I'm actually going to break down what makes somebody more successful than 99% of the people on this planet, ultimately leading them to become a ruler.
But before you get all excited and start rubbing your nipples… It's actually pretty complicated. So let's get into it.
If you really want to be more successful than 99% of people, you have to:
Have a contrarian idea.
Be correct about that idea.
Execute on it massively.
Let's start with number one. Most people never have a contrarian idea in their life. Let's be honest—most people just go with the flow and agree with whatever their friends tell them is cool that week. But there is a significant minority of people in society who think for themselves and come up with contrarian ideas, or buy into some batshit crazy theories.
A good example of this are people like:
1.Otto von Bismarck (Prussia/Germany)
2.Peter the Great (Russia)
3.Napoleon Bonaparte (France)
These were all people with ideas that, at the time, could only be considered crazy.
This brings us to number two. Of all the people who have contrarian ideas, the vast majority of those ideas are not going to be correct. They're going to be horribly wrong, embarrassingly wrong. This is actually the most difficult part of achieving insane amounts of success—you have to disagree with everybody and then be right.
And even if you do happen to disagree with everybody and are right about it, you have to be willing to execute. You have to put your ass on the line.
Now, when we look at super successful people, we tend to focus on that last part. What's their morning routine? What sort of supplements did they take? Execution gets discussed most of the time because it's easy to observe. It's also easy to replicate. So while execution is incredibly important, it is not the thing that determines the magnitude of a person's success.
Steve Jobs wasn't Steve Jobs because he woke up early and ate an ass load of fruit. Steve Jobs was Steve Jobs because he believed, a full decade before anybody else, that one day a computer would sit on every desk and be in every office in the entire world—and he was correct about it.
Warren Buffett goes to the McDonald's drive-through every morning and gets the same piece of breakfast that you and I might look down on. Warren Buffett is Warren Buffett because he consistently identified companies that were extremely valuable, even when most other people thought they sucked. Then he bought them, sat around eating McDonald's and drinking Coca-Cola, and waited a few decades.
And that's another thing most people aren't willing to do, which is why he's the greatest investor of all time.