The Internet Contagion
If you knew what was hitting you, you wouldn’t be hit.
“You only have 24 hours in a day; your success is depending upon how you use the 24.”
THE BLUEPRINT TO SUCCESS: TRACK 5 TWENTY-FOUR - YouTube
Tick tock.
You ever heard of interest? How about simple interest? What about compound interest? I used to have to do a sales presentation where I asked a person to imagine putting a dollar in an account, and leave it for twenty years. After twenty years, if the account doubled itself every year, how much money would be there? It was something over a million dollars.
Impressive, no?
Tick tock.
The real illustration actually came afterwards, though. Imagine if you took the same story, but you put a tax on the account every year before it doubled. Now how much did you have left? We used something like 28% (Uncle Sam is a bad man), and asked the prospect, how much is left? Typically, we heard $600,000, and the occasional smarty pants tried $250,000 because he figured out compounding. Yet, the answer is much gloomier.
Do you even excel, bro?
Tick tock.
The moral we taught was tax. But in hindsight, it should have been time. The doubling factor was obviously just for show, but we used the illustration to prove what can happen over time if you keep reinvesting, let your money work for you, keep reinvesting. The magic lies partly with reinvestment, especially if you can keep all of your compounding interest, but mostly it was time. I just didn’t realize the importance of time until now.
See, forget the tax for a minute. What if the person waited a year, and only had 19 years of doubling? Half a million, now. But what if the person had started just one year earlier? $2 million.
Tick tock.
Let’s lay the law of time and money for those of you who may have never thought about it before. It’s all you have. You depend solely on it, because someday, it’s exhausted. It’s not renewable like fuel for a car. Wait, you still think your cars fuel is non-renewable? You’re funny, guy. Time is one of a kind, and you either use it or abuse it. If you’re smart, you’ll do it in just that order.
Tick tock.
Enter, stage left: the Internet Contagion.
Con- means together or with. Tangere is to touch. A contagion is touching something together, a communication or passing. It’s often coupled with contagious, meaning able to spread. And by now, you best know how to spread your seed.
Bacteria and viruses are quite contagious. So let’s get contagious, boys.
Tick tock.
I’m not talking about dropping the next virus worldwide for destruction, but creating something for the destruction of your competition, for the creation of a bank account. Utilization of effort, optimization of time. You won’t allow a barrier to stop you because now you’re growing too fast, outside the barriers, outside of quarantine.
See, the Internet Contagion is different than anything you can imagine. It’s better than compound interest. What’s better than compound interest? What if your compound interest multiplied itself, too? Compound squared bro.
Tick tock.
You’re going to need 4 things.
Incentive/Necessity
Communication
Simplicity
Pathway
A virus dies if its host dies, but if it spread to a second host, it’s got twice the chance. It’s got a necessity to live, and incentive to spread itself around. It has skin in the game, and there is nothing but advantage in a continuous spread. For every host he acquires, he’s winning.
Like electricity, a virus will take the path of least resistance. If he gets a free ride from one host to the next through simple contact, harmless sharing, he’s spreading his seed.
A virus is simple. It’s only got one purpose. It’s not trying to look pretty, it’s not trying to make friends, just survive long enough to find another host. If it’s always finding, it’s always thriving.
Last, it needs a pathway home. A virus can’t hang out to dry. It needs a way to get to the host, get what it needs, and spread again. It’s a cycle. There’s a finite path from host to host, and there’s never and end in the line. No kinks.
Tick tock.
There’s one thing you should know about the internet contagion, though. Like any virus, it gets found out. A partially replicated solution is derived, and suddenly the virus loses its power. It needs a new strand now, a new look, a rebrand. New life breeds new excitement, excitement leads to action, action to communication, and communication to a pathway to survival again.
Tick tock.
Tick tock.
Tick tock.
Tick tock.
tl;dr – Your time is limited. What are you waiting for? Create something viral. Then abuse your time when it’s bought and paid for.
If you knew what was hitting you, you wouldn’t be hit.
“You only have 24 hours in a day; your success is depending upon how you use the 24.”
THE BLUEPRINT TO SUCCESS: TRACK 5 TWENTY-FOUR - YouTube
Tick tock.
You ever heard of interest? How about simple interest? What about compound interest? I used to have to do a sales presentation where I asked a person to imagine putting a dollar in an account, and leave it for twenty years. After twenty years, if the account doubled itself every year, how much money would be there? It was something over a million dollars.
Impressive, no?
Tick tock.
The real illustration actually came afterwards, though. Imagine if you took the same story, but you put a tax on the account every year before it doubled. Now how much did you have left? We used something like 28% (Uncle Sam is a bad man), and asked the prospect, how much is left? Typically, we heard $600,000, and the occasional smarty pants tried $250,000 because he figured out compounding. Yet, the answer is much gloomier.
Do you even excel, bro?
Tick tock.
The moral we taught was tax. But in hindsight, it should have been time. The doubling factor was obviously just for show, but we used the illustration to prove what can happen over time if you keep reinvesting, let your money work for you, keep reinvesting. The magic lies partly with reinvestment, especially if you can keep all of your compounding interest, but mostly it was time. I just didn’t realize the importance of time until now.
See, forget the tax for a minute. What if the person waited a year, and only had 19 years of doubling? Half a million, now. But what if the person had started just one year earlier? $2 million.
Tick tock.
Let’s lay the law of time and money for those of you who may have never thought about it before. It’s all you have. You depend solely on it, because someday, it’s exhausted. It’s not renewable like fuel for a car. Wait, you still think your cars fuel is non-renewable? You’re funny, guy. Time is one of a kind, and you either use it or abuse it. If you’re smart, you’ll do it in just that order.
Tick tock.
Enter, stage left: the Internet Contagion.
Con- means together or with. Tangere is to touch. A contagion is touching something together, a communication or passing. It’s often coupled with contagious, meaning able to spread. And by now, you best know how to spread your seed.
Bacteria and viruses are quite contagious. So let’s get contagious, boys.
Tick tock.
I’m not talking about dropping the next virus worldwide for destruction, but creating something for the destruction of your competition, for the creation of a bank account. Utilization of effort, optimization of time. You won’t allow a barrier to stop you because now you’re growing too fast, outside the barriers, outside of quarantine.
See, the Internet Contagion is different than anything you can imagine. It’s better than compound interest. What’s better than compound interest? What if your compound interest multiplied itself, too? Compound squared bro.
Tick tock.
You’re going to need 4 things.
Incentive/Necessity
Communication
Simplicity
Pathway
A virus dies if its host dies, but if it spread to a second host, it’s got twice the chance. It’s got a necessity to live, and incentive to spread itself around. It has skin in the game, and there is nothing but advantage in a continuous spread. For every host he acquires, he’s winning.
Like electricity, a virus will take the path of least resistance. If he gets a free ride from one host to the next through simple contact, harmless sharing, he’s spreading his seed.
A virus is simple. It’s only got one purpose. It’s not trying to look pretty, it’s not trying to make friends, just survive long enough to find another host. If it’s always finding, it’s always thriving.
Last, it needs a pathway home. A virus can’t hang out to dry. It needs a way to get to the host, get what it needs, and spread again. It’s a cycle. There’s a finite path from host to host, and there’s never and end in the line. No kinks.
Tick tock.
There’s one thing you should know about the internet contagion, though. Like any virus, it gets found out. A partially replicated solution is derived, and suddenly the virus loses its power. It needs a new strand now, a new look, a rebrand. New life breeds new excitement, excitement leads to action, action to communication, and communication to a pathway to survival again.
Tick tock.
Tick tock.
Tick tock.
Tick tock.
tl;dr – Your time is limited. What are you waiting for? Create something viral. Then abuse your time when it’s bought and paid for.
