Purpose of Wealth (5): Legacy
Hello Aluxers and welcome back to the final episode of our 5 part series on the purpose of wealth.
We all want our lives to have meaning, to leave behind more than we took and to know
that because of us, even in the slightest, the world is better than we found it.
The final purpose of wealth is to facilitate your legacy.
So what is legacy if not eternal impact?!
Legacy is when you’re silent but your presence is felt.
It comes from the highest form of impact one can have.
The thing is, you don’t set out to build a legacy, it happens as a result of your pursuit of adding
value. The more you think about it, the more you realise it’s the same with success and even money.
All of them come after you do good work; people take notice and this is the first type of legacy:
LEGACY THROUGH EXAMPLE You’re writing your legacy
every single day, be aware of what you’re writing!
How can an individual be himself if all he does is
be like everyone else? You see, there are two ways to go through life:
1 by getting on the train of life and riding it in your cabin until the day you die
And 2. By walking, swimming and riding your way to the final destination we call death.
We all get to the same destination, but the value lies in the journey.
The second option is always more interesting than living your life on autopilot.
That’s how new roads come to be.
Someone like you decides to create a new path for themselves and the world is paying attention.
If you do it successfully, soon others will decide to walk the same path, but there needs to
be the trailblazer, the risk taker, the one who enters the tall grass not knowing what awaits.
You can’t build legacies by being like everyone else or doing what everyone else is doing…
As the people early in the comments know, there’s only 1 reward for being first,
everyone else is a follower. The world remembers those who were first, those who were first to
do it right.. Those who are first to take everyone else somewhere we’ve never been.
The purpose of wealth is to make sure the legacy you’re writing
is worth reading! And by doing this, your story is worth saving,
for the next type of legacy has to do with Saving everything of value!
LEGACY THROUGH PRESERVATION
What is the purpose of life if not spending it on that which will outlast you!
The more you look back, the more you realise that the only things we’re seeing
is what others have left for us that was able to withstand the test of time.
Preservation of value is key!
There’s value in knowledge preserved in books, there’s value in art and the way it makes us feel,
there’s value in architecture and the way we build the future based on it…
There’s value in diversity, diversity of humans, of animals, of species…
Save it all… before we’re unable to save anything.
The purpose of wealth is to give us all a fighting chance to save everything, including ourselves.
Allow all of it to thrive and we will thrive because of it.
We draw value from it all and if one is paying attention,
in the last century we’ve been sacrificing the long game for short term rewards.
If you want to build a legacy,
keep in mind to save what needs saving and rid ourselves of that which doesn’t serve society.
Which takes us to the 3rd form of legacy:
SOCIAL LEGACY Legacy is what
you’re not doing for yourself, but for everyone coming up next!
The world rewards those brave enough to correct it.
In a world augmented by creative ideas there is no need for hierarchies!
We don’t need a cast system, we don’t need race, sex, religion, height, eye color,
or political afiliation to stop us from progress.
It doesn’t matter if we are or are not created equal, for what the world
needs is: EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY!
Anyone from anywhere in the world could build the future through the value of their ideas.
There’s a big difference between equality of outcome and equality of opportunity.
One leads to society collapsing and one to society thriving.
It’s those who are fighting for the latter who are building a social legacy for themselves.
It’s the prophets [show photos of Jesus, Buddha etc.],
it’s the activists for change [ show gandhi, mandela, martin luther king], it’s those
of you who do not let abuse go by without addressing it.
It’s not what you leave behind for other people, it’s what you leave in people!
Social legacy comes from the sacrifice of the self for the benefit of everyone else
and that’s exactly what we see in the people who have managed to garner Social Legacy.
The purpose of wealth is not to turn you into a freedom fighter,
but to give aid to those whose mission is the minimization of suffering in all its forms.
Unfortunately, one can not choose to retreat and stand-by,
for sometimes not doing the right thing is what allows the bad thing to thrive.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing! [quote of Edmund Burke]
The world is changing fast, so you’re either going to ride the wave of change,
or might drown with it.
And the best way to secure your legacy is through being the one who brings on the new wave.
LEGACY THROUGH INNOVATION
You’ve been referencing Gandhi earlier and there’s a quote of his that drives this point perfectly:
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win!
They did the same to Elon and the world will probably do the same to you…
Every innovator is in one of those 4 brackets Are they fighting you, laughing at you,
are they ignoring you or did you win? If not yet, keep playing the game until you do.
Legacy is when you need no introduction, people know you because you’ve touched their
life in a positive way and because of it your reputation precedes you.
The world remembers the innovators!
You want to be wealthy and leave behind a legacy:
BE CONTRARIAN AND BE RIGHT!
Who cares what they think if you can prove
it?! So prove it. Prove them wrong. If it doesn’t exist yet, then build it.
Put your mind where your mouth is and the world would thank you and tip its hat towards you.
Use your wealth to innovate and your legacy will be long lived.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.
Your innovations might be the stepping stone for future generations.
We need innovators, we need game-changers.
We need people to throw out the status-quo and bring us into the future.
Which brings us to the last on on the list:
LEGACY BY DOMINO
If innovation relies on figuring out a new solution to an old problem,
this can not happen wthout DISCOVERY
Discovery is the first domino piece in a chain that takes us to places
we didn’t know we wanted to go.
The personal computer was an incredible innovation,
but it was only after we connected to the internet that we realised just how big of
an impact it can have. But without the computer, we wouldn’t have been able to build the internet.
Without the internet, we wouldn’t have built blockchain.
LEGACY comes from this layer or domino style of thinking.
Everyone who gets rich and makes fortunes relies on one of these new layers to begin his legacy.
IBM with the computer, Bill Gates with Software, Steve Jobs with the Iphone, Sergey with Google,
Vitalik with Ethereum and now people are build on top of that.
That’s where the saying We are standing on the shoulders of giants!
Comes from, and you’ve got plenty of giants that did the heavy lifting for us.
If you don’t have wealth, use the most recent layer to build your fortune
and then use said wealth to open up the future for what’s coming next.
We might end up living in virtual worlds,
exploring space and bending time. We might live happily ever after once we
transcend to gods and live eternally as code and today is part of that journey…
You are part of that journey… so ask yourself: What is your legacy?
What will the world remember you by? How can you help build a better tomorrow?!
Hopefully, this video has served its purpose
as a domino piece in your journey and we can’t wait to hear where it takes you.
As for those of you still watching, of course we have a bonus!
BONUS: EVERYTHING IS A CHOICE
For as long as you live, remember that everything we will do
is a choice. Everything we will own will be the result of a choice we make towards having it.
We become what we chose to become!
Every single action we take is a choice. We like to think we have no choice, but you chose to watch
this video, you chose to open up the internet today, you chose to get out of bed in the morning.
When thinking about wealth and the purposes which it serves:
Freedom, security, comfort, progress and legacy… most people think of it in terms of a DESIRE,
something we wish we could have… instead of thinking of it as a choice.
If you want to get really good at playing the guitar,
it’s a choice that from this day forward you will practice and study it continuously.
In a world where everything is at your disposal, your reality is a choice as well.
What we’re about to say will sound controversial,
but the more deeply you think about it the more you realise it’s true.
In our world of free information, staying ignorant is a choice.
In our world of unlimited teachers, staying unskilled is a choice.
In our world of abundance, staying poor is a choice!
In a world where there is still suffering, not doing anything about it is also a choice.
We want you to take a good look at yourself and make better choices starting today!
Practice what you learn, start small, follow the progress model and see where it takes you.
We will always be here for you, the true Aluxers
to guide you along your journey because by doing this it cements our own legacy!
Through some serendipitous turn of events we found
each-other & We couldn’t be prouder to share this leg of the journey with you!
No matter how little or far you’ve come, the rest of your journey starts NOW!
-we end the long-form here-
If you feel ready to build your future,
write the word: NOW in the comments, let’s see how big the Alux family really is!