How To Get Rich

This is a video on how to get rich. Why am I making a video on how to get rich? When I was working as a doctor and doing the YouTube and business stuff on the side, no one ever asked me, "How do you get rich?

" They would always ask me, "How do you manage your time? How do you how do you be so productive? " And all of this all of this sort of stuff.

But now, like 8 years into this journey, I've now built a multi-million dollar business. I have a team. I never have to work again a day in my life if I don't want to.

Now, when I give talks and when I do Q&As's and when I do like events and stuff, people will come up to me and ask questions. And the questions are no longer about how do you manage your time and how do you be productive. The questions like 90% of them are basically how do you get rich.

It's framed in different ways. You know, what's your advice for getting a high paying job? What's your advice for, you know, how I can have a six-figure lifestyle business doing what I love?

And I want to talk about something that I don't think I've talked about on this channel before. Basically, back in 2015, I was in my third year of medical school. It's a six-year degree at Cambridge University.

And after 3 years, we have like a halfway graduation type thing. I was at this halfway graduation with the other medical students in my college. There were like 15 of us and sitting with our professors who'd gotten to know us over the last three years.

And one of the questions in the yearbook um that the medics were talking about was which of us is most likely to become a millionaire but be struck off the medical register which means you're no longer allowed to practice medicine because they've deemed you incompetent. They've struck you off the medical register. Big deal.

And one of the professors who had known me for 3 years and had taught me said, "Oh, it's obviously Ollie. " And I was like, "Oh shit. " At the time, I had not started this YouTube channel.

This was 2015. I started the channel in 2017. At the time, I spent quite a lot of effort like trying to trying to be a good doctor, trying to sort of do my, you know, get the grades and, you know, whatever.

And I got a first class degree in one of my exams. And then that year, I sort of ranked in the top two in the subject and like won a prize and stuff. I I thought I was pretty dedicated to medical school stuff.

And this professor who I really looked up to casually in the in a dinner context. I was like, "Oh, you know, which of us is more most likely to be a millionaire but be struck off the medical register, which is like a really bad thing. " He just he he he said it would be me.

I'd be most likely to be a millionaire but be struck off the medical register. I didn't actually get struck off the medical register. Thank goodness.

I voluntarily took my name off of it when when I when I quit medicine to do full-time business entrepreneurship type stuff. But that made me feel pretty bad. I was like, "Huh?

" Like part of me was like, "Oh, he thinks I'm going to be a millionaire. " But the bigger part of me was like, "Holy, he thinks that my pursuit of money is going to get me struck off the medical register. " What?

I think the only reason I got rich or the main reason, not the only reason, the the main reason I got rich was because I had an unhealthy obsession with making money. An unhealthy obsession with making money. There's a thread on Reddit.

There's like a junior doctor's subreddit and someone like posted something a few like last year like, "What do you think of Ali Dal? " You know, and some comments on this thing were like, "Oh, you know, I like his productivity content and he he helped me study for my exams. " But there were a bunch of comments being like, you know, that dude is totally obsessed with money.

He's just obsessed. He has an orgasm thinking about money. Dude is so obsessed with making money.

And it's interesting cuz this is now like 10 years on. This is 10 years after that graduation dinner where my professor basically told me I was obsessed with making money to now people on the internet telling me I'm obsessed with making money. Um, and honestly it's true.

It's true. During the era where my business grew from zero to 5 figures to six figures to seven figures and suddenly I was making more money than a doctor would earn in a lifetime in a year. In that era, I was totally obsessed with making money if you want to get rich.

I kind of think you need to be obsessed with making money. I'm sorry. I think I think that's it.

I know a lot of people who are rich now. You know, when you become rich, you start hanging out with other people who are very rich. I've been on business trips and stuff with people with net worths in the multi-7 figures, i.

e. up to $10 million, like $1 to $10 million. I've hung out with people who are have net worths in the 10 to $100 million.

I interviewed a guy who's now a friend of mine actually. He wrote a book called Never Enough. His name's Andrew Wilkinson.

He's a billionaire with a B, like net worth of $1,000 million plus. I have gotten to know a lot of really rich people. I have not met a single one who was not unhealthily obsessed with the goal of making money, with the goal of getting rich, with the goal of building their business.

Once they get rich, that is when they start thinking about work life balance. That's when they start doing side quests, right? you know, bro has completed the main story line by getting rich and now bro is doing side quests.

That's when they take up martial arts. That's when they take up video gaming. It's when they start writing books about like how to be more productive and how to like live your best life.

And you know, uh I know lots of people who got rich through the process of them getting rich. They were married and had kids and pretty much all of them felt as if they weren't present enough for their relationship and for their family. And then they get rich and then they realize, you know, there was a guy I was speaking to.

He was like 42 or something. Uh he was rich, way richer than I am. Uh I would estimate his net worth to be in the $10 to $100 million rangeish.

He I was chatting to him about a year ago on a trip. And he said that his unhealthy obsession with growing his business uh meant that he missed the first like 10 years of his kids' childhood because he was always working and was on the brink of divorce because he was always working and it was just a stroke of luck that saved his marriage and he became less obsessed with making money then and started to think about work life balance. This is a video on how to get rich.

How do you get rich? by having an unhealthy obsession with getting rich to the point often that it sacrifices other areas of your life. In my case, I'm kind of lucky that my unhealthy obsession with getting rich, the thing that it sacrificed was my medical career.

Um, thankfully it didn't sacrifice it in the way that the medical career was taken away from me by force by me getting struck off the medical register, but it basically sacrificed my medical career because my obsession my unhealthy obsession with getting rich made me build businesses and stuff and I realized I enjoyed that more and then I I left the day job that it's actually very fortunate. If I'd gotten married and had kids and then developed an unhealthy obsession with getting rich or had an unhealthy obsession with getting rich and was growing my business and stuff to the point where I then got married and had kids, that unhealthy obsession with getting rich might well have caused me to look back on my time with regret, thinking, man, I missed my kids' childhood. As I was getting rich, I had in the back of my mind that like, okay, this is fine, but really the important things in life are like health and relationships and stuff, and like I don't want to I don't want to screw this up.

Um, you know, a really good book is How Will You Measure Your Life, uh, by Clayton Christensen. A book like Designing Your Life by Bill Bernett and Dave Evans. There's books like Scills, The Five Types of Wealth, which talks about how financial wealth is only one type of wealth.

I think I managed to avoid uh a lot of the really negative consequences of being unhealthily obsessed with making money, thankfully. Um, but it's interesting that even though I managed to avoid those consequences, my professor 10 years ago thought I was obsessed with making money. Random people on the internet now think I'm still obsessed with making money.

Maybe it's true. Let's say you have a dream to become like a professional athlete, right? You want to play football professionally.

You want to play squash or tennis professionally. Do you need to have an unhealthy obsession with the sport to make it? Yeah, pretty much.

Like if you look at the training regimens of people who make it professionally, like top 1% people in any sport, from the outside, it looks as if they have an unhealthy obsession with the thing. They're just obsessed with it. It's all they think about.

They live and breathe the thing. Their entire life is focused around the thing, and they go for that thing. Timote Shalomé, famous actor, talked about how he wants to be one of the greats.

He wants to be a great actor. And I know we're in a subjective business, but the truth is I'm really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats.

I'm inspired by the greats. I'm inspired by the greats here tonight. This is kind of unusual.

Like, you know, we we've been in an era where aspiring to greatness is like frowned upon. You kind of want to be humble about it. like, oh, you know, I just stumbled into acting.

I don't know how I got these roles. I didn't try very hard. Like being a tryhard is considered or used to be considered a bad thing, but I think people like Teimote Shamé are making it cool to be a tryhard.

He's being a tryhard. He wants to be one of the great actors. That means he probably has an unhealthy obsession with the craft of acting, which is how he's he's getting there.

And also, he's really good-looking and stuff and also a great actor. But you don't get there without having an unhealthy obsession with the thing. Everyone who has a top 1% or above outcome in anything tends to have an unhealthy obsession with the thing.

We don't look down upon it when it's an Olympic athlete or when it's uh a musician or when it's a concert violinist or when it's an actor or something. But when it comes to making money, there's something about that that we like to look down upon. Um if you want to get rich, you probably don't look down upon it, right?

I mean, if you're watching this video, you probably wouldn't look down upon someone who has an unhealthy obsession with getting rich. But if you want to get rich and you're at this point in the video, and you've sat through me talking about how I think the way to get rich is to have an unhealthy obsession with it, your friends and family will probably look down on you for having an unhealthy obsession with getting rich. Especially if you are in a country like the UK, uh, and I've heard Canada similar to this.

I think in the US they're a bit more chill about, you want to get rich, go for it. like you know that kind of rah rahrrah helping like big you up for wanting a big outcome in the UK and a lot of European countries and I've heard Canada is like this as well it's more like you want to get rich bro what's wrong with you like you know think about the finer things in life like money won't buy you happiness it's not going to make you happy like you know why why do you need to get rich like there's this whole like this thing this idea that if you're trying to get rich that is somehow bad um And I don't know, maybe it is, maybe it is, but like again, I don't know anyone who's gotten rich without being unhealthily obsessed with it. This is a video about how to get rich.

How do you get rich? By becoming unhealthily obsessed with getting rich. What does it look like to be unhealthily obsessed with getting rich?

I was having a conversation with a friend. This is a friend who wants to be rich. She wouldn't say, "I want to be rich.

" But what she would say is, "h, I'd love to have a lifestyle business that helps me make at least £10,000 a month so that I can retire my parents, so that I can work whenever I want, wherever I want, and do work I love with people I love. " That basically translates to I want to be rich, right? You know, how many people have the money to be able to retire their parents, have a lifestyle business, work from wherever they want, whenever they want, making at least 10,000 a month in profit.

Like, man, basically, she wants to be rich, right? Um, and so we kind of had had a bit of a conversation and I was like, "Come on, man. You know, let's call a spade a spade.

Is it fair to say that you want to be rich? " And she was like, "Yeah, I want to be rich. " I was like, "Great, fantastic.

" You know, we're owning the fact that that we want to be rich. She was saying that she's doing all these different things but feels like she's stuck in one place because she's not actually becoming rich and she's been watching the content and reading some of the books that I've been recommending and stuff cuz you know she watches the channel occasionally but she's still no richer than she was 5 years ago. She is still stuck in her job that she enjoys sometimes and doesn't enjoy some like whatever.

Still stuck in a job not getting rich. And so we're kind of talking about this, you know, she is is training for a marathon and at the same time she wants to create YouTube videos exploring her um artistic side and at the same time she wants to document her life on Instagram because it gives her artistic fulfillment to do that. And at the same time she uh wants to host events for friends uh because she's very socialable and enjoys hanging out with friends.

And at the same time, you know, she really cares about her family, wants to spend a lot of time hanging out with her family and visiting her parents a lot and like just has all these different things that she wants to do. And she also has a day job for the record. So it's like, you know, 40 to 50 hours of a week are taken up by the the day job.

I asked a simple question. I was like, "Okay, let's call her Jane. Okay, Jane, how many hours a week would you say you are devoting to the goal of getting rich?

" And she had never thought about this question before. Like literally never. It's like for 5 years she'd had the goal of 10 years she'd had the goal of I want to get rich.

was worry was wondering why she's not there yet, which is why she was talking to me about this because it was a conversation about how to get rich basically. And I asked, "How many hours a week are you dedicating to the goal? " And she was like, "Oh, damn.

Um, I mean, I've got my day job. " And I was like, "Okay, come on. " You know, let's be honest.

The day job is probably unlikely to get you rich. The way you get rich from a day job is either you work in tech or you work in finance. Those are broadly the two fields where your day job can get you rich.

Tech and finance. Is there anything else? Pretty much just tech and finance, right?

If you have a really highp paying job in tech or a really high paying job in finance, you can get rich off that, right? Cuz you make way more money than you spend. Even if you're living in London and if you're living in London, you're making 500 grand, you're only only spending 100 grand on like rent and food and drinks and you've got 400 grand left, taxes, etc.

, etc. , put it in an index fund, S&P 500, compounding. By the time you're about 40, you'll be rich.

If you work in finance, similarly, if you work in tech, this person, Jane, does not work in finance or tech. Therefore, being honest, she's unlikely to get rich off of her day job. So time spent working towards a day job broadly does not really count for the goal of of trying to get rich.

Basically transpired she was spending zero hours a week focused on the goal of getting rich. Let's say you're trying to become a professional athlete. Let's say a professional football player.

How many hours a week would you need to be dedicating to that goal of being a professional footballer? Like many many many hours a day forever for like a 10-year period. And yet my friend Jane had the goal of being rich, which is a 1% goal, and was putting zero effort towards the the thing.

And we realized at the end of the conversation that this is a big part of why she feels sad a lot of the time that she's not getting to where she wants to be, cuz she wants to be here, and the actions that she's taking are completely devoid, completely decorrelated from like this this thing that she wants. What else does an unhealthy obsession look like? So, we talked about kind of the hours per week that you're spending trying to get rich.

What else does an unhealthy obsession look like? I want to tell you a little story. Um, and I want to compare in this little story, I'm going to take a snapshot of my life right now in 2025.

I am currently 30 years old. 30. And I want to compare it with a snapshot of my life.

Let's say 5 years ago. Yeah. 5 years ago.

It would have been 2020. That was when I was in the peak of my getting rich phase. 2020 was the year where I went from earning 100,000 a year on my YouTube business to like 1.

2 2 million a year for my YouTube business for the record. So 20 2020 was a massive year of growth. I want to talk about the idea of mental bandwidth and content content uh content diet.

So back in 2020, there were two types of content that I was consuming. Number one was fantasy fiction audio books on my drive to and from work some of the time and while I was at the gym some of the time. That was maybe 10% of my content consumption.

The other 90% of my content consumption was about getting rich. It wasn't explicitly about getting rich back in 2020. There wasn't that much content about it, but it was about business.

It was about how to grow a YouTube channel. I was listening to literally all of the podcasts about how to grow a YouTube channel. I was listening to all of the podcast about how to build a business and how to market a business.

The Smart Passive Income podcast, the online marketing made easy podcast, Noah Kagan's podcast. I was reading all the books, listening to all the audio books about business, the E-Myth Revisited, and Traction, and dozens and dozens of books and audio books about how to get rich. 90% of the stuff that I was consuming that I was listening to every single day at like two times and three times speed was content about how to get rich.

The way you get rich is by having an unhealthy obsession with getting rich. What that unhealthy obsession looks like is that in your discretionary time, in your spare time, the thing that you are thinking about, the thing that you're consuming content about, the thing you're reading about, the thing you're listening about, the thing you are listening to stuff about, the thing you're watching videos on is on how to get rich. Going back to this friend Jane, I also asked her, "How much time do you spend watching or reading or listening to content that is specifically towards this goal of getting rich?

" And she said, "Well, I watch a lot of content about like content creation because I'm interested in that. " I like, "Okay, but like do you plan to get rich through content creation? " And she was like, "M, okay, probably not, right?

" She's doing the content creation thing as a hobby rather than as a vehicle to getting rich. I Okay, do you watch or listen or to read anything else about getting rich? And she was like, "I sometimes watch some of your videos about finance and stuff, but other than that, not really.

" And so this is someone who has the goal of getting rich, which is like a 1% goal cuz you know, let's say rich is top 1%, however you want to define it, whatever. And she's putting zero hours a week towards the goal acting acting towards the goal of getting rich. And she's putting zero hours a week of consuming content towards the goal of getting rich.

That is not what an unhealthy obsession with getting rich looks like, unfortunately. Yeah. So back in 2020 when I was in the process of getting rich when my income 10xed, I was listening to some fantasy audio books.

I was occasionally going to the gym, but literally all of the rest of my time, even while I was at work in my day job, all of the rest of my time was focused on how do I do stuff towards building my business and therefore getting rich or how do I learn stuff towards the goal of building my business and therefore getting rich. And my personal view is I think that's what it takes. I think that's what it takes.

It's so hard to get rich. It's not an easy thing. Social media will make you think it's an easy thing.

Social media will make you think that you can, you know, get super rich. And while you're in the process of getting super rich, you can also have a balanced life, right? You can go to the gym, you can have your friends and family, you can go on the holidays, you can do the things, you can have so much fun, you can train for a marathon, you can do a Hyrox, whatever the your Hyrox is.

You can do all those things. In reality, those are the things that rich people do once they are already rich. They are not the things that they did while they were on the way while they were switching from day job earning 50 grand to business earning 500 grand while they were growing the business from like you know 100k in revenue and no profit to a million in revenue and like lots of profit.

Yeah, generally pretty much everyone I've spoken to who has been in that position has been unhealthily obsessed with the goal of getting rich or building a business or whatever the vehicle say word getting rich they are unhealthily obsessed with that goal to the point that it has created imbalance in their life because they've been single-mindedly pursuing that goal. This is a video about how to get rich. How do you get rich?

you become unhealthily obsessed with goal. What else does an unhealthy obsession with a goal look like? So, I talked about what my life was like back in 2020.

I want to contrast that with what it's like in 2025. Let's have a look through my YouTube feed. A man's content feed can tell you a lot about what they value and what their priorities are.

So, let me so show you what my YouTube feed looks like these days. Okay. A video from Alex Okconor about philosophy.

A community post from Lea Homozi. A Gary's Economics video about why growth is stupid. Okay.

Oh, here we go. Simon Squib. This is a video about how to get rich.

I have one video about how to get rich. Method versus mythic sprocket monger. Lemontock Lockentock protection warrior POV.

This is a video about World of Warcraft. This is not a video about getting rich. Shorts.

Is this rogue genius? Another video about World of Warcraft. Why you can tax billionaires?

Uh, this is a economics type thing. Another World of Warcraft thing. Oh, Alex Formoszy video about getting rich.

This new weapon modification is amazing for speedruns in Horizon Forbidden West. This is not a video about getting rich. This is a video about a video game.

H Scul Bloom quote. This is a video about how to get ripped, which is not about getting rich. This is a D of a CEO episode about fear and anxiety.

This is Rory Sutherland, not about getting rich. I don't know what this is. This is another World of Warcraft video, not a video about getting rich.

This is an art video cuz I'm doing a side quest and learning how to draw. You know, bro is running side quests. I'm doing a side quest and I just completed Horizon Forbidden West on the PlayStation 5.

I've gotten back into World of Warcraft: The War Within season 2 on my character, which is a paladin where I'm trying to play holy and pro and retribution and stuff. I'm trying to learn how to draw. I'm running running all these various different side quests.

I'm taking White Thai lessons. I'm starting going to the gym very regularly. I'm taking squash lessons.

Uh here's a book. This is one on how to get rich. I've read this book, by the way.

It's a good book. This is music. Another side quest I'm running is trying to improve my guitar, piano, and singing skills.

Not a video about how to get rich. Uh, this is Lewis House and J Shetty sort of a video about how to get rich, but not really. They're going to talk about like feelings and stuff.

World of Warcraft. Iman Gazi video about how to get rich. Sell something.

Video about how to get rich. Survive or thrive. I don't know what that means.

Australian Grand Prix. Networking. Storytelling.

Not about getting rich. I worked out like David Gogins for 100 days. Not about getting rich.

My content feed these days reflects what my priorities are. If you were to look at that, what would you say are the things that Aliabadal cares about? According to his YouTube thing, his according to his YouTube feed, he cares about World of Warcraft, cares about gaming on the horizon, Forbidden West, cares a little bit about making money because, you know, 20% of the videos were about how to get rich, cares about becoming healthy.

A handful of those videos were about like health and stuff. Um, if you'd if you'd looked at this like two weeks ago, it was like filled with like baby gear recommendations because I was on a freaking rabbit hole about like, you know, we've got a baby on the way and like researching the absolute best crib, pram, stroller, car seat, this, that, and the other. And so my entire YouTube feed was recommendations for like baby gear.

If you compared this to my YouTube feedback in 2020, all you would have seen is content about how to get rich. Content about how to build a business, content about how to manage a team, content about how to grow a YouTube channel, content about how to grow social media, content about sales funnels and all of this sort of stuff. That's all you would have seen.

This video is about how to get rich. The way you get rich is by having an unhealthy obsession with getting rich. What does that look like?

What it looks like is that your content diet is towards that unhealthy obsession with getting rich. The unfortunate truth is that the more different goals you're working towards, the more balanced your life is, the less likely you are to get rich. Maybe there are a handful of exceptions to this rule, but in general, the pattern I've seen through I I I know I know a hell of a lot of people who are rich.

I've interviewed a lot of them on podcast, read a bunch of their books. None of basically 100% of them did not have much of a balanced life while they were in the process of getting rich. They started they got rich first and then they got the balanced life second.

I am not saying that this is what you should do. I am saying that if you have the goal of getting rich any or or becoming an a professional athlete or becoming a professional actor or becoming a professional musician anything where this is a goal that only 1% of people attain like to be better than 99% of people requires you to be more dedicated than 99% of people generally requires you to work harder than 99% of people say you know work but but I can work smart it's like okay but Like everyone else is also trying to work smart. Like also when you're a beginner at the thing, you don't know what working smart looks like.

Like when you're a beginner to the goal of getting rich, are you building business or whatever? You just have to work really hard. And in the process of working really hard, you will figure out what does working smart look look like.

So that further down the line, you can now work smart. Right now I don't need to work that hard. Right now my multi- and deca millionaire friends don't need to work very hard.

They still choose to anyway cuz they're kind of obsessed. Still a lot of them are obsessed. But you know the ones with families and like balance, they don't need to work very hard.

Why? Because they have employees who do the hard hard work for them. They've got systems.

They've got leverage. They've got personal brands. They've got burks.

They've got passive income assets. They don't need to work hard anymore. But all of them had an unhealthy obsession with getting rich while they were younger when they were building it up.

So if you're at this point in the video and you would like to get rich, it's really worth asking yourself, do you have an unhealthy obsession with getting rich? Would your friends and family say that you have an unhealthy obsession with getting rich? Does your content diet reflect an obsession with getting rich?

Does the way you spend your time reflect an obsession with getting rich? If the answer is no, then you have two options. I think all of this is just my opinion.

Whatever. I think you have two options here. Either you can decide to develop an unhealthy obsession.

You can change your content diet. You can start consuming all the content about getting rich. You can start waking up two hours early before your day job putting an effort towards building your business.

You can start while you're at your day job taking slightly longer lunch breaks and using squeezing in half an hour of like work on your business here and there. In the evenings, you can not go out with your friends every night or whatever the thing is. You can stop playing freaking video games.

You can stop watching Netflix. Stop watching random YouTube videos. Even videos like this one and only ever work on your business.

While you're going on a walk, while you're doing the dishes, you can switch your content diet so that you are listening to audiobooks and podcasts and videos about getting rich. On weekends, you can be like, "Weekends, incredible. I've got like 16 full hours on Saturday and 16 full hours on Sunday where I can literally just wake up, lock myself in a room, work for 16 straight hours on my business.

That is what an unhealthy obsession with getting rich looks like. That is often what it takes. Getting rich is not easy.

That's that's option number one. If you decide that, hey, I want to get rich. I trust Ali's advice on this.

I trust that he knows what he's talking about sort of somewhat ane anecdotally. and I trust that okay, I currently don't have an unhealthy obsession with getting rich and I would like to develop one. Or you can decide, you know what, actually this this isn't for me.

I I if getting rich requires having an unhealthy obsession to the point where my life becomes imbalanced. If getting rich requires me to stop running my marathons and stop hanging out with friends and like work on the weekends and like wake up a bit earlier to work before work and like work during work. If getting rich requires my medical school professors to think I'm going to get struck off the medical register because like I'm so obsessed with getting rich.

Man, if that's what's required to get rich, I actually don't want to be rich. If that's the path you want to go down, man, I'm so glad you watched this video because this video might have saved you all of this angst that you've currently got from like you have a goal of getting rich, but you're not doing the thing, which is to have an unhealthy obsession in terms of action and in terms of like learning to towards getting rich. You could just decide to make the goal less ambitious on that front.

Um, I'm not playing a moral judgment on this. I'm not saying it's anyone should have a goal of getting rich. I'm not saying getting rich is a morally good thing or a morally bad thing.

It's a morally neutral thing. In the same way, I'm not saying that being a professional football player is good or bad. It just it just is what it is.

If you have the goal of being a professional football player, it makes sense that you're either willing to put in the effort required to be a professional football player or not. But if you're not willing to put in the effort, you're not willing to pay the price that it takes to become a professional football player, why set yourself the goal of becoming a professional football player? The more we have this gap, the gap between where we want, the gap between the thing that we want and the actions we're taking, this gap creates misery.

Misery is created in the gap. If I have the goal of being a professional squash player, for example, I don't, but if I did, and I'm only training 2 hours a week, I'm like, bro, that's going to make me miserable because I'm never going to get to that goal by only training 2 hours a week. Similarly, if you have the goal of getting rich and you're not willing to pay the price, which in my opinion is having an unhealthy obsession with it to the point that the rest of your life becomes imbalanced, if you're not willing to pay that price, either become willing to pay the price, i.

e. become unhealthily obsessed, or just don't have it as a goal. You know, various people in my team, for example, are totally chill, not being rich.

They do not have the goal of becoming financially free, financially independent. The ones that do often tend to go out and start their own business and then they make videos about why they left the Alib team to start their own business and they've you joined our team, got inspired and started to and decided to run their own businesses cuz they wanted to get rich, right? But there's a lot of people in my team who are like, you know what, I don't really want to get rich.

I just want a nice job that pays reasonably well, that gives me flexibility, that gives me fun, gives me autonomy, lets me learn, and lets me hang out with people that I like, and lets me travel the world while I'm doing it. That's actually the position of like half the people in my team. They're like, you know what, actually, this is great.

I love I love my job. I love my life. That's fantastic.

They do not have the goal of getting rich. And therefore, the fact that they're not unhealthily obsessed with getting rich is fine. It's not causing any misery because there's there's no misalignment.

But there are various people I know, including Jane, for example, who has a job and has the goal of getting rich, which is there, and her actions are here. And she feels misery every day because she feels the pain of misalignment. The pain that her goals are misaligned with her actions.

And whenever you're in a situation where what you want is misaligned with what you are doing, it creates misery. So either change what you're doing or change what you want. That's my honest advice.

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