🎤 Make Your Own Machine Part 13: How to Deal With Doubters (And Why Most People Stay Broke)

By now, you’ve:

Bought real stock
Collected real money
Rolled a few calls
Hit 200 shares or more

And now you’re feeling good. Confident. Capable.

Then someone comes along and hits you with the classic:

“Wait… you’re doing what now? That sounds risky.”
“I don’t know, man, I’d rather just put my money in an index fund.”
“You should talk to my cousin, he does crypto day trading.”

Listen closely:

You’re going to sound crazy to people who don’t understand slow, boring wealth.

And that’s okay.

🤡 Why Most People Stay Broke

Let’s be real — most people:

Chase hype
Don’t understand risk
Only talk about gains (never losses)
Spend everything they earn
Avoid anything that takes more than 5 minutes to explain

Covered calls?
Cash-secured puts?
Reinvesting premiums week after week?

That’s not sexy. That’s not flashy.

It’s just… profitable.

But since it doesn’t come with neon charts and adrenaline, they’ll never get it.

😎 What You’re Doing Is Rare

You’re stacking slow gains
You’re avoiding dumb trades
You’re reinvesting instead of spending
You’re turning ownership into income

Most people buy a stock, pray it goes up, and call it investing.
You? You’re running a system.

That’s why they won’t understand.
And that’s why you’ll eventually outpace them.

🧠 How to Handle the Doubters

Smile and nod.
You don’t need to convince them. Just keep stacking.
Track your progress.
Show yourself that it’s working. That’s all the proof you need.
Know your why.
You’re not doing this to impress strangers — you’re doing it to build freedom.
Stay boring.
The FIRE Engine isn’t supposed to be exciting. It’s supposed to work.

Let them chase hype. Let them trade options they don’t understand.
Let them roll their eyes while you roll your contracts.

🧠 Bottom Line

Boring wealth beats flashy failure. Every time.

The FIRE Engine is simple. Consistent. Predictable.
That’s exactly why most people ignore it…
…and exactly why it works.

In the next post, we’ll talk about how to automate your system so this strategy doesn’t become a second job.

👉 Up Next: [Post 14: How to Automate the FIRE Engine (So You’re Not Babysitting It All Week)]
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