It was November 2023, toward the end of my first semester at university.

The air was chilly, and I was walking towards my chemistry class.

However, I had no intention of listening to the teacher. In fact, I was going to spend the whole class on my computer, learning chemistry on my own from YouTube and practicing.

But then I remembered what had happened…

My friends and I were forced to move to the front because we had to set an example as high schoolers in college.

However, the high school kids who sat at the front the entire semester and were in the teacher's good graces were miserably failing their tests. My group of friends, who were self-educating and passing with flying colors, were the “bad” and poor examples for the class.

That was one of the first moments I realized this system didn’t make sense.

Now, why am I telling you this?

I had bad experiences at university and left. Instead of dwelling on them or pitying myself, I learned from these experiences and applied those lessons to improve my life, which was leaving and following my own path.

In this newsletter, we will understand why the difference between failures and geniuses is not their lack of skills but their lack of perseverance.

But before we dive into it, we must first define failure.

In this newsletter, a failure is someone who continues to fail and fails and has not seen the progress that excites them or motivates them to continue.

You must do that, at least try and fail, because that’s the first step.

This newsletter is for you if you're trying and failing and losing confidence because you are not a genius or perfect.

If you understand this newsletter, you will improve your life. I know that the more I understand and apply what is contained in this newsletter, the better my life will be.

The main problem in today’s society is the victim mentality virus. Personal responsibility is declining, and blaming the world, society, and hierarchies is increasing.

This idea of personal responsibility can be so hard to swallow because you are in control of your reality, which means that you are responsible. This can be painful as it’s easier in the short term to blame others.

But in the long term, it will be the greatest superpower. It allows you to take control of your life and create the life of your dreams.

Back to geniuses vs failures…

A genius is a success in part due to their skills but more in part due to their mindset regarding roadblocks and pains.

For failures, they allow these unpleasant experiences to remain unchanged in their subconscious basement. At the same time, the genius takes lessons and puts them to active use, thus changing what goes into their subconscious basement.

The “failure” dwells upon their failures and mistakes and visualizes an unpleasant future.

The genius transmutes failures into lessons. This takes humility because, as a pessimist, you may not be able to acknowledge that there may be more to what is in front of you.

They don’t have the humility to acknowledge the bigger picture and that everything happens for a reason.

Humility allows you to see the whole picture, the good and the bad, and acknowledge that all experiences are perfect and happen for a reason.

And if you're here to create good, you can understand the perfection of God’s or the Universe's work and, in turn, learn from your bad experiences.

This relates to leadership because you have to lead yourself.

As a genius, you lead yourself through trials and tribulations despite no apparent results.

You lead yourself to have persistence.

A failure wants to be led by others rather than lead themselves. This relates to personal responsibility because if one wants to become a genius, one has to take ownership of one's mistakes and learn from them rather than blaming others or the world.

This means that if you're a “failure” and keep trying and failing, you're only a few steps away from being a genius.

The beauty of understanding this concept is that your bad experiences can be turned into a tonic that you can drink to propel yourself to new heights.

Rather than allowing it to become a potion that cripples you from pursuing your aspirations.

Now you might be curious about how to apply this to your own life actively…

How to transmute your failures into money

1. Start a business around your zone of genius

Now, for most of your life, you’ve likely been forced to dwell outside of your zone of genius.

However, with the existence of the creator economy, you now have the freedom to build a business around your zone of genius.

You’ll know your zone of genius when you can’t stop thinking about it.

• You forget to eat

• Time passes in an instant

• You forget to go to the bathroom

If you are interested in something:

• Copywriting

• Cooking

• Consciousness

There is someone else who is interested in the same.

2. Solve your problems and persevere

You might be wondering where being a failure comes into all of this.

Well…

When you start a business around your zone of genius and pursue the good life, you will have many challenging experiences and have to solve problems.

Every mistake and bad experience, not only in business but also in life, can be transmuted into a tonic.

That tonic can be used for yourself and shared with others because you have started a personal brand and built an audience.

Every problem you solve and challenging experience you have, can be used to impact others.

3. Share the solutions and your perspectives

You're getting paid to take responsibility for your life and persevere through adversity.

Through these experiences, you will discover that similar tonics or collections of tonics help to solve a specific problem. These systems can be turned into products and sold.

The perspective shifts you have from your experiences can be shared with others to shift their perspective and help guide them.

You share your solutions through your:

• Content

• Systems

• Products

The better the tonics you create, the more impact and money you can make.

Thank you for reading.

– Christian