Masterclass: Money Wisdom from Shaan

Winners follow up. Winners double down on what's working. Winners get on the next flight out to go meet you in person. And the way I say it is intensity is the strategy.

Well, if hard work equals success, then why doesn't my janitor drive a Bentley?Because what you work on and who you work with is what matters. It matters a lot more than how hard you work.

Pretend we took all the money that existed, and we redistributed it out. Everybody got the same, let's say, $100,000 to start with. 10 years later, I think that most of the rich people would be rich again, because wealth-building is a skill, and it can be learned.

Naval Ravikant says it best. He says, 'You want to find the thing that feels like play to you and work to others.'

And because you enjoy doing it, you'll keep doing it. You can do it for a long period of time, even if you're not getting immediate results ... It's the things you're willing to do even without immediate results that lead to these big wins in the end.

You don't even know what max intensity looks like until you see it ... You think the knob of the volume goes only up to 10; and then you meet somebody, and... theirs turned up to 15.

You start to change your conversations, it'll change your thinking; change your thinking, it'll change your actions; you change your actions, you change your results. That's how it goes.

The first 10 years of your career, you probably don't even know what a fat pitch looks like, even if it was to hit you in the face. So, my advice for most people is the first 10 years, just go work with the smartest, highest energy, most resourceful people you can find.

You want to go from being far away from any to hanging out with money.

Once you find a good strategy, you want to execute it just violently versus trying to wait for the perfect magic formula, perfect magic solution, a perfect strategy that doesn't exist.

Money is sort of this tacky, taboo thing ... Everybody has to pretend they don't care about money, but we all do, which is weird that you just have to treat it like this silent fart in the room. You gotta pretend you didn't care about it, pretend it's not there, but it's there.

Most things in life, even if you're far off in your outcome, you're actually just only a small shift in your approach away, because that's what changes your trajectory.