Bookmarks

I just watched a video that was mind blowing. Making this one small adjustment in life can change your entire trajectory.

Here’s the concept:

In order to win, you need to have wins. In Winners keep winning. Losers keep losing. It’s a vicious cycle. That’s nature.

There was a study where scientists they made two mice fight each other. They rigged the first match, and the mouse that won the fight continued on to keep winning all the fights thereafter.

Another example is Mr Beast. Not a lot of people know that his first-ever video actually went viral. That sole event might have been all the difference in making him the biggest YouTuber in the world. Craving that vitality again, he wouldn’t stop hunting for it until he could repeat it over and over.

I’ve realized personally as well how much lacking that winning mentality has affected my output during periods of trough and sorrow. Being an entrepreneur, there’s so many days where it feels hopeless and redundant. It feels like you’re just going in circles and wasting time and energy. Most of the time, the day to day feels mundane and you question if what you’re doing is worth it.

Looking back on my lowest periods, I realize I was mentally in the opposite place of where I should have been. I needed to switch gears and have a winning mentality.

If you’re in a slump, all you can feel is down in the dumps. It’s so important you escape self pity and doubt, and get out of this rut as soon as possible.

But how? Not everyone can be an outright winner.

The key is to trick your brain into defining what is a win.

Start with the small wins. Get those dopamine hits.

Get out of bed today? That’s a win.
Get 2 hours of work done today? Thats a win.

Build it up slowly, but don’t ever regress to the pits of sorrow. Look at where you are right now relative to how far you’ve come.

The Passport King: How a Swiss Lawyer Built a Billion Dollar Passport Business

This Swiss Lawyer built a multibillion-dollar firm that helps wealthy individuals acquire passports and launched a fund that has returned 2000% since its inception.

He discovered a chance on a modest Caribbean island named St. Kitts & Nevis. The nation was grappling with significant crime and scant development until Chris Kälin introduced his brilliant idea:

A passport package that lets wealthy individuals buy citizenship for $250,000 without ever visiting the island

The passports provided access to 132 countries and exempted holders from capital gains taxes.

This citizenship program produced hundreds of millions in revenue from nothing for the island.

Chris Kälin`s company earned a 10% commission on each transaction, and he later duplicated this model in other nations, such as Grenada.

Kälin turned the pay for passport industry into a multibillion dollar market. In 2014, over $2B of them were bought.