Success isn’t built overnight. Keep learning, keep moving and keep showing up. Small steps, made consistently, can create something bigger than you imagined.
How to be miserable
· Watch porn
· Lack integrity
· Don't exercise
· Criticize others
· Eat shitty foods
· Get shitty sleep
· Have zero purpose
· Stay away from the sun
· Try to make others happy
· Hang around negative people
· Blame others for your problems
Anything else?
You're unhappy because you do nothing worth being proud of. You haven't done anything hard in months. You haven't made anything. Fought for anything. Dared anything. You coast, consume, complain, and repeat. Then you wonder why life feels empty. Fulfillment comes from building something that outlives your moods.
First they’ll say, “We accept Bitcoin.”
Then they’ll say, “We only accept Bitcoin.”
Then there will be a run on the banks.
Then the world as we know it will fundamentally change forever as Bitcoin goes infinite against the US dollar.
Making money from trading is healing.
It makes you master patience, discipline, and belief in something you can't see yet.
Not even therapy does that for you.
Trading is the best job in the world.
July’s 0.1% CPI rise is misleading. Energy prices fell because CPI compares monthly average prices. But oil and gasoline rose sharply during July after starting the month at depressed levels. That means July CPI still reflects May's oil price collapse, not July's sharp rebound.
One of the saddest economic indicators in America isn't on CNBC.
It's the number of senior citizens working overnight shifts.
People who worked for 40 or 50 years.
Raised families. Paid taxes. Did everything they were supposed to do.
And they're stocking shelves at 3 AM because retirement didn't work out.
We can argue about GDP and the stock market all day.
I want an economy where a 75-year-old can sleep at 3 AM.
That seems like a reasonable benchmark for civilization.
Just spoke to a 58 year old in Phoenix.
He has:
- $410,000 in a 401k he can't touch without penalty
- A house worth $390,000 with $180,000 left on the mortgage
- A job he physically cannot do much longer
- Seven years until Medicare
He is not poor. He is not rich.
He is trapped between the assets he built and the healthcare system that won't let him stop until he's 65.
Millions of Americans are working jobs that are killing them because they cannot afford to retire at 58.
We call this a personal problem.
It is a policy failure.
Status symbols over 40
· Zero medications
· Wife still loves you
· Kids still want to hang
· Positive outlook on life
· Able to manage emotions
· Zero need to impress others
· You follow your inner compass
· You've got a reason to wake up
· Surrounded by a great community
If you are Extremely Intelligent (IQ 130+).
You should deal with most adults the way most adults deal with a child.
- Don't take their opinions seriously.
- Dumb down the way you talk, so they can understand what you say.
STOCK MARKET BOOM FUELS EARLY RETIREMENT
Older Americans are leaving the workforce at a faster pace.
Labor participation among people aged 55+ has dropped from above 40% pre-pandemic to 36.9% in July.
Bank of America economists point to rising wealth as a key driver.
With the S&P 500 up nearly 40% over the past two years, bigger 401(k) balances may be making early retirement easier for many Americans.