Don’t Waste Your 20s (How to Maximize Your Twenties) PART 2

Continued from part 1.

3) Build an online business and be financially free

Your 20s are the perfect time to build an online business.

Again, this is the decade where you have tons of energy, motivation, ability to work long hours, minimal family responsibilities, but most importantly:

Even small amounts of money feel like big successes when you are young.

This is something that a lot of younger guys don’t realize and something a lot of older guys realize instantly.

I’ve made millions and millions of dollars with online business over the years. If I start a new venture and it makes $2k a month, I would regard it as a complete failure. I would think I wasted my time.

Yet when I started out, many of my ideas never made more than $500 a month. And I was thrilled that my idea was making $500 a month.

My teenage self was extremely excited when I got my first affiliate paycheck of $2 from spamming affiliate links on Reddit.

If you are 22 and you build something that’s making you $1000 a month passively, would you be excited about it? Of course you would. Even if it took you a full year to do it.

At 50 you would consider it a wasted year. Because your threshold of success is higher (and so are your expenses).

This makes it much harder for older guys to build online businesses. They simply do not have the will and motivation to spend 3 years in the trenches learning the game and making what they consider shit money.

For a young man, even small money is exciting and the 3-5 year period of working like a dog doesn’t seem as bad when the money feels nice. And when you make it with one big success, you’ve made it for life.

Coming up with ideas

“I don’t have any ideas” is basically a loser’s excuse as to why they are poor.

If you don’t have ideas, do something that works for everyone like building an X account, copywriting, or a web design agency.

“But aren’t many other people doing these businesses too” – yes, duh. Because they work and make money.

They can make you hundreds of thousands of dollars as they do for many others, but of course the loser will not do it because he wants billion dollar potential and nothing less (lol).

And it’s not like coming up with ideas is extremely hard. Money is everywhere, you just gotta be creative. There’s a guy I know who makes money publishing AI generated erotica on KDP.

There’s money everywhere. You just gotta be creative. But most people would rather complain.

I was recently in a tourist town. I saw guys working banal jobs like waiters and attendants. Meanwhile foreigners make more money than them with YouTube channels about travelling their city.

Why can’t the guy who lives in a fucking tourist town start a YouTube channel about travelling his city? Of course he can. He just lacks the creativity to do it so he works a regular job serving tourists instead.

Always focus on increasing income, not on trying to save every last cent.

The only way to be financially free is by making lots of money, not by saving money. The people who say “save save save” simply have not run the math.

Compare this with someone making tens of thousands of dollars with online business… one is clearly superior to the other.

“Save and you will be rich at 60” helps sell books and seminars, but it does not make you rich. The math does not work.

Become financially free without sacrificing lifestyle freedom

In life there are many ways to make money. Some restrict you more than others.

Prioritize building income streams that don’t take away your freedom. Because money is far more useful to a free man than to an un-free man.

It is far superior to make $250k a year from an online business that lets you travel whenever and wherever you want than to make $500k a year from a job or an offline business that forces you to be at a particular location all the time.

People often regret working “too hard” and making money they have no use of while the years of their life go by. No one ever regrets enjoying their life, travelling often, and living to their fullest.

4) Get lots of experience with women before you pick one to marry

Picking a woman for marriage in the modern world is not as easy and straightforward as it once was.

The most apparent issue is all the hoe-ism that is going around with the average woman having many partners before marriage.

The guys in the west have accepted it as inevitable while men in India live in a world of cope and delusion thinking their women are “different”.

Virginity is not the only factor that matters. There are other considerations like her nature, interests, anger management, ego/submissiveness, entitlement, etc. and most modern women fare worse than their mothers.

It does not mean that all women are trash. There are still millions of women who would make great wives for you… but you need to have the acumen to pick them out.

This means you need experience with women.

Learn how to make women obsess with you. Get yourself a fuckbuddy to see what it’s like. Date multiple women at the same time.

You must experience abundance before you decide to lock yourself in a marriage.

Without life experience, you will “fall for” the first woman who likes you back. This is what happens to most men – they marry the first woman who shows any interest in them.

When you have experience with women, you learn what you want out of a woman, what your preferences are, and what you do not want in a woman.

Without experience, you will fuck it up and find yourself married to a woman you do not enjoy (sad).

Don’t cope with your beta-ness. Destroy it.

Beta males find dating so hard that they cope about “immorality” even though the girls are out there getting fucked anyway.

Just by someone else and not them. Because for guys with bad game, getting better means getting rejected often.

And getting rejected sucks because it destroys the beta’s delusions about being better than others.

But an illusion that keeps you mediocre is your enemy. Destroy it. If you suck with women, you can get better. But you have to put in the work and throw yourself in the game even if it feels uncomfortable.

YOU NEED TO LEARN GAME.

If you don’t know where to start, read the Seduction Bible. It is the best modern resource on the subject and is regularly updated.

If you are a virgin or something, this purchase will change your life.

Also, I will say that once you get over the discomfort of rejection, learning game is actually really fun. Unlike other things, it’s not hard or grueling.

You’ll be fucking a lot of women and getting a lot of pleasure (literally) in the process. And for many guys, their dating and sex skills (the lack thereof) are the bottlenecks keeping them from happiness.

You are a biological machine evolved over millions of years to fuck women, and your DNA will not let you feel happy and content for long without it (your cope does not change reality).

Note: If you’re using dating apps to meet women, make sure you read How to Avoid a False Rape Accusation so you are protected against women with malicious intentions.

5) Keep Yourself Tech Literate AT ALL COSTS

What happens to people is that:

• They take all technology that was created until they turn 12 for granted (it is as normal to them as water and air)
• Enthusiastically learn new technology that comes out till they are 21 (check all settings and features, spend time researching the latest stuff, etc.)
• Learn new technology but without enthusiasm until they are 25 (buy new tech but only learn the main uses, not checking everything it can do, etc.)
• Learn new technology but only when forced to after they are 25 (they hate the inconvenience of breaking their existing workflows)

Basically guys are up to date with tech at 21 but become illiterate to modern technology by the time they are 30.

The reason it happens is because people get busier as they age and don’t have time or the motivation to learn new stuff. They just want to get their work done and are happy to use old technology in more creative ways to make it happen.

But over time this backfires and the tech keeps advancing making it extremely hard for these people to properly catch up.

How many 30+ year olds know how to use even basic tools like ChatGPT properly? Very few.

If you want to not be technologically illiterate in the future, you have to FORCE yourself to learn new tech as it comes out.

Here are some signs you are ALREADY becoming technologically illiterate and obsolete:

1. You have never made a cryptocurrency transaction. You have no idea how Bitcoin works and why it was created.
2. You don’t know what a smart contract is.
3. You have never generated an AI image or video from any AI tool.
4. You primarily use traditional search engines like Google instead of using modern tools like ChatGPT, Grok, or Perplexity.
5. You use outdated tools like PowerPoint instead of using AI slideshow tools.
6. You rarely, if ever, read a book on a kindle/e-reader. You almost always prefer a physical copy.
7. You have never used a modern VR headset.
8. You have no home automation electronics (like smart lights, smart curtains, etc.). You think they are “a bad idea”.
9. You hate smart watches. If you have a smart watch, you rarely use it for anything more than checking time. You find fitness trackers to be “overkill”.
10. If your computer breaks down, you don’t have any idea how to fix it yourself. You have to call someone else every time.
11. You have no idea how to use AWS or GCP or Azure. At all.
12. You have never created a website before.
13. If you are a job worker, you do not have an online version of your resume hosted on a website owned by you.
14. You have never used a digital signature. You sign everything by hand.

If you checked more than 5 of these points, you are in horrible shape and well on your way to becoming the tech illiterate senior citizen of tomorrow.

The world isn’t going to stop to accommodate you.

Cars replaced horses. No one cared that you “prefer horses” or thought “there is nothing wrong with horses”. Everyone just stopped using horses and started using cars.

Same with candles. You might “hate” fluorescent light and think “candle light is more natural” but the world moved to artificial lights anyway.

Your feelings don’t matter.

So you have two choices:

A) Learn new technology and use it so you are an early adopter. Do it even if it’s hard or if it breaks the workflow you are comfortable with.

B) Slowly become the guy who can’t use technology. Take the easy way out and stick to using what you already know.

Make sure you pick option A because it will make the rest of your life much easier. At the rate technology is moving, you will be a grandma with modern technology before you hit 35 unless you are actively keeping up.

This article will be continued in part 3.

– Harsh Strongman