Jacob Martin

Finance at @FlexSuperApp | CPA | Writing about founders, content creation and self-improvement | Building @StartupWisdom_

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if you want to develop God-like focus, read this:

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@tankots @WisprFlow unreal arc

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Paul Graham on how to not waste time:

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@JGODYT Chad Dad 🫡

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@Jayyanginspires @FlexSuperApp Yesss good call haha will get that done 🤝

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I got my dream job at @FlexSuperApp by cold DM’ing my future boss

Closed mouths don’t get fed

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Steve Jobs on how to get what you want in life:

“I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help. … I’ve never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when I called. I just asked. Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. That’s what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.”

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@KramersFaith I was waiting for this lol. Saw it coming a mile away 😂

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@JacobCEdmunds You went to BYU? Had no idea. Go Cougs baby

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You can literally create your own luck with more volume

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Sometimes the best way to be different is to do more volume than anyone else reasonably expects you to do.

More is better.
Better is different.

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Paul Graham on why greatness requires hard work:

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The reply section to this is hilarious. Objectively much chiller hours than IB for way cooler work.

The “work-life balance maxxers” are 3 months from getting replaced by @bot

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"If you wanna be great at something, you've gotta commit your life to it”

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@emmanuelgkamau @FlexSuperApp @defyneric day 1 baby lets go

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@emmanuelgkamau Appreciate you bro 🤝

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"If you wanna be great at something, you've gotta commit your life to it”

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.@TomBrady on how to be great:

"If you wanna be great at something, you've gotta commit your life to it. Certainly in a competitive environment like a sport. Because you could be better than 80% of the people, but that doesn't mean you'll be a champion. If you want to be a champion, you better be better than 99% of the people, which requires another level of work. You could have a nice, long career and be successful, and everyone go, oh yeah, he was a nice player, working at 80%, but the level to get to the 99% and be better than them, well, that's another level of physical, mental, emotional growth.

Where do I need to be every day? How can I be better, like I said, in whatever area? For me, physically, I was behind. I was really good mentally. I knew the plays. I was a savant when it came to the playbook. You put the playbook in front of me, I looked at it. I saw the play, I saw the adjustments. Okay, flip the page. Okay, I say, yep, I got that. And it was just, in my mind, like I can remember plays. You call a play, I visualize it, I see everyone running. Tell me the coverage, I tell you all the holes.

That was the easy part for me. Like some guys can run really easily. And then the emotional part of bringing the competitiveness and the fire every day. That was easy for me."

Video Credit: @dc_mma

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Good reminder from Jensen Huang

The world’s best founders have been playing the game for decades

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.@JensenHuang on why you don't need to be an overnight success:

“I don’t need to change the world overnight. I’m going to change the world over the next 50 years. I don’t need to build the killer product overnight. I just need to build a winning product. And the goal of winning is so you can play again.”

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@defyneric 🫡

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This Peter Thiel quote lives rent free in my head:

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this hits

children naturally have high agency. be a kid again

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.@naval on why you need to preserve your agency:

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The paradox of ambition

It’s easier to do mega-ambitious things because there’s less competition

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Larry Page (co-founder of Google) on why you should chase your dreams:

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@defyneric That’s you brother 🤝

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l wish I took this to heart when I was younger

I’ve discovered my ambition the last few years, better late than never

Lots of admiration for my younger peers who are grinding at 18-21

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Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe) on why young people should not waste time: