managed to remember the dream, so I wrote it down. I’m in the classroom during my final year of high school at age 18.

I’m trying to decide whether to stay and finish school or walk out and forget it forever.

At the end of the dream I decide to quit school. Weirdly, I can see my future as a writer and owner of an online business. That evidence makes me think finishing high school and doing my exams is dumb.

So I drop out.

This dream is partially based on real life. At 16 years old I quit high school with 2 years to go. I left to study sound engineering … illegally.

See, in Australia, you have to be 18 and finish high school before you can do higher education. The college I went to never checked my high school diploma or age (until year later), so I got to attend early.

After 12 months I went back and did my final year of high school on the side before college at night.

Deep down, for some odd reason, this decision to quit school and go back still haunts me. It was the right decision. But the dreams I have seem to love forcing me to relive the experience as torture or to quietly ask me “are you sure?”

“Yes I’m sure, god damn it!”

I used to believe as a teenager that you needed good grades to outperform in life.

Then when I joined the workforce I thought you needed to impress an employer so they’d write you a permission slip for a promotion to make your career dreams come true. That’s how 95% of the population thinks.

It’s completely wrong.

Here’s what you need to outperform in life.

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Remember that 1 + 1 = 3

This is my life motto.

1+1 = 3 … read that three times.

What does it mean? When you believe that 1+1=3 you believe there are no rules, that we just make stuff up as we go. It also means you believe in optimism.

It’s the crazy idea that we give meaning to everything in life. That each day we brainwash ourselves with ideas, and if we want to believe 1+1=3 then we can.

The 1+1=3 mindset sits at the foundation of the concept of leverage. It’s where you input effort once and get paid at least three times. It’s the bedrock of online writing, passive income, and making money online.

Choose the 1+1=3 mindset to outperform in life.

Get access to wifi

All of you reading this have wifi.

Yet behind the scenes I see some of you complain or blame others for a lack of opportunities. Makes me sad.

If you have wifi access you’re already one of the lucky ones. So many people in places like Africa don’t have internet. They’d chop off their left leg to have your wifi connection for a year. Why?

Because people in third-world countries know the power of the internet. They know it can change their lives. They know that access to information is a huge advantage.

If you haven’t outperformed in life already it’s on you. The internet can literally make any dream you have come true. You can learn any skill or message almost anybody you want for free.

And if your dream is to work with Richard Branson, well, you may not be able to get his email address, but you can 100% contact his personal assistant.

Wifi allows you to outperform. You just gotta use it right.

Create more than you consume

This one ties into the previous point beautifully.

Most people use their devices and wifi to overconsume. They let the TikTok algorithm take over their minds and fry their dopamine receptors (used to create natural motivation in the brain).

All for cheap thrills. All to numb the pain of their day.

The reason it’s so easy to outperform on the internet is that most people use it to consume. I remember reading a statistic. It went something along the lines of 95% of LinkedIn and Twitter users have never posted anything.

That’s your competition.

All you have to do is create something and put it out online and you’re already in the top 5% in the world. Holy cow.

The Pfizer jab for a lack of opportunities

Relationships lead to opportunities.

If you have no good opportunities right now, you can sit there and cry about like an adult baby. Or you can go out there and make stuff happen.

The direct message function on social media apps is free to use. Take the time to research five people you want to be connected to.

Learn how they live and what they care about. Memorize their achievements.

Then send them a message with these components:

Hey Susan,

Saw you recently completed XYZ project. Nice one. I’m in the same field. 

Looks like you and I both have had dealings with “John Doe” according to our mutual connections on LinkedIn/Twitter/Instagram.

[Mention one cool thing you’re working on that they might care about based on your research of them]

Would be cool to connect for a few minutes next week. Are you down?

Feel free to say no if you’re busy.

Timbo

Focus on having a small number of quality relationships, where you and them have similar goals and can bounce ideas off each other.

Tell your mother to go jump in the lake

Mothers want us to be careful.

They don’t want us to take too much risk or our downfall could bring their parenting skills into question. So they tell us to play small because they love us.

“Get a good job little Johhny.”

“Do what your boss says. It’ll be your turn one day little Johnny.”

“Don’t do anything drastic or piss anyone off little Johnny.”

“Hug mommy and stay comfortable little Johhny.”

Mothers accidentally destroy our chances of ever outperforming in life with these knife jabs in the back of our potential success. Tell her nicely to go jump in the lake.

People who outperform don’t use lottery or casino thinking. In other words they don’t rely on luck and hard work. Nope.

Successful people who outperform think like venture capitalists.

• They have a portfolio of small bets.

• They take calculated risks in a small number of areas.

• Then they look at the data as they progress to slowly focus on 1-3 good bets.

My two winners were online business and writing. What are your small bets in life going to be?

One of those small bets will lead to outperformance that’ll pay dividends for life.

Don’t be like 95% of the population and never take risks. Otherwise, the tax you’ll pay for the mistake is a lifetime of regrets.

Mother wants you to succeed. Use uncomfortable bets to show her (and the world) what you’re capable of before your life runs out and we gotta haul your ass off to the funeral parlor.

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