John Finley

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[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

Your comfort zone is making you weak.

It's time you step outside it.

- Embrace change
- Try Public speaking
- Challenge old paterns
- Don't run away from problems

Do something you're terrified of, it's time to become who you are meant to be.

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[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

The debate about the 40-hour week is over the wrong thing.
- Pros: income, structure, sharp people.
- Cons: fixed rate, someone else's ceiling.

Real question isn't hours. It's ownership.

And AI just made the barrier to ownership the lowest it has ever been in history.

If you can't see that yet, you're not paying attention.

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

Whats the most interesting thing you have taught yourself how do do with AI?

For me it was coding, something I had previously thought id never be able to learn.

Now iv made myself several personal applications that I use daily.

What about you?

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

Whats the most interesting thing you have taught yourself how do do with AI?

For me it was coding, something I had previously thought id never be able to learn.

Now iv made myself several personal applications that I use daily.

What about you?

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

When I wanted absurdist comedy, I used to watch:

- The Eric Andre Show
- Between Two Ferns
- Nathan for You

Now I just turn on the news.

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

Love her or hate her, I find myself agreeing more and more with @RealCandaceO: everything is fake and gay. It feels like we live in such a fake world online.

I’m so sick of everyone sounding the same and of the commercialization of the internet. I wish more people would think their own thoughts rather than relying on AI or others.

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

I miss when the internet was a strange, weird wonderland.

Even when it started feeling like a dying small-town mall, there was still something alive.

Now it's just a dead AI slop cesspool.

But at least the AI meme videos are fire.

Every empire falls, we just got golden-age jester content on the way down.

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

When I wanted absurdist comedy, I used to watch:

- The Eric Andre Show
- Between Two Ferns
- Nathan for You

Now I just turn on the news.

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

- Destroy deliberately.
- Consume consciously.
- Create abundantly.

Most people do it backwards: consume mindlessly, create timidly, and never destroy the habits that keep them stuck.

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

I miss when the internet was a strange, weird wonderland.

Even when it started feeling like a dying small-town mall, there was still something alive.

Now it's just a dead AI slop cesspool.

But at least the AI meme videos are fire.

Every empire falls, we just got golden-age jester content on the way down.

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

- Destroy deliberately.
- Consume consciously.
- Create abundantly.

Most people do it backwards: consume mindlessly, create timidly, and never destroy the habits that keep them stuck.

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

The coach who never mentioned winning

https://t.co/SSJBCeIFPH

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

"Remember that time is money."

Franklin wrote that in 1748.

Most people read it as a call to work harder. He wrote it the year he stopped working.

https://t.co/Ofy39LV6cb

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The man who invented the habit tracker failed at it

(and published the failure)

https://t.co/oyK1VZAnSR

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

The man who invented the habit tracker failed at it

(and published the failure)

https://t.co/oyK1VZAnSR

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

New Luminary Lessons: Alex Hormozi

→ The grand slam offer
→ Give away the secrets
→ Count in hundreds
→ The scoreboard he had to burn

The blind spot is the lesson.

https://t.co/ATWajlYs2M

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

The best employee the algorithm ever had

P.S. - Alex Hormozi is a personal inspiration, I put a ton of work into the free workbook. Go check it out ⬇️

https://t.co/EDJR6aHpbH

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

What do you do when the scoreboard that built you stops meaning anything?

Alex Hormozi: 3 principles, a $100M launch day, and the metric he finally fired.

Free Workbook: https://t.co/77JIGSh7kk

New Luminary Lessons issue: https://t.co/SXPHYd99g9

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

@AlexHormozi This one's for you. Thanks for inspiring so many entrepreneurs.

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

The best employee the algorithm ever had

P.S. - Alex Hormozi is a personal inspiration, I put a ton of work into the free workbook. Go check it out ⬇️

https://t.co/EDJR6aHpbH

[John Finley @JohnFinleypro]

Every Hormozi piece does one of two things: sell the system, or debunk it.

This study does neither. It names the failure beside the principles, sourced from his own newsletters. Killing the split tests. Going artist mode. Hiring a CEO to run the company he built.

The blind spot is self-attested. That makes the critique documentation, not psychoanalysis.

Full study Sunday. Luminary Lessons.