{"id":"2014479926959743474","url":"https://x.com/BasedBiohacker/status/2014479926959743474","text":"","author":{"name":"BasedBiohacker","username":"BasedBiohacker","avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1974545804799922176/Pcr9zQpF_200x200.jpg"},"createdAt":"Thu Jan 22 23:26:56 +0000 2026","engagement":{"replies":63,"retweets":414,"likes":5748,"views":2377375},"article":{"title":"the intimate process of deciding how you'll get rich ","previewText":"i cannot tell you how to make money, nor can anyone else besides the basics of exchanging value for currency. \nthere are a billion different ways you can do this, and they ALL work.\nfiguring out your","coverImageUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_RLe8rXQAANDI5.jpg","content":"i cannot tell you how to make money, nor can anyone else besides the basics of exchanging value for currency. \n\nthere are a billion different ways you can do this, and they ALL work.\n\nfiguring out your vehicle of moneymaking is an incredibly intimate process - because it all depends on who you are as a person. there's no one size fits all solution, no blueprint, no simple answer.\n\nand if you're just focused on what's in fashion right now, what the big youtubers are talking about… you're already fucking cooked.\n\nso let's focus on figuring out what vehicle is best for YOU.\n\nbookmark this, grab your notebook, study it. this is the gunslinger playbook.\n\nthis is the process all the big players have gone through consciously or subconsciously, but never put into words because it's just not profitable.\n\nyou should never listen to someone claiming they know the “best way to make money for you”. they’re either course-selling grifters, basing every argument on trends and fads, or they’re just speaking on what is true to THEM.\n\nonly you can figure out what is best for yourself.\n\nyou want to tap into your strengths, build on what you’re already good at and enjoy, and stay true to your nature. so let’s get into how you figure this out, the initial process, and a few timeless principles and perspectives you should consider when figuring out how YOU will make your money.\n\nbecause i bet it'll be different from what i, your neighbor, and your favorite twitter guru does.\n\nthe first principles here is you have to have fun with it. if you do not at any level enjoy what you do, you will have a very difficult time getting good at it. and if you want to make money, you need to be really fucking good at what you do, and before you reach any type of success, your patience and confidence will be tested countless of times - if you’re still having fun and finding the process interesting, you’ll persevere. if you don’t, you’ll fall.\n\nthere's levels to \"having fun\" with what you do, though. don't mistake this for thinking you have to find something that puts a smile on your face every time you sit down to work. as long as it's intellectually stimulating, interesting, and feeds into any creativity you might have, that's good.\n\nthe person who has to torture themselves to get out of bed in the morning to start their work has no chance against the guy who wakes up jumping out of bed excited to attack his work because he enjoys it so much\n\n- BB\n\nthere are endless business models - and again, they all work. but there will be a set of vehicles/ business models that will lead to faster and higher success for YOU in particular. so we need to look inwards from the get-go. i will use myself as an example.\n\na few of my traits are:\n\n- systematic\n\n- meticulous\n\n- introverted\n\n- creative\n\na few things i like are:\n\n- coming up with novel ideas\n\n- writing\n\n- creating new things\n\n- learning about and becoming proficient in several things\n\na few things i don’t like are:\n\n- making decisions and coming up with solutions under pressure\n\n- talking with people\n\n- being bound by rules and time\n\n- math/ numbers\n\njust by having this in place, there are a few vehicles we can rule out:\n\n- sales (don’t like to talk to people)\n\n- finance (bad at numbers)\n\n- trading (too boring and analytical)\n\n- the agency model (don’t like selling and being bound by clients)\n\nAnd a few that make more sense:\n\n- ecommerce (creative, can work alone mostly, building systems is a huge part)\n\n- copywriting (although i’d still have to sell my services, it would mostly be actual writing)\n\n- design services (same as above but for designing)\n\nif you can’t figure out what you like, don’t like, and the specific traits you have, that is okay. you’re not an anomaly. but this does mean you are going to have to dig deeper, and you might make more wrong decisions until you find the right one.\n\nnow you’ve begun working backwards using the process of elimination. take a few hours here and learn the fundamentals of different business models so you can make an informed decision about your possible trajectories.\n\nbut remember this - you can make up your own business models. a lot of the most profitable, successful businesses don't fit into the mold that modern-day information present as the available options.\n\nyou can always reverse-engineer an idea of what you want to do and find a way to make money from it. think outside of the box by focusing not on the square instructions you'll find in youtube videos, reddit threads and x articles, but by thinking freely and ONLY in regards to yourself.\n\nenjoy this step, because after this - you won’t enjoy the safety and coziness of just researching and analyzing.\n\nbeyond this stage, there should be 10 hours of execution and learning by doing for every 1 hour you spend only researching and planning.\n\nback when i first got into ecom, i spent a week learning about color theory and color psychology to figure out the perfect color for my logo and the add to cart button.\n\nthat was a gargantuan fucking waste of time. eventually launched the product, lost $3k - everything i had saved up working since i was 13.\n\nokay. now you have a list of possible vehicles. But what other things should you consider when narrowing down your decision further?\n\n1. is the industry growing/ shrinking/ stagnant?\n\n2. how much money do you want to make each month?\n\n3. what about you exactly makes this vehicle appropriate for you specifically?\n\n4. how much money are you ready and able to lose to make this work?\n\n5. do you care about building exit value (something you could sell)?\n\n6. how much time could you spend each day building?\n\n7. do you have access to any special unfair advantages you could exploit (connections, capital, physical or digital resources)?\n\n8. what things in the past have you been really good at, and therefore enjoyed?\n\n9. what do you have more experience in than most?\n\nafter this, you should have a pretty clear idea about what potential moneymaking vehicles you could excel at - or at least naturally be better at than the average person. now it’s time to reverse engineer EXACTLY what you need to do to reach your central goal - your monthly $$$ goal.\n\nby the way - this should only be a 1-2 day process. the goal isn’t to come up with anything definitive. it’s to make an initial informed decision and get the ball rolling. you will tweak plenty of things later on, likely even the vehicle you choose.\n\nthe important thing here is getting started. that's when the lightbulb moments come, and the real magic happens.\n\nlet’s say you want to make $10,000 per month, and you decided that you’re going to create an email marketing agency because you’re interested in sales psychology, you have some experience in design, and you enjoy writing. you have $2,000 ready to invest in getting the ball rolling.\n\nat your tax-rate, this would mean you need to make $14,000 per month to net $10,000 into your bank account.\n\nyou spend two weeks straight; 14-hour armodafinil fuelled days learning klaviyo, canva, and getting the basics in on how to send really good emails. you study the greats. you replicate and recreate. the two weeks pass, and you feel confident you could produce some results.\n\nyou formulate your offer. for $2,500 per month, you will create the flows and send 4 campaigns each week for each client. a quite generous offer, but you’re just starting out and you want to impress your clients and get some good testimonials in.\n\nthis means that you need 6 clients paying you the $2,500 every month to reach the $14,000 threshold. great - you’ll even earn $15,000 at that rate, so you can invest in hiring a VA and getting a new laptop eventually.\n\nnow how will you go about getting those 6 clients? you decide to go local - you live in a big city and you feel it makes sense. you’re going to cold-call local businesses. you do some research, write a script and then you start calling. through making the first few hundred calls you realize that on average, you have a 0.5% close rate.\n\nthat means you have to make 200 calls, at your BEST EFFORT, to land one $2,500 per month client.\n\nand you need 6 clients to reach your threshold, so that means you have to make just about 1,200 calls to reach your goal.\n\nnow you know that the ONLY THING standing in between you and your big goal is dialling the phone ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TIMES.\n\nthat’s it. this is the basics of it. this is obviously extremely simplified and dumbed down, but it encapsulates 95% of the process you need to go through and the way you should look at things.\n\nthe main thing is this: JUST GET FUCKING STARTED WITH SOMETHING, ANYTHING\n\nthroughout this process outlined above you will start, fail, learn, fail again, learn things about yourself you never knew, make new friends and connections, and pivot plenty of times. you will be scared and uncomfortable. that is GOOD. it shows you are on the right path. you just have to bite your tongue, swallow your pride and KEEP IT PUSHING, THUG IT OUT.\n\nthe important thing here is just to keep going, however difficult it feels and even if it feels like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. the light will reveal itself eventually. what you found fun and exciting might become daily anxiety. you just have to push through it.\n\nthe beautiful thing about the human experience is that as long as you keep going, success is inevitable. it is imminent. just around the corner. as long as you keep learning, improving, analyzing and DOING.\n\nbut 90% of people give up on the way there. DON’T BE LIKE THEM.\n\nthe process outlined above might take a month. maybe a year. maybe you keep trying for two years and throughout that process, as you fail over and over again, gain the clarity in what you should actually be doing - you pivot - and make it happen in two weeks.\n\nthere are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen\n\n- vladimir lenin\n\nremember this: there is no magic answer. there is no piece of information out there that you will find that will make it easy. it will be difficult. you will want to give up. but as long as you keep going, don’t make the same mistake twice, pivot and tweak along the way, and lean into your nature - SUCCESS IS IMMINENT\n\nstop searching for something that will make it all come easy, and start putting in the work today. make informed decisions, but focus on action.\n\nthe retard who acts beats the genius who thinks 10/10 times.\n\nevery single successful person you admire has gone through this process.\n\nyour dream life is in the work you’re avoiding. just get started, and never stop. the best time to start was 10 years ago, the second best time to start is today.\n\nrooting for you.\n\n- BB"},"adhxContext":{"savedByCount":1,"publicTags":[],"previewUrl":"https://adhx.com/BasedBiohacker/status/2014479926959743474"}}