Wow! Tom Brady may have just delivered the greatest quote I’ve ever heard.
“To be successful at anything, the truth is you don’t have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren’t: consistent, determined and willing to work for it.”
Stan Druckenmiller on Bidenomics:
“If I was a professor, I’d give him an F. Treasury is still spending like we’re in a depression. We have 7% budget deficits at full employment… it’s unheard of.”
This is the level of obsession that it takes to achieve greatness.
Not many people are willing or able to be disciplined like this day-in and day-out for years.
On winning and losing he never worried about either outcome. He stayed in the middle, balanced, and controlled. Winning and losing being neither good nor bad.
In the video he displays a strong stoic mindset.
Missed ❤️
15 life lessons I wish I could tell my younger self:
(Learned through failures, stumbles, and a few successes)
1. No one has it all figured out.
2. Choose your hard.
3. Dive through every cracked door.
4. Man plans, God laughs.
5. There are no timelines in life.
6. Create value, receive value.
7. Focus on growing, not falling.
8. Explore then exploit.
9. Learn to live like a lion.
10. Do the old-fashioned things well.
11. Everyone is fighting a battle.
12. Everything in life is cyclical.
13. Just keep showing up.
14. Most of your friends aren’t really your friends.
15. Life is more fragile than you think.
Come with me for a day in the life, as I walk through these 15 powerful life lessons I wish I could tell my younger self!
Full video here: https://t.co/3t1Q7eZALs
I'm sitting here, experiencing my own little ups & downs of life, and suddenly remember there's 8 billion other humans like me, now also living through their ups & downs: from horrible lows to beautiful highs. What a wild ride we're all on... And we're on it together. Hang on ❤
"Life is too short to get bogged down and be discouraged. You have to keep moving. You have to keep going. Put one foot in front of the other, smile and just keep on rolling."
- Kobe Bryant
Everyone wants to change the world but nobody wants to change themself, because that alone is the lifelong commitment to pain, struggle, and emotional variance that changes the world like an eternal ripple in water.
"Use the advantages of youth when you have them, and the advantages of age once you have those. The advantages of youth are energy, time, optimism, and freedom. The advantages of age are knowledge, efficiency, money, and power. With effort you can acquire some of the latter when young and keep some of the former when old."
https://t.co/uJTU80W9kh
still processing this @paulg essay - lots of condensed wisdom here
Your mind focuses on the ideas, thoughts, and opinions you repeatedly expose it to.
The books you read. The drama you love. The negative thoughts you drown in. The internet opinions that keep you glued to a screen.
Mental habits determine your quality of life.
People will act like giving up drinking/bad food, keeping a HARD routine, cutting back on friends/fam and cheap dopamine like games is suffering.
Listen here young man.
TRUE suffering is waking up in your mid 30s-40s and realizing your life/income/self has not grown in the past 10 years.
You will look around and realize your are roughly the same quality and level of person, just in a weaker body that has been beaten by years of stagnation.
TRUE pain is the how you will look back and realize all you have experienced is the same repetitive experiences over and over and over WHILE you stagnated in the same position. Remaining in your comfort zone abusing cheap pleasures.
REGRET will fill you as you watch the few people who DID decide to sacrifice slowly pull EONS ahead of you over time. Living in the house you want, married/dating the girls you want, making money you could only dream of. Looking healthy, happy, fresh. Living a life that is fulfilling and fun AS they age and full of OPTIONS.
You will remember these people being roughly in the same position as you at one point, then look at them living now 10 social classes ahead of you enjoying people and experiences totally off limits to you with respect, power and passion.
The pain you will feel if you ever meet them again. A man whose had the same time as you, the roughly the same IQ/advantages but better than you in every measurable way.
All because they gave up the "okay and comfortable" for the "Great".
You will be mid life and full of regret as you look in the mirror and are just a older version of who you were at 21 with the same options.
As you now are JUST starting, a full decade behind people you once knew...You will experience TRUE pain and you realize that the "comfort zone devil" got his claws in you and slowly sucked away your youth/time/energy...and left you alone/starting from scratch while facing older age burdened by struggle.
That is pain. That is a hard life. It'll come for you if you don't make the hard choices and give up short term pleasure and societal norms and take your life SERIOUSLY.