00:00:00これは「金持ちになる方法」についての動画です。
00:00:02なぜ私がこの動画を作っているのか？
00:00:04医師として働いていた頃、
00:00:06傍らでYouTubeやビジネスも手掛けていましたが、
00:00:08「どうすれば金持ちになれるか？」と聞く人は一人もいませんでした。
00:00:09皆が聞いてくるのはいつも、「どうやって時間を管理しているのか？」
00:00:12「どうすればそんなに生産的になれるのか？」
00:00:13といったことばかりでした。
00:00:14しかし、この道を歩み始めて8年が経ち、
00:00:16今では数百万ドル規模のビジネスを築き上げました。
00:00:18チームもいますし、
00:00:19もし望まなければ、もう一生
00:00:20働く必要はありません。
00:00:21今、私が講演やQ&A、
00:00:24イベントなどに出席すると、
00:00:26多くの人が質問に来てくれます。
00:00:28そして、その質問の内容はもはや、
00:00:30「時間管理」や「生産性」についてではありません。
00:00:32質問の9割は、要するにこういうことです。
00:00:35「どうすれば金持ちになれますか？」
00:00:37言い回しは様々です。
00:00:38「高給取りになるためのアドバイスは？」とか、
00:00:40「好きなことをして
00:00:41年収6桁（1,000万円超）のライフスタイル・ビジネスを
00:00:43手に入れるにはどうすればいいか？」といった具合に。
00:00:44そこで、このチャンネルではまだ話したことがない
00:00:46あるテーマについて話したいと思います。
00:00:47時は2015年に遡ります。
00:00:49私はケンブリッジ大学の医学部3年生でした。
00:00:51医学部は6年制なのですが、
00:00:533年が終わると、
00:00:54中間卒業式のようなものがあります。
00:00:55その中間卒業式の夕食会で、
00:00:57同級生の医学生15人ほどと、
00:00:593年間お世話になった教授たちと
00:01:01一緒に座っていました。
00:01:03そこで、卒業アルバムの質問項目が
00:01:05話題になりました。それは、
00:01:07「この中で、億万長者になる一方で
00:01:09医師免許を剥奪されそうなのは誰か？」というものでした。
00:01:12免許剥奪とは、能力不足とみなされて
00:01:14医者として働けなくなることです。
00:01:15医学生にとっては一大事です。
00:01:18すると、私を3年間見てきたある教授が、
00:01:21「それは明らかにアリ（私）だね」と言ったのです。
00:01:26私は「マジかよ」と思いました。
00:01:28当時はまだYouTubeを始めていませんでした。
00:01:312015年のことです。
00:01:32チャンネル開設は2017年ですから。
00:01:33当時の私は、良い医者になろうと努力し、
00:01:36良い成績を取ろうと
00:01:38全力を尽くしていました。
00:01:40実際、ある試験では最優秀の成績（ファーストクラス）を収め、
00:01:41その年は学科でトップ2に入り、
00:01:42賞をもらったりもしていました。
00:01:44自分では医学の道に献身的だと思っていたのです。
00:01:46それなのに、尊敬していた教授から
00:01:50夕食の席で何気なく、
00:01:55「億万長者にはなるが、
00:01:58医師免許を剥奪されそうなのは誰か？」という
00:02:00不名誉な質問に対して、
00:02:02名指しされたのです。
00:02:04「アリなら億万長者になるだろうが、
00:02:06同時に医師免許も失うだろう」と。
00:02:07幸い、実際に剥奪されることはありませんでした。
00:02:08ビジネスや起業に専念するために
00:02:10医者を辞めた時、自ら登録を抹消しました。
00:02:11しかし、その時はかなりショックでした。
00:02:14「えっ？」って。
00:02:17「僕が億万長者になると思ってるんだ」という喜びもありましたが、
00:02:19それ以上に、
00:02:20「僕の金への執着が原因で、
00:02:21医師免許を失うほどだと思われているのか？」と。
00:02:23でも、今振り返ると、
00:02:26私が金持ちになれた唯一の、いや最大の理由は、
00:02:28「稼ぐことへの異常なほどの執着」があったからだと思います。
00:02:30文字通り、不健康なまでの執着です。
00:02:32Redditに、若手医師のサブレディット（掲示板）があり、
00:02:35去年、誰かが「アリ・アブダールについてどう思う？」と投稿しました。
00:02:38すると、「生産性のコンテンツは好きだよ」とか
00:02:42「試験勉強の助けになった」という意見もありましたが、
00:02:44一方でこんなコメントもたくさんありました。
00:02:45「あいつは金のことしか頭にない」
00:02:47「金の亡者だ」
00:02:50「金のことばかり考えて悦に入っている」
00:02:51「稼ぐことに異常に執着している」と。
00:02:53興味深いのは、あの卒業記念の夕食会から10年経って、
00:02:54今度はネットの見知らぬ人々から
00:02:56同じことを言われているということです。
00:02:58そして正直に言って、それは事実です。
00:02:59全くその通りなんです。
00:03:00私のビジネスがゼロから5桁、6桁、7桁へと急成長し、
00:03:01医者が一生かけて稼ぐ額を1年で稼ぐようになった頃、
00:03:03私は間違いなく、稼ぐことに取り憑かれていました。
00:03:05もしあなたが金持ちになりたいなら、
00:03:07それくらい稼ぐことに執着する必要があると私は考えています。
00:03:09身も蓋もない言い方ですが、それが現実です。
00:03:10私は今、多くの富裕層と知り合いです。
00:03:12金持ちになると、同じような境遇の人たちと付き合うようになります。
00:03:13純資産が数百万ドル、
00:03:17つまり1億から10数億円規模の人たちと出張に行ったり、
00:03:18あるいは純資産が15億から150億円という人たちとも過ごしてきました。
00:03:20以前インタビューした、今では友人でもある
00:03:22『Never Enough』の著者アンドリュー・ウィルキンソンは、
00:03:24B（ビリオン）、つまり純資産1,500億円以上の大富豪です。
00:03:27多くの超富裕層を見てきましたが、
00:03:30稼ぐこと、金持ちになること、ビジネスを築くことに
00:03:31「異常なまでの執着」を持っていなかった人は、一人もいません。
00:03:36彼らがワークライフバランスを考え始めるのは、
00:03:37金持ちになった後の話です。
00:03:38いわば「サイドクエスト」を始める段階ですね。
00:03:41「金持ちになる」というメインストーリーをクリアしたから、
00:03:42サイドクエストに手を出せるようになるわけです。
00:03:44そこで初めて格闘技を始めたり、
00:03:47ゲームに熱中したり、
00:03:50生産性や人生を豊かにする方法についての本を書き始めたりします。
00:03:52成功した人たちの多くは、
00:03:54金持ちになるまでの過程で、
00:03:56結婚し、子供を授かります。
00:03:59そして彼らのほぼ全員が、
00:04:00家族やパートナーとの時間を十分に持てなかったと、
00:04:01「不在」であったことを後悔しています。
00:04:04ある42歳くらいの男性と話しました。
00:04:06彼は私よりもはるかに金持ちで、
00:04:08純資産は15億から150億円ほどだと推測されます。
00:04:141年ほど前の旅行中に彼が言っていたのは、
00:04:16ビジネスを成長させることへの異常な執着のせいで、
00:04:17子供の幼少期の最初の10年間を仕事に費やし、
00:04:19完全に見逃してしまったということでした。
00:04:22いつも働いていたため、離婚寸前までいったそうです。
00:04:24夫婦仲が修復できたのは、ただ運が良かっただけだと言っていました。
00:04:26そこでようやく彼は稼ぐことへの執着を緩め、
00:04:27ワークライフバランスを考え始めたのです。
00:04:28この動画は「金持ちになる方法」についてです。
00:04:30どうすればなれるのか？
00:04:32それは、人生の他の領域を犠牲にしてでも
00:04:34金持ちになることに異常に執着することです。
00:04:36私の場合は、幸運なことに、
00:04:38その執着によって犠牲になったのが「医学のキャリア」でした。
00:04:41幸いなことに、教授が予言したように
00:04:44強制的に免許を剥奪される形ではありませんでしたが、
00:04:47金持ちになりたいという執着がビジネス構築に向かい、
00:04:50そちらの方が楽しいと気づいたため、
00:04:52結局、医者の仕事を辞めることになりました。
00:04:54これは非常にラッキーなケースでした。
00:04:56もし、結婚して子供ができてから
00:04:57稼ぐことに異常な執着を持ち、
00:04:59ビジネスに没頭していたとしたら、
00:05:02「子供の成長を見逃した」と
00:05:03一生後悔することになっていたかもしれません。
00:05:06私が稼いでいた時期、頭の片隅には常に
00:05:09「今はこれでいいが、本当に大切なのは健康や人間関係だ」
00:05:13「それだけは台無しにしたくない」という思いがありました。
00:05:17おすすめの本を紹介しましょう。
00:05:19クレイトン・クリステンセンの『人生をどう計るか』、
00:05:22ビル・バーネットとデイヴ・エヴァンスの『ライフデザイン』、
00:05:24それから経済的な富は一つの側面に過ぎないと説く
00:05:26『The Five Types of Wealth』なども良い本です。
00:05:28私は運良く、金への執着がもたらす
00:05:31最悪の結末を避けることができました。
00:05:34しかし面白いのは、最悪の事態は避けたものの、
00:05:3610年前の教授にも、
00:05:37今のネットの見知らぬ人たちにも、
00:05:40「金に執着している」と思われていることです。
00:05:44おそらくそれは、真実なのでしょう。
00:05:46例えば、あなたがプロのアスリートに
00:05:48なりたいという夢を持っているとしましょう。
00:05:50サッカーでも、テニスでもいい。
00:05:55それを実現するために、そのスポーツに
00:05:58「異常なほど執着」する必要があるでしょうか？
00:06:01答えはイエスです。間違いなく。
00:06:03トップ1%に入るプロのトレーニングメニューを
00:06:04見てみてください。
00:06:06傍から見れば、それは異常な執着にしか見えません。
00:06:09寝ても覚めてもそのことばかり。
00:06:10生活のすべてがその一点に集中し、
00:06:11ただひたすら目標を追いかけています。
00:06:13俳優のティモシー・シャラメは、
00:06:15「偉大な俳優の一人になりたい」と語っています。
00:06:17「主観的な世界だとは分かっているけれど、
00:06:20僕は本気で偉大さを追い求めている。
00:06:21普通、人はそんなふうには言わないけれど、
00:06:23僕は先人たちに憧れ、彼らのようになりたいんだ」と。
00:06:26これは珍しいことです。
00:06:29今は「偉大さを志す」ことが敬遠されがちな時代ですから。
00:06:31「たまたま俳優になっただけ」とか、
00:06:34「努力なんてそんなにしていない」と
00:06:35謙遜するのが美徳とされています。
00:06:36「ガツガツしている奴（tryhard）」はダサいと思われてきました。
00:06:38しかし、ティモシー・シャラメのような存在が、
00:06:40全力で取り組むことをカッコいいものに変えています。
00:06:42彼は間違いなく全力投球しています。
00:06:44偉大な俳優になるという目標のために、
00:06:45演技という芸事に異常なほど執着しているはずです。
00:06:46もちろん彼は容姿も端麗ですが、
00:06:49それだけであの地位には行けません。
00:06:50異常なまでの執着なしに、
00:06:51何かの分野でトップ1%の結果を出すことは不可能です。
00:06:53オリンピック選手やミュージシャン、
00:06:55ピアニストや俳優がそうであっても、私たちは非難しません。
00:06:58しかし、こと「金儲け」に関しては、
00:07:01なぜか軽蔑の対象になりがちです。
00:07:03本当に金持ちになりたいなら、
00:07:04そんな偏見は気にしていられないはずです。
00:07:05この動画をここまで見ているあなたなら、
00:07:07稼ぐことに執着する人を否定はしないでしょう。
00:07:08でも、あなたがその道を進もうとすれば、
00:07:09友人や家族からは「金の亡者だ」と冷ややかな目で見られるかもしれません。
00:07:11特にイギリスやカナダのような国ではその傾向が強いです。
00:07:13アメリカなら「金持ちになりたい？最高だ、やれよ！」と
00:07:14背中を押してくれる雰囲気があるかもしれませんが、
00:07:17イギリスや多くのヨーロッパの国では、
00:07:18「金持ちになりたいなんて、どこかおかしいんじゃないか？」
00:07:20「人生にはもっと大切なことがあるだろう」
00:07:21「お金で幸せは買えないんだぞ」と言われます。
00:07:23「なぜそんなに稼ぐ必要があるんだ？」という空気が充満しています。
00:07:24金持ちになろうとすることは、何やら「悪いこと」のように扱われます。
00:07:26それが正しいかどうかは分かりませんが、一つ言えるのは、
00:07:28異常な執着なしに金持ちになった人を、私は一人も知らないということです。
00:07:29繰り返しますが、どうすれば金持ちになれるのか？
00:07:30それは、不健康なまでに金に執着することです。
00:07:31その「異常な執着」とは、具体的にどんな姿を指すのか。
00:07:32ある友人の話をしましょう。仮にジェーンと呼びます。
00:07:34彼女も金持ちになりたがっていました。
00:07:35ストレートに「金持ちになりたい」とは言いませんが、
00:07:37「月に200万円くらい稼げるライフスタイル・ビジネスを作って、
00:07:39両親を引退させてあげたい。
00:07:40好きな時に好きな場所で、大好きな人たちと仕事をしたい」
00:07:43これって結局、「金持ちになりたい」という意味ですよね？
00:07:48両親を養い、自由な働き方をしながら
00:07:50毎月多額の利益を出せる人なんて、
00:07:51客観的に見て十分な「金持ち」です。
00:07:52だから私は彼女に言いました。
00:07:55「率直に言おうよ。君は金持ちになりたいんだよね？」
00:07:55彼女は「そう、金持ちになりたいわ」と認めました。
00:07:57自分の望みを認めるのは素晴らしいことです。
00:08:02彼女は色々試しているのに、
00:08:03一向に金持ちになれず、足踏みしている感覚に悩んでいました。
00:08:05私のチャンネルを見たり、勧めた本を読んだりしているのに、
00:08:065年前から全く状況が変わっていない。
00:08:07嫌いではないけれど、満足もしていない今の仕事に縛られたまま。
00:08:08そこで話を聞いてみると、彼女はマラソンの練習をしつつ、
00:08:10芸術的な側面を満たすためにYouTube動画を作り、
00:08:12インスタグラムで日々の生活を発信し、
00:08:14社交的だからと友人たちのためにイベントを主催し、
00:08:15家族思いなので頻繁に実家に帰る時間も大切にしている。
00:08:17やりたいことが山ほどあり、さらに週40〜50時間の
00:08:19本業も持っているわけです。
00:08:22私は単純な質問をしました。
00:08:24「ジェーン、週に何時間を『金持ちになる』という目標に捧げているの？」
00:08:25彼女は絶句しました。そんなこと考えたこともなかったからです。
00:08:2610年近くも「金持ちになりたい」と言い続けて、
00:08:27なぜ辿り着けないのか不思議がっていたのに、
00:08:31具体的な「投下時間」を把握していなかった。
00:08:33彼女は「ええと、本業があるし……」と言いましたが、
00:08:37正直に言って、普通の会社員で金持ちになれるのは
00:08:40ITか金融業界のトップ層くらいなものです。
00:08:42ロンドンで年収7,000万円稼いで、
00:08:46生活費を1,500万円に抑え、残りをインデックス投資に回す。
00:08:48そうすれば40歳までには金持ちになれるでしょう。
00:08:51でも彼女の仕事はそのどちらでもありませんでした。
00:08:53つまり、本業に費やす時間は
00:08:53「金持ちになるための努力」にはカウントされません。
00:08:55結局、彼女が目標のために費やしていた時間は「ゼロ」でした。
00:08:57プロサッカー選手になりたい人が、
00:08:58週に何時間練習すべきか考えてみてください。
00:08:5910年間、毎日何時間もトレーニングし続けるはずです。
00:09:01上位1%に入るという高い目標を持ちながら、
00:09:02努力がゼロ。これでは不幸になって当然です。
00:09:05理想と行動が、完全に乖離しているのですから。
00:09:09では、「異常な執着」のもう一つの側面、
00:09:12「メンタル・キャパシティ」と「インプットの内容」について話しましょう。
00:09:142025年、30歳になった現在の私の生活と、
00:09:16稼ぐことに最も没頭していた5年前の2020年を比較してみます。
00:09:182020年は、YouTubeビジネスの年収が
00:09:201,500万円から1億8,000万円へと爆増した年でした。
00:09:22当時の私のインプットは、9割が「ビジネス」に関することでした。
00:09:25通勤中やジムにいる時間のわずか1割だけがファンタジー小説、
00:09:27残りの時間はすべて、YouTubeの伸ばし方やマーケティング、
00:09:29組織作りについてのポッドキャストやオーディオブックを
00:09:312倍速、3倍速で聴き漁っていました。
00:09:32これが「異常な執着」です。
00:09:35暇さえあれば、そのことばかり考え、学び、吸収する。
00:09:36一方、友人のジェーンに「稼ぐための学習にどれだけ時間を使っているか」聞くと、
00:09:37彼女は「趣味」としての動画制作のコンテンツは見ているけれど、
00:09:39ビジネスとして稼ぐための勉強はほとんどしていませんでした。
00:09:43上位1%の目標を持ちながら、行動も学習もゼロ。
00:09:44これでは「異常な執着」とは呼べません。
00:09:452020年の私は、本業の医師として働いている間も、
00:09:52どうやってビジネスを大きくするか、
00:09:53そのために何を学ぶべきか、そればかり考えていました。
00:09:55金持ちになるのは、それほどまでに大変なことなんです。
00:09:57SNSは「簡単に稼げる」と思わせようとしますが、
00:09:58ワークライフバランスを保ちながら、
00:10:00趣味も家族もバカンスも楽しみながら一気に成功するなんて、
00:10:02現実にはあり得ません。
00:10:03バランスの取れた生活は、すでに金持ちになった人が手にするものです。
00:10:04年収500万円から5,000万円へ、
00:10:06あるいは利益ゼロから1億円へと飛躍するフェーズでは、
00:10:07脇目も振らずに一点集中し、生活のバランスを崩すほどの努力が必要です。
00:10:08現在の私のYouTubeのおすすめフィードを見てみましょう。
00:10:10そこには今の私の優先順位が如実に表れています。
00:10:12哲学の動画、World of Warcraft（ゲーム）の攻略動画、
00:10:14絵の描き方、格闘技や筋トレ、ベビー用品のレビュー……。
00:10:15金儲けに関する動画は全体の2割程度に過ぎません。
00:10:17もうメインストーリーをクリアしたので、
00:10:19サイドクエストを楽しんでいるわけです。
00:10:21しかし、2020年の私のフィードは、100%ビジネス一色でした。
00:10:22もしあなたが金持ちになりたいなら、自問してみてください。
00:10:23「自分には、周囲から異常だと思われるほどの執着があるか？」
00:10:24「インプットの内容や時間の使い方は、その目標と一致しているか？」
00:10:26もし答えが「ノー」なら、選択肢は二つです。
00:10:29一つは、今すぐ異常な執着を持つ決意をすること。
00:10:31本業の前に2時間早く起き、昼休みも惜しんで働き、
00:10:32夜の遊びやNetflix、無駄なYouTube鑑賞をすべて断つ。
00:10:34週末も16時間、部屋にこもってビジネスに没頭する。
00:10:35それくらいの代償を払う覚悟を決めることです。
00:10:37もう一つの選択肢は、「自分には向いていない」と認めて、
00:10:38金持ちになるという目標を捨てることです。
00:10:40もしそこまでの犠牲が必要なら、そこまでして金持ちにならなくていい。
00:10:42そう思えたなら、この動画を見た価値は十分にあります。
00:10:44「なりたいけれど、行動が伴わない」という葛藤から解放されるからです。
00:10:45理想と行動のギャップこそが、人間を不幸にします。
00:10:47金持ちになること自体に善悪はありません。
00:10:47プロサッカー選手を目指すのと同様、単なる一つの選択です。
00:10:49代償を払う気がないのに目標だけ掲げ続けるのは、
00:10:50自分を苦しめるだけです。
00:10:53私のチームのメンバーにも、金持ちになることに関心がない人はたくさんいます。
00:10:56彼らは今の仕事と生活に満足し、自分らしく楽しんでいます。
00:10:58そこには何の矛盾もないから、彼らは幸せなんです。
00:11:00でも、ジェーンのように「なりたい」という理想と「何もしていない」現実の
00:11:01板挟みになっていると、毎日が苦痛になります。
00:11:04「行動を変えるか、望みを変えるか」。
00:11:06これが、金持ちになるための、そして幸せになるための私のアドバイスです。
00:11:09もしこの話が面白いと思ったら、週刊メルマガ「Life Notes」もチェックしてみてください。
00:11:10私が日々学んでいることや、役立つヒントを共有しています。
00:11:13最後まで見てくれてありがとう。また次の動画でお会いしましょう。
00:11:16And at the same time, she wants to host events for friends
00:11:21because she's very sociable
00:11:22and enjoys hanging out with friends.
00:11:23And at the same time, you know,
00:11:24she really cares about her family,
00:11:25wants to spend a lot of time hanging out with the family
00:11:26and visiting her parents a lot.
00:11:27And like, just has all these different things
00:11:30that she wants to do.
00:11:30And she also has a day job for the record.
00:11:32So it's like, you know, 40 to 50 hours of a week
00:11:34are taken up by the day job.
00:11:36I asked a simple question.
00:11:37I was like, okay, let's call it Jane.
00:11:39Okay, Jane, how many hours a week would you say
00:11:42you are devoting to the goal of getting rich?
00:11:44And she had never thought about this question before.
00:11:47Like literally never.
00:11:48It's like for five years, she'd had the goal of,
00:11:5010 years, she'd had the goal of I want to get rich.
00:11:52Was wondering why she's not there yet,
00:11:54which is why she was talking to me about this.
00:11:55Cause it was a conversation about how to get rich, basically.
00:11:58And I asked how many hours a week
00:11:59are you dedicating to the goal?
00:12:00And she was like, oh, damn.
00:12:02I mean, I've got my day job.
00:12:03And I was like, okay, come on, you know, let's be honest.
00:12:05The day job is probably unlikely to get you rich.
00:12:08The way you get rich from a day job
00:12:10is either you work in tech or you work in finance.
00:12:12Those are broadly the two fields
00:12:15where your day job can get you rich.
00:12:17Tech and finance.
00:12:18Is there anything else?
00:12:19Pretty much just tech and finance, right?
00:12:21If you have a really high paying job in tech
00:12:23or a really high paying job in finance,
00:12:24you can get rich off that, right?
00:12:26Cause you make way more money than you spend,
00:12:27even if you're living in London.
00:12:29And if you're living in London,
00:12:30you're making 500 grand.
00:12:31You're only spending 100 grand on like rent
00:12:33and food and drinks and shit.
00:12:34You've got 400 grand left, taxes, et cetera, et cetera.
00:12:36Put it in an index fund, S&P 500, compounding.
00:12:39By the time you're about 40, you'll be rich.
00:12:41If you work in finance, similarly, if you work in tech.
00:12:43This person, Jane, does not work in finance or tech.
00:12:46Therefore, being honest,
00:12:48she's unlikely to get rich off of her day job.
00:12:50So time spent working towards the day job,
00:12:53broadly does not really count
00:12:55for the goal of trying to get rich.
00:12:56Basically it transpired.
00:12:57She was spending zero hours a week
00:12:59focused on the goal of getting rich.
00:13:00Let's say you're trying to become a professional athlete.
00:13:03Let's say a professional football player.
00:13:04How many hours a week would you need to be dedicating
00:13:07to that goal of being a professional footballer?
00:13:08Like many, many, many hours a day, forever,
00:13:11for like a 10 year period.
00:13:12And yet my friend Jane had the goal of being rich,
00:13:16which is a 1% goal,
00:13:17and was putting zero effort towards the thing.
00:13:20And we've realized at the end of the conversation
00:13:21that this is a big part of why she feels sad.
00:13:24A lot of the time that she's not getting
00:13:25to where she wants to be.
00:13:26Cause she wants to be here.
00:13:27And the actions that she's taking are completely de-correlated
00:13:31from like this thing that she wants.
00:13:33What else does an unhealthy obsession look like?
00:13:35So we've talked about kind of the hours per week
00:13:37that you're spending trying to get rich.
00:13:39What else does an unhealthy obsession look like?
00:13:41I want to tell you a little story.
00:13:43And I want to compare, in this little story,
00:13:46I'm going to take a snapshot of my life right now in 2025.
00:13:51I'm currently 30 years old, three zero.
00:13:53And I want to compare it with a snapshot of my life,
00:13:55let's say five years ago.
00:13:57Yeah, five years ago, it would have been 2020.
00:13:59That was when I was in the peak of my getting rich phase.
00:14:032020 was the year where I went from earning 100,000 a year
00:14:08on my YouTube business to like 1.2 million a year
00:14:10from my YouTube business for the regular.
00:14:11So 2020 was a massive year of growth.
00:14:13I want to talk about the idea of mental bandwidth
00:14:16and content, content diet.
00:14:20So back in 2020, there were two types of content
00:14:22that I was consuming.
00:14:24Number one was fantasy fiction audiobooks
00:14:28on my drive to and from work some of the time.
00:14:31And while I was at the gym, some of the time.
00:14:32That was maybe 10% of my content consumption.
00:14:34The other 90% of my content consumption
00:14:37was about getting rich.
00:14:39It wasn't explicitly about getting rich.
00:14:40Back in 2020, there wasn't that much content about it,
00:14:42but it was about business.
00:14:43It was about how to grow a YouTube channel.
00:14:44I was listening to literally all of the podcasts
00:14:46about how to grow a YouTube channel.
00:14:47I was listening to all of the podcasts
00:14:48about how to build a business and how to market a business.
00:14:51The Smart Passive Income podcast,
00:14:52the Online Marketing Made Easy podcast,
00:14:54Noah Kagan's podcast.
00:14:55I was reading all the books,
00:14:56listening to all the audiobooks about business.
00:14:58The E-Myth Revisited and Traction
00:15:00and dozens and dozens of books and audiobooks
00:15:03about how to get rich.
00:15:0490% of the stuff that I was consuming
00:15:06that I was listening to every single day
00:15:08at like two times and three times speed
00:15:10was content about how to get rich.
00:15:12The way you get rich is by having an unhealthy obsession
00:15:14with getting rich.
00:15:15What that unhealthy obsession looks like
00:15:17is that in your discretionary time, in your spare time,
00:15:20the thing that you are thinking about,
00:15:21the thing that you're consuming content about,
00:15:23the thing you're reading about,
00:15:24the thing you're listening about,
00:15:26the thing you are listening to stuff about,
00:15:27the thing you're watching videos on
00:15:28is on how to get rich.
00:15:29Going back to this friend, Jane,
00:15:31I also asked her how much time do you spend watching
00:15:34or reading or listening to content
00:15:35that is specifically towards this goal of getting rich?
00:15:37And she said, well, I watch a lot of content
00:15:40about like content creation because I'm interested in that.
00:15:42I'm like, okay, but like,
00:15:43do you plan to get rich through content creation?
00:15:45She was like, okay, probably not, right?
00:15:47She's doing the content creation thing as a hobby
00:15:49rather than as a vehicle to getting rich.
00:15:50And I was like, okay, do you watch or listen
00:15:52or to read anything else about getting rich?
00:15:54And she was like, yeah,
00:15:55I sometimes watch some of your videos
00:15:56about finance and stuff, but other than that, not really.
00:15:58And so this is someone who has the goal of getting rich,
00:16:01which is like a 1% goal.
00:16:02'Cause you know, let's say rich is top 1%,
00:16:04however you wanna define it, whatever.
00:16:06And she's putting zero hours a week towards the goal,
00:16:09acting towards the goal of getting rich.
00:16:11And she's putting zero hours a week of consuming content
00:16:14towards the goal of getting rich.
00:16:16That is not what an unhealthy obsession
00:16:17with getting rich looks like, unfortunately.
00:16:19Yeah, so back in 2020,
00:16:20when I was in the process of getting rich,
00:16:21on my income 10x'd,
00:16:22I was listening to some fantasy audio books.
00:16:24I was occasionally going to the gym,
00:16:25but literally all of the rest of my time,
00:16:27even while I was at work in my day job,
00:16:29all of the rest of my time was focused
00:16:32on how do I do stuff towards building my business
00:16:36and therefore getting rich?
00:16:37Or how do I learn stuff towards the goal
00:16:40of building my business and therefore getting rich?
00:16:41And my personal view is I think that's what it takes.
00:16:44I think that's what it takes.
00:16:47It's so hard to get rich.
00:16:48It's not an easy thing.
00:16:49Social media will make you think it's an easy thing.
00:16:51Social media will make you think
00:16:52that you can get super rich.
00:16:55And while you're in the process of getting super rich,
00:16:57you can also have a balanced life, right?
00:16:59You can go to the gym.
00:17:00You can have your friends and family.
00:17:01You can go on the holidays.
00:17:02You can do the things.
00:17:03You can have so much fun.
00:17:04You can train for a marathon.
00:17:05You can do a high rocks, whatever the fucking high rocks is.
00:17:07You can do all those things.
00:17:09In reality, those are the things that rich people do
00:17:12once they are already rich.
00:17:14They are not the things that they did
00:17:16while they were on the way,
00:17:18while they were switching from day job,
00:17:20earning 50 grand to business earning 500 grand.
00:17:23While they were growing the business from like,
00:17:25100K in revenue and no profit to a million in revenue
00:17:28and like lots of profit.
00:17:29Generally, pretty much everyone I've spoken to
00:17:32who has been in that position
00:17:35has been unhealthily obsessed with the goal of getting rich
00:17:38or building a business or whatever the vehicle
00:17:40to where it's getting rich they are.
00:17:42Unhealthily obsessed with that goal
00:17:45to the point that it has created imbalance in their life
00:17:50because they've been single-mindedly pursuing that goal.
00:17:53This is a video about how to get rich.
00:17:55How do you get rich?
00:17:56You become unhealthily obsessed with the goal.
00:17:58What else does an unhealthy obsession with a goal look like?
00:18:01So I talked about what my life was like back in 2020.
00:18:03I wanna contrast that with what it's like in 2025.
00:18:07Let's have a look through my YouTube feed.
00:18:09A man's content feed can tell you a lot
00:18:12about what they value and what their priorities are.
00:18:15So let me show you what my YouTube feed
00:18:17looks like these days.
00:18:19Okay, a video from Alex O'Connor about philosophy.
00:18:22A community post from Leila Homozi.
00:18:26A Gary's economics video about why growth is stupid.
00:18:29Okay, oh, here we go, Simon Squibb.
00:18:31This is a video about how to get rich.
00:18:32I have one video about how to get rich.
00:18:34Method versus mythic sprocket monger, lemon stock.
00:18:37Lock and stock, protection warrior POV.
00:18:39This is a video about World of Warcraft.
00:18:41This is not a video about getting rich.
00:18:43Shorts, is this rogue genius?
00:18:45Another video about World of Warcraft.
00:18:47Why you can tax billionaires?
00:18:49This is a economics type thing,
00:18:51another World of Warcraft thing.
00:18:52Oh, Alex Homozi, video about getting rich.
00:18:55This new weapon modification is amazing for speed runs
00:18:57in Horizon Forbidden West.
00:18:58This is not a video about getting rich.
00:19:00This is a video about a video game, hmm.
00:19:02Sahil Bloom quote.
00:19:04This is a video about how to get ripped,
00:19:06which is not about getting rich.
00:19:08This is a Darby CEO episode about fear and anxiety.
00:19:11This is Rory Sutherland, not about getting rich.
00:19:13I don't know what this is.
00:19:15This is another World of Warcraft video,
00:19:17not a video about getting rich.
00:19:18This is an art video,
00:19:19'cause I'm doing a side quest and learning how to draw.
00:19:21You know, bro is running side quests.
00:19:23I'm doing a side quest
00:19:24and I just completed Horizon Forbidden West
00:19:25on the PlayStation 5.
00:19:26I've gotten back into World of Warcraft,
00:19:28the war within season two on my character,
00:19:30which is a paladin where I'm trying to play holy
00:19:32and pro and retribution and stuff.
00:19:34I'm trying to learn how to draw.
00:19:35I'm running all these various different side quests.
00:19:37I'm taking Muay Thai lessons.
00:19:39I'm starting going to the gym very regularly.
00:19:40I'm taking squash lessons.
00:19:42Here's a book.
00:19:43This is one on how to get rich.
00:19:44I've read this book, by the way.
00:19:45It's a good book.
00:19:46This is music.
00:19:47Another side quest I'm running
00:19:48is trying to improve my guitar, piano and singing skills.
00:19:50Not a video about how to get rich.
00:19:52This is Lewis Howes and Jay Shetty,
00:19:54sort of a video about how to get rich,
00:19:55but not really.
00:19:56They're going to talk about feelings and stuff.
00:19:57World of Warcraft.
00:19:58Iman Godsey, video about how to get rich.
00:20:00Sell Something, video about how to get rich.
00:20:02Survive or Thrive.
00:20:03I don't know what that means.
00:20:05Australian Grand Prix.
00:20:07Networking.
00:20:08Storytelling, not about getting rich.
00:20:10I worked out David Goggins for 100 days,
00:20:12not about getting rich.
00:20:13My content feed these days reflects what my priorities are.
00:20:16If you were to look at that,
00:20:18what would you say are the things
00:20:19that Ali Abdaal cares about?
00:20:21According to his YouTube thing.
00:20:22According to his YouTube feed.
00:20:23He cares about World of Warcraft.
00:20:24Cares about gaming on the horizon, Forbidden West.
00:20:26Cares a little bit about making money
00:20:27because 20% of the videos were about how to get rich.
00:20:30Cares about becoming healthy.
00:20:31A handful of those videos were about health and stuff.
00:20:34If you'd looked at this two weeks ago,
00:20:37it was filled with baby gear recommendations,
00:20:40'cause I was on a fricking rabbit hole about like,
00:20:42you know, we've got a baby on the way
00:20:44and like researching the absolute best crib,
00:20:47pram, stroller, car seat, this, that and the other.
00:20:49And so my entire YouTube feed was recommendations
00:20:52for like baby gear.
00:20:52If you compared this to my YouTube feed back in 2020,
00:20:55all you would have seen is content about how to get rich.
00:20:58Content about how to build a business.
00:20:59Content about how to manage a team.
00:21:00Content about how to grow a YouTube channel.
00:21:01Content about how to grow on social media.
00:21:03Content about sales funnels and all of this sort of stuff.
00:21:05That's all you would have seen.
00:21:06This video is about how to get rich.
00:21:09The way you get rich is by having an unhealthy obsession
00:21:11with getting rich.
00:21:11What does that look like?
00:21:12What it looks like is that your content diet
00:21:15is towards that unhealthy obsession with getting rich.
00:21:18The unfortunate truth is that the more different goals
00:21:20you're working towards, the more balanced your life is,
00:21:23the less likely you are to get rich.
00:21:25Maybe there are a handful of exceptions to this rule,
00:21:27but in general, the pattern I've seen through,
00:21:29I know a hell of a lot of people who are rich.
00:21:31I've interviewed a lot of them on podcast,
00:21:33read a bunch of their books.
00:21:34None of, basically 100% of them did not have much
00:21:38of a balanced life while they were in the process
00:21:39of getting rich.
00:21:41They started, they got rich first
00:21:42and then they got the balanced life second.
00:21:44I am not saying that this is what you should do.
00:21:47I am saying that if you have the goal of getting rich,
00:21:49any or becoming a professional athlete
00:21:52or becoming a professional actor
00:21:53or becoming a professional musician,
00:21:55anything where this is a goal that only 1% of people attain,
00:22:00like to be better than 99% of people requires you
00:22:05to be more dedicated than 99% of people.
00:22:08Generally requires you to work harder than 99% of people.
00:22:11People say, you know, work, but I can work smart.
00:22:14It's like, okay.
00:22:16But like everyone else is also trying to work smart.
00:22:17Like also when you're a beginner at the thing,
00:22:19you don't know what working smart looks like.
00:22:21Like when you're a beginner to the goal of getting rich,
00:22:24are you building business or whatever,
00:22:25you just have to work really hard.
00:22:26And in the process of working really hard,
00:22:28you will figure out what does working smart look like
00:22:32so that further down the line, you can now work smart.
00:22:34Right now, I don't need to work that hard.
00:22:36Right now, my multi and decker millionaire friends
00:22:39don't need to work very hard.
00:22:40They still choose to anyway,
00:22:41'cause they're kind of obsessed.
00:22:42Still, a lot of them are obsessed,
00:22:43but you know, the ones with families and like balance,
00:22:45they don't need to work very hard.
00:22:46Why?
00:22:47Because they have employees who do the hard work for them.
00:22:49They've got systems, they've got leverage,
00:22:50they've got personal brands, they've got books,
00:22:52they've got passive income assets.
00:22:53They don't need to work hard anymore.
00:22:56But all of them had an unhealthy obsession
00:22:58with getting rich while they were younger,
00:23:00when they were building it up.
00:23:02So if you're at this point in the video
00:23:05and you would like to get rich,
00:23:07it's really worth asking yourself,
00:23:09do you have an unhealthy obsession with getting rich?
00:23:13Would your friends and family say
00:23:14that you have an unhealthy obsession with getting rich?
00:23:17Does your content diet
00:23:18reflect an obsession with getting rich?
00:23:21Does the way you spend your time
00:23:23reflect an obsession with getting rich?
00:23:26If the answer is no, then you have two options.
00:23:29I think all of this is just my opinion, whatever.
00:23:32I think you have two options here.
00:23:33Either you can decide to develop an unhealthy obsession.
00:23:36You can change your content diet.
00:23:38You can start consuming all the content about getting rich.
00:23:40You can start waking up two hours early before your day job,
00:23:42putting an effort towards building your business.
00:23:44You can start while you're at your day job,
00:23:45taking slightly longer lunch breaks
00:23:47and squeezing in half an hour
00:23:48of work on your business here and there.
00:23:50In the evenings, you can not go out with your friends
00:23:52every night or whatever the thing is.
00:23:53You can stop playing fricking video games.
00:23:54You can stop watching Netflix,
00:23:55stop watching random YouTube videos,
00:23:56even videos like this one,
00:23:58and only ever work on your business.
00:23:59While you're going on a walk while you're doing the dishes,
00:24:01you can switch your content diet
00:24:02so that you are listening to audio books and podcasts
00:24:04and videos about getting rich.
00:24:05On weekends, you can be like, oh, weekends, incredible.
00:24:07I've got like 16 full hours on Saturday
00:24:09and 16 full hours on Sunday,
00:24:11where I can literally just wake up, lock myself in a room,
00:24:13work for 16 straight hours on my business.
00:24:16That is what an unhealthy obsession
00:24:17with getting rich looks like.
00:24:19That is often what it takes.
00:24:21Getting rich is not easy.
00:24:22That's option number one.
00:24:24If you decide that, hey, I wanna get rich,
00:24:27I trust Ali's advice on this.
00:24:28I trust that he knows what he's talking about
00:24:29sort of somewhat anecdotally.
00:24:32And I trust that, okay,
00:24:33I currently don't have an unhealthy obsession
00:24:35with getting rich and I would like to develop one.
00:24:37Or you can decide, you know what?
00:24:40Actually, this isn't for me.
00:24:43If getting rich requires having an unhealthy obsession
00:24:48to the point where my life becomes imbalanced,
00:24:50if getting rich requires me to stop running my marathons
00:24:54and stop hanging out with friends
00:24:55and like work on the weekends
00:24:56and like wake up a bit earlier to work before work
00:24:58and like work during work,
00:24:59if getting rich requires my medical school professors
00:25:02to think I'm gonna get struck off the medical register
00:25:05because like I'm so obsessed with getting rich,
00:25:07man, if that's what's required to get rich,
00:25:09I actually don't wanna be rich.
00:25:11If that's the path you wanna go down,
00:25:13man, I'm so glad you watched this video
00:25:15because this video might have saved you
00:25:17all of this angst that you've currently got
00:25:19from like you have a goal of getting rich,
00:25:20but you're not doing the thing,
00:25:21which is to have an unhealthy obsession
00:25:22in terms of action and in terms of like learning
00:25:24to towards getting rich.
00:25:25You could just decide to make the goal
00:25:27less ambitious on that front.
00:25:30I'm not putting a moral judgment on this.
00:25:31I'm not saying anyone should have a goal of getting rich.
00:25:34I'm not saying getting rich is a morally good thing
00:25:35or a morally bad thing.
00:25:36It's a morally neutral thing.
00:25:37In the same way, I'm not saying
00:25:38that being a professional football player is good or bad.
00:25:41It just is what it is.
00:25:42If you have the goal
00:25:42of being a professional football player,
00:25:44it makes sense that you're either willing
00:25:46to put in the effort required
00:25:47to be a professional football player or not.
00:25:49But if you're not willing to put in the effort,
00:25:51you're not willing to pay the price that it takes
00:25:52to become a professional football player,
00:25:54why set yourself the goal
00:25:55of becoming a professional football player?
00:25:56The more we have this gap,
00:25:58the gap between where we want,
00:25:59the gap between the thing that we want
00:26:01and the actions we're taking,
00:26:03this gap creates misery.
00:26:04Misery is created in the gap.
00:26:05If I have the goal of being a professional squash player,
00:26:07for example, I don't, but if I did,
00:26:09and I'm only training two hours a week,
00:26:11I'm like, bro, that's gonna make me miserable
00:26:12because I'm never gonna get to that goal
00:26:14by only training two hours a week.
00:26:15Similarly, if you have the goal of getting rich
00:26:17and you're not willing to pay the price,
00:26:18which in my opinion is having an unhealthy obsession
00:26:21with it to the point that the rest of your life
00:26:22becomes imbalanced,
00:26:23if you're not willing to pay that price,
00:26:25either become willing to pay the price,
00:26:27i.e. become unhealthily obsessed,
00:26:31or just don't have it as a goal.
00:26:33You know, various people in my team, for example,
00:26:34are totally chill, not being rich.
00:26:36They do not have the goal
00:26:37of becoming financially free, financially independent.
00:26:39The ones that do often tend to go out
00:26:42and start their own business.
00:26:43And then they make videos
00:26:44about why they left the Oliveira team
00:26:45to start their own business.
00:26:46And they've joined our team,
00:26:47got inspired and decided to run their own businesses
00:26:49'cause they wanted to get rich, right?
00:26:51But there's a lot of people in my team who are like,
00:26:52you know what, I don't really wanna get rich.
00:26:54I just want a nice job that pays reasonably well,
00:26:57that gives me flexibility, that gives me fun,
00:26:59gives me autonomy, lets me learn,
00:27:00and lets me hang out with people that I like,
00:27:02and lets me travel the world while I'm doing it.
00:27:03That's actually the position of half the people in my team.
00:27:05They're like, you know what, actually, this is great.
00:27:08I love my job, I love my life, that's fantastic.
00:27:11They do not have the goal of getting rich,
00:27:12and therefore the fact
00:27:13that they're not unhealthily obsessed with getting rich,
00:27:15it's fine.
00:27:16It's not causing any misery because there's no misalignment.
00:27:18But there are various people I know,
00:27:19including Jane, for example, who has a job,
00:27:22and has the goal of getting rich,
00:27:23which is there, and her actions are here.
00:27:26And she feels misery every day
00:27:27because she feels the pain of misalignment,
00:27:30the pain that her goals are misaligned with her actions.
00:27:34And whenever you're in a situation
00:27:36where what you want is misaligned with what you are doing,
00:27:39it creates misery.
00:27:41So either change what you're doing or change what you want.
00:27:44That's my honest advice.
00:27:45That's my hot take on how to get rich.
00:27:46And if you enjoyed that video,
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00:27:56Thank you so much for watching.
00:27:57I hope you found this useful,
00:27:58and I'll see you hopefully in the next video.
00:27:59Bye-bye.