Find 10 million in the shortest time, not through working harder, but through finding ways to upgrade.

Many people ask a question: With my current abilities and working as hard as I can, how long will it take to make 10 million? Is working three jobs a day enough? Five? Ten? When you ask this way, you’ve already fallen into a fundamental misconception. The answer is: never enough. This doesn’t mean you’re not diligent enough, but reveals a harsh reality — linear effort will never reach exponential wealth goals.

The fastest people to make big money never rely on overtime and persistence alone; they succeed through thinking and system evolution.

Why relying solely on doubling effort will never make you rich?

You’ll notice many around you work themselves to exhaustion, falling asleep after a long day, earning a fixed salary their whole life, living on inertia. They pay the highest physical price but get only the smallest returns. Why? Because they misunderstand what effort really means.

Traditional effort is self-pleasing physical overexertion. Working 12 hours a day seems dedicated, but under this model, your income ceiling is fixed. Time is limited; even if you work all 24 hours, income grows linearly. But making 10 million requires exponential growth. It’s like writing with a pencil — no matter how fast or tired you are, you can’t finish an encyclopedia this way.

Therefore, the logic for the shortest time to get rich is to understand: physical toil ultimately only brings anxiety, dissatisfaction, and lifelong suffering. True effort comes from thinking and continuous upward growth.

True effort is upgrading your mind, not overexerting your body

What is thinking-based effort? It’s using your brain to think, plan, and decide, rather than physically executing, repeating, and exhausting yourself.

For example, you open a store, work hard all day, and earn 50,000 a month. That’s physical labor for money. But if you spend three months studying supply chains, optimizing processes, building systems, then hire others to execute, earning the same 50,000 a month, but only managing two hours daily, that’s thinking for money. The first is exhausting but yields 50,000; the second is relaxed and earns over 50,000.

The people who make 10 million in the shortest time have experienced this transformation. They’re not working desperately alone; they’re thinking about how to leverage more resources, how to simplify complex tasks, how to turn individual effort into team strength. This process may seem slow, but it’s actually setting up an explosive point for exponential growth.

Break free from scarcity mindset, let wealth thinking become instinct

Many ordinary people have a mindset called a scarcity mentality. Its biggest feature is self-limitation — when faced with good, expensive, or rare opportunities, they instinctively think: “This doesn’t concern me,” “I can’t get it,” or “I can’t do it.”

This mindset is like an invisible prison, trapping people. When someone sees a good project, their first reaction isn’t to learn how to participate but to think, “Such a good opportunity, I don’t deserve it.” When they hear others turn their lives around, their first reaction isn’t to learn the logic behind it but to think, “They have connections; I don’t.”

This is why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Not because opportunities are unequal, but because of different mindsets. The wealthy see opportunities and ask, “What can I gain?” The poor see opportunities and ask, “Why isn’t it me?”

To break free from this scarcity mentality, the first step is to admit: in this age of information explosion, good opportunities will indeed knock on your door. But whether you can seize them depends on whether you have prepared a wealth-minded brain. Those who make money fastest are often the first to realize this.

From lone wolf to entrepreneur: choosing the right people is more important than effort

This is a dividing line determining how much money you can make. To earn small amounts, you can rely on yourself. But to make big money, you need a team.

How to choose a team? Here are two core tips:

First, choose people whose values align with yours. Always select those who prioritize integrity above all, have a win-win mindset, and possess complementary abilities and resources — not just those you get along with best. Many make the mistake of bringing close friends into business, only to see family ties break when money is involved. Why? Because values clash. One values money most, another cares about face, one wants expansion, another prefers conservatism. Such combinations are doomed to break apart.

Second, learn to share profits. All wealthy people are masters at profit sharing. They delegate tasks and money appropriately because only then do they have time and energy to think, innovate, and expand. Those who do everything themselves will never make big money — their time is always limited. But those who share profits invest part of their income into building a team, which then generates ten times the income. That’s leverage.

Choosing the right people and sharing profits greatly increases the shortest time to reach 10 million.

Three secrets to accelerate wealth: sharing profits, virtual-real integration, and leveraging trends

Besides choosing people and sharing profits, there are three core secrets to speed up your money-making process.

First secret: combining virtual and real. This is a bit hard to grasp; anyone who has run a business understands. Business inherently involves a lot of virtual-real interplay. Your brand, reputation, story, vision — these are “virtual.” But these “virtual” elements often determine how much resource attraction you get. Once you understand this, you can scale up. It’s not about deception but about understanding the essence of business.

Second secret: leveraging trends. Making 1 million might be possible through discipline and accumulation, but to reach the first 10 million, normal methods won’t suffice; you must leverage trends for leverage. How? In three ways:

1. Leverage trends. Focus on enhancing your awareness and information sources to catch big trends. For example, blockchain a few years ago, AI last year, or the current RWA sector. If you can sense these early, you can position yourself ahead.

2. Leverage people. Focus on your network and the high-level resources around you. Opportunities appear when you know the right people. Many big wins come from introductions or resource connections. Building relationships is building future opportunities.

3. Leverage timing. Focus on your judgment and action ability, seize every window. Prepare in advance; once the trend peaks, act decisively. Analysts predicting Bitcoin’s rise, for example, succeed because they are well-prepared, accurate in judgment, and decisive.

The shortest path to big money often combines these three leverage methods.

Controlled risk and taking bold bets: the key to turning points

This is the hardest hurdle for ordinary people to overcome — the point where 99% get stuck.

Many wait their whole lives just to catch one opportunity for a big score. But they never get it, or when they do, they’re afraid to act. Why? Because of risk. The path indeed involves risk, and the higher the potential reward, the greater the risk — profit and risk are always proportional.

But this doesn’t mean reckless gambling. It means within controllable risk, accurately identifying an opportunity and going all-in. This requires three conditions: first, sharp vision to spot real opportunities; second, thorough preparation and risk within your capacity; third, firm resolve not to give up midway.

Once you pass this hurdle, 10 million may just be a small goal. But if you get stuck here, the dream of making money quickly will forever remain a dream.

So the final question is: are you willing to choose?