Akira The Don, Naval Ravikant - More Than You Value Yourself lyrics
[Akira The Don, Naval Ravikant - More Than You Value Yourself lyrics]
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
We're here to talk about wealth creation
That has to be your number one priority
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
So you just have to set a very high personal
Hourly rate and you have to stick to it
Since when I was young I
Decided that I was worth
A lot more than the market
Thought I was worth
But I started treating myself that way
So always factor your time
Into every decision
How much time does it take?
So it's gonna take me an hour to
Get across town to get this thing?
Well, I value myself at $100 an hour
That's basically throwing $100 out
Of my pocket
Am I gonna do that? You buy something
From Amazon, they screwed it up
You have to return it
Is it worth your time to return it? Is
It worth the mental hassle? Keep in
Mind that you have less work hours, you
Have less mentally high output hours
Do you wanna use them to run
Errands and solve little problems
Or do you wanna save them for the big stuff?
(Big, big, big stuff)
All the great scientists were terrible
At managing their household life
None of them had a clean
Organized room or, you know
Made all their social events on time
Or sent their thank you cards
You can spend your life however you want
But if you wanna get rich, it has to be your
Number one overwhelming desire
Which means that it has to
Come before anything else
Which means you can't be penny pinching
You can penny pinch your way
To a basic sustenance
You can keep your expenses low
Maybe you retire early and not spend
Too much and that's perfectly valid
But we're here to talk about wealth creation
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
We're here to talk about wealth creation
That has to be your number one priority
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
So fast forward to your wealthy self
And pick some intermediate hourly rate
For me, believe it or not back
When you could have hired me, my
Hourly rate, I used to say to
Myself over and over it's $5, 000 an hour
Today and when I look back
Really it was about a
Thousand dollars an hour and, of course
I still ended up doing stupid things like
Arguing with the electrician or
Returning the broken speaker
But I shouldn't have and I did it a lot less
Than any of my friends would
And I would make a theatrical show out of
Throwing something in the trash
Pile or giving
It to Salvation Army rather than trying to
Return it or handing something to people
Rather than trying to fix it
I would argue with my girlfriend and
Even today it's my wife i don't do that
That's not a problem that I solve
I still argue that with my mother when
She hands me like little to dos
I just don't do that
I would rather hire you an assistant
And this was true even when
I didn't have money
And this was true even when
I didn't have money
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
We're here to talk about wealth creation
That has to be your number one priority
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
Another way of thinking about something is
That if you can outsource
Something or not do something for
Less than your hourly rate
Outsource it or don't do it
Outsource it or don't do it
So if you can hire someone to do
It for less than your hourly rate, hire them
That even includes things like cooking
You may wanna eat your
Healthy home-cooked meals
But if you can outsource it, do that instead
And I know some people will say, "Well
What about the
Joy of life and what about getting it right
Just your way?" sure, you can do that
But you're not gonna be wealthy because now
You've made something else a priority
Paul Graham basically said it pretty well
You should be working on your product
You should be exercising and eating healthy
That's all you have time for
While you're on this mission
So set a very high hourly aspirational rate
For yourself and stick to it
And it should seem and feel absurdly high
If it doesn't, it's not high enough
And whatever you picked
My advice to you would be raise it
And whatever you picked
My advice to you would be raise it
More than you value yourself
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
We're here to talk about wealth creation
That has to be your number one priority
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
So you just have to set a very high personal
Hourly rate and you have to stick to it
Since when I was young I
Decided that I was worth
A lot more than the market
Thought I was worth
But I started treating myself that way
So always factor your time
Into every decision
How much time does it take?
So it's gonna take me an hour to
Get across town to get this thing?
Well, I value myself at $100 an hour
That's basically throwing $100 out
Of my pocket
Am I gonna do that? You buy something
From Amazon, they screwed it up
You have to return it
Is it worth your time to return it? Is
It worth the mental hassle? Keep in
Mind that you have less work hours, you
Have less mentally high output hours
Do you wanna use them to run
Errands and solve little problems
Or do you wanna save them for the big stuff?
(Big, big, big stuff)
All the great scientists were terrible
At managing their household life
None of them had a clean
Organized room or, you know
Made all their social events on time
Or sent their thank you cards
You can spend your life however you want
But if you wanna get rich, it has to be your
Number one overwhelming desire
Which means that it has to
Come before anything else
Which means you can't be penny pinching
You can penny pinch your way
To a basic sustenance
You can keep your expenses low
Maybe you retire early and not spend
Too much and that's perfectly valid
But we're here to talk about wealth creation
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
We're here to talk about wealth creation
That has to be your number one priority
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
So fast forward to your wealthy self
And pick some intermediate hourly rate
For me, believe it or not back
When you could have hired me, my
Hourly rate, I used to say to
Myself over and over it's $5, 000 an hour
Today and when I look back
Really it was about a
Thousand dollars an hour and, of course
I still ended up doing stupid things like
Arguing with the electrician or
Returning the broken speaker
But I shouldn't have and I did it a lot less
Than any of my friends would
And I would make a theatrical show out of
Throwing something in the trash
Pile or giving
It to Salvation Army rather than trying to
Return it or handing something to people
Rather than trying to fix it
I would argue with my girlfriend and
Even today it's my wife i don't do that
That's not a problem that I solve
I still argue that with my mother when
She hands me like little to dos
I just don't do that
I would rather hire you an assistant
And this was true even when
I didn't have money
And this was true even when
I didn't have money
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
We're here to talk about wealth creation
That has to be your number one priority
No one is going to value you
More than you value yourself
Another way of thinking about something is
That if you can outsource
Something or not do something for
Less than your hourly rate
Outsource it or don't do it
Outsource it or don't do it
So if you can hire someone to do
It for less than your hourly rate, hire them
That even includes things like cooking
You may wanna eat your
Healthy home-cooked meals
But if you can outsource it, do that instead
And I know some people will say, "Well
What about the
Joy of life and what about getting it right
Just your way?" sure, you can do that
But you're not gonna be wealthy because now
You've made something else a priority
Paul Graham basically said it pretty well
You should be working on your product
You should be exercising and eating healthy
That's all you have time for
While you're on this mission
So set a very high hourly aspirational rate
For yourself and stick to it
And it should seem and feel absurdly high
If it doesn't, it's not high enough
And whatever you picked
My advice to you would be raise it
And whatever you picked
My advice to you would be raise it