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"3 Essential Lessons I Learned on My Journey to Becoming a Serial Entrepreneur (Ahmet Çığşar's journey)" is out now!

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

To feel more at peace and more successful, you don’t need genius-level brain power, access to some secret society, or to hit a moving target of “just” an additional X dollars.

Those are all distractions.

Based on everything I’ve seen, a simple recipe can work: focus on what’s in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice. That’s it.

If you really want extra credit, try not to be a dick, and you’ll be a Voltron-level superstar.

The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.

Feeling as though you are trying too hard indicates that your priorities, technique, focus, or mindfulness is off. Take it as a cue to reset, not to double down.

And take comfort in the fact that, whenever in doubt, the answer is probably hidden in plain sight. What would this look like if it were easy?

In a world where nobody really knows anything, you have the incredible freedom to continually reinvent yourself and forge new paths, no matter how strange. Embrace your weird self.

There is no one right answer . . . only better questions.

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

In honor of the 10th anniversary of launching Twitch, I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned along the way. Each of these insights could probably be expanded into an essay, of course. Like the ones you would want me to expand on in the future.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

As we wrap up 2024, this year's final edition of The Batch summarizes some of the top stories of the year:
- Agents ascendant: The growth of agentic workflows
- Prices tumble: Rapidly falling LLM token prices
- Generative video takes off
- Smaller is beautiful: Small language models
- Alternatives to acquisitions

See the full articles here: https://t.co/cQ1eqbeK4a

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

One of the most reliable ways to improve our mental health is to help others.

After being randomly assigned to do just 3 acts of kindness a week, people felt significantly less depressed, anxious, and lonely.

Lifting others up elevates us too. Giving shows us that we matter.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

11 of my favorite @paulg essays:

1. “Keep Your Identity Small.” This piece just becomes more and more important. One of the key lines: “The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.”

2. “How to Think for Yourself.” Here’s one of my favorite excerpts from it: “Treat it as a puzzle. You know that some accepted ideas will later turn out to be wrong. See if you can guess which. The end goal is not to find flaws in the things you’re told, but to find the new ideas that had been concealed by the broken ones.”

3. “The Four Quadrants of Conformism.” Pair this with Paul’s 2004 essay “What You Can’t Say,” which features The Conformist Test: “Let’s start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you’re supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn’t. Odds are you just think what you’re told.”

4. “The Right Kind of Stubborn.” I especially like the first half of this essay plus the synopsis in the last two paragraphs. Great distinctions to keep in mind, such that you keep an open mind.

5. “The Acceleration of Addictiveness.” To give you a taste, here are two excerpts that I highlighted for myself:
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​One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best.
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These two senses are already quite far apart. Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don’t think you’re weird, you’re living badly.
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People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.
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​Note that the second snippet is from one of his footnotes, which I always read.

6. “How to Do Great Work.” One of the many great reminders in this essay: “Competition can be an effective motivator, but don’t let it choose the problem for you; don’t let yourself get drawn into chasing something just because others are. In fact, don’t let competitors make you do anything much more specific than work harder. Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what’s worth paying attention to.”

7. “Haters.” Hat tip to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong), who recommended this essay during our conversation for the podcast.

8. “The Top Idea in Your Mind.” This is arguably the most important short reading I’ve done in a while.

9. “The Risk of Discovery,” which is only a few paragraphs long. It’s worth rereading a few times.

10. “Having Kids.” Here is one of my favorite sections: “I remember perfectly well what life was like before. Well enough to miss some things a lot, like the ability to take off for some other country at a moment’s notice. That was so great. Why did I never do that? … See what I did there? The fact is, most of the freedom I had before kids, I never used. I paid for it in loneliness, but I never used it.”

11. “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule.”

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

If you really measured yourself by the amount of action you take, not your desire, deservingness, or effort, you might be embarrassed.

Because what you’re looking at is reality.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.

Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.

If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

You can have hard conversations and grow or you can keep living the same six months over and over for the rest of your life.

That’s why growth is painful. It sucks hurting people you care about.

But the alternative is never realizing your potential which hurts the most.

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

20 Business Truths I Know At 31 I Wish I Knew At 21:

1.) Going 100 MPH toward your goals and dreams will likely lose you many friends and supporters. Do it anyway. You’ll find more better ones at your destination.

2.) Things you don’t need to get started: Motivation, Vision & Purpose. Don’t mistake a luxury for a requirement.

3.) Growth requires growing pains. If you don’t have a thick skin and the stomach for pain, don’t wish for immense success.

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

“I am working so hard but my business isn’t working”

How hard you have to work to make something work the FIRST time, is infinitely harder than every time thereafter.

For example, when we started Gym Launch I was working 7 days a week, from 5am to 8pm everyday. No dinners out, no networking lunches, no vacations, NOTHING.

The gap between what was required to make the business work and my capability was so wide I used every waking minute attempting to bridge it.

The reason for that is because often we are not missing 1 or 2 skills, but rather 3,4,5+ fundamental skills to make it work the first time.

What is Required > Current Capabilities

[P @PermanAtayev17]

@ahmetcigsar Thank you for your kind words Ahmet! I am glad you enjoyed the drawings :)

[P @PermanAtayev17]

"3 Essential Lessons I Learned on My Journey to Becoming a Serial Entrepreneur (Ahmet Çığşar's journey)" is out now!

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Big thanks to @ahmetcigsar for letting me translate and make some modifications to his article!

https://t.co/ayZiSze4Gd

[P @PermanAtayev17]

Jennet Çilgezkuliýewa: Google-da UX dizaýneri: “Muny öwrenýänçäm, nädip UX dizaýneri boljagymy bilmedim”
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Makalany terjime edip berenligi üçin @sopy_shasenem-e köp minnetdar!

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

“That won’t work for me.” Then it won’t.

“How could that work for me?” It just might.

Truth: most people who will try to talk you out of it haven't actually done it.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The imperfect project you actually complete is worth more than the perfect project you never finish.

[P @PermanAtayev17]

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[Guga @gnurgeldiyev]

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[P @PermanAtayev17]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fun fact: you can get paid to be a pandahugger in China. And being a “professional panda hugger” is a viable career choice with a regular income

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