Major life trap: Getting your dopamine from information gathering. Dopamine from information is a dangerous drug. Your entire life will change the moment you stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Get your dopamine from action.
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.
@naval
The older I get, the more I realize discipline is the highest form of self-respect. It’s choosing what you want most over what you want now. It’s keeping your word. It’s an act of service to your future self.
Most people have no idea what it actually takes to be a founder. They talk about vision, grit, or passion. Those words are props.
What you really sign up for is a life where every decision feels like it costs something real. You will spend years being misunderstood. By your team, your family, even the people you hire to help you. You will fail in public and still need to keep the energy up in private. Every founder lives with the weight of knowing that you can do everything right and still get crushed by luck, timing, or somebody else’s mistake.
Founders aren’t braver than anyone else. They just get used to uncertainty, then stop waiting for clarity. Most of your wins won’t feel like wins at all. The first revenue will be too small. The first team will outgrow you or leave. The first product that feels right will barely matter to the market. You will doubt yourself in private, sometimes every week. The founders who last figure out how to keep moving while the ground shifts underneath them.
Most outsiders want the founder badge but none of the scars. They want the upside, not the drag. The hardest part is sticking around after every plan gets blown up and you have to rebuild with less optimism and more scar tissue. What makes it work isn’t relentless hustle or some mythical trait. It’s learning to make peace with constant discomfort, and then making decisions anyway.
If you need constant reassurance, you’ll give up before the real work begins. If you want everyone to like you, you’ll never make the calls that matter. If you can’t handle months where nothing feels certain, this life will eat you alive.
But if you can hold your own in chaos, get better at being wrong, and still want to show up and try again, you just might have a shot at building something that matters.
That’s what it actually takes. And nobody cares until you make it work.
The ability to know what you can't predict and work with unpredictability is the best measure of intelligence.
(Fooled by Randomness, Chapter on Philostratus).
AIs aren’t minds and robots aren’t bodies.
They’re better at some things - usually the things we hate to do.
They’re worse at other things - usually the things we like to do.
Automation more than competition.
@Rentokil Extremely disappointed & upset with your service team. I had booked & paid for a service to be done on 7th March. The same was confirmed by email.
No one turned up, service didn't happen & there was no communication from your team via email/call. This is unacceptable!
#KaalaiVanakkam! Watch your mind. Always be attentive of the thoughts you are thinking. Catch every negative thought and divert it out of your system. Chanting, physical activity, meditation, praying, working on something that occupies your mind completely - these are ways to lasso the mind and bring it under control.
@NoBrokerCare Be rest assured, I will take the next step since this is a clear violation on part of your team & goes against the very grain of company ethics and customer service!
@NoBrokerCare How about you STOP lying??!! I very clearly told your team including Sadiya that I was out of town the very next day after shifting and only discovered the damages once I got back which was 3 days ago! Trying to get away in the name of "48-hours" policy is absolutely unethical!
@NoBrokerCare You have really infuriated a bunch of customers including me & many more due to your extreme unprofessional and unethical approach. In the name of dumb internal policy, you're shirking away from responsibility that any company has towards customers! Have some shame!
.@NoBrokerCare@nobrokercom Extremely upset by the packers & movers team who couldn't even manage moving my goods within 1KM distance safely! They destroyed 2 major electronic goods - AC and Smart TV display screen! I expect the team to step in and fix the TV screen immediately!
@NoBrokerCare@nobrokercom
Extremely upset by the packers & movers team who couldn't even manage moving my goods within 1KM distance safely! They destroyed 2 major electronic goods - AC and Smart TV display screen! I expect the team to step in and fix the TV screen immediately!