 Making your first million is mostly going to come from hyperactivity, hyper-experimentation and hyperactivity and to the extent that you're hyperactive in business and you're launching things and you're trying things and you're buying assets and you're talking to investors so you have some capital even if they reject you and if you're going and looking in this case if you want to do short-term rental properties if you're looking at 50 properties a month you're sending letters to people you're sending emails you're DMing if you're got a social media agency if you're hyperactive in fact one of the personality traits of people who make above average income is what's called hypomania hypomania means people who have insane levels of energy now some of that's genetic and some of its ambition and some of it is diet