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I grew up in poverty. I wore secondhand clothes growing up.
I always thought that uh McDonald's Happy Meal was a privilege. My mom was an immigrant from China.
My dad is a minimum wage worker. So, I had nothing growing up.
So, I thought that when I made my first
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million dollars before the age of 21, I would be happy. But I didn't, right?
I didn't unlock the three codes to happiness until recently. So, in this video, I'm going to share with you 10 timeless principles that will guarantee you will become happy, right?
Regardless
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of your race, income, demographic, or whatever weird criteria you deem yourself as, right? I guarantee if you practice these 10 principles, timeless principles, you have stood the test of time, you will be happy.
Let's get into it. >> All right.
So, I wanted to record this
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video on iPhone because I wanted it to be more raw and unfielded. But then I realized that I want you guys to take this video seriously because these videos will seriously change your life if you practice the 10 principles which I'm about to share with you.
Uh which is why I'm actually recording this video in
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this fancy studio, right? Which cost me a lot of money to create.
But I was like, you know what, doesn't matter. I want you guys to really distill these principles, synthesize them, and apply it into your own life.
And why is Brad qualified to teach this? Well, because I
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don't know whether they can tell, but I'm as happy as a clown these days and as free as a seagull, right? I love life these days.
That's all I got to say. All right.
So, I've pretty much written down the 10 principles in here, right? This video was actually like a Twitter thread
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which performed really well. So, I thought why not just make an entire video on this.
The first step is to get rich. Wait, what brand?
I thought you're going to ask me to shave off my head and go into the mountains and just renounce all my desires and relinquish all the control. No, I'm going to give you
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practical principles that actually work for me. All right?
And the first step is to make a [ __ ] ton of money. Like I don't care what anybody say, but you cannot pursue happiness if you are in a state of survival.
If you're constantly
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thinking about how to put food on the table, how to pay your bills, pay the rent, how to send your kids to school, if you're in that state, right, the fight or flight instinct will always kick in and will always ask you to, you know, just prioritize survival instead of happiness, right? And that means you
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need to make money, right? That means you need to put food on the table.
That means you need to have the ability to provide for your family first, right? So that's always going to be the first step.
Just make a [ __ ] ton of money. And sure, money will not buy you happiness, but it will solve all your money
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problems, but it will buy you freedom. The best form of freedom is not financial freedom, but it's freedom from the mind.
And the only way you can get freedom from the mind is if you become financially free first. All right?
So, work hard, make lots of money, and solve
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all your money problems. And if you do not know how to get rich, go to my main channel, the trading gig, and watch the 10-hour free course.
If you follow everything in there, I guarantee you will make money from trading. So once you have mastered a skill set that makes you money, right, and you start making
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money, your goal is to get to 10K a month or rather 150k a year because after making more than 150k a year, your happiness level will not increase dramatically no matter how much more money you make, right? Like that has
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been proven by research, by science. You can make 100k a month but your happiness level is not going to be significantly different than when you were making 15k a month, 10k a month, right?
So more money does not bring you more happiness,
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but money does solve all your money problems which raise your overall baseline level of happiness. With that said, you should still be as ambitious as possible, right?
still aim to make as much money as possible in an honorable way of course because that's simply a
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reflection of the complexity of the problems that you solve and the amount of lives that you have changed right so if you look at Elon Mus you look at Mark Zuckerberg these guys are billionaires because they have already solved like the most difficult problems in the world and as a result they have impact a lot
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of lives and as a result they make a lot of money right so please for the love of god try to make money All right. So that your family is good.
And then you can start thinking about happiness. And then once you start thinking about happiness, your next goal is to serve humanity.
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Your next goal is to change people's life. Right?
Because I didn't started a training gig to save the world. I started it to save myself.
And then once I eventually saved myself, I decided that you know what? I can save the world now.
Right? I can teach people.
I can
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change people's life by making these videos for free, right? I know because I I need to, but I want to because I really want to just provide value and just help you guys out.
So, that's the next step to happiness. That's the next step to self-actualization.
But first, get rich. Now, the second tip
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is compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not other people. We all heard the saying, comparison is the thief of joy.
This means that the only way to guarantee unhappiness is to constantly compare yourself with others who do not have the same goals and the
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same desires as you. And I always say this to all my friends, right?
There is no greater waste of time than trying to justify yourself to people who are not incentivized to help you out, who don't have the same purpose as you, right?
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It's simply a waste of time, right? Oh, Brad, you're trading now, huh?
You're too good for us now. All right, cool, man.
I'm just going to continue grinding. I'm just going to continue getting rich, and I'm just going to become more happy than you ever will at on a Friday night with your alcohol and your drugs.
Now, here's a pro tip. Just delete social media.
When you go onto
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social media, the first thing you see is this bloody 20-year-old driving a Lamborghini down the street, which he might have rented for the day, or he might not. Or the next thing you'll see is this freaking 13 year old kid talking about AI agents, right?
And thinking about how much money this kid makes compared to you working your 9 toive
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job. and they start feeling that he's unfair.
You know, the world is unfair. And now you just start comparing yourself to him, the 13 year old kid, the fittest who is talking about AI agents and copyrightiting being the next money-making opportunity.
Comparison, right? And like if you're
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always comparing yourself to other people, you are simply playing a game that you can't win, right? Because there will always be someone who is richer than you, sexier than you, more good-looking than you, more handsome than you, have a bigger deed than you,
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right? It's like there's always going to be someone better than you.
And if you're constantly comparing yourself to others, you're always going to be running on this treadmill, which just never ever ends. And it gets quite tiring sometimes.
So, you're much better off just comparing yourself to who you
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were yesterday. If you are making improvements every single day, you know, you're getting stronger, you're getting wiser, you're getting more financially fetal, right?
You're getting more spiritually better every single day. Then who cares about what other people think?
Who cares about what John is
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doing on a Friday night? This is your life.
So you can take back control by just focus on leveling up every single day in this single player video game, right? Just thinking about how you can get more points for yourself, right?
So you can defeat the next level boss instead of thinking about playing some
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other people's game because you must understand that in this life it's not a multiplayer game. It's a single player game.
Right? So you just have to focus on your objective as the player.
Right? Which is the the the challenge that you want to overcome?
Which is the level
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that you want to overcome? What are the ornaments that you want to buy to, you know, make your character looks good?
It's your game, which is exactly why you're so much better off just focus on playing your game and just mastering your own game and just leveling up your own character. So, delete social media
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or just unfollow people who do not bring value, who do not inspire you. It just makes you feel like [ __ ] whenever you see them on your your social media feed, right?
Just unfollow them and or like just spend less time on social media if you don't want to delete it completely. I'm one of like the most popular um
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trading educators in the entire world, right? I get millions of views every single week and I don't have a single social media on my phone.
I don't have Instagram. I don't have Facebook.
I don't have Tik Tok. I don't even have YouTube.
Like if I want to check my YouTube analytics, I have to get on my MacBook and go to YouTube Studio to
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check it out. Right?
That's how monkike I am. Right?
And when I stopped using social media, I think around like two to three years ago, I realized I became much more happy because now I'm not comparing myself to the 20-year-old um Ferrari renting guy guru or the freaking
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22 year old only fans trick making $40 million a month, right? It's like why?
Right? Because back in caveman times you are only allowed to compare yourself to who you who you were surrounded with in the tribe itself right which is like
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five to 10 people and now because of social media you're automatically comparing yourself to like millions of people right so just is it's not a worthwhile pursuit honestly true form of freedom is freedom from the opinions of others freedom from your own mind so if
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you're still chasing likes comments shares on Tik Tok or Instagram, then my friend, you're not truly free, right? You're still a slave.
Slave to other people's judgments, man. This green tea is making me so wise, man.
Now, the third tip is to be more
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present. Now, Jetty, you have this beautiful quote.
If you are focused on the past, you're controlled by fear. If you're focused on the future, you're controlled by anxiety.
And if you are focused on others, you are controlled by them. But if you focus on yourself,
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you're at peace. Which is why the secret of happiness is to be more present in your day-to-day life.
Whether that's when you're eating, you know, you just sit down instead of watching a Netflix show or like a podcast, just savor the food, sniff the aroma from that
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beautiful bar style, you know, and just like enjoy it, you know, just be in the moment or just when you're going for a walk, observe your surroundings. Look at how green the trees are, right?
Even touch the grass. Feel what it's like.
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Sniff mother nature's. Yeah.
Yeah. Like sniff mother nature.
So just breathe and be present, right? Because I realized that whenever I just stop what I'm doing, right?
No matter how busy I am, no matter how fast-paced my life is and I just stop and I just
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observe everything and I became more more present, that one minute of happiness, it allow my entire day to be like boosted. It makes my entire day right.
Just that one minute of like present moment which allow me to just, you know,
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slow down a bit, you know, dance with life, you know, instead of constantly trying to rush somewhere, right? like people on the streets of New York at around lunchtime, right?
Rushing them to their job. And the trick to becoming more present is to just meditate every single day.
Because when you meditate
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every single day, you automatically become more mindful and more present. And if you can't commit to 10 minutes a day, just try 5 minutes a day because 5 minutes a day for 30 days beats 10 minutes for two days.
The benefits of meditation comes when just do it
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consistently day in day out. Like just look at me making this video right now as I'm sitting here speaking to you.
I'm not thinking about what I'm going to have for lunch. I'm not thinking about um who I'm going to marry in five years.
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I'm not thinking about which restaurant to bring my parents to on Sunday. No, I'm just speaking to you.
I'm just present. And this is what so many people lack these days, you know, like the ability to just like be present while you are speaking to your family member,
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while you're speaking to your friend. Like we all know that times where you just talk to your friend and your friend start telling you about I don't know his troubles or his life and then your mind just starts wandering off about maybe the cat video that you just saw on Tik Tok or like how you need to get rich uh
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by the age of 25 or something like this, right? your mind just start wandering off instead of being present and actually absorbing and taking in what your friend is telling you which is what like a normal human should do a normal functioning healthy human right so being
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present is a superpower right and that is a superpower that anyone can develop by just developing mindfulness through the practice of meditation or just drink green tea when you drink tea right you have no choice but to really savor like the
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green tea leaves. And this is my favorite green tea, by the way.
Emperial sensuality. This is the true secret to happiness.
A tea a day keeps the sadness away. The fourth tip is to choose to be happy every day.
Now, I got this one from neighbor Ravi Khan. He said that happiness is a choice.
And I like to
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believe that, right? I like to believe that happiness is indeed something that you can choose.
Happiness is not something that is bestowed upon some fortunate people in the world. But it's something that anybody regardless of your race, religion, demographic,
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background can experience, right? I don't care if you're Indian or you are black or you are white or you are Asian or you are Filipino.
You can experience happiness. It is a choice.
And until you realize that it is a choice, you will
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always be enslaved by life. Right?
And here's what I mean. If I decide to be happy right now, if I choose to smile and just be happy right now, who's going to stop me?
Nobody. You can't stop me from being
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happy, right? Yes, you can tell stuff that will make me upset and all that stuff, but if I choose to be happy and I choose to ignore what you just said to me, then ultimately I am still happy.
And ultimately, your words, your opinions, your judgments did not prevent
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me from being happy because I made the conscious decision to be happy. When I actually make that realization, I was like, "Wow, wait, so I can just choose to be happy no matter what kind of [ __ ] am I facing?
Whether I am stuck in the muddy waters
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in the Bunai jungle, whether my rations have been stolen by the enemies, whether I'm getting bombarded by um 500 shots uh bullets like spraying at me in a jungle, you know, in in a firefight, I can just
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be happy in this moment. Wait, I Yeah, I can actually just be happy in this moment because I choose to be happy.
So being happy is a skill that anyone can develop. Like I said, it's not given to some people.
It's something that applies
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to everybody. And guess what?
If I can choose to become happy today, become happy right now, you can do so too. The fifth tip is one less not more.
Senica once said, "It is not the man that has little that is poor, but the man who
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desires more. It's not the man who has little belongings that is poor, but the man who covered its neighbors belongings.
This implies that the multi-millionaire who crave a billion dollars is no different than the beggar
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on the street who crave a $100 because both are enslaved by the same hunger for more. And if you think about it fundamentally, this means that happiness is not about getting more stuff.
It's
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about choosing your desires wisely. It's about getting things that is necessary and it's enough.
And anything that is outside of this scope are things that you do not need.
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And if it's things that you do not need, you shouldn't strive to get them because sometimes other people's desires are not your desires. Why do you want the Ferrari so much?
Is it because you want to impress Tom, John, Harry? Is it because Tom like a
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Ferrari and if you get a Ferrari, you will automatically be better than John? If that's the case, then you wanting the Ferrari is not your desire.
It's John's desire. But your desire is to impress John.
So, as a result, you get the
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Ferrari just so to impress him. When in reality, you didn't even wanted the damn Ferrari in the first place.
And that is something that I realized after getting rich. It's like I thought I wanted a 200k protect philillip, right?
But I when I eventually get it, I realized
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that it didn't bring me additional happiness. It just allowed me to look more cool and look more um and have like a higher status in society when I actually walk into like a restaurant, right?
That's all it does. It doesn't make me feel more happy forever.
Like of
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course I got like a dopamine hit when I actually got this watch. But now I want the next shiny thing.
Because the truth is once you've accomplished what you've accomplished and you have obtained what you've desired, you will always want the next shiny thing, right? Like the sex.
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Yeah, it feels good, but now you want more, right? You will never ever stop having cravings for sex.
Oh, you got a nice watch. You got a nice car.
Hm, cool. Why don't I try to get a Lamborghini next?
Oh, I got this big fancy apartment with this beautiful sea view. H, but it's only a two-bedroom.
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Why don't I try to get a four bedroomedroom? Why don't I try to get like a property on a beach front?
You see, your brain is always wanting more because your mind gets hydonically adapted to what you have obtained, right? And if you're always running this
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treadmill, you will never be able to stop and just catch your breath. Right?
Because you always want the next shiny thing. And that is a recipe for misery.
Now once again, I'm not saying that you should just become a monk and renounce your desires or suppress your ambition and
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your emotions. I'm saying yes, strive for those stuff.
Build, work hard, make money, create, buy the things that are meaningful and necessary to you. But once you have done all of that, pause,
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reflect, take some time to introspect and think about the next thing that you want. Do you actually want it or not?
Like do you actually want it for the sake of impressing other people or do you actually want it because like I
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don't know you like the benefits of the car. You actually you are a car guy and you like the engine and you like to move fast.
I don't know. I'm not a car guy, right?
But you know what I mean, right? Do you actually want the thing for the thing so they can enjoy the benefits of the thing or you want the thing so that
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you can impress other people that who even care about you? Right?
It's like which is it? Because if the answer is the latter, then it's probably not something that is worth buying because it's not going to increase your level of happiness at least in the long
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long run. In fact, it might even decrease your happiness level because now you just spend a lot of money on like a [ __ ] that you don't even want in the first place.
Honestly, this is such like a western culture thing. Oh, you need to get that new car.
Oh, you need to get that new bracelet. You need to get that new drip, right?
If not, you're
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going to be looked down upon. And if you don't get those stuff, you won't be happy, right?
So, you guys are always chasing like this next big thing, the next shiny thing. So, my friend, moving forward, I want you to be extremely intentional about what you desire next.
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Because most of the time, the things that you chase are not even your desire in the first place. They are simply other people's desires that the world has convinced you that you need.
The sixth tip is to reframe adversities as opportunities.
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Now, let's be real. Life is full of [ __ ] There is always going to be rainy days.
No matter how successful you become, no matter how good you become, no matter how happy you become, no matter how peaceful you you you think
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life is getting, there will always be something going wrong. Whether there's a bottleneck in a business, whether there's a trade going wrong, whether there's an argument with a spouse or with your kids, there's always some [ __ ] going wrong, right?
That's just life. And if you think about
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it, since challenges, adversities, and obstacles are a constant in life which you cannot be eliminated, then the trick is to just be comfortable with them. is to get used to them and to reframe them
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as opportunities to help you grow. Whenever I'm faced with something difficult, right, like an insountable amount of challenges where I feel like everything is going wrong and more [ __ ] is just like ping onto my plates and like nothing seems to be going well.
I
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stop and I ask myself, what is God trying to teach me through this situation, through this experience? What is the quality that I can potentially develop if I overcome this experience?
If I overcome this adversity?
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Hm. I'm stuck in the jungle.
I have a machine gun sling all over my neck and I'm tired and I'm hungry and I'm thirsty. What is God trying to teach me?
Well, maybe God is trying to teach me to persevere when it comes to hard times,
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right? And maybe God is telling me that if you do not stop, you will win in the end because eventually the mission will end, right?
Maybe the quality that he's trying to instill into me is the quality of being unstoppable. That's what I can get from this
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adversity. That's what I can learn from this challenging situation.
And if I can learn this thing from this difficult situation, then this difficult situation is not actually a bad thing. It's not good, not bad.
It just is.
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Right? So when you start to reframe challenging situations as opportunities for you to grow, the way you perceive difficulties change fundamentally because now you are not afraid of challenges but you are excited for
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challenges. Wow, that's another opportunity for me to grow.
Instead of lamenting and thinking, "Oh no, why me, man? Why am I stuck in this unfortunate situation?" No, you go like, "Yes, what can I learn
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from this? How can I get better?" Right?
You can see that reframing always remember God will never give you more than you can handle. The reason why you are stuck in this challenging situation is because God knows that you have the
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strength and courage to overcome it. So use it, believe in him, believe in his plan and his timeline for you and just overcome the damn challenge.
Now tip number seven, surround yourself with people who are likeminded. Now there's
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this phenomenon that was described by Chris Williamson called the lonely chapter. Every single person who has accomplished something great have went through the lonely chapter and it's the chapter in their life where they are learning a new
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skill. You know, they are going outside of their comfort zone and they have been ditched by the old group of friends because their old group of friends are still in their old situation, the miserable life that he doesn't want to be a part of anymore.
But then he's also
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not sufficiently developed to join the new group of friends, right? Because they are so high up.
They have a lot more experience in the field that he's trying to to master right now and he's not good enough to join them. So as a result, he's stuck in this moment,
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right, where he doesn't have anyone to to to look upon to, right? He doesn't have anyone to to rely on.
He doesn't have anyone to talk to about his interest, about what he's working on, about his goals. And there's just like no one that is on the right path that he is.
He's in the apprenticeship phase.
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And to me, I already felt the lonely chapter when I was trading because like in my first few years of trading, I just realized how lonely trading can get. It's like a lot of times it's just me lock myself in the room, have my laptop
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on my computer and just me staring at the candlestick charts which can't even talk to me. Hey candlestick charts, price is going to go up, man.
What do you think? Hey candlesticks charts, um price is going to go down.
I'm going to look for a shot. What do you think?
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That's the candlestick charts. It can't talk to you.
It can't reply to you. Right?
So, as a result, I realized that man, yeah, trading is a goddamn lonely journey, man. That is when uh it led me to starting the 1% club, which has now become the best trading mentorship program or community in the entire
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trading industry. Right?
If you look at our Trust Pilot reviews, you will see that we are the only mentorship program out there with like a 4.8 eight stars because we have simply been focused on building like an exceptional product that actually get our student results, you know, with the endless amount of daily coaching course, the the inner
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circle community and like so much in-depth trading lessons, right? That is what we're focused on, right?
Just focus on building a great product, great community where everybody come together and grow together. And honestly, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing a
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group of like-minded traders come together, help each other out, right? Level up together, accomplish wins together, right?
Celebrates wins and failures together, and keep each other accountable to their goals so that everybody can move to their own
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individual goals together as one and help each other move there faster, right? Like there's this old adage which says that if you want to go fast, go alone.
But if you want to go far, go together. Right?
That's the power of a
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community. Right?
When you're constantly surrounded with people that have the same goals, the same desires, they're on the same path as you, you can't help it but to work hard, right? Because you can't help but learn via osmosis.
You
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can't help but grow by being infected with this positive energy in the community, right? It's like you you can't help it.
You have no choice but to win because you're surrounded by a bunch of winners. You're surrounded by a bunch of A players.
That's the power of a
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community. So whatever you're trying to master, whether this is a skill set, the most powerful thing that you can do is to join a community where there are other people who have the same ambitions and the same goals as you do, right?
So that they can actually relate to you.
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After all, our forefathers in the prehistoric time, they used to hunt in tribes, you know, like when they encounter saber-tooth tigers and woolly mammoth and dinosaurs that are like five times or 10 times bigger than them, instead of fighting it alone, they hunt
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in tribes. They lay traps.
They work together as a team, you know, they they shave their their sticks. Um they hunt for food.
They they gather fruits together as a tribe. There is strength in numbers.
That's the power of having a
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tribe which you can rely upon every single day. The next tip is to spend time with nature and your family at least once a week.
This is my non-negotiable. It's like no matter how busy I get, right?
No matter how many endless meetings or content that I have
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to shoot or trades that I have to take, I have to spend time with nature and with my parents and with my friends, right? That is simply non-negotiable because if you don't do this, you will burn out.
You will not only burn out,
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but you will also get depressed. Trust me.
Been there, done that, right? Got extremely depressed.
almost went into the hospital, lost all my motivation to work, all because I was stuck in my tiny little bedroom trying to make a million dollars a month that I forgo any
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relationships or any um time in nature. So, just do it, man.
Like, like this is that one thing that is so simple to do, but yet so hard to do consistently, right? Because you'll always find an excuse not to do it.
Oh, you know what? I got this
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project coming up, you know? Oh, um there is this software that I need to develop.
May maybe not today, maybe next week. Maybe um maybe okay this week.
No, maybe not this week. Maybe next week.
You will always find excuse not to do things. And trust me, the things that constantly put off are often the things
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that you need to do, right? So spend time with nature, go out there, go to the neighborhood park, touch some grass, go to a restaurant, right?
Have a nice meal with your family. Be present.
Converse about what's going on in their
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life right now. You know, just just live life because life is not all about achieving a monetary figure, right?
Life is about living life and living life is about experiencing everything about life. And a big part of life is the relationships that you build along the
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way. So if you forgo that then what's the point of making so much money?
What's the point of getting rich if you don't even have the freedom to spend time with your loved ones? Like, are you really that rich?
If you think about it,
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when you don't have freedom, you're still a slave. You're still a slave to your job.
You're still a slave to other people's judgments and opinions. You're still a slave to your material possessions.
The knife tip is a sick, fulfilling, and meaningful work.
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I believe it was John D. Rockefeller who said this heaven and hell are self-imposed.
If you view work as pleasure your life will be heaven. If you view work as hol your life will be hell.
So your attitude
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to work determines the quality of your life. So if you actually enjoy your work, you know you are passionate, you show up to work every single day with zest and enthusiasm, you're going to have a pretty good life.
After all, that's what you're going to be spending the rest of your life on, right? Working
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and sleeping. But if you lament about the boring work that needs to be done today or you know this computing numbers on the Excel spreadsheet under the fluorescent lights in a tiny little
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office cubicle and you hate to do it, you treat it like a chore. You treat it like a duty.
Then your life will be [ __ ] right? Because you're always going to be miserable every single day when you show up to work.
When you are forced to report at this timing to wear this
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particular outfit so that you can serve this guy, you will always be miserable. So you have to find the work that intrinsically motivates you and you have to get extremely good at it, right?
So good in that particular field that no one else can replace you because if
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someone else can replace you, then guess what? They can train a robot to do it.
You're replaceable, which means you will not get compensated fairly for it. So, you want to find a job or start a business that have these three Ps, right?
That solve a pain in the world. It's something that the world doesn't
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know it needs yet, but it's going to solve a problem and something that you are passionate about, right? Like you genuinely love doing it.
You actually enjoy doing it. So you have like unlimited amount of energy to do it and something that really give you like a
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higher purpose right whether that's something that can serve humanity that can change life whatever it is this requires you to have that pull effect right so that whenever you feel like quitting you just think about you have to save the world right so if you find something that have fulfilled these
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three piece you will be rich not only will you be rich but you will also be incredibly happy while getting rich you will be able to outlast your competition. You will be able to run faster and longer than them in this infinite marathon of life because when
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they look at you, they think you are doing work when in reality you are just playing. You're just playing the game.
What feels like work to them is simply play to you because you have found something that you're passionate about that give you like a higher purpose that solve a problem in this world. The last
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tip is a hot take. Stop looking for happiness and start living.
When I was around 18 to 19 years old, I was constantly pursuing happiness. I felt like if I wasn't happy, there is something wrong with me, right?
Because
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any 18 or 19 year old should be happy before all the power of problems start coming in adulthood, right? So I felt to myself, you know what?
I have to enjoy my teens, right? I have to chase happiness.
So as a result, I indulged in all the hedonistic habits that you can
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think of. You know, I was hooking up with girls.
I was drinking. I was um eating a lot of junk food.
I was partying. I was clubbing.
You know, I was just having fun, you know, like doing what any 18 to 19 year old does. All because I was seeking happiness.
All
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of those stuff, they felt good in the short term, right? They allow me to feel this high in the short term.
But I always regret it right after I've done those things, right? So it brings me pleasure in the short term, but it brings me pain in the long term.
Till
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this day, I still regret like doing some of those stuff right there. So in those moments, I thought that those were the good old moments.
I thought that, okay, this is just going to bring me pleasure forever, right? I'm just going to be happy forever as long as I just hook up with the next girl.
As long I just
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consume another bottle of alcohol, as long as I just go to party with my friends on another Friday night, you know, if I just keep on doing this, I will always be happy, right? But what I failed to realize is that yes, I'm happy in that moment, in that present moment.
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But after that thing, h my happiness dropped back to even below the baseline. I was more miserable right now after I've done the thing rather than before I did those things.
So that is when I realized that you know what [ __ ] happiness. Who says that life is all
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about being happy? Who says that you should be chasing pleasure all the time?
Life is about experiencing life. You have to enjoy the fullness of life.
Which means you have to experience the full range of emotions life has to offer
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you. You have to experience sadness, devastation, resentment, anger, um fear of missing out, happiness, hopeful, uh greed, um despair.
You have to experience everything. That's what makes
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life worth living. You have to have the rainy days in order to enjoy the sunny days, in order to see the rainbow.
You have to go through the [ __ ] in order to experience what good food, good views taste like. You have to experience hell
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in order to experience heaven. In order to enjoy heaven, that is simply the fullness of life.
Because if you were happy every single day, 24/7, then happiness would not be worthwhile, right? Like there would be no meaning in happiness
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if you're happy all the time. The reason why happy is something that we look upon is because it's something that is so hard to grasp.
Right? So if you experience sadness then you will be able to enjoy happiness.
If you experience anger then you will be able to enjoy
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equinamity right? So it's like there needs to be this contrast right?
There needs to be this dance between the different emotions in life. So go out there, live life, stop worrying about happiness, right?
Happiness will eventually come. And if you make
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happiness a choice, you know, you make a conscious decision to be present every single day, you will feel pockets of happiness throughout the day. And those pockets of happiness throughout the day, that adds up, right?
Like the compound effect, you actually do the thing and eventually you're going to be on your deathbed living life with hopefully no
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regrets whatsoever. I think that's the only worthwhile pursuit in life.
It's not the status, it's not the money, it's not the fame, but to be on your deathbed and have absolutely no regrets. Being content that you have kept all the promises that make to yourself, you have
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done all the things that you wanted to do. You have became the person that you wanted to become, the highest version of you.
And I think that's all that matters. That's what life is about.
All right. So, that's pretty much my take on happiness.
Now bear in mind that this is literally coming from a guy who have
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been poor, who have been rich, who have been unhappy, who have been happy, right? Who have kind of like figure out or rather crack the codes to happiness.
And yeah, these are pretty much my thoughts. Obviously, there are a lot of points that is not included in here, right?
Like some bonus tips would be,
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you know, be a lifelong learner, right? Always be humble, right?
Be open-minded to new information, right? And uh yeah, there's like all of these other tips which is not included in this thread because I just wanted to make it so that it's short, right?
It's just 10 timeless
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principles that I found work for me. And if you think that it worked for you, please share this video with someone that needs to hear this, right?
It could be someone that is depressed. It could be someone who thinks that a hadonistic lifestyle equal happiness, right?
Just share this video with someone that you
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need. I think that's the least that you can do, right?
Because what I've done on this particular video is to just show you how to live life, right? Or rather show you how I live my life.
And if this video can just help you, I think it's your duty to share it like someone else,
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right? So they can help more people and we can change more life along the way, right?
So yeah, I'm posting wisdom like this every single day on Twitter, Brad Go Trades. So you can follow me on there if you want to hear my unfiltered thoughts just like this.
A lot of times these are just reminders to myself,
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right? A lot of times when I start to realize that um I'm wanting more.
I'm chasing the next big thing, I just remind myself of these 10 principles because these 10 principles will allow me to happy no matter the conditions, no matter the outcomes. Like as long I just
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leave these 10 principles, I'm good, man. So yeah, that's my recipe to become as happy as a clown and as free as a seagull.
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