Akira The Don, Naval Ravikant - Specific Knowledge lyrics

If you want to make money you
Have to get paid at scale
Why you that's accountability
At scale that's leverage
You getting paid as opposed to somebody else
Getting paid that's specific knowledge
Specific knowledge feels like play to me
Specific knowledge
And it looks like work to others
Specific knowledge feels like play to me
Specific knowledge
And it looks like work to others
We have this idea that everything can be
Taught Everything can be taught in school
And it's not true that
Everything can be taught in fact
The most interesting things cannot be taught
But everything can be learned
But everything can be learned
Very often that learning either comes from
Some innate characteristics in your DNA
Or it could be through your childhood
When you learn soft skills
Which are very-very hard to teach
Later on in life
Or it's something that is brand-new so nobody
Else knows how to do it either
Or it's true on-the-job training because your
Pattern matching in a highly
Complex environment Specific knowledge is the
Knowledge that you care about
Especially if you're later in life
Let's say your post 20 21 22 you almost don't
Get to choose which specific
Knowledge you have
Rather you get to look at what you have
Already built by that point in time
And then you can build on top of it
The first thing to notice
About specific knowledge is
That you can't be trained for it
If you can be trained for it
If you can go to a class and
Learn specific knowledge then
Somebody else can
Be trained for it too And then we
Can mass-produce and mass train people
Heck we can even program computers to do it
And eventually we can program robots
To walk around doing it
So, if that's the case
Then you're extremely replaceable
And all we have to pay you is the minimum
Wage that we have to pay you to get
You to do it When there are lots of other
Takers who can be trained to do it
That’s Specific knowledge Feels like
Play to me specific knowledge
And it looks like work to others
Specific knowledge feels like play to me
Specific knowledge
And it looks like work to others dame
Specific knowledge is found much
More by pursuing your
Innate talents Your genuine curiosity
And your passion
Very often specific knowledge is at
The edge of knowledge
It's also stuff that's just being figured out
Or is really hard to figure out
So, if you're not 100% into it somebody else
Who is 100% into it will outperform you
They won’t just outperform you by a little
Bit they'll outperform you by a lot
Because now we're operating the domain of
Ideas compound interest really applies
And leverage really applies
If you're operating with a
Thousand times leverage
And somebody is right 80% of the time
And somebody else's right 90% of time
The person who's right ninety percent
Of time will really
Get paid hundreds of times more by the market
So very often it's not
Something used to sounding
Your reasons about it by
Observation You almost
Have to look back on their own life
And see what you're actually good at
I wanted to be a scientist
The first person that actually point out my
Real aesthetic knowledge was my mother
I was like 15 or 16 years old
I was telling a friend of mine that
I want to be an astrophysicist and she said
"No you're gonna go into business"
I was like "What my mom's
Telling me I'm gonna
Be in business? I'm gonna
Be an astrophysicist"
Mom doesn't know what she's talking about
But mom knew exactly what
She was talking about
She had already observed we
Walked down the street
I would critique the local
Pizza parlor on why
They were selling their slices a certain way
With certain toppings and why their
Process of ordering was this
Way what it should have been that way So
She knew that I just had more
Of a business curious mind
But then my obsession with science
Combined to create technology
And technology businesses is where
I found myself
That’s specific knowledge Feels like
Play to me specific knowledge
And it looks like work to others
Specific knowledge feels like play to me
Specific knowledge
And it looks like work to others
So, very often your specific
Knowledge is observed
And often observed by other people
Who know you well and reveal in situations
Rather than something that you come up with