15. Focus on what you can control vs. what you can’t control
Can Control:
- Attitude
- Mood
- Reaction
- Effort
- Curiosity
- Motivation
Can’t Control:
- Other People
- The World
The Internet is destroying our Mental Peace 🧠
The biggest modern-day struggle is the fight for our attention.
And the Internet is feeding on our attention.
The sufferings from Information overload 🧵
“You don’t set out to build a wall…You say: ‘I’m going to lay this brick, as perfectly as a brick can be laid’…and soon you have a wall.”
Great feats are simply the outcome of tiny acts done well—over & over & over again.
I love this clip. Deeply inspiring and motivating.
People spend too much time beating themselves up about where they are today instead of focusing on where they could be tomorrow.
You've heard it before but it's true.
There are no magic bullets.
Small steps––taken consistently over time––lead to big changes.
Start walking.
One of the best storytellers of our time: Ira Glass.
He tells stories to over 5,000,000 people per week.
I deep dived into his interviews to discover his secrets.
Here’re the 7 lessons I found:
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” - John F. Kennedy
A body in motion tends to stay in motion; a body at rest tends to stay at rest.
Develop a bias for action. https://t.co/4qrCve6NVc
The first years of your career are brutal.
You're on your own and you have no clue what you're doing.
I wish I had a guide back then ― so I made my own.
And I went from 0 to VP in 3 years.
Here are 11 principles to accelerate your career now:
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. —Viktor Frankl
The past week was brutal for anyone holding stocks or crypto. Everything corrected and then corrected more. 💥😵💫💥
Some voices are shouting “buy the dip” while others are predicting the beginning of “a crypto winter”.
My framework for thinking about “corrections”: 🧵👇
If your path to success is paved with excitement — be careful.
The truth is, success should be kinda boring.
If you want to achieve big things, press pause on your grand ambitions and build this foundation first.
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