"When we want something to be true, we will literally obliterate all evidence that tries to tell us otherwise."
I caught myself doing this yesterday — to a colleague, about books.
Anne Brontë saw it in the 1800s. I saw it on a Tuesday.
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@steenbab@elonmusk@PeterDiamandis
"Measurement and Leverage
I think everyone who gets rich by their own efforts will be found to be in a situation with measurement and leverage. Everyone I can think of does: CEOs, movie stars, hedge fund managers, professional athletes. A good hint to the presence of leverage is the possibility of failure. Upside must be balanced by downside, so if there is big potential for gain there must also be a terrifying possibility of loss. CEOs, stars, fund managers, and athletes all live with the sword hanging over their heads; the moment they start to suck, they're out. If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get rich, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage."
https://t.co/1w3ax8cyja - How to Make Wealth
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@paulg 💚
How to get ahead in life:
Read books while they party.
Exercise — even 10 minutes — while they find another excuse.
Eat well. It clears your mind more than any shortcut ever will.
Read more — blogs, articles, ideas outside your comfort zone. It quietly separates you from the crowd.
Work on weekends while you're young. They come back as vacations others can't afford.
Protect your attention. TV and social media will consume whatever time you allow.
Start a business. It will teach you more in one year than some people learn in a lifetime.
The Productive Life 💚
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Lovely reflections @MissGinaSM
https://t.co/Ey7y85RYkP
The Water Mind -
"Water does not panic when it meets a rock. It does not argue with the mountain.
It does not waste its energy demanding that the landscape change for its convenience.
Instead, it adapts. It moves where movement is possible and waits where waiting is required.
And somehow, through patience rather than aggression, it carves canyons."
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@steenbab
Being lazy today is extremely expensive.
I am spending insane amounts of time with AI, and I cannot get over how much this technology has appreciated the value of time.
As of today, every person alive is holding the most expensive hour humanity has ever held.
Just compare what an hour could produce 100 years ago versus what it can produce now. I honestly think 1 hour today can be exchanged, in output terms, for what could have taken a lifetime 100 years ago.
If you are reading this, understand what sits in your hands.
You are living inside the highest-leverage version of time that has ever existed, and you should feel ashamed of wasting it. Throwing away 1 hour today is akin to throwing away a lifetime in another era.
Which is why attention is so valuable today. The attention they are trying to take from you, all those hours spent scrolling, is quite literally lifetimes.
The incumbents do not want your attention only because it prints revenue for them, they also want it because every hour you spend sedated inside their feed is an hour you do not spend building, learning, competing, or becoming dangerous.
Do not give them the most productive unit humanity has ever possessed.....
Resist the scroll, go be dangerous.