Don’t believe me, just watch:

Don’t believe me, just watch

Every time I hear these words out of Bruno Mars’ mouth in Uptown Funk, it reminds me of a simpler time.

When everyone could get together, dance with strangers and weren’t stuck in their houses staring at their phone all day because of Covid.

But those words mean more than that.

Show people, don’t tell them.

You can tell people everything all you want.

Until you do something and accomplish something, your words hold no weight.

Like mafia bosses, I want my words to mean everything. They have to be unbreakable.

If I promise I’m going to do something and really commit to it, it’ll get done. No questions asked.

When I was in high school, I disappointed my parents, cried myself to sleep every night and went against their wishes when they wanted me to continue in the IB program. They told me I would never get into an international school.

2 years later, I got into medicine at the University of St. Andrews, the school where British royalty sends their kids, doing a regular public school education when I was 16.

6 years later, I told my parents I wanted to leave medicine.

They didn’t believe me.

‘Don’t believe me just watch.’

1 year later, I finished an internship at a corporate healthcare venture capital firm in Amsterdam and got a full time job in the venture capital industry, one of the most difficult industries to break into, in my home country working with the best team in Canada.

‘Don’t believe me just watch.’

My life has been about contrarian bets. About going against the grain. About not listening to those around you and trusting yourself. Listening to your dreams, not what someone else wants for you. Going all in and betting on yourself.

It’s scary because the road is unknown. You don’t know what will happen. What you can be sure of is you will fail, and you may fail spectacularly.

Doesn’t matter, just keep going.

If you keep going, even through all the noise and distraction from the outside world, you’ll get exactly where you want.

First you have to believe.

Napolean Hill taught me that. Turns out that belief, along with many other things, got some of the richest people in history to where they are. They obviously worked hard, had to get lucky, and were in special circumstances, but it started with belief.

You have to believe in yourself and your ideas more than anyone else.

Remember, when other people tell you your ideas are wrong or you’ll never get to a place, all that is an opinion. Don’t listen to them. Listen to that voice in your head that’s telling you to chase your dreams.

Life is built for the dreamers. There’s a reason the most successful people in the world, the ones who are running big companies and creating extreme value for the world are dreamers. They had to believe their ideas were superior and execute on them for years at a time when the rest of the world laughed.

All good, because guess who’s the last one laughing? It’s not the critics on the sidelines.

With my current bet against the stock market, this is by big bet. This is my introduction to the rest of the world. This is how I put myself in the drivers’ seat where I can control my dreams.

My latest idea is this:

If I’m right, I make tons of money. Not only on the meme stocks, because anyone can do that, but also betting the market is going to crash by playing leveraged options on 3x inverse ETFs, along with shorting specific stocks like Tesla and Apple.

These are trades that will be talked about forever, if I’m right. When the rest of the world zigged, I zagged.

With that, the plan is to turn that around with a fully fleshed out strategy on how to invest in the market for the next 10 years.

Share all the ideas with the Internet and see if you can crowd-fund your ideas by building your own brand, which I’m in the process of doing.

These things will take time but what’s stopping you from getting there? No one. Only yourself.

You have to do something crazy. Be contrarian and be right.

I’ve been contrarian and right my whole life.

It’s not about to end now.