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Note to self.

@Latitude33Brewing @Latty88beer @Thornbeer

[Aporia @aporia9n]

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.

A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.

The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.

And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.

It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

[MT @MT_NGRM]

@Dogetothemoon All about that competence-to-confidence ratio.

Stay above 1.0

[MT @MT_NGRM]

Stay Hungry.

[MT @MT_NGRM]

@ConnorAbene 30

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A cheat code for peace: Assume it’s not about you. Someone’s tone. Their mood. Their short reply. Feels like it’s aimed at you. 99% of the time, it’s not. Sometimes people are just busy. Sometimes they’re off. If you take everything personally, you’ll spend your life exhausted.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

population has grown ~9x in 200yrs, while poverty trends to 0

people act as though capitalism is a zero sum game, but it’s actually the only system that creates positive sum outcomes

the average person today is far richer than most kings in days past

[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

Modern Christian fathers are caught between two contradictory lies.

The first lie: You must cherish every single moment of parenting or you're failing. Every tantrum, every sleepless night, every repetitive game of pretend. if you're not beaming with joy, you're a bad father.

The second lie: Pursuing your God-given purpose is selfish. Building something meaningful, doing work that matters, having ambitions beyond the home, is abandoning your family.

Both are poison.

Biblical fatherhood was never about constant entertainment & emotional availability. It was about providing, protecting & modeling purposeful work. Fathers worked. They built. They created. They took responsibility.

And their children watched them do it.

Your perpetual presence is not required at every single moment. Show them what it looks like to be a man who works with purpose, who builds something lasting, who takes dominion seriously. Yes, that means you will be emotionally available at times, but it is not the totality.

We've feminized fatherhood and wondered why boys don't know how to be men.

[MT @MT_NGRM]

@AlpacaAurelius Checks out.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST QUOTES OF ALL-TIME BY #NFL LEGEND BILL BELICHICK:

“You experience the Pain of Preparation or the Pain of Failure. It's pain either way. You have to decide if you want pain at the beginning or pain at the end.”

🐐🐐🐐

[MT @MT_NGRM]

Life is easy—unless you do it right.

[MT @MT_NGRM]

Dreamers find beauty in what ‘could be’. Warriors find it in reality — in knowing limitations and maximizing what ‘is’.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

https://t.co/BH00Vpy4WF

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another.

There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Kindness is peak human performance and high status.

Kindness requires metabolic abundance: the capacity to override primal impulses, regulate emotions, and extend empathy.

Meanness is dirty energy: high cortisol, inflammation and an exhausted executive function.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm 37. Instead of regretting that I can't wake up age 18 again, I pretend to myself that I'm 90 and I've woken up age 37 again, and that I get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again.

[MT @MT_NGRM]

@rampulla_andrew He said $400 in product…

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Sean McVay shares a universal truth about adversity and resilience.

"You're either in it, you're coming out of it, or you're gonna go back into it in a short period of time."

That's the reality. Adversity isn't a one-time event - it's a cycle.

"The separator is people's ability to handle that. How long can you stay in some of those uncomfortable spots and knowing that real growth is occurring?"

The question isn't whether adversity will come. Because it will.

The question is: can you stay in the discomfort long enough to grow from it?

"Adversity's inevitable. That's what's so great about sports. We learn so many things that test you in ways that are reflective of what you go through in a bunch of different arenas."

You don't grow despite adversity - you grow because of it.

The best aren't fearless - they just keep showing up.
(🎥@pureathleteinc )

[MT @MT_NGRM]

How to become a great story teller:

1. Have a story worth telling.
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[The Alpha Mindset @the_alphamind]

What a privilege...

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

“The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary.”

These three paragraphs will change your life: