A peak life advice by Elon Musk:
“Stop being patient and start asking yourself: How can I accomplish my 10 year plan in 6 months? You will probably fail, but you'll be far ahead of the person who simply accepted it would take 10 years.”
You can't get what you truly desire by being weak, shy & insecure.
This applies to business deals, career success, women etc.
In everything, fortune favours the bold.
notes from eileen gu:
• you can do anything you put your mind to
• be impossible to categorize. most people spend their lives trying to fit into one box. you must break that box.
• one exceptional skill can become the distribution channel for five others
• don’t spend your whole life competing in someone else’s game. build a career so unique there isn’t really anyone to compare you to.
• your multitudes are your unfair advantage
• ambition can be feminine
• play long games
• be remembered for expanding what’s possible
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Napoleon had a similar philosophy:
“One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.”
Your brain does not care if your thoughts are real. It cannot spot the truth, it only spots what you repeat. If you think something often enough, your mind believes it is a fact. To your brain, repetition is proof. Soon, it stops feeling like a thought and just feels like reality.
Once a thought gets that strong, your actions, choices, and feelings follow it. This happens all the time without you knowing. Everything you think about yourself, money, or love goes on a list. What you repeat most becomes the lens for your life, and you stop questioning it.
The easiest way to change what your brain believes is to change what you repeat. Arguing with an old thought fails, you must out-repeat it. Pick the thoughts you want and loop them, especially right before sleep and after waking, when your mind is half-asleep and accepts everything.
Do this every day. Once these new thoughts come naturally, your brain treats them as facts, and your whole life changes.
"My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had."
—Edwin Land (Steve Jobs' hero)