Nomad Barbarians - Modern Barbarian

Historically most tribes started out nomadic because they followed their main food source around by the seasons. This was a necessity. Now a days it is not a necessity in the survival sense to be a nomad but it is becoming more and more so in an economic sense.

This is how you might survive the criminal life, but this is also how you survive In the current economic environment. You have to be flexible, and able to pivot and move when opportunities present themselves. Now that doesn’t mean have no attachments, don’t get pets or don’t have relationships but it does mean be strategic about it.

“The things you own end up owning you”

~Tyler Durden

The more shit that you own and the more financial burdens you saddle your self with, the more stuck you will be. If you go out and buy a $800k home you will not be able to up and move if your dream job shows up in another city. There is a reason that people like Grant Cardone recommend not buying a house, but exclusively renting, when you are trying to build your self up. Say you get an offer for your dream job but its two states over. If your stuck in a mortgage for an $800k house, you might not be able to take the job and risk getting stuck with that house if you cant sell it for anything other than a loss.

Digital Nomads

Now lots of people choose the fully nomadic life these days, also called being a digital nomad. The increase in technology in recent years has allowed people to work from anywhere making it possible for people to maintain a steady income and move around the world where ever they might want to go, even if they don’t own their own business.

If that doesn’t sound like it’s for you, don’t worry you don’t have to do that to be successful but you can take some lessons from it regardless. Setting your life or business up even partially as a digital nomad has its benefits. Its teaches you minimalism, how leverages automation to name a couple.

Minimalism

in short teaches you to evaluate whats really important. Both in life and when it comes to personal possessions. Most people not only buy way to much house than they need, since most people less time in their house than they do any where else. But they also fill it with way more stuff than they need. There is a reason that public storage facilities are one of the largest growing industries, at least in the United States.

If you stay within your means, and stick to the necessities, at least most of the time, you will free up more capital for your business pursuits, or investments in order to free your self faster than you would otherwise. This allows you to be lite weight and mobile which allows you to seize opportunities that others cannot.

Leverage Automation

Digital nomads are great at leveraging automation and 3rd party services to facilitate and scale their businesses. This is something that is a necessity for them due to the nomadic nature. However you can use these same techniques to simply streamline and lower the over head of your business. For instance print on demand services for anything from shirts and other merch to full Length books. Or if you want a better turn around time, there are warehouse services that allow you to store your products and they handle the shipping.

You can also hire free lance accountants artists and just about any other service you could possibly need. Working from the other side of this equation and free lancing in a skill that you posses can also be a very lucrative opportunity for you whether you are a nomad or not.

Life is Probabilistic

Nothing in life is certain for better or for worse every event has a certain probability for different outcomes. Every action you take or circumstance that you are in either improves or detracts from the likely hood of those outcomes. This is how you have to evaluate life and your goals. For example…

If your goal is to get rich, and you currently are not rich and you take no actions toward that goal, the likely hood of it happening are practically zero. You can’t completely rule out the chance a billionaire will drop out of thin air and offer to give you his fortune, but that is not the smart money bet. Even if you are a beautiful women, unless you bring other things to the table the chance of that is still practically zero.

Now from this starting point, you can evaluate what options will better your chances of achieving that goal. Does going out drinking every night give you a better chance of becoming rich? How about finding a mentor in business or getting into an entrepreneur class with someone who is already successful? Does only working your 9-5 increase or decrease your chances? How about starting a side hustle as a freelancer while you work that same 9-5?

This way of thinking can and should be applied to your evaluation process of any goal you have whether its financial or business related or romantic or personal goals. The more nomadic you are able to be, the better your probability of being able to seize opportunities. Even if you do not actively move around currently.

Conclusion

You should never rule out any source of information that you can learn from. It may not always apply to your situation but you never know when your situation will change or how you might still be able to apply that information to your current situation to better yourself. Digital nomads are no different. They can offer a breadth of knowledge from business, and automation, to travel tricks and minimalism. Don’t write that off just because you don’t want to live over seas. The same knowledge that could let you run a successful business in the US from a hotel in Dubai can just as easily let you run a business from a rural off grid farm in Montana. If that’s your tribes plan.