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How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps)

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If you click this video, it's probably not the first video you've ever clicked like this. Maybe one like this, or this, or this. There are a ton of videos on YouTube that are promising you how you can get rich quick. And I get it. Because everybody wants that. I wanted it too. Let me guess. Didn't work. You did not, in fact, get rich quickly. And that's not your fault because most advice on the internet Either comes from people who themselves never got rich.

Yeah. Uh it's too vague, it's too general. It's just things like work hard, find your passion, things like that. And as bad of a reputation as Get Rich Quick has, the truth is it is actually possible to get rich quickly, right? You can get rich slow, you can get rich quick, you can get rich. But most of the people who are doing these videos, they've actually never done it themselves. A few weeks ago, I was asked to give a talk at Berkeley. And the talk I chose to give was called How to Make a Million Dollars After You Graduate. And I gave that talk because That's what I wanted when I was a college kid. Like I didn't know any better. I just thought, Well, I'm

What am I doing all this studying for? Why am I working so hard? Because I wanted to get a job that would be successful, that would give me money, and then I would be financially free. And that's what I wanted. I wasn't really ashamed to admit it. Now the problem was The whole time in college, nobody was explaining to me like what do you actually go do to make that happen? Right. I was learning about mitosis and I was learning about, you know, the history of the world wars. And nobody was telling me I'm here at school to learn how to be successful. Nobody was telling me how to actually do that. And so This talk that I gave at Berkeley.

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