How to Get Rich by Thinking Like The Top 1% (3 questions to ask yourself)

A concise guide to three strategic questions the speaker uses to evaluate business opportunities and decisions. He explains how asking What problem are you trying to solve?, What would it take?, and What do you want to have happen? surfaces weak reasoning, forces measurable outcomes, and prioritizes high-return actions.

– Uses What problem are you trying to solve? to expose emotional or unfounded motives, prevent distracted action, and reveal intellectual laziness.
– Uses What would it take? to assume success, elicit concrete costs and resources, and enable informed trade-offs and prioritization.
– Uses What do you want to have happen? plus follow-ups (What does that mean?, How do you know?, So what?) to define measurable outcomes and clarify business impact.
– Emphasizes focusing resources on proven, high-return work and recognizes that often the correct decision is to do nothing.

Quotes:

What problem are you trying to solve?

What would it take?

The undefeated heavyweight champion of the world is do nothing.