Building a Mountain of Leverage Course Preview: How Levers Apply to Your Mind and Your Work
How Levers Apply to Your Mind and Your Work
Levers are force multipliers.
This is how some people can accomplish 10, 100x, or 1,000,000x what others can. We will use (and probably abuse) the lever as a metaphor for explaining a wide variety of force-multipliers.
Like compounding, Leverage is:
Based on math
Very counterintuitive
Truly astonishing at scale
Critical input for building wealth
Overlooked by almost everyone
Critical for understanding extreme outcomes and achieving them yourself.
“Levers” as we talk about them in this course don’t just multiply the force of your weight or muscles. They also multiply the impact of your mind and your work. We use the lever to visualize ways you can accomplish more in less time.
Leverage is the practice of multiplying our outputs -- achieving more with less. With levers we can move “heavy” things (impossible outcomes) with light work (normal effort).
Inputs go beyond “force” and into “effort,” “time,” “skill,’ and “judgment”
Outputs go beyond “force” and into “earnings,” “impact,” and “influence.”
A good strong lever means one hour of work can produce hundreds of hours of impact. One simple decision can deliver years worth of earnings. The longer the lever, the greater the possible difference between the input and the output.
This is the fundamental idea of the Lever -- something we can use to multiply our efforts to achieve greater results than we could by applying our effort directly.
We can use this model to show the leverage granted to us by using the Tools, Products, People, and Capital available to us. We will have details on all of these examples, but to show this lever idea with a few practical applications.
You can consider the leverage of how savings can turn into an income for retirement:
Or how productizing your valuable knowledge can benefit an audience and create an income:
Or how publishing your ideas can turn into consulting clients, reducing your time spent networking or selling:
In the next lesson, we will zoom out to see how Levers changed the course of humanity, and contribute to the sense of abundance we have today relative to our hunter-gather ancestors.