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Focus on Doing More of What Gets You Paid (AKA: The Efficient Person’s Top Strategy for Making More Money)
“In order to make as much money as possible, every moment of our time should be spent focusing on what gets us paid.”
-Alex Becker, The 10 Pillars of Wealth
Will Smith doesn’t even know how to drive a car. Seriously, like…not even an automatic. He can’t drive, doesn’t drive, doesn’t wanna drive, and you know what?
I think he might be onto something.
People paid too much attention to that stupid slap or whatever it was…I’m honestly not even sure who it was that he slapped. Was it Chris Rock? It doesn’t even matter. But…
What stood out for me while reading Will, his autobiography ghostwritten by Mark Manson, is that Will Smith delegates nearly everything that he can’t be the absolute best in the world at.
That means he doesn’t cook, doesn’t drive, doesn’t do his own laundry — he doesn’t do any of that stuff, because that’s not what gets him paid.
He hasn’t made like a bajillion dollars at the box office because of his culinary skills or because he can execute a perfect 3-point turn.
Will Smith is an actor. That’s what he gets paid for, and so everything that does not help him improve at his…
