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How to Actually Get Rich: The One Rule Nobody Tells You

by | Jun 19, 2025 | Investing, Investment Strategies, Smart Money, Wealth Building

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How to Actually Get Rich: The One Rule Nobody Tells You

Want to Get Rich? Treat Money Like You Treat Any Skill

At the time of filming, the speaker in this viral monologue was worth at least $170 million, though he insists it’s likely much more. But he’s not here to boast — he’s here to hand you a truth bomb that could slice five years off your path to real wealth. No fluff. No course. No self-help clichés. Just one brutally honest lesson that changed everything for him — and can for you.

I Made $200 Million Abusing This 1 Rule (Kinda Regret It)

💰 Getting Rich Is Just Like Getting Good at Any Skill

Want to know the secret?

Making money is a skill — not magic, not luck, not even intelligence.
It’s like playing guitar, jiu-jitsu, or video games. The same rules apply:

  • Start messy.

  • Get feedback.

  • Increase the difficulty.

  • Suck less every day.

  • Repeat until mastery.

But here’s the catch — money is tied to your ego and loaded with risk. Most people never even start. Why? Because they fear looking like a failure more than they want to win.

Let’s break it down.

🧠 The Ego Trap: Why You’re Not Taking the Shot

Most people think they care what others think. But what they really care about is what they think others think about them.

It’s a mind trap. And it’s the #1 reason most people never try to make money:

  • “What if I fail?”

  • “What will people think?”

  • “What if I lose everything?”

But here’s the truth:

Nobody cares. They’re too busy thinking about themselves. And you should be too — in a productive way.

🎯 The One Rule: Increase the Difficulty, Always

Whether it’s business, investing, selling, coding, or even delivering pizzas — the golden rule is this:

As soon as something gets easy, raise the difficulty.

Let’s say you’re learning guitar:

  • You start with “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

  • Once you can play it blindfolded — don’t stop.

  • Move to something harder: Van Halen, jazz, whatever.

  • Keep getting uncomfortable.

Same with business:

  • You freelance → Then hire help.

  • You manage a small team → Then scale with ads.

  • You make $100K → Try to make $1M.

  • You build a $2M business → Burn it down and start a $10M one.

Every time you level up, you feel dumb again. That’s the price of growth. That’s the point.

📉 Why Most People Plateau

People get to $100K, $500K, even $1M — and stop. They stop because:

  • They get comfortable.

  • They want safety, not growth.

  • They try to optimize what already works instead of doing the next hard thing.

And that’s where they die financially — not broke, but stagnant.

“I plateaued at $2 million a year for five years because I stopped increasing the difficulty.”

💣 The Real Reason You’re Not Growing

Every time you feel stuck financially, ask:

  • Am I playing the same game?

  • Am I avoiding risk to protect my ego?

  • Am I doing what’s hard… or what’s comfortable?

If the answer is “yes” to any of those — that’s why you’re not growing.

🛠 Practical Application: What To Do Right Now

  • Just Start: You don’t need a genius idea. Start selling a simple service. Start learning ads. Start shadowing someone better than you. Start anywhere.

  • Stack Skills: Making money is just a combination of skills — sales, product, delivery, management, systems. Learn one at a time.

  • Tolerate Risk: Play games with limited downside (freelancing, low-capital businesses) until you’re ready to bet bigger.

  • Reinvest Your Wins: Like Mr. Beast — every dollar he made went back into crazier videos. That’s why he’s a billionaire. Most people take the money and get lazy.

  • Kill Comfort: If you’re not embarrassed by what you did 6 months ago, you’re not growing fast enough.

🧘‍♂️ The Ultimate Mindset Shift

Want to be rich? Want to win? Then:

  • Stop trying to do it without risk.

  • Stop trying to be comfortable.

  • Stop playing the same song.

Just like lifting heavier weights builds muscle, bigger bets build net worth.

This is not about grinding forever. It’s about deliberate skill-building under pressure — over and over again, at higher levels.

💡 Final Thoughts: Why This Works

You don’t need 100 mentors.
You don’t need to be brilliant.
You don’t need to start the next unicorn.

You just need to treat money-making like jiu-jitsu:

  • Show up.

  • Get choked.

  • Learn the moves.

  • Get choked again.

  • Eventually choke someone else.

Repeat this process at increasingly higher levels, and you will get rich. Guaranteed.

If you want success, stop treating money like a mystery.
Start treating it like a skill.

And never, ever stop increasing the difficulty.