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Often we are told to follow our passion, but what does that really mean? How do we actually go about following a passion? Should we just wait for this passion to come to us? In this episode, we'll explore how to foster a passion and connect that passion to your greater purpose.

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Source: Grit by Angela Duckworth

In 2013,  Angela Duckworth coined the term Grit during a TED Talk. 

In this episode, we explore what exactly it means to be gritty.  Angela completed her undergraduate degree in Neurobiology at Harvard, she completed an MSc in Neuroscience from Oxford University, and completed her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. During her time at UPenn, she researched the psychology of highly successful individuals and found that they had two things in common: unusual resilience and work ethic (perseverance) and direction, having a deep knowledge of what they want (passion).

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Source: Grit by Angela Duckworth

This is the second part of our journey to understanding how to build wealth. In this episode, we discuss the three different types of leverage that are utilized in wealth creation. Understanding how to use leverage with great judgment and calculated risk-taking is the most important skill. However, to develop great judgment, one must first obtain foundational knowledge.

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Source: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

On May 31st, 2018, Naval Ravikant published his famous Twitter thread titled "How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)".  This thread elegantly laid out the most important factors for building wealth in the modern economy. In this episode, we define wealth and discuss the skills necessary for building wealth which he refers to as specific knowledge.

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Source: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

Building a startup is incredibly difficult and requires a great amount of luck. However, entrepreneurs can not be focused on the things they can't control. They must focus on opposing conventional thinking in order to find secrets that can become monopolies. In order to become a monopoly, Peter Thiel states that the startup must answer these 7 Startup Questions.

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Source: Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

We often believe we are fully in control of our decision-making, but this would be far from the truth. Nobel Prize winner and founder of behavioral economics, Daniel Kahneman, introduces the idea that our brain operates in two modes, fast and slow. In this episode, we explore these two systems in depth.

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Source: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman