The most dangerous moment is right after you win.
You did it. You made the money. You quit your job. You built the physique. You got the girl. Now what? Most people let themselves decline into misery because their driving force has now vanished.
You need another mountain to climb. You need to understand that it is a gift, not a curse, to always be in the pursuit of your potential - the constant balance of challenge and skill is what makes life meaningful. There is no final top of the mountain.
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If you want to make the most progress you've ever made in your life, you need to be alone. You need an extended period of isolation, not influenced by friends or media, spent building your future. You need space to learn, think, experiment, and fail.
Give yourself 6 months. Focus solely on the development of your mind, body, spirit, and finances. This is how you get ahead of most people.
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If you want to make the most progress you've ever made in your life, you need to be alone. You need an extended period of isolation, not influenced by friends or media, spent building your future. You need space to learn, think, experiment, and fail.
Give yourself 6 months. Focus solely on the development of your mind, body, spirit, and finances. This is how you get ahead of most people.
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"How do I start posting online"
- Pick a fucking idea
- Stop trying to find the perfect one
- Write the first thing that comes to mind
- Rewrite it slightly better, then post
Just get in the habit of writing out interesting ideas and trust that you'll get better over time (you know, how everything else in life works).
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If you want to dramatically improve your quality of life, learn to recover your attention quickly after something steals it. Social media arguments, stressful thoughts, minor inconveniences. Most of it is noise that steals hours to days of enjoyment. Breathe and let it go.
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You don't need a PhD in a topic before you can start doing it. You don't need to watch 10 YouTube videos, 20 podcasts, and read 5 books before you start.
That only gets you stuck in a cycle of mental masturbation and feeling like you never know enough.
Most people should start learning only after they've started doing the thing.
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You need to be delusional if you want to be successful because your goals shape what you perceive. You won't notice the rare opportunity or life path if your goal isn't so big that others think you are crazy.
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The paradox of life is that everything is a disaster and everything is just fine. The difference is where you put your attention.
The ultimate goal is getting paid to be yourself. To solve problems you can't help but solve. To study what you can't pull yourself away from. To eliminate any work that does not challenge you creatively.
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AI makes being average at any skill available to everyone, which makes average work worthless. If you take the time to become incredibly good at what you do you won't have to worry about being replaced.
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Patterns I've noticed in people who aren't necessarily unhappy, but aren't going anywhere with their lives:
- Never learn anything new unless they're forced to
- Don't set goals unless their survival / finances make them insecure
- Talk about what's happening in the world rather than what they're working on
- Aren't aware of any of this, and making them aware doesn't hurts more than it helps
Hard place to be.
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The most interesting people are walking contradictions.
Jacked intellectuals.
Casual billionaires.
Spiritual fighters.
Life is better when you can't be shoved in a box that others can easily make sense of.
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The most interesting people are walking contradictions.
Jacked intellectuals.
Casual billionaires.
Spiritual fighters.
Life is better when you can't be shoved in a box that others can easily make sense of.
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There will be 3 types of people in the future:
The Purists - reject AI and become new-age hippies
The Automatons - outsource every decision and become machines
The New Renaissance Man - maintains humanity and leverages tech to do what used to be impossible
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There will be 3 types of people in the future:
The Purists - reject AI and become new-age hippies
The Automatons - outsource every decision and become machines
The New Renaissance Man - maintains humanity and leverages tech to do what used to be impossible
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When calories became cheap, convenient, and abundant, bodies decayed.
Thinking is now cheap.
The fastest way to become articulate on a topic is to write until you're no longer confused.
We're in the middle of the second renaissance where proof of work replaces the resume, an audience replaces the employer, and taste replaces credentials.
We're in the middle of the second renaissance where proof of work replaces the resume, an audience replaces the employer, and taste replaces credentials.
