Deep Tweets

Condensed ideas from entrepreneurs, builders, thinkers, creative minds.

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Maybe happiness is not something you inherit, or even choose, but a highly personal skill that can be learned, like fitness or nutrition.

— @naval

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The best social media tip I have:

Learn to write. And learn to write well.

— @mkobach

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I don’t think great decision makers necessarily are good problem solvers. Rather, great decision makers are masterful problem avoiders.

— @shaneparrish

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The most ironic outcome is the most likely.

— @Jason

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If you’re working from home in a creative profession, here’s a little secret your boss will never tell you:

Results are decoupled from effort in your profession. You have to opportunity to work a lot less than 8 hours a day, and not upset anyone.

— @dvassallo

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Ideas are like lego blocks.

Consuming information is like collecting lego blocks and when you create, you put those lego blocks together.

If you have unique lego blocks, you'll have unique ideas.

— @david_perell

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Exceptional results require the rare combination of extreme patience and extreme decisiveness.

The patience to say no to average opportunities, to delay the rewards.

The decisiveness to swiftly go all in when the right opportunity arises.

— @shaneparrish

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Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.

— @naval

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If you don’t do it consistently, it’s not a habit. It’s a hobby.

— @JamesClear

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We’re all self conscious but we’re not all self aware.

— @shaneparrish

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People who don’t have time to learn always find time to make the same mistakes over and over. They go fast but they never get anywhere.

— @shaneparrish

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How to instantly become more charismatic:

Leave your phone in your pocket when you’re having a conversation with someone. That’s it.

— @mkobach

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Everyone who writes well reads a lot.

— @shl

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If you're capable, you can do business with sharks. But the attitude and habits that you develop will scare away honest partners later.

— @naval

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The one tactic to fix an enormous number of problems:

Raise prices.

— @jackbutcher

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People think they are good at knowing what they want. Anyone who’s ever had a friend with a bad dating history knows this isn’t true.

— @mkobach

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The Journey:

1. Your time is worthless.
2. Your time is cheap.
3. Your time is expensive.
4. Your time is not for sale.

—@jackbutcher

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The world will eventually trend towards a single driver and a single doctor.

There are powerful, data-driven network effects underneath.

— @naval

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The best marketers don’t know more about the latest tactic, tool or channel.

They know more about... people.

Invest accordingly.

— @KateBour

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Wet grass doesn’t catch on fire.

When you are kind, generous, and honest, and respectful with people, you water the grass.

If you’re anything less, the grass quickly dries and the smallest spark can light it on fire.

— @shaneparrish

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You don’t become interesting by copying interesting people.

You become interesting by following your own interests, going deeper down the rabbit hole than anyone else, and surfacing something new for the rest of us.

— @shl