You have a SOUL,
but you live in MARKETS.
You have values and aims.
You believe in family, honesty, faith, freedom.
And you want things: money, love, a good career, a meaningful life.
That’s the real you.
But the world outside works differently.
The worst form of self hate is going broke just to prove that you are not broke. The person you are competing with fit just Dey spend 0.5% of his daily earnings while you are spending your four months sweat to show say you too big 😂 - KAA
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The Martin Luther King Jr. speech that plays in my head everywhere I go:
"Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Meet yourself before the world tries to define you.
Elon Musk agrees with Cloudflare. Soon, humans won't be the main users of the internet. Our AI assistants will be.
So if you are building anything: websites, products, businesses... you have to build for AI agents to use it too, not just humans.
Everyone you admire has failed at something.
A song got skipped.
A product didn’t sell.
A pitch got rejected.
A book got bad reviews.
You’re not supposed to be perfect.
From experience, I've noticed something:
People are blind to the faults of those they like.
But they’ll always find fault in those they don’t,
even when they’re showing good character.
Don’t let critics use your name to shine.
@Mrczar_ Exposure widens your horizon
We should be mindful of who we follow and what we feed to our minds because it will Influence our way of reasoning either positively or negatively
You have a soul.
But you live in a world of trade.
Learn the game.
Play it well.
Don’t lose yourself trying to win.
Which market are you trying to win in right now?
You have a SOUL,
but you live in MARKETS.
You have values and aims.
You believe in family, honesty, faith, freedom.
And you want things: money, love, a good career, a meaningful life.
That’s the real you.
But the world outside works differently.
But here’s the relief:
You choose what you bring to the market.
You can learn a skill.
Build something people need.
Become someone people trust.
Just don’t get so desperate to win
that you sell the values that made you want to win.
3. Money - trade time/capital for growth
4. Ideas - trade thoughts for attention
And this is the part that hurts:
The world doesn’t pay you just for being good.
You can work hard and still get rejected.
You can have great ideas and nobody listens.
I’ve had to learn this myself.
PART 2 — THE WORLD OUTSIDE
A market is just where people trade value.
You offer something.
They offer something.
Both sides decide if it’s worth it.
You’re in 4 markets every day:
1. Job - trade skills for salary
2. Dating - trade character for love