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The math teachers got it wrong. They spent years teaching us how to slice up pies into perfect pieces. How to divide numbers. How to split things fairly. But nobody taught us the thing that actually matters.

Creation beats division every single time. Here's what I mean. Two kids grow up on the same street. Same schools. Same opportunities. Kid A learns to negotiate. Gets really good at it. Knows how to split deals, divide resources, claim his share of whatever's already there. He becomes a lawyer. Makes good money fighting over pieces of other people's work.

Kid B learns to build. Gets obsessed with making things that didn't exist before. Starts with terrible drawings. Then bad websites. Then slightly less bad products. Eventually creates something people actually want. Fast forward ten years. Kid A is still arguing over slices of the same pie. Kid B baked a thousand new pies and owns the bakery.

The world rewards makers, not takers. Think about it. Every company you admire started with someone who built something new. Every breakthrough that changed your life came from a creator, not a negotiator. Your smartphone wasn't invented by someone good at dividing up existing phones.

Someone imagined it from nothing. Your favorite restaurant didn't come from someone who got really good at splitting up other people's recipes. Someone created new flavors. Even your job exists because someone, somewhere, decided to build something instead of just fighting over what already existed.

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But here's the trap most people fall into. They think creation is risky. They think it's safer to just get really good at claiming their piece of what's already there. So they become experts at division. Office politics. Negotiation tactics. How to get a bigger slice. Meanwhile, the creators are busy making the whole pie bigger.

The creators don't just win financially. They wake up excited. They solve real problems. They leave things better than they found them. The dividers wake up stressed. They spend their days in meetings about meetings. They fight over scraps while the makers build the future.

Your choice is simple. You can get really good at taking pieces of what already exists. Or you can get really good at making things that never existed before. The future belongs to the builders.