🦾 Everything is red (free edition)
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Better Humans,
It's a bloodbath. Red everywhere.
Traders are waking up to liquidations. Some have committed suicide.
The greed/fear index puts us at EXTREME FEAR.
Yet through all this, people still go to work, they make stuff, and they trade stuff. And that’s not going to stop.
What you must understand is this: The prices on your screen are an illusion. It's all smoke and mirrors. It's the machinations of ultra-wealthy and bureaucrats moving markets with their obscene amounts of money and state manipulations.
Yet the businesses out in the real world doing real-world things are still doing those real-world things.
People keep buying stuff because they need to. That will never stop.
Warren Buffet likes buying recession-proof businesses. I like buying high-growth businesses because I believe in the future, and I don't care about being down for a period of time.
A month ago, my net worth was double what it is now. I didn't even consider that. I don’t care either. In fact, if I had extra cash right now, I’d be buying as much as I can.
I don't, so my best action is no action. Sit and wait. Know history. Remind yourself of your principles. And then remember this time when then markets reach peak insanity/stupidity as they will again in the future many times.
I made the most profitable trade of my life in March 2020.
As the markets tanked because the pundits were calling for doomsday, I bought stocks in companies I knew weren't going anywhere. (Google, FB ew btw never again, southwest (ew with some of their mask nonsense), Starbucks (which pretty much stayed open the entire time, lol, and a few others.)
I sold most of these positions a year later. I think I tripled my investment, maybe 4x. I don't remember. I do remember paying the gov a painful chunk of those gains that year though.
Isn't it crazy that every time an individual or institution makes a profitable trade, they pay a hefty chunk of that to the government? Every. Single. Time. And still, the state is bankrupt, and the US debt is over 2 trillion. See this website… tick tick tick up it goes.
Almost everything you see online and in pop culture (pretty much anywhere that isn't right in front of you) is an illusion built on top of the illusion that more is the answer to life and that more will solve all your problems.
More doesn’t solve problems. Less does.
But more appeals to human nature’s need to accumulate resources to protect against the uncertain future. We are designed to want more. And as much as we can’t rid ourselves of our primal instinct, we should be able to use our intellect and 2000+ years of philosophy and collective human knowledge to figure out that more is not the answer.
Every human alive today should understand that our species’ mistake is not going inward to control desire. That's it. That's the big mistake we all make.
So we go OUTSIDE for answers. But answers are not outside. Never have been, never will be.
You control your desires. You control your happiness, satisfaction, fear, thoughts, feelings, and actions. Everything.
Few understand this. Fewer use it to their advantage.
You can train your mind to love what you have and have what you love.
I'm not suggesting you shouldn't strive for more. Go after it. Just make sure it's a healthy approach. You can become a millionaire, have a family, have near-perfect health, and be happy. It's way easier than you think. I've done it, and while I wasn't perfect about stress throughout the process, I've still kept a six-pack the entire time and I eat clean and I’ve been exercising consistently since I was 16 and I build a company and I wrote a lot of words and I learned a lot about life. And I still want more and to have much to do, though I’m working on stressing less and enjoying the moment more.
As far as the market goes, ignore it.
It doesn’t matter.
Just own assets that will be around for 10 years (real estate, bitcoin, businesses) and keep buying more. Right now, if you aren’t looking at all the red with foam at the mouth because you want to own as many assets as possible, you're not playing the game correctly.
👇 What you missed last edition: 🦾 How to get rich (without getting lucky)
Is that really what a cell looks like? 🧬
🤬 Just how broken Big Tech is
🏛 The FED Raises rates again… and why it doesn’t matter
💰 The single most important thing you will ever read about getting rich 👀
👇 Today👇
⎿ The most important chart for thinking about Bitcoin’s history
🤔 So discrimination against white people isn’t discrimination?
But that’s exactly what politics is… 🇺🇸
81 million votes (apparently) and not a single 🧢
📰 World News 🚨
Respond to this:
This is politics. Most people think we could end world hunger because we can just print up and send money to poor countries. But that dfoes’t work because of corruption at the state level. Most poverty is a result of corruption.
It’s weird how people think it’s ok to discriminate against white people but not anyone else as if that’s not discrimination. So strange.
Double standard nonsense. All of it.
Is anyone going to jail over any of this?
🤔 Good point.
🔥 Useful $HIT CORNER 🔥
🦾 A principle for life → NOW → The now is all you ever have. There is no future or past. Both are ideas in your mind.
💬 Quote → “Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike you, so much the better.” —Seneca
🧠 Psychology → To catch someone’s attention, you need a hook. You hold it, you need depth.
✍️ Writing Tip → Remove everything that doesn’t belong in a sentence to make it as short as possible.
Make your sentences as short as possible.
Make your sentences short.
Write shorter sentences.
Write short sentences.
Write fewer words.
♟ Uber fact →
✋ Something I’ve struggled with lately → Back pain. What I’m doing: treadmill deks, more standing when working, egoscue (best thing ever), and chiro every so often. I just started some sports massage too. It’s all helping a lot.
💸 Better Money Section 💰
The attack on Luna and their stablecoin is EXACTLY why you don’t waste time on “crypto” and you just buy bitcoin. Billions were wiped out like that.
The most important way to think about Bitcoin and it’s price history.
If you are confused about why getting rich is the best thing you can do for humanity, read this 👇
Yes. I can’t stand small talk. So boring.
KEEP BUYING MORE:
💸 Personal Finance 💰→ Use a simple SS to track your inflow and outflow. You are a person and as a person, you have the same profit and loss each month as any business. Treat yourself like one and watch how your wealth grows.
📈 Stocks 💰→ Nothing to say or see here.
Entrepreneurship → Always ask. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. So ask for payment terms. Ask for a discount. Ask for a lower invoice. Pit the market against itself. There is always someone willing to provide the same product or service for slightly less. The only way you take advantage of that is by asking.
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I’m Colin. I believe in Free Humans, Free Markets, and becoming the best human I can be. I’m an Entrepreneur, Investor, Father, and Thinker. My philosophy.
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A book that Really helped me deal with musculoskeletal pain is The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, by Clair Davies NCTMB. Egoscue is great but the exercises take too much time. Once you figure out your trigger points...fixing them is fast. Since you have given good advice...thought I would return the favor.