How to be a winner:
1. Quit being a pussy
2. Assume everything will work in your favor
3. Be delusionally optimistic
4. Take a psychopathic level of action
5. Have an incredible sense of urgency
6. Be unhinged online to attract the right people
7. Study pattern recognition.
7. Attract a few haters.
8. Retire from corporate forever in your 30s.
9. Figure out how to access personal freedom.
10. Never believe climbing the corporate ladder leads anywhere
11. Assume the gatekeepers are full of sh*t
12. Join the permissionless economy
13. Stop trying to fit in and just be weird AF
14. Replace delayed gratification with "I want it now"
15. Build a one-person business. Then build whatever the heck you want.
16. Be unreasonable enough to believe in yourself
17. Let the madness overtake your life
18. Let the world see your dark side.
19. Do what you say you're going to.
20. Forget about saving money. Just make more money.
21. Never say "I'll start in 6 months."
22. Assume there will always be chaos around you.
23. Learn to love uncertainty.
24. Seek our rejection and failure.
25. Fall in love with embarrassing yourself.
26. Apply more effort than is rational.
27. Be irrational about who you can become.
28. Rewire your brain with neuroplasticity.
29. Put your family first, always.
30. Have a personal mission.
31. Lead people even if you're not a leader.
32. See the world better than it is.
33. Lower your expectations in every scenario.
34. Accept that society will disappoint you.
35. Ignore politics and the news.
36. Act like Keanu Reeves.
37. Collapse at the end of the day from going all out
38. Rewrite the rules in your favor.
39. Study the art of negotiation.
40. Worship quiet people.
41. Live the good life before you die.
42. Assume you only get one life.
You will help more people by trying to make money than you will by staying broke.
When you insist on “impact” you only virtue signal because learning the game is harder than saying you’re “choosing to make less to help people”.
You’re not helping more people. You’re just less skilled with an ego that prevents you from admitting it.
The biggest illusion you live with is that the future can somehow bring you peace. But peace is not in the future—it’s in becoming comfortable with the chaos of the present.
It's really easy to take your life and the people in it for granted.
No matter how hard you work, in a snap it can all be gone.
Focus on climbing the mountain. But don't get so obsessed you forget to enjoy what you have. One snap is all it takes.
Competition is largely an illusion. 95% of people don't even try to do great things. 0.1% of the people are loud, so you overestimate how many people there are. The rest get stuck worrying about competition and quitting after 2 weeks.
Everything only takes
8–12 weeks
that’s it
not years
not some long painful grind
8–12 weeks of actually locking in
in the gym
learning a skill
anything
but your brain will lie to you
tell you it’s too long
tell you it’s not working
tell you to switch
so you quit
and watch time pass anyway
then you look back
and realise
you wasted the exact 8–12 weeks
that would’ve changed everything
and you’re just standing there like
wtf that actually flew by
the only thing that was ever hard
was starting
every single time
Create more than you consume.
Build more than you buy.
Give more than you take.
Do more than you say.
Start more than you stall.
Ask more than you assume.
Endure more than you complain.
Success isn't a magic list nobody knows, it’s an obvious list nobody does.
It’s easy to stay ahead as long as you:
1) ignore the status games of society
2) keep doing stuff you want
3) keep getting better
4) judge yourself by your own scorecard rather than someone else’s
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang