Imagine if I didn't take my project

seriously. Imagine if I didn't believe

in what I was doing. Imagine if I came

to Dubai and I was just clowning around

and going out all the time and drinking

and trying to get laid and not building

anything and not having any purpose.

Imagine all of that. What a sad

existence that would be. Instead, I get

up every morning. I put great clothes

on. I go to meetings. I walk in

confidently.

I talk passionately about what I'm

building. I truly believe in what I'm

doing. I truly believe in myself.

It takes a lot of time.

It takes the right kind of projects.

Look, there were times where I was

working on shitty projects and I didn't

believe in myself and so I wasn't

getting dressed up every day.

I was staying at home and trying to

figure out what I was doing next. There

are different phases in your life,

right? Like I'm not always feeling

confident and positive, right? Anyone

that says that is lying to you. I'm only

feeling confident and positive when I

have things to be confident and positive

about. I may have been to the gym every

day that week. I might be in killer

shape. I might have had a new

interesting meeting which has opened

another door for me.

I

just smoking this cohiba as I speak to

you. I might have done well in the

markets that week. You know, the algo

that we've built may have performed well

and had a number of winning trades

overnight. So, there are things that

need to happen in order for you to feel

good. Actionable steps, not sitting

there and being a mental masturbator,

right? Mental masturbation is when

you're sitting there smoking weed and

thinking you're going to build all these

amazing things and not actually doing

anything about it, not making any steps

forward.

And yeah, I was that was me for many

years. That really was [ __ ] sitting

around thinking I was going to run the

world and have the best startup ever,

but I was doing nothing about it.

Now, there's there's not much which

makes me that much more special than you

guys. Otherwise, I wouldn't have this

channel, right? If I was truly black

pill and I believe that I was born

intelligent and good-looking and I I've

got a leg up over most men and the rest

of you don't have a chance, then I

wouldn't bother having this [ __ ]

channel. I wouldn't waste my time

speaking for another second online. But

because I truly believe that you can

actually also improve your life. You can

also get to high levels. You can also

get to satisfactory levels. You don't

need to be a billionaire. Stop watching

all this [ __ ] online thinking that you

need a Lamborghini to make yourself feel

good. Lamborghini is short-term fun and

it's very short-lived. You need to look

for wholesomeness. Okay? You need to be

following your purpose, following your

dream.

Imagine you gave it all up because you

weren't taking yourself seriously. You

weren't taking your dream seriously. You

didn't think it was possible.

90% of success is self-belief. 90% of

success is delusion. You literally need

to be delusional enough to believe that

your project and what you're working on

is absolutely worth it. Right? You

literally need to be delusional enough

to believe that you are the only person

that can execute that project and no one

is going to be better than you at

building that project than you. So, you

got to find that project that you love,

that resonates with you.

Stop trying to do things that other

people are doing. You know, it doesn't

really work that way. You know, you try

and you copy all these day traders

online thinking you're going to be a

great day trader. That's not how

business works, right? You are selected.

I was just sitting with a massive

businessman now who runs 500 million in

capital and I'm trying to raise 5

million off him for seed funding for my

business. And

he only sat with me because he saw my

LinkedIn. And he saw that what I've done

is applicable to what I'm trying to

raise money for. He's like, "Oh, you've

been to a good uni. Oh, you worked in

banking. Oh, you worked at Google. Oh,

you're building a piece of tech, which

is like a a crossroads between

technology and finance. Oh, okay." He

sat with me because I was the right

person to build this company, not

because I've been dancing on TikTok for

5 years and all of a sudden I'm trying

to build a fintech company. That's not

how this [ __ ] works.

So, I hope you've been building your

dream from a young age. I hope you've

been working on it for a while. Really

take a hard look at yourself and think,

what is it that you can bring to this

world? And if you don't take that

seriously enough, you don't take

yourself seriously. You don't believe

that dream is actually possible, you're

never going to wake up in the morning

and try and even attempt it. Most of the

business people that made a [ __ ] ton of

money are actually delusional and

believe in their dreams so much that

they make you believe in their dreams.

Right? The visionaries are the ones that

build the company. Steve Jobs.

Elon Musk, all right? Elon Musk is a

genius. He's also a visionary, right?

These people are futurists. They can

tell the future. They have this crazy

vision in their mind. Like I have this

vision in my mind of having this massive

company, algorith algorithms and

systematic trading across number of

asset classes, raising investment funds

and hiring the best people and going

around the world and talking about it. I

truly really I really actually believe

that. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here.

Otherwise, I wouldn't talk about this.

Otherwise, I wouldn't even try. I would

go and try something else entirely.

So, imagine imagine you didn't take

yourself seriously enough.

You gave up your dreams. You didn't even

bother trying.

What a [ __ ] waste of a life that is.