HoldMyThread

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

It's Saturday and my parents are coming over to hang out. They'll play with my son. We'll have dinner. I'll sauna with my dad. I wish someone had told me that nothing improves quality of life more than proximity to people you love. It’s worth more than any job will ever pay you.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Your mind will always come up with a lot of unnecessary thoughts, and intelligence is knowing which ones to ignore, and until you learn how, the noise will keep exhausting you.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The first thing you should buy with money is a lifestyle that allows you to think more clearly.

[HoldMyThread @HoldMyThread]

It is not the biggest or the smartest that survives. It’s the one that course-corrects the fastest.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Anxiety is also the gap between the talent you currently have and the talent you know you could have had with more self-discipline and self-respect.

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

Younger parents tend to ask my parents for advice.

I've condensed some key points over the years.

Run these psyops on your children:

- You are gifted intellectually
- You can unlock your supreme athleticism.
- Work diligently on skills and education that nobody can take away from you. That is the secret to everlasting confidence.

- You are the type of person who can achieve whatever you want when you discipline yourself to work for it – It does not just happen.

- You have an unending capacity to work, you are not lazy.
- You set your standard. Others are to fit in with you.
- Never worry about making friends, once you truly get comfortable being alone, people are drawn to you.

- Everything is a skill. You can learn anything; anything becomes more interesting the more you learn about it.
- Whatever you're interested in, be excellent in your chosen path. You will be supported.

- Genius is a state accessible to you.

- Nobody has the right to disrespect you, even at your young age. In any room you find yourself in, you have valuable contributions. They have inherent valuable because the words come through someone like you.

- Do not shrink yourself. You deserve to take up space.

- You can come to me for anything, even if you think I'll be upset – which I might be. But with me, you can unburden your conscience with the truth. I'm with you always.

I will always be the fortress that supports you until my dying days; and when I'm gone, gaze upon the spread of the heavens.

Know that I support you still.

[Naval @naval]

You aren’t starting a company. You’re laying bricks in the foundation of a skyscraper.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The ability to stay focused when things aren't fun is the real talent. Deep learning is often boring, repetitive, frustrating. The fun part is witnessing your growth day after day. You just need the discipline to show up regardless of your mood. You just need to respect yourself.

[HoldMyThread @HoldMyThread]

Be mindfully patient.

Because even if you got it ALL today you wouldn’t know what to do with it.

The journey forges the person that can handle the chaos that having it all comes with.

Just look at lottery winners 5 years after they win.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

A meaningful and ambitious goal will naturally fix all your bad habits and bring out a healthier lifestyle, because you know that you are not gonna achieve your objectives without being the highest-energy and mentally sharpest version of yourself.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

“Unlucky” people are just people who spend too much time playing the victim and not enough time working on themselves.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

[HoldMyThread @HoldMyThread]

@Jayyanginspires The solution to doomscrolling is having a strong enough purpose in life - such that being on a phone for countless hours, getting cheap dopamine is an obviously terrible idea compared to retiring your parents, spending time with your family/friends, playing with your kids, etc..

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

People think they want money, then they marry someone they love, have kids they love even more, and suddenly, they understand that all they've ever wanted was the time and freedom to watch those kids grow up next to their second favorite person in the world.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Everybody knows that when you start "cheating" in a video game, and start giving yourself infinite resources and limitless abilities, you just end up losing all interest. You know there is no point trying hard anymore. Life is the same, and you should actually be grateful for having difficult goals to work on. You might hate some of your struggles in the moment, but they actually give you a reason to wake up every morning, to get better, to do better.

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

A MAN doesn't want money to be happy.

A MAN wants money to make the people he loves happy.

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

Your children always wanting to be in your room, in your space, or just near you is really a sign that they feel safe with you. They love your presence, your energy, and the comfort of the home you created for them. That's not something to take lightly. Job well done.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you don't have a goal so meaningful it makes other people's opinions irrelevant, you will lose control of your life. You will adopt the goals assigned to you by your parents, peers, or society.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

A healthy lifestyle, a loving family, a high-trust society, and a long-term goal that makes you grow into who you want to be, these are the “therapy” that most people need.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.