How to Earn More: One Rule of Focus That Changes Everything

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekMoney, anxiety, and financial thinkingFocusing on income growthF/Friend / friendsTimeKarma, free will, and causality

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Interesting work or money: what is the difference?
• 01:10Why work?
• 2:44What should you focus on at work?
• 5:30The problem with “interesting” work
• 6:20How can you feel at ease at work?
• 9:57A week-long practice for earning money
• 13:47The main question that affects your earnings
• 16:14Working for money or for development?

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• 01:36

  There is someone close to me whom I have been telling for several years now, over a fairly long period, “Concentrate on the fact that you need a job only to earn money.”

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• 03:42

  When they want to make money, many people set themselves a goal like this: “I want to earn money, but I also want work to be fun, or to put me in a good mood, or to enjoy it so much that I will not need a rest from it.”

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• 05:27

  This situation in which a person pursues interesting projects or interesting jobs is important to understand.

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• 05:44

  They focus exclusively on their personality rather than the fundamental goal for which they came to work: earning money, on the one hand. On the other, if someone can move easily through their mental and physical, emotional, inherited, and karmic…

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• 08:44

  Because when you are focused exclusively on that one area, you will never get into an argument with anyone.

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• 09:56

  Even if you arrive at that understanding, here is what I suggest if you want to develop—truly develop—and scale yourself. Not grow by five, ten, or fifteen percent, but many times over, tens or hundreds of times, as…

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• 10:53

  If you do it for a month in absolutely every situation—again, if you want to develop—you will at some point realize that, imagine this, earning money requires you only to come to the office.

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• 14:05

  Often, people fixate on needing interesting conversations, a company with values, and a particular kind of relationship within the company.

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• 18:15

  “Someone swore at work, and it disgusts me and brings up all kinds of negative emotions, so I will not work.”

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• 21:58

  There is a reason I told you that setting yourself the goal of earning money alone does not release you from responsibility for your actual actions, the real values and guiding principles you follow in life.

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