Investments <+ Businesses <+ Finance <+ Economics <+ Trade and Market <+ Resources <+ Skills <+ Education

Trade within the Market is where you take your Resources to swap them for Variety. 

Money is a Resource Placeholder. It is the Universally Transferable IOU that can be cashed in anywhere to get anything. Figuratively.

Literal people need to calm down. 

By the time you are 18, your Educational System should have guided you to: 

• Know who you are
• Know what you want to do to energize yourself
• Study all 18 Disciplines Surface Deep to know which skills you want to Master.
• Started on select Dissections of your Chosen Disciplines for Resource Generation
• Have something you can Communicate, Translate, Create, Build, or Connect so efficiently that it can be traded at Market.
• Build and Nourish a Network where you can Trade your Resources for other Resources and build Healthy Relationships
• Master the Skills of Resource Regulation so that you can Refine your Skills well past Highschool and long into your Life.

How did they do?

Let’s assume they did a great job and you are now 15 to 18 years old.  You are developing your Craft and discovering how much the Disciplines all relate to your Craft. You will have Primary Disciplines (Think Music for a Musician), Secondary Disciplines (Math and Physics for a Musician), and Tertiary Disciplines (Biology for a Musician).

All Disciplines are related… just some more than others. But the Craft is the reason for the Discipline. 

This is the stage where you need a Network. A good Education would have had you building your Professional Network from 12 and 15, so that at 18 to 25, you have a solid Network to start Trading with. 

This is where Math would allow you to Measure the Value of your Resource for Worth.

Now, as your money comes in, you will need a place to put it. A bank is what Consumers are taught. 

Resource Generators do *not* use Banks. They know how to BECOME a Bank. Resource Generators know the position Banks have and how they really work. 

They know how wasteful a “Savings” Account is. Resource Generators know that Investment is really the Buying Resource-Producing Assets for Profit.

Consumers just “bury their bag of gold in the dirt.” 

So you’re trading your Resources. You’re getting Money. you need to build a Business and a Brand to “Showcase” your Resource. And you need to think about where you are going to put your Money. 

Investors know that you should always be broke because your Money is “busy” at work. It doesn’t have time to sit around “waiting” for you to come along and spend it.

We’ll get into that more later. For now, let’s look at Trade and Value. You are not assigning a Value to your Resource based on *what* that Resource is. You are assigning a Value to the Quality of what you are producing.

One YouTuber I watch is a MASTER sculptor. His work is GORGEOUS. Made out of pure metal that he sculpts and then molds and burns… One piece takes him hours. He has been developing this skill for decades. And people complain about the price. 

He is so annoyed at cheap wannabe patrons who can’t afford his work, that he writes songs, “The price is so high because it takes me fucking hours.”

But the quality of his work defies description. I thought a Machine manufactured these pieces.

Not even the artist realized that the price was so high because of his Quality. And that is what Defines the Value. Never Time. Quality. He was a Master and so, it was the Quality he was charging for.

Brands by popularity are priced for Supply and Demand for the Consumer. 

But when it comes to tools and supplies, price goes up to reflect Quality. And yes, Higher Quality Items *do* take much more time to produce. 

Consumers think, “I’m selling Time!” 

Resource Generators think, “This is High Quality.” 

Value = Quality

If you think my work is High Quality, you should see my paid services. Which is why I’m $500,000 / day for Consultations. 1 hour with me is equal to 2 years of Therapy. 

Quality of Resources is what you are selling. Learn that and learn it deep.

Quality. This is what defines your Value. Which is why you need to set it HIGH so that you will aspire to achieve it. Otherwise, you will always be sitting at Low End, never aspiring to do more than just Low End.