How to Find The Most Important Asset in Your Life
Concerning a post I made earlier, about how taking care of your health increases your wealth, there is something else I hope you will think about deeply.
You see when you start to think of your health as a form of wealth, its easy to make the leap to seeing yourself as an asset. You're not just any asset, but an asset that you have full control over.
This asset is something no one else has. You are your own monopoly. And having a monopoly gives you an edge.
Like Peter Thiel says in his book, "From zero to one":
"If you want to create and capture lasting value, look to build a monopoly."
Not having a monopoly on yourself is why most of us compete in the work we do for employers. If you have a monopoly, you don't have to compete with others. You don't want to compete because it ends up in a race to the bottom.
You only have to look at workers worldwide. Wages are low, and applying for vacancies is gutwrenching.
Illusion of control
To highlight a bit more how you are not in control when you don't have a monopoly on yourself as an asset:
You go through an intake process, where you are assessed on your skills. And more often than not, you're declined for the position.
(Again, this is because you compete with others that have the same abilities.)
At some point, you get lucky and land a job. But you're still under the influence of someone else. And you are measured only on the skills that you need for the work for which you are hired.
The uniqueness that you could provide is lost on the employer. After a while, you may even become lethargic because you won't stay satisfied doing the same thing all the time. You sit in the same spot, forty hours each week, doing something that is neither fulfilling nor improving your own life.
And people are surprised why so many of us mortals get burned out.
The promise of "Just go to school, study vigorously, get a job until your pension, then you'll be happy.", is a lie —
Big-Fat-Lie.
No wonder you compete with so many other people though, it has been spoonfed to you from an early age!
What do you do?
Well, you go on social media and
Hope?
Now, I don't have an
Put your phone away a little more.
In those phoneless moments, start thinking about your life a bit more, as in, what you ACTUALLY do day-to-day and why. (Maybe talk to people around you.)
Stretch your legs, figuratively speaking. See what you can do, what unique thing you like doing, that others are unable to stick with. (That's what you can leverage!)
Maybe, after a few years of discovering yourself more and more, you'll be able to say, "See ya!" to anyone that doesn't value your unique skills and perspective.