 Well it seems like the markets are crashing, crypto is crashing and the Fed just announced $1.5 trillion in quantitative easing. The earth is fucking falling apart because we're not making any more money. Now mind you there's real economic consequences and I'm not talking about economic as in financial, I'm talking about breaking up society when people can't afford to pay for rent or people can't afford to pay for mortgage or the most basic Mazur hike your needs, they can't afford to pay for food but what I want to talk about is opportunity cost and if you look at the history of most startups and you look at where people, the most successful companies come from usually they come from when times are rough. Now Churchill has a saying when going through hell keep on going. So it's fascinating to see the dichotomy of different people within this space. You have people who are opportunistic when the whole markets are crashing. I'm going to use the word markets in plural to define all markets, commodity markets, stock markets, crypto markets, futures, everything. Markets as a whole, a general concept and so you have people who are opportunistic, where they see opportunity, where they're sitting on cash, then you got people who are fear mongers or they're in more scarcity mindset where the world is crashing around them. Now for the most part 99.99% of us, me included, we're not playing up here. It's not like I'm sitting on $100 million fund where I can go up and scoop up cheap fucking assets. It's not like I can manipulate a bunch of stuff as I'm a hedge fund. Now there can you, maybe you can and you're one of the insiders, but that being said what can you do as a regular person where you are you have a job or a small business or whatever the fuck may be but you are independent individual and what can you do? See regardless of if it's good times or if it's bad times, the fundamental problem that we humans fall into is the hedonic treadmill. It's the happiness treadmill. It's a treadmill of the dopamine fix where we have to get high on our own fucking supply every single day. This is why we're addicted to our cell phone. This is why we're addicted to people conforming into us, meaning like validation. I have to go online and say something more fucking likes I get the better. This is why we get accustomed to the same routines. We go to work with a safe, secure, steady paycheck. We have a pension plan. I don't know how that's working out for you right now. Case in point, pension plans for the most part, you're trusting your money with somebody else and for the most part these fiduciaries aren't the wisest to be honest with you. Their returns are horrendous and so I'm a firm believer in you're smarter than most people and give yourself more credit. You look at all these factors and we get caught up in this treadmill. I got to do the same thing, man. I got to get that paycheck. I got to get the benefits and when shit hits the fan, we go into chaos mode. Oh my fucking god, what's going to happen now? It's a fight or flight, right? Cortisol is going, testosterone is going, stress is going, all this pressure is fucking building up. You might be arguing with your spouse, you might be arguing with your business, you might be getting fired. Most likely we're going to have a lot of layoffs if this keeps up. But this also brings opportunity and this brings in the picture of if the glass is half full or is the glass half empty. I always like to look as a glass half full. There's opportunities everywhere and it's not like in the world. For the most part, if you're North America, we can get some shelter over your head and we can get food on the table. Let's go back to word opportunity. This brings opportunity for you to rethink the circumstances that you've been. If you're in a circumstance that is so fragile, like this, that Nassim Talib talks about this, an anti-fragility. If you're so fragile, the little fucking tiny Jenga piece moves and your whole house of cards come crashing down. That's not a really good position to be in. I'm not just talking about finances. I'm talking about physical health. I'm talking about mental health. Let's talk about the coronavirus. Statistically speaking, if you are a healthy individual, your blood markers are good. You're taking care of yourself. You have your vitamin D, vitamin E. All your stuff is good. You have a stronger probability of beating the virus as opposed to an individual that says, well, I've got to rely on medication. I've got to rely on this. I've got to rely on that. No shit. Your hot air balloon, one prick, you come crashing down. It goes to classical saying, Stoic saying, prepare for the worst, hope for the best. Most people are doing the opposite. They're preparing for the best and not hoping for the worst. Everything has to be perfect in that best scenario. These are opportunities for you to better yourself. In case you're one of the unfortunate ones that get laid off, maybe this gives you opportunity to re-educate yourself, upskill yourself, go to a better company. Companies always need to hire people. This is the one thing that people understand in markets. Companies do lay off. Yes. Other companies need to hire you. Companies need good workers to make revenue. If you can be productive and producing sales for a company, you will be hired. Simple as that. This is like the cognitive dissonance people have. They think just because everyone's getting laid off, the market dies. No, it doesn't. Business has to carry on. People need people to fucking carry on in business. Always look at opportunities as opposed to, oh my God, I've been dealt the worst cards. No went to fold them. No went to hold them. You've got to look around, man. Don't be one of these people, ostrich syndrome, where you're sticking your fucking head in the sand and hoping everything's going to pass over you. Life doesn't work that way. You end up like being one of these schmucks from the last videos talking about fake teachers, fake success. You follow these guys, or gals, and you end up in the schmuck pool over here. Then you want to ignore everything that's going on in your life. You don't want to take responsibility, so you stick your fucking head in the fucking sand and you're like an ostrich. That's not fucking life. Proper life is looking at everything and going head on, but having a support group around you. I'm not saying you do this by yourself. Community is really important, having your family around you, having your friends around you. But the notion is you're taking the responsibility. You are starting your hero's journey. Okay, you got fired. Onto the next journey. This opens up doors. Your business is not doing good. Maybe the business is, fuck that business. Close it. Bankrupt it. Claim bankruptcy. Start the next one. Next one maybe takes off six months than the old one in the last couple of years. You never know. New rock is un-turning. Probabilities. Possibilities everywhere. But it's the mindset that matters, man. It fucking matters. Just owning it and looking at it differently. Not from a skeptical, pessimistic, doom and gloom, all hell's going to break loose. No. From like, things happen. And mind you, we've been living in such peaceful times as of late. 2008 crash, meh. Last real war, World War II in the 40s and then before that World War I. Some civil wars here and there. But like global catastrophes. They haven't been happening really. And we're living in opportunity, like massive opportunity, especially if you're in fucking North America. Like, you know, obviously life is never going to be fair. If you're born here, you won the generic lottery. And as opposed to if you're born somewhere in like, continent of Africa, or somewhere in like, bumfuck Asian minor, like, I don't know, like Uzbekistan, not even, you know, somewhere there. You know, there's much more opportunities here. So you win the generic lottery. And so that's the whole point. I'm not giving up, trying new things, learning new skills. And I'll leave it off as Churchill said it. When going through hell, keep on going guys. Just don't give up. Don't give up. And if you need help, holler at me, man. More than happy to help you up. If you need help with, I don't know, business advice. If you need help with marketing, if you need help with whatever, you know, personal help, emotional help, I'm here for you, man. Just shoot me a personal message. 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