Shift Your Spending From Things To Experiences
Stop chasing money. Stop chasing ghosts. I tell people. These shiny things we're inundated with them now. You look on social media, you look on tick tock, there's a guy with a Ferrari and a plane and all these shiny things and if you just give them a couple hundred dollars you can have all that and you know it's but you buy that ticket. You buy that ticket because you can say, oh well, I tried. I signed up for it and I guess it just wasn't in the cards for me and I'm going to go back to living my shitty existence that I'm totally unhappy with and I love this quote that you use.
Choice is a superpower. Absolutely! Choice is a superpower but moreover you have to go out there and chase your fascination. You have to go out there and chase excellence. You have to be interested in people. You have to be interested in things. You have to go out there and wonder, what's inside. You have to be able to get people to give you what you want and in order to do that, you have to exercise influence. Robert Caldini wrote in his book Influence that there's five elements and we focus on a lot of them.
On Amazon we teach people how to use social proof, how to use authority, how to use likability, consistency, scarcity, reciprocity. These elements that you can master and then weave through the world and you become the master of your time and ultimately that's what it's about. It doesn't matter how many boats you have, cars you have, all these expensive things you have like, you said some people are going to be very happy chilling out on that fjord and you chill out on that fjord and you know you're relaxed. You got control over your time.
If that's good enough for you, then you do that. A lot of people don't want more. They want to have more experiences and that's really what money's for. That's what we use it for is to buy experiences. I don't care so much about things. I never did it, doesn't matter to me. I mean you know, yeah, I like my car collections and the houses and all that stuff. It's fun, but at the end of the day what's really meaningful to me is me and my family traveling somewhere and having an experience of another culture and other people, you know. I've spent my life chasing experiences.
I've been in the jungle and I've slept in the same huts with cannibals and taken ayahuasca and the jungles of amazon before people knew what ayahuasca was, before it became popularized. I've traveled to insane places in southeast Asia. I've been to these places and had these experiences and I'll tell you, those are the things that enriched my life. It's not things. Things get old, like you said, it's that piece of technology, where today you have it, tomorrow the battery dies. You got to toss it out. It's meaningless. Okay, that was fun. If you liked what you saw, make sure to subscribe and like below. Make sure to leave us a comment and join the community.