Maintain Your Freedom - Akira the Don, Naval Ravikant

Akira

He’s got clout

People who are living far below their means

Enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles just can’t fathom

And I think that’s very important

Like just do not upgrade your lifestyle all the time to maintain your freedom

And it just gives your freedom of operation

Once we make a little bit of money you still want to be living like your old

self So that’s just the worry goes away

So, don’t run up and upgrade that house

Lifestyle and all that stuff

Let’s say you get $ 1,000 an hour

The problem is that when you go into a work lifestyle like that

You don’t just suddenly go from making twenty dollars an hour to making a $ 1000

and hour That’s the progression over a long career

And as that happens one subtle problem is that

You upgrade your lifestyle as you make more and more money

And that upgrading of the lifestyle ups what you consider to be wealth

And you stay in this wage slave traffic

So, I forget who said it maybe was Nasin Taleb

He said «The most dangerous things are heroin and a monthly salary»

I think that’s very important like just do not update your lifestyle all the

time

To maintain your freedom

To maintain your freedom

And I think that’s very important like just do not upgrade your lifestyle all

the time To maintain your freedom

To maintain the freedom

The way you want to get wealthy is you want to be poor and working and working

and working

And this is for example how the tech industry works where you don’t make any

money for ten years

And then suddenly in year-11 you might have a giant payday

Ideally you want to make your money and discrete lumps separated over long

periods of time

So that your own lifestyle does not have a chance to adapt quickly

And then you can basically say okay now I’m done now I’m retired now I’m free

I’m still gonna work because you got to do something with your life

But I’m gonna work on only the things that I want what I want is very much more

creative expression and much less about money

So, I forget who said it maybe was Nasin Taleb

He said «The most dangerous things are heroin and a monthly salary»

I think that’s very important like just do not update your lifestyle all the

time

To maintain your freedom

To maintain your freedom

And I think that’s very important like just do not upgrade your lifestyle all

the time To maintain your freedom

To maintain your freedom To maintain your freedom

Now I’m done Now I’m retired

Now I’m free

To maintain your freedom Now I’m done

Now I’m retired

Now I’m free

To maintain your freedom