Irrah 🌼🦋

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[Irrah 🌼🦋 @irrahcris]

Start building. Your future self will thank you for it.

You’ll not just do better for yourself. You’ll also do more good for others.

[Luca Dellanna @DellAnnaLuca]

If Musk stops malaria aid, and people die of it, who killed them, in order of responsibility:

- Mosquitoes (obviously!)
- Their gov, unable to provide NHS
- Their families / employers/ etc, unable to provide meds for their close ones
- People living the other side of the world

I can’t believe this must be said, but here we are.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I'm convinced that 99% of success is just the ability to outlast uncertainty. The one who can tolerate the most uncertainty is the one who will eventually win.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Consistency looks like nothing is happening, until everything changes.”

[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.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest.”

— Charlie Munger

[OKX @okx]

turns out you can just rewrite the system

[Perfect Guidance 🧭 @PerfectGuide_]

Never stop getting better.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Advice from Charlie Munger:

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Whenever I feel stuck, I add structure to my days. Map out what you’re going to do for a day in 30 minute increments. It doesn’t have to be the “right” stuff. It just needs to be something. Then stick to it for an entire day. You’ll feel in control and create momentum. It works.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Whenever I feel anxious, I ask myself this question: What if everything works out better than I’ve ever imagined? It’s easy to get caught in a doom loop about the future. Force yourself to see the unlimited potential. The future is much brighter than you think.

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

The decisions you keep putting off are usually the ones you are afraid to make. Busyness just becomes an excuse to hide your fears.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"I would rather read the best 100 books over and over again until I absorbed them, rather than read all the books."

@naval

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

An email from Coach Sommer I revisit often:

Hi Tim,

Patience. Far too soon to expect strength improvements. Strength improvements [for a movement like this] take a minimum of 6 weeks. Any perceived improvements prior to that are simply the result of improved synaptic facilitation. In plain English, the central nervous system simply became more efficient at that particular movement with practice. This is, however, not to be confused with actual strength gains.

Dealing with the temporary frustration of not making progress is an integral part of the path towards excellence. In fact, it is essential and something that every single elite athlete has had to learn to deal with. If the pursuit of excellence was easy, everyone would do it.

In fact, this impatience in dealing with frustration is the primary reason that most people fail to achieve their goals. Unreasonable expectations timewise, resulting in unnecessary frustration, due to a perceived feeling of failure. Achieving the extraordinary is not a linear process.

The secret is to show up, do the work, and go home.

A blue collar work ethic married to indomitable will. It is literally that simple. Nothing interferes. Nothing can sway you from your purpose. Once the decision is made, simply refuse to budge. Refuse to compromise.

And accept that quality long-term results require quality long-term focus. No emotion. No drama. No beating yourself up over small bumps in the road. Learn to enjoy and appreciate the process. This is especially important because you are going to spend far more time on the actual journey than with those all too brief moments of triumph at the end.

Certainly celebrate the moments of triumph when they occur. More importantly, learn from defeats when they happen. In fact, if you are not encountering defeat on a fairly regular basis, you are not trying hard enough. And absolutely refuse to accept less than your best.

Throw out a timeline. It will take what it takes.

If the commitment is to a long-term goal and not to a series of smaller intermediate goals, then only one decision needs to be made and adhered to. Clear, simple, straightforward. Much easier to maintain than having to make small decision after small decision to stay the course when dealing with each step along the way. This provides far too many opportunities to inadvertently drift from your chosen goal. The single decision is one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"When you're memorizing, it's an indication that you don't understand."

@naval

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jamie Dimon has run JPMorgan for over 18 years.

Largest bank in America. $4 trillion in assets. Survived 2008 when others collapsed.

He spent 3 minutes explaining what actually builds a career:

"Work hard. There's no such thing as success without hard work."

"Some people have this quick get-rich-quick notion. I've never seen it. Maybe it's happened, but it's not the normal way."

On learning:

"You spend your life learning."

"I read four or five newspapers every morning. I read tons of stuff. I read everything that people send me."

"You learn from clients. Learn from competitors. You're always learning."

"And that could be a small thing that someone said, 'why do you do this?' And you think, my god, we should do that differently. To a very large thing."

On innovation:

"Sometimes it's not an aha moment. It's a lot of little things added on top of each other."

"The iPhone was 3G, the glass, the semiconductors, the batteries. It wasn't one thing that created the iPhone."

On career flexibility:

"Be willing to change your job a little bit. Don't worry about your income level."

"People say, 'I'll take that job, I love the people, but it pays less money.' You know what? Sometimes that's the absolute right thing to do."

"Be a little bit flexible in the job you take. In your lifetime, you should be prepared to do a bunch of different things."

On taking care of yourself:

"It's your job to take care of your mind, your body, your spirit, your soul, your friends, your family."

"You need to do that at any level. Because if you don't, you probably won't be a particularly productive worker."

"We can provide opportunities. We can't do it for you."

On management:

"Get it done. Follow up. Discipline. Planning. Get the right people in the room. Kill the bureaucracy."

"If you don't do these things, you won't be particularly good."

On leadership:

"The real keys to leadership aren't just doing that yourself. It's having people who want to work at the place."

"You might want to work for me if you trust me. If you know what I care about is the client, the country, something different."

"If the person's selfish, blames you and takes the credit, you're not gonna want to work there."

"Humility. Openness. Fairness. Being authentic. That's what creates leadership."

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you want a rare life, you have to be delusional. Doubt can enter your mind, and it can sound reasonable, but if you entertain it too much it will slowly drag you down into stagnation. I'd rather reap the lesson from massive failure than do nothing because it's not "realistic."

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

At some point, usually in your 20s, you'll notice that the people around you stop believing in themselves. And no matter how hard you try, you can't save them. By all means, do not let it infect your mind. Stay on your path.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“I don’t have talent, so I just get up earlier.”

— Henry Rollins

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

No one is going to take the risk for you.

You have to jump. Start, Fail, Learn, Repeat.

That’s the only path to success.

So the question is - are you jumping, or not?

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

"Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris—I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it."

— Charlie Munger