This Principle Will Make You a Millionaire

The reason why you are not rich yet.

Be a creator and you won’t have to worry about jobs, careers, and AI.

— Naval

Most people struggle with money.

That’s true.

They work hard every single day just to solve this problem because it impacts every area of your life when unsolved (and is responsible for their survival), but everyone is taking the wrong path when it comes to making a ton of money.

Most people think they need to grind in their jobs so they can get higher promotions to earn more.

No, you won’t.

You are not rich because you lack hard work. You are not rich because you are not creating something valuable to people so they feel stupid to not pay for it.

It took me years of pain to realize this.

Intense pain caused by the first piece of advice you’ll hear when you are born on earth.

  • Go to school.

  • Get a job.

  • Work. Work. Work.

  • Get a promotion.

  • Work. Work. Work.

  • Get a promotion.

  • Work. Work. Work.

  • Get retired.

  • Live with enough money to survive.

Society has programmed us to believe that the only path to getting rich is to work hard on our jobs.

We have been conditioned since birth to work for people but ourselves. We don’t know any better option because all we know is what we’ve been told from our parents.

That’s the wave slavery.

The wave slavery is a set of ideas and concepts that shape your view of your reality, that supposed to make the entire society survive.

Poor people are not creators. Everything they do is sell themselves and time out to an employer who then uses their capacity, effort, and energy to their service and you get paid x amount of dollars per hour or per month or per year.

Again and again and the system is surviving.

Society's battle is power, and you lost that power by working a 9 5 because your boss doesn’t care about you, he just cares to make his competition down and to rise to the top, no matter what it takes.

When you work a 9 5 job, you won’t have much capital to pursue self-education, personal development, travel and exploration. You won’t have time for your family and kids, you won’t have time to do inner work and self-growth, and you won’t be able to express your genius of curiosity to the world. You won’t be able to give your gift to people.

Society doesn’t care what is happening to you, as long as the entire system survives. They don’t care about your health if you are good or not (yes, they may give you assurance to make you feel certain and save but deep down they don’t care). They don’t care about your future (yes they may give you enough money to survive but deep down they don’t care).

But most people never escape the wave slavery because they don’t know they are slaves.

They do not wanna listen to the truth because it will threaten their ego. They have been conditioned to hate the rich and call it ‘evil’. They have been programmed to wait of some bonus to become dopamine slaves and see at as the only way to survive.

But the biggest issue here is that everyone is blaming others.

Everyone is blaming their boss, parents, friends, society, and the environment, but you are not stuck because of them. You are stuck because of your thoughts about them. Your mind tricked you into believing the opposite so it does not feel threatened because it does not like to change.

No one is the enemy, but your mind.

If you want to get rich (and not get stuck doing work you hate for the rest of your life), you’re going to have to be a creator to actually own and control over creation to amplify your wealth.

But most people will never do it because they fear the work and change required to fully engage in their potential and responsibility. They tell you other excuses but this is the real reason why they never start, and the worst thing is you will spend your entire life resisting but underlying much of self-sabotage and wishing to start.

You must recognize this fear because it is the first step to embark on your journey to become free individual and actually make money through creative work, responsibility and ownership.

No, that you understand how society is programmed you to keep you poor, you need to understand what it really means to be a creator.

The Future of Work

The future of work belongs to the creators.

Being a creator is simply someone who influences people either by entertaining, inspiring, or educating them. When people hear the word ‘influence’, they think of Mr Beast, Speed, and Andrew Tate. These are entertainers.

If you want to make money, you need to combine all 3 (specifically, you need to focus more on education).

The traditional education suck.

It serves society's goals, it trains you to study books you don’t care about, to learn skills you don’t care about, to spend 40 years doing work you don’t care about (all of this just to survive).

It trains you to memorize patterns, not to experience. It trains you to memorize guides, not to create your own mechanism. It trains you to cheat on tests for a grade, not to take full responsibility to change your life.

But here’s a better way. A new way to arm yourself with time, work, and money freedom.

The self-education system.

It serves your goals. It lets you choose what you actually love and want to do. It lets you follow your curiosity (and actually make an income from it). The difference between the two is skills, knowledge, and the ability to persist.

Your job is to turn yourself into a project.

Pursue self-master, achieve things others want to learn from you (and essentially sell it for someone else who is 1-2 steps behind). Your experience becomes proof for others who want to buy from you. You document your journey. You create something valuable for others.

Period, people's lives will change and in return, they will give you money.

You educate someone to achieve a better future, show them what traps to avoid and why your way is the bridge to it. That’s how you connect ‘life’ and ‘work’. That’s basically sales, persuasion, and storytelling (they have the same structure).

Take Dan Koe as an example. He went from failing at multiple side hustles in 2018 to building a one-person digital business that made $4.2M in 2023 while working about 4 hours per day.

Take Nick Sweeney as an example too. He has 19k followers on X (you can check his work here) and he has the potential to write one thread a week for just 2 hours, promote his breath work app, and actually earn more than someone who is grinding in his 9 5 job.

Another great example is Jack . He was a college sophomore with 0 skills & $0, but over the past 3 years, I built myself a $100 million+ network.

All of them created something valuable from their life experience, and sell it to those who share the same goals and lifestyles.

Now, let’s see how you can start your creation journey.

6 Steps To Begin Your Creation Journey

1) Find a problem in your life

Value is how you share what you know to lead someone from pain to a desired outcome.

Pain is the start of your value creation.

Pain storm from a series of problems or just one problem.

Problems are the foundation of self-improvement. Yes this may seem counterintuitive but problems are how your brain changes and improves.

Find a problem in your life (or others) to solve.

That’s your first homework to do.

2) Outline a project

Once you find a problem to solve, outline a project as a system to solve it.

Everything is a project if you want it to be.

Your mental, physical, spiritual, and financial development.

The importance of outlining a project is to spread awareness of what you know and what you don't know.

The moment you outline a project, you’ll have clarity on what to do next and what skills, habits, and topics you need to study.

Again. Find a problem in your life and build a project for it so you can solve it.

2) Choose a project to emulate

If you want it, there is somebody who wants it before and has built what you want.

If I want to stop overthinking, would I not research others ways for inspiration?

If I want to make money, would I not research a business model and start one?

If I want to lose weight, would I not research people that are doing it right?

This goes for anything.

3) Self-educate to fill in the gaps

When you are building the project, you will face problems.

Your job is to educate yourself with courses, tutorials, books, and articles.

Don’t start with learning. Start with building a project, then when i problem appears, seek to solve it with learning.

The best way that I like to use is either asking people on X or Reddit.

You can find every answer you need there.

4) Document what worked

You don’t need to build the project for 12 hours a day.

2 hours of pure focus a day are enough.

When you solve those problems, document:

  • What results you got

  • What the problem was

  • What you learned to solve it

Now you have something valuable to sell it to others.

5) Sell it

Once you have a system that guarantees results, your job is to sell it.

Do it online = Business

Do it offline = Growth

The best way to do it is on the internet because:

  • You don’t need a team.

  • You don’t need huge capital.

  • You don’t need a physical location.

You just need to:

  • Learn how to build an audience.

  • Learn sales to deliver your project in the right way.

  • Learn marketing to communicate the value of your project.

We'll talk about this for future letters.

It takes absolute 3-6 months of self-education (by building a project) to actually sell your experience to someone else. If you start today. In 3-5 months, you will thank yourself.

Thank you for reading.

I hope it didn’t make too many people mad.

– Noah