People who achieve success and drive progress deeply understand the cause-effect relationships that govern reality and have principles for using them to get what they want. The converse is also true: Idealists who are not well grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
What does a successful life look like? We all have our own deepseated needs, so we each have to decide for ourselves what success is. I don’t care whether you want to be a master of the universe, a couch potato, or anything else—I really don’t. Some people want to change the world and others want to operate in simple harmony with it and savor life. Neither is better. Each of us needs to decide what we value most and choose the paths we take to achieve it. #principleoftheday
@hubermanlab@lexfridman Why are you such a beautiful human?
Jokes aside, how do you stay full of hope and deal with all the criticism you receive in such a loving way? How do you keep your mental fortress strong?
@2ack0falltrades Absolutely dude, I've personally been exploring mena for the business but also have lots of friends who've done just that - into EU, South America, Asia etc. Dm, we can chat :)
Check whole thread for context - this is a very nice way to think about dealing with this historical echo... I wonder if we're indeed able to skip the bad part.
We're now collectively turning the page to the mysterious page 1,001. As exponential technological progress gives our species increasingly godlike power, the stakes on page 1,001 are astronomical—too high to do the historical pattern of getting wise through catastrophe.
@Carnage4Life I’m still confused as to how a non-profit to which I donated ~$100M somehow became a $30B market cap for-profit. If this is legal, why doesn’t everyone do it?
There is no such thing as a life pain-free. We simply get to choose our pain.
The pain of exercise today or the pain of disease tomorrow.
The pain of hard work today or the pain of struggle tomorrow.
Embrace the suck as @davidgoggins would say.
@2ack0falltrades Totally haha I've noticed the literal mini dopamine cue-action-reward cycle as I scroll through posts. Might be placebo but it becomes noticeably harder for me to focus on long tasks afterwards!
I try to use sparingly.
I love it when I find little things that I'd done in the past and forgotten about that make my life better today.
Reminds me to do more of what my future self will thank me for.