Dr. Senoga Ismail

Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer @DoctorsChoiceAf, Serial entrepreneur, Optimist and Global Business Builder

[Yero @Yerocode0]

🚨Elon Musk: “Puede que todavía no sepas qué te apasiona… porque nunca exploraste el mapa completo”

Cuando le preguntan por el sentido de la vida, Elon no habla de meditación ni de “encontrar tu propósito”. Va directo:

“Lee. Lee muchísimo. Construye un terreno accidentado del paisaje del conocimiento. Aprende un poco de muchas cosas.”

La razón más subestimada:

Solo puedes desear lo que has visto.
Si tu menú de opciones se limita a lo que te dieron tus padres, la escuela o el primer trabajo… estás eligiendo a ciegas.
Los libros rompen ese límite.
Son el motor de búsqueda de tu propia vida.

Habla con gente de mundos distintos.
Explora campos que nunca imaginaste.
Luego busca la intersección perfecta:
ser intrínsecamente bueno en algo

que te guste hacerlo de verdad.
Porque el talento solo es una trampa:
puedes ser excelente, ganar dinero… y odiarlo en silencio durante años.

Lee. Amplía el mapa.
El mayor riesgo no es equivocarte de camino…
es nunca haber visto los otros.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Elon Musk on building a company: “There are periods where it’s just awful”

“A lot of times people think creating a company is going to be fun. I would say it’s really not that fun. There are periods of fun, and there are periods where it’s just awful. Particularly if you’re the CEO of the company. You actually have a distillation of all the worst problems in the company. There’s no point in spending your time on things that are going right. So you only spend your time on things that are going wrong that other people can’t take care of… the most pernicious and painful problems.”

Elon believes founders need to have a “fairly high pain threshold” and explains that starting a company is like “staring into the abyss and eating glass.”

“The staring into the abyss part is that you’re going to be constantly facing the extermination of the company because most startups fail… You’re constantly saying, okay, if I don’t get this right, the company will die. It’s going to be quite stressful. And then the eating glass part is you’ve got to work on the problems that the company needs you to work on, not the problems you want to work on. And so you end up working on problems that you’d really wish you weren’t working on… And that goes on for a long time.”

Source: @khanacademy (Apr 2013)

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

A man must build 3 things:

1. A body that can handle pressure.
2. A mind that doesn't panic.
3. A skill that creates income.

Miss one, and the others suffer.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Be a foolish doer. A foolish doer will outperform a smart thinker every time.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

As a man

Never stay at home.

Go out, make friends, and create new connections.

A man's job is to face the world, take risks, and embrace difficulties.

[Neeraj @neeraj_here15]

STEVE JOBS GOT FIRED FROM APPLE.

Then he walked straight into MIT and dropped the most raw, unfiltered 60-minute business masterclass ever recorded.

Zero PR bullshit. Zero image to protect.

Just pure, brutal honesty from the man who built Apple once and was about to rebuild it even bigger.

Stop scrolling.

Watch this tonight instead of Netflix.

Bookmark it. Come back to it.

[R @AlphaWizarDD]

If you watch only one investing video this year, make it this one.

Warren Buffett. 1998. 84 minutes.

He explained how to never lose money.

That framework is now worth $1 trillion.

The best investing course you'll never pay for.

Even 5 minutes can shift your investing mindset more than hours of market noise.

Save it.

[Your Best Version @YourPrimePath]

Pick one real problem. Spend 4 hours a day for six months trying to solve it and document everything publicly. That is genuinely all it takes. The right people are always watching for someone who goes that deep on something that matters. You do not need a degree, a network or a perfect resume. You need proof that you can lock in and do the work. Six months of obsessive focused effort documented in public will open more doors than years of conventional job hunting ever could.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

"Every single thing you do is based on what you think you deserve. " - J. Moore

The world will always try to knock you down a few notches...tell you to be "humble," "don't be greedy," "you expect too much."

But maybe you deserve more than where you're at.

[Hillary bamulinde @Hbamulinde]

Many spend a lifetime climbing the career ladder, but neglect building an exit.

Pursue excellence at work, but also invest in your passions, relationships, networks & your side hustles. A good career should create options, not dependence.

Retirement should be a choice, not an emergency.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody told you: Learn to tolerate boredom. Success isn't flashy. It's built through long periods of extremely disciplined, boring routines. If you need constant novelty, you won't make it very far. To shine in the light, you have to embrace boring work in the dark.

[Ezekiel Elom @ellovick]

@paulg College isn’t just about classes, I believe it’s also about building resilience, networks, and perspective. Those things often make one's future ideas stronger and more sustainable.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Every man eventually discovers that competence is the only real stabilizer of self-esteem; no amount of praise, affirmation, or philosophical comfort can replace the confidence that comes from knowing you can produce results even when conditions are hostile.

[Millionaire Framework @Milli0nairePath]

When life starts feeling chaotic, repetitive, or triggering, it’s not random

[Toby @TomolaGroup]

People overcomplicate investing because simplicity doesn’t feel smart.

But the wealthiest investors in history used the simplest strategies.

Buy quality. Hold long. Ignore the noise.

Three sentences. A lifetime of wealth.

[Tola @adetolaov]

Something I’ve been thinking of:

Routine days are comfortable, but also reduces your chances of running into opportunities.

Luck requires exposure. Exposure requires movement. And movement means deliberately breaking your own pattern: weekly, daily, relentlessly. More side quests, till opportunity has somewhere to find you.

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

My life got a lot better when I viewed every problem as a skill issue. Out of shape? Skill issue. Ugly bank account? Skill issue. Anxious thoughts? Skill issue. I affirmed to myself these would go away if I got better. And magically, they did, once “I” did.

[Marge Ntambi @margentambi]

Success is not always about being the smartest or the networks you have now.

Sometimes it’s just being patient enough to keep learning, disciplined enough to keep working, and attentive enough to keep improving.

[Mark Essien @markessien]

One mistake Africans make when it comes to money is that they do not maintain capital. They earn money and build a house, buy a car, help people in the village, throw parties. They do not keep capital, they do not collaborate with others who have capital. Ownership of capital is how keep wealth over the long run.

If 5 people can jointly field 1bn, they can make more from the 1bn together than if they each had 200m.

Always grow your capital, and collaborate with people who also have capital so you can join deals. And never be greedy - the bigger your capital, the safer your investment target should be.

Work with the same people for long - if you know a retailer who regularly needs 10s of millions for restocking, be their capital provider over years. You too will know the business, and you will have a good sense of how at-risk your capital is. Chasing new ideas is often poor.

Many people have technical knowledge or access, but lack cash to execute - if you see them do it 2-5 times, join them on the 6th time with 10% of their need, then 20%, etc. Try to never cross 30% financing, otherwise you are taking all the risk.

Keep your capital liquid when it is small and lock up in safe, interest producing assets when it is large.

Only ever buy private homes or cars from your interest - your wealth is not your capital, it's your interest.

[Jake @JustJake]

4 roles of a founder:

- Vision
- Alignment
- Culture
- Urgency