The path to
riches is what we all want to take, but how does one do it? By
"riches" my definition is the best life you can create for yourself. If you talk to a person who has made it already they'll probably say something
like: "follow your passion" or "do what you love". I personally
am really into technology and come up with about 1 tech idea a day of what I could do to start
a business (most are worse than good)…so with this curse I've developed the
last year, I'm pretty sure I should be doing technology. Luckily I also know
that having a job in this field is not hard to find, but on the flipside there
are fields where the chances of making it are very low...good luck making it as a poker pro.
Who knows what
the odds of making it platinum as a musician are and the odds of being a sports
star? Pursuing those things seems a bit crazy
to me, which is how I know they're not my cup of tea. I'm very sure business is
my sport. I can trace this back to my scheming 8 year old self. I would drive my remote control car around my neighborhood. When kids
asked: "can I drive?" I'd say: "yea, but in return I'd like a Pokemon
card". A very efficient model for
getting Pokemon cards, but I guess asking for 50 cents would not be so bad
either. Plus, I'd rather be a much less successful version of Bill Gates than Michael Jordon,
Mike Myers or Michael Jackson any day so with this logic it's why I love
business. Every once in a while I ask myself if this is my passion.....YES! Explodes in my mind…I also have been a
bit of a musician in the past creating songs and various arrangements since I was 15. While I
love to do that as well, I chose business for the future because, however fun it is being a
rapper, being a business man is much more appealing and challenging to me.
I see people all around me that aren't following their path and looking miserable everyday.
So what if I
didn’t know what my path was? How do we find out what we love to do?
My hypothesis:
Simply look at your
heroes (hopefully you want to be like you heroes) and you follow those footsteps
in your own way. The people I admire and try to learn the most from happen to
be Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Wozniak,
Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Gordon Moore, Peter Thiel, Mark Cuban,
Sean Parker, I could dig out a lot more,
but you get the point. So just take your
heroes study them, try to get in contact to similar people in the field and have fun. HOWEVER…
As we all know,
there is more than one ways to skin a tiger (it’s a cat too) and nothing is set
in stone until your last day, so let's look at the other options.
Some believe:
"If you wanna be successful just take something like your hobby and blow it up" Even though this could
be good advice at first, I think that in the long term it does not apply to
everything directly, but can be great advice indirectly. I mean I like playing
video games as much as anyone, but being a professional gamer is a bit out of
the question…starting my own gaming company isn't though. (No I don't play a
lot of video games anymore because my new game and most addicting game is
business). Other advice could be to try to
jump into a field and see if you fall in love with it, which isn't a bad choice
either. Jumping in a field and working for a company can help you find your
business passion while making some dough. It takes a lot of balls and I respect it as well. Anyways, I hope I'm on the right "path to riches" money or no money.
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