Dan Mathias

Dad, Husband, Shameless Cloner, Lifelong Learner, Human

[Dan Mathias @DanMathias85]

🧵 Thread: 15 Deep Truths for Intelligent Investors who are bold enough to live them from Dr. Jack Skeen on the Money & Freedom podcast.

(Read this if you’re serious about building a powerful mind 🧠)

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[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

One of the most common ways to watch your whole life go by without much ever happening is to keep all the options open but never nurture enough courage to actually take the jump and commit to anything.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Something that has been stuck in my head lately is Dara’s advice on Invest Like the Best where he says that a happy life is not necessarily an easy one

It is so obvious when you say it out loud, but I think very few people actually internalize and abide by this lesson

Everyone chases wealth for the pursuit of comfort. But the reality is that a comfortable life often means a dull one where you live without any higher purpose beyond that comfort itself

Happiness is the exact opposite. It is on the other side of the uncomfortable and tough decisions that make you feel uneasy at first

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Growing up around calm, secure, confident adults, is one of the biggest advantages you can get in life.

They are calm because they nurtured enough emotional control and understand the right amount of detachment.

They are secure because they went through enough uncomfortable conversations and did the self-reflection.

They are confident because they developed useful talents, took risks that paid off, are living a life that they chose.

Growing up around them naturally gives you direction for the kind of person you should strive to become.

[Stock Market Nerd @StockMarketNerd]

Every time I look at new “diamond in the rough” investments…

Comparing them to $META or $AMZN tends to make those under-the-radar names look bad. Pretty much every time.

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel on every pick.

Nothing wrong with proven blue chips. $1 in profit from those is worth the same as $1 in profit from an obscure moonshot.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you cannot explain it in simple terms, you don't understand it well enough.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A friend of mine used to say: “Show up on time, with a good attitude, and do what you said you’d do. That’s it. That’s 90% of winning in life." The older I get, the more I realize just how right he was.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

The older I get, the more I realize that there is very little difference between getting lucky and being good at something

The people at the top of their field have a magic ability to engineer and bend luck to their will

Not saying luck doesn’t play a role at all, because it certainly does

But the people who end up successful tend to find ways to put themselves in situations where luck favors them, over and over again

At a certain point, you realize that it’s not just all luck. There is truly something special about them

[Tobias Carlisle @Greenbackd]

Shiller PE is 42+.
All-time high in 2000 was 44+.
Records are meant to be broken.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody told you: Talent and intelligence are overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong. The truth is that talent and intelligence are abundant. Courage is not. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t. I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. It's taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Family first
Love your children unconditionally
Do not take your good health for granted
agency (I will) > intellect (IQ)
You are not your job
Keep in touch with good friends
good manners > good education
Be helpful
Fight against a sense of entitlement
Consume less sugar
Sleep 6-8 hours per day
Do not take people for granted
Exercise at least 15-30 minutes per day
Complain less
Forgive first
Dare to dream big, execute bigger
Show appreciation
Be honest with yourself and others
Tip well
Love your parents unconditionally
Judge less
Know when to leave
Be optimistic and hopeful
Share stories that lift up others
Seek random collisions
Do not respond to negativity
Hold doors open longer than expected

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

An underrated cheat code in life: being incredibly reliable. Show up on time. Do what you say you will. Own your mistakes. It goes so much further than you think.

[Dan Mathias @DanMathias85]

The tree is not growing because the dead parts recovered. It’s growing because the living parts adapted.
That distinction matters in life too.
A lot of resilience is not “returning to who you were before.” It’s learning how to keep growing around damage. 9/

[Dan Mathias @DanMathias85]

survival phenomenon

the trunk is mostly dead and heavily decayed. the center wood is hollowed out from rot, likely from fungi, insects, moisture intrusion, lightning damage, fire damage, or a long-term wound. The base is severely compromised. But the reason there are still /1

[Dan Mathias @DanMathias85]

People are similar. Someone can appear successful, stable, or standing tall while internally deteriorating. The reverse is true too: someone can feel broken internally yet still quietly produce growth, wisdom, kindness, leadership, or love.
And there’s another layer here: 8/