Why do most people work hard, yet get further away from financial freedom? Because they are pursuing a "2x" linear growth, which is essentially a tiring trap. The 2x mindset relies on doubling your efforts, leading to increased complexity in management and diminishing marginal returns, leaving you trapped in endless busyness.
If you want to achieve financial freedom faster, you must set your goal to 10x growth. It sounds difficult, but actually 10x is easier than 2x, because it forces you to think non-linearly, ruthlessly eliminating 80% of the secondary issues, and focusing only on that 20% of core leverage.
Financial advisor Chad Willardson is a typical example. By continuously raising entry barriers, he gradually increased the minimum investment amount for new clients from $100,000 to $10 million, eventually managing assets exceeding $1 billion. As Michelangelo said when creating David: "It's simple, I just removed everything that was not David." The process of financial freedom is not about addition, but subtraction.
You should understand that money is just one way to move wealth, while true wealth is creating value that has not yet existed. Statistical data shows that in an era of infinite leverage, the return of the top-ranked is usually 10 times that of the 10th, or even 100 times that of the 100th. As the saying goes: "What keeps you here will not take you there."
Achieving financial freedom is like upgrading from a carriage to a car — it's not about whipping the horse (working harder), but a complete system upgrade. You should ask yourself: If you want your income to grow 10x, what 80% of the trivial tasks must you stop doing? Who (Whos) can help you deal with those exhausting "Hows"?
When you stop chasing "more" and instead pursue "better" and "different," you are not far from real freedom. Where exactly is your 20% core competitiveness?
Reference: Book "10x Is Easier Than 2x"
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