Sol Hyde

I completely agree with the concept of eating shit at the start of your career. But I think you’ve got to be selective with what shit you eat

Moving from consuming to creating is the best self development shift you can do

The greatest test to see if you should quit your job is to look at people 5 years above you. If their lives look exactly like living hell to you then you’re on the wrong path.

Person I know: “aren’t you worried your kids will be embarrassed that you posted on social media” Me in my head: “aren’t you worried that your kids might think you settled for an average life and career”

I paid £1.8k to be part of a group of 20 year olds who are all working their arses off to make money online. Seriously inspirational group. Anyone that says gen z is lazy is wrong for sure.

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6. Education investment University cost me £50k. I loved it but didn't learn much. I don't want to stop learning after uni and have come round to the idea of investing in that education.

5. Community You are the product of the 5 people you spend the most time with. This dictates your happiness, productivity and aspirations. I looked hard at this and adjusted my 5 accordingly.

4. Remote work I believe remote work is the best way to work. It gives people the autonomy to live their best life. Tie people to value not their time and let them do whatever they want with their day.

1. Outsourcing I read about outsourcing Tim Ferris' 4 hour work week. I was obsessed with how I could use personal assistants to free up my time and now use them 5-10 hours a week.

3. Leverage Naval Ravikant talks about the way leverage changes your life. I completely defined my life goals, realising that selling my time would ruin my life / never make me rich. Now my friends are sick of me talking about how I can get more leverage.

2. Success gaps Listening to people like Hormozi and Williamson showed me that there was a huge difference between what they did vs what I did. For my podcast we prepped 15 mins per episode vs Chris' 10 hours. Closing that input gap is key

I've become absolutely self-development obsessed in the last year. It's changed my life and I've boiled the whole 365 days into 6 key themes.

I’ve spent more time choosing my idols recently. I realised I was listening to people who lived a life I didn’t want. If I followed their advice word for word, I was in danger of ending up exactly where they are.

I don’t listen to people’s opinions on creators/podcasters/influencers unless they’ve consumed more than just one or two bits of their content. You can form an opinion on someone’s whole character off one sound bite you heard from 2021.

Working 5 days a week is outdated. You can work 60 hour weeks and have plenty of time to gym, socialise, chill everyday. Work 7 days a week, 10 hours for 5 days (7am-5pm) and 5 hours at the weekend. Easy 🫡

I spent years thinking that networking would be the way I would become successful. Which it definitely isn’t worthless, a much quicker way to success is to make something that gets you invited to any room you want to be in.

Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments. Make the implicit explicit. So good.

I think we like to put some people into the category of just a jammy or lucky person. It gives us an excuse to justify things not going well for us. But maybe those people aren’t ‘lucky’ by chance but actually increase their surface area for luck.

Everyone is jealous of what you’ve got but no one is jealous of how you got it. So good from @AlexHormozi @ChrisWillx