Topic for TEDx talk?

I gave a few talks to high school students in Italy. I titled it “how to win the game” and essentially showed them how to get a “dream job” in FAANG. Critical thinking, coding challenges, growth mindset blah blah blah but it was 3 hours long. The message was “you are in charge of your future. You can kick asses and become wealthy in less than 10 years”

I planned to give a second talk “how to quit the game”, which is the FIRE part. Essentially that yeah, there’s this money and status game, but once you win, you don’t have to play it anymore (unless you genuinely enjoy it). I haven’t completed the preso yet…

But then I discovered Naval Ravikant. In the “how to get rich without being lucky” 3.5 hours podcast he deployed a 100 times better version than my “how to win the game”, and in his recent podcast with Tim Ferriss he kind of said the exact words “you should quit the game once you won”. And it’s a 2 hours podcast centered around the fact that money is important, but there’s an amount which is “enough”, and you should find it and switch to a more balanced life and yada yada yada… this guy anticipated me :frowning:

Amazing podcast btw, ultra-recommended!

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