.@Drake's "Janice STFU" officially debuts at No. 1 on this week's #Hot100.
It becomes his 14th career No. 1 hit, passing Michael Jackson for the most among solo male artists.
Overall, he ties Rihanna and Taylor Swift for the third-most after the Beatles (20) and Mariah Carey (19).
Byron Allen, Founder of Allen Media Group, explains how treating business like a contact sport unlocks unlimited capital:
Byron once borrowed $310 million on a Friday to acquire the Weather Channel. He paid it back in five months.
When the lender hit him with a $28 million prepayment penalty for closing too quickly, he paid that too.
His philosophy on why capital is never the real obstacle:
"Business is a contact sport. You're nothing more than economic athletes. They will see your passion. They will see your stats. And they will always want you on their team because you make them money."
The framing shift here is everything.
Byron sees founders as athletes whose performance is being evaluated by people who need them to win.
"You have unlimited amounts of capital available to you if your hustle is at the highest level."
@RealByronAllen drives the point home:
"Keep your hustle at the highest level because capital is always looking for you to get the money back and a return. There's trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of capital looking for you. Go get it."
The takeaway: Capital is hunting for operators who can put up the stats. Hustle at the highest level, and the money will find you.
Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.
The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.
This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.
A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.
Bob Proctor: "What's gone is gone. There's absolutely nothing you can do about it."
"You don't know how much future you've got. Some of you have had divorces. Some of you have probably had bankruptcies. Some of you've had terrible things happen in the past. But what's gone is gone. It's in the past."
Bob explains the real cost of looking backward:
"To spend your time focusing on the past is to spend the only thing that you've got, and that's what's right here, right now. Because the sand never stops running. This is all we've got. And to spend your time now thinking of what happened there is making absolute certain that the future is going to be the same as the past."
He shares a story from his own life:
"Years ago, I suffered with terrible headaches. I got to the point where I was taking Bufferin. Then I got to the point where I was taking Sinutab with codeine. There were 16 in the bottle, and I got to the point where I was taking two bottles a day. Most times, I didn't even remember my head not aching. But I was sort of numb all the time. With that much junk in you, I guess you couldn't be any other way."
Then he met someone who changed everything:
"I was in the Hotel Vancouver, picking up two heavy suitcases, in a real rush to catch a flight. A man said, 'What's the matter with you? You look like you're going to pass out.' I said, 'I feel like I am. My head is aching so bad. I feel sick to my stomach.' He said, 'Go sit down in that chair.' I said, 'I don't have time. I've got to catch a plane.' He said, 'Listen, you can always get another plane. You only get one head.'"
The man asked Bob a question:
"He said, 'Do you know what forgive means?' And by the way he asked, I thought, I probably don't. He said, 'Forgive means to let go of. Completely abandon. Just let it go. Unequivocally. No strings attached.'"
Bob continues:
"He said, 'If you want to rid yourself of headaches, just forgive all the thoughts that are on your mind and listen to me.' He put me in a totally relaxed state. I felt better than I had felt in years."
He explains the connection between holding on and physical pain:
"Your head is aching because of the things you're not letting go of. It's causing tension. It's causing an abnormal state of vibration in the cells and the brain, which causes the blood to rush to the head. As you put yourself in a totally relaxed state, you simply become programmed to relax."
Bob closes with a quote he wrote down over coffee:
"Leland Val Vanderwall said something, and every time this guy opens his mouth, he drops a pearl. He said: 'Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.' Was there ever depth in that? Let's quit thinking in reverse. Let's not look forward in fear. Just look around us, in awareness."
@WeekendInvestng@iamrakeshbansal@HomesPrithu I feel construction of own house should be done by yourself, most of the times issues like these would come up or you would end up paying a lot more than what the actual cost could be
The most expensive things in life aren't the things you bought. It's the cost of inaction. The business you didn't start. The conversation you avoided. The health you neglected. Not taking action feels safe but it's the most expensive price you'll pay in life.
Luck follows the people who act. The 'chance' meeting or the 'lucky' break usually happens because you responded to some strangers tweet or went to an event you were uncomfortable, or you actually talked to the stranger on the plane.
If you want to succeed, you must realize that you are never out of options. Until you pass from this world, you will always be able to uncover one last chance - one more opportunity to save the losing hand. Strategists realize this: there are always opportunities, and only proactivity can force them out of their hiding. The only thing you truly need is ambition. Ruthless and clever ambition.
No one knows you. No one has a story about who you are. No one is waiting for you to be the person you were yesterday. You're just a stranger in a chair by the window, watching a city that doesn't need anything from you.
It's the feeling that anything could happen. That the world is bigger than the walls you built around yourself back home. That the life you've been living is just one version of a life, and there are others, and they're not as far away as you thought.
At home, you're fixed. Known. You fit into a shape that other people recognize, and after a while, you forget you're even in a shape at all. But here, alone, somewhere new, the shape dissolves. You could be anyone. You could be more of yourself than you've ever been. No one is watching to see if you stay consistent.
*Tether* has become one of largest players in gold market…
"We believe that the world is going towards darkness. We believe that there is a lot of turmoil.”
Now holds 140 tons of the shiny metal in old nuclear bunker.
Buying 1-2 tons/week.
I’m serious.
via @jackryanldn25
India from 1950 to today:
GDP: $0.1T → $4T (40x)
Population: 0.3B → 1.5B (5x)
Per Capita: $300 → $2,400 (8x)
Exports: $15B → $650B (40x)
Foodgrains: 50M tons → 310M tons (6x)
Literacy: 12% → 78% (6x)
Life Expectancy: 37 → 67 (2x)
Road Length: 0.2M Km → 6.3M Km (30x)
Electrification: 0.3% → 97% (300x)
Power Capacity: 1,300GWh → 370,000GWh (300x)
Vehicles: 0.3Cr → 40Cr (100x)
Universities: 27 → 1,100 (50x)
Highest Tax Slab: 97% → 42% (0.5x)
We always overestimate change in the next year, and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten
We have come a long way as a Republic, Happy 77th Republic Day