Fame

Fame:

Fame.

It makes you believe you’re better than you are.

It feeds your ego like nothing else.

Imagine millions of people around the world know your name. That gets to your psyche, particularly when so many of them respect what you’re doing.

It deludes you into thinking you’re better than other people.

No.

You’re not.

Sure, you worked hard, got lucky and shared your message with the world. But you’re not better than anyone else.

Compared to the richest person in the world or the kid born into poverty in the middle of India, your life means the same as theirs. It’s no more, no less.

Fame deludes you into believing that you’re special.

You might be special but everyone is special.

Everyone has a story.

Everyone has their own experiences that have shaped them.

One human life is one human life.

Some people hit the genetic and financial lottery by being born into circumstances that gave them the world, like me. Most people don’t get so lucky.

It doesn’t mean anyone is better than anyone else.

But this is what fame and money do – they make you believe you’re better than others.

In today’s capitalist world, money is seen as the barometer of success.

The American media has deluded the world into believing that the most successful people are those who make the most money.

Nope.

Success is in the eyes of the beholder. To me, it means someone who’s happy living their truth enjoying their life with the people around them doing what they love.

Money is nice and it helps you solve a lot of problems, but it also creates a ton of problems. Mo Money, Mo Problems - (great song btw).

These days, everyone is making money. People are jumping into the stock market like never before, rich people have earned trillions of dollars in paper wealth, crypto’s has had trillions of dollars flow into it, everyone and their mom is doing a SPAC and the US Federal Reserve keeps printing money out of thin air.

History shows us this never lasts. It’s great while it does, and bubbles can go on for a long time, but they always pop.

The pop is coming soon. AMC and GME went up 20% today and we’ve only just begun.

It’s strange because things I’ve thought about months ago are slowly starting to take place.

More people are starting to see what I saw months ago. AMC and GME will moon while the rest of the market crashes.

The set up is there.

Will it happen like I predicted?

Probably not. The future is always uncertain.

But I could be right about a lot of things. Citadel, the stock market crashes due to over-leveraged hedge funds, the largest redistribution of wealth in the history of stock market, the collapse of major banks, and a bubble popping unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.

If/when that happens, people around the world will be reading these words.

They’ll be looking through everything you wrote to understand how this doctor turned venture capitalist was right about so many things.

You’ll be famous.

Sure fame is nice for some things. I’ll probably meet my idols, be able to get into any room I want, talk to some of the greatest investors in the world, get any reservation I want, but everything will change.

Tim Ferris wrote a great blog post about the downsides of fame and for anyone thinking they’d like to be famous, read it first before you decide on this path.

If you let fame change you, it will.

For me, I’ve grown up enough and had enough life experience that I know what its like to be a nobody. Enjoy being a nobody because that will all change soon enough.

Your goal is manifesting itself and by jumping in full time into becoming an investor/creator/author, you’ll be known around the world.

Normal people don’t guess market crashes. They don’t skip grades. They don’t get into medical school at 16. They become a VC at 23. None of this is normal.

Yet I still feel like the shortest chubbiest kid in school who always sat at the last spot in the bottom row on picture day.

Don’t ever forget that kid.

Don’t let fame delude you into thinking you’re better than anyone else, because you’re not.

You got lucky, you worked hard and you took advantage of the opportunity.

Keep going, you’re doing great.