“Passive income” sounds like freedom. It’s mostly a bedtime story for adults.

Real freedom is leverage, structure, and years of prepaid effort.

Dan breaks down why passive income is a myth, what actually creates income without your daily labor, and why the goal is not ease. It’s endurance.

Most people try to control life by slapping labels on it: good, bad, win, loss.

That’s not control. That’s panic with better vocabulary.

Dan uses the classic “Chinese farmer” story to show why judgment is usually just bad timing, and how to build the mental habit that keeps you steady when life swings.

What you’ll learn

• Why “good” and “bad” are often just incomplete information
• How to stop reacting emotionally to events you do not understand yet
• The difference between certainty and trust (and why certainty is fake control)
• A simple phrase to regain composure when things go sideways
• How effort + surrender creates momentum without forcing outcomes