The best way to stay away from anxiety is to think that life is a game & not a competition. If results come in your favour, good and if not, also good. Just like a play or game. We keep playing irrespective of results cause we like playing more than getting results in out favour
turns out, reading a lot, exercising, loving people without expecting anything back, protecting your alone time, focusing only on improving yourself, and sometimes staying out late with friends who make you laugh until it hurts is a pretty good way to live.
You need to be highly vigilant whenever you’re using AI to master something.
With AI, the more likely outcome is having an illusion of mastery instead of the real thing. AI plays well into our tendency to save cognitive effort precisely when the point is to spend it.
You can take things seriously without taking them personally.
Our tendency is to turn any criticism or complaint into a personal attack. We reply to it, defend against it, build a counter-argument, lose sleep over it.
You don't have to eat everything that is served to you. You can respond to criticism without digesting criticism. Take what's useful, do your best to improve, and leave the rest.
If you feel lost, build something.
A business. Your body. A skill set. Anything that gives you a reason to learn and focus.
Don't worry about choosing the right thing. Don't think about how difficult it will be.
Just start moving forward and you'll find a path that feels right
What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing. The more you have to lose, the more fragile you are. - Taleb
If you want to know what lower-income groups will aspire to spend their money on in the future, look at what higher-income groups exclusively do today.
Keep evolving. Irrespective of whether you get success, failure or setback. Just keep evolving.
Important to remind in setbacks/failures but more important to remind in success because that’s when complacency comes in.