Here are questions in the spirit of Naval Ravikant—focused on leverage, specific knowledge, long-term thinking, and escaping the traps most people don’t realize they’re in:
Are you building assets that earn while you sleep, or are you still trading time for money?
What are you doing that has zero marginal cost of replication? If nothing, why not?
Do you own equity in something, or are you just a high-paid employee of someone else’s dream?
Where can you apply leverage—code, media, capital, people—to multiply the output of your effort?
Are you playing a game with capped upside, or have you positioned yourself for asymmetric returns?
What would you do if you had to make money without selling any more of your time?
What do you know that feels like play to you but looks like work to others?
What unique combination of skills and interests do you have that no one else has?
Are you building knowledge that can be taught in a classroom, or knowledge that can only be learned through obsession and experience?
What would you do for free that people would eventually pay you for?
If you had to become the best in the world at one narrow thing, what would it be? Are you pursuing it?
What are you curious about that you’ve dismissed as impractical? That dismissal might be the mistake.
Are you optimizing for the short term and paying for it in the long term?