Hello guys, this is just another personal goal to millions thread where I will be chronicling my story to wealth. I am currently in graduate school, work part-time, and pretty much cruising down the slowlane, and I am thinking and planning everyday on how to change to the fastlane.
Quitting school is barely an option since Im neck-deep in student loans and don't want to disappoint my parents, again... I did quit once before to attempt professional poker and a few business projects, but I have failed, and now Im back in school. I was doing well with online poker and was on my way to making more than what pharmacists make in a year (Im doing a Pharm.D/MBA program), but then US online poker apocalypse happened and it was banned, and I didn't do too well with live and full-table poker (I specialized in heads-up sit-n-gos online) when I was in Vegas for 3 months in 2011, but no regrets, many lessons learned.
So like some of you, I am now continuing down a slowlane path that I must maintain, while attempting to change to the fastlane. Like with poker before, I will now attempt to start projects that will earn more than an average pharmacist salary so I can have the option to quit school and quickly get to the top :coolgleamA:
I have been working on a few ideas to start on with some of my savings and left over online poker money including a mobile app, e-commerce, and a (licensing) idea in the kitchen gadget industry. I still need more market research and detailed execution plan before I put all my energies into one project, which I will layout in more details in this thread later on. But I will also discuss some of my strategies to change the way I live bc I believe that habits and lifestyle can get you to the fastlane just as much as business strategies and knowledge. For example, I need to cut down my going out and TV/Movies time.
So my first crazy plan is to adopt a non-conventional sleeping cycle to get more time and change lane faster since my schedule is always so full due to a two-degree program, part-time job, gym, social life, etc (that I need to come up with ways to sacrifice down). I have always been obsess with time and time management so this would be interesting to try out.
So Im going to attempt the everyman with 2 naps in the above picture and see how it goes with the intention of maybe going further down to the more extreme cycles. My school record lectures so I can skip classes and listen to recordings to manage the schedule better. There are some threads on polyphasic sleep on here and a good amount on the net if polyphasic or biphasic sleep is something you're not familiar with it:
Polyphasic sleep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/cu...-polyphasic-sleep-uberman-sleep-schedule.html
Polyphasic Sleep
Let me know if you're interested in trying it to!
Best, and until the next update, Thinslicer.
9/6/12 UPDATE
-I decided to take another break (likely permanent this time) from pharmacy school officially as of yesterday to expedite my fastlane process.
-This was a huge decision that will dramatically change my life, hopefully for the better and Im lucky that my family and friends supports my decision but I know there are some people including some of my friends who think Im crazy, they tell me you are almost done, two years and you will be making 6 figures and that I can always do business and what I love later, and this and that all revolving around slowlane thinking. I just tell them that pharmacy didn't make me happy and I want to do what I am happy with regardless of the money.
I’d rather live in regret of failure than in regret of never trying.
- MJ DeMarco
-My fastlane process is coming together. I will be starting them pretty soon, should have something to show by next update in a couple of months or so at the max.
-The sleep cycle is going great. I am actually doing the biphasic 6.3h right now instead of the everyman with 2 naps to start since it matches better with my schedule now that I have more time and don't have to spend 50-70 hours with pharmacy school. I don't experience any difficult adjusting effects b/c I adjust my ADHD medication dosage according to my schedule. I will eventually get to the Everyman with 2 naps if I can afford to quit my part-time job and have complete freedom of my time (I will still have to attend my MBA classes but it's only once a week for 4 hours).
-My next crazy plan is to track and build up my hours to fairly expert and experienced expert in fields/industries Im interested in. Im sure most you have heard of the 10000 hour rule from Outliers. This article below expands a little on it by scaling down to levels of abilities:
Starting first with that 10,000 hours of practice: I’d had a similar thought about leveling-up abilities based on a magnitude-of-10 hour scale:
at 1 hour … you know some basics
at 10 hours … you have a pretty good grasp of the basics
at 100 hours … you are fairly expert
at 1000 hours … you are an experienced expert
at 10000 hours … you are a master
http://davidseah.com/blog/2005/11/building-a-niche-of-one/
Quitting school is barely an option since Im neck-deep in student loans and don't want to disappoint my parents, again... I did quit once before to attempt professional poker and a few business projects, but I have failed, and now Im back in school. I was doing well with online poker and was on my way to making more than what pharmacists make in a year (Im doing a Pharm.D/MBA program), but then US online poker apocalypse happened and it was banned, and I didn't do too well with live and full-table poker (I specialized in heads-up sit-n-gos online) when I was in Vegas for 3 months in 2011, but no regrets, many lessons learned.
So like some of you, I am now continuing down a slowlane path that I must maintain, while attempting to change to the fastlane. Like with poker before, I will now attempt to start projects that will earn more than an average pharmacist salary so I can have the option to quit school and quickly get to the top :coolgleamA:
I have been working on a few ideas to start on with some of my savings and left over online poker money including a mobile app, e-commerce, and a (licensing) idea in the kitchen gadget industry. I still need more market research and detailed execution plan before I put all my energies into one project, which I will layout in more details in this thread later on. But I will also discuss some of my strategies to change the way I live bc I believe that habits and lifestyle can get you to the fastlane just as much as business strategies and knowledge. For example, I need to cut down my going out and TV/Movies time.
So my first crazy plan is to adopt a non-conventional sleeping cycle to get more time and change lane faster since my schedule is always so full due to a two-degree program, part-time job, gym, social life, etc (that I need to come up with ways to sacrifice down). I have always been obsess with time and time management so this would be interesting to try out.
So Im going to attempt the everyman with 2 naps in the above picture and see how it goes with the intention of maybe going further down to the more extreme cycles. My school record lectures so I can skip classes and listen to recordings to manage the schedule better. There are some threads on polyphasic sleep on here and a good amount on the net if polyphasic or biphasic sleep is something you're not familiar with it:
Polyphasic sleep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/cu...-polyphasic-sleep-uberman-sleep-schedule.html
Polyphasic Sleep
Let me know if you're interested in trying it to!
Best, and until the next update, Thinslicer.
9/6/12 UPDATE
-I decided to take another break (likely permanent this time) from pharmacy school officially as of yesterday to expedite my fastlane process.
-This was a huge decision that will dramatically change my life, hopefully for the better and Im lucky that my family and friends supports my decision but I know there are some people including some of my friends who think Im crazy, they tell me you are almost done, two years and you will be making 6 figures and that I can always do business and what I love later, and this and that all revolving around slowlane thinking. I just tell them that pharmacy didn't make me happy and I want to do what I am happy with regardless of the money.
I’d rather live in regret of failure than in regret of never trying.
- MJ DeMarco
-My fastlane process is coming together. I will be starting them pretty soon, should have something to show by next update in a couple of months or so at the max.
-The sleep cycle is going great. I am actually doing the biphasic 6.3h right now instead of the everyman with 2 naps to start since it matches better with my schedule now that I have more time and don't have to spend 50-70 hours with pharmacy school. I don't experience any difficult adjusting effects b/c I adjust my ADHD medication dosage according to my schedule. I will eventually get to the Everyman with 2 naps if I can afford to quit my part-time job and have complete freedom of my time (I will still have to attend my MBA classes but it's only once a week for 4 hours).
-My next crazy plan is to track and build up my hours to fairly expert and experienced expert in fields/industries Im interested in. Im sure most you have heard of the 10000 hour rule from Outliers. This article below expands a little on it by scaling down to levels of abilities:
Starting first with that 10,000 hours of practice: I’d had a similar thought about leveling-up abilities based on a magnitude-of-10 hour scale:
at 1 hour … you know some basics
at 10 hours … you have a pretty good grasp of the basics
at 100 hours … you are fairly expert
at 1000 hours … you are an experienced expert
at 10000 hours … you are a master
http://davidseah.com/blog/2005/11/building-a-niche-of-one/
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