I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.
- an excerpt from the Dead poets society -
Trying to schedule a meeting with 5 people and everyone kept giving different times so i told each person the others had already agreed to 3pm
meeting has been scheduled for 3pm🤝
Nobody is coming to save the day. The world gets built by ordinary people who decided to move before they feel qualified. You're one of them. . Stop waiting for the cavalry and become it.
You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.
They like your strong sense of self until they try to break it and fail. They like how observant you are until they’re the one being observed. They like your strength until it makes them confront their own weakness.
in case your parents didn’t teach you this, if you go to an event, you should always try to meet the host and say kind words, they worked very hard to make it an enjoyable experience for u
be polite, long live manners!!
I’m the worst person to brag to. Life humbled me early and forced me to see the world for what it is, not what people pretend it is. I’m genuinely not impressed by a lot of things.
"The hardest truth is that your greatest work may be seen by no one, and yet you must do it anyway for the one who watches is you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
And I think brilliance is the easy part. Structure, that's the mountain. To do something repeatedly, consistently, and adequately takes a lot more than inherent nature. Brilliance without structure will always be potential, which gradually mestasizes into regret.
Game theory explains why smart people don’t win. Being smart and working harder doesn’t fix money problems. What fixes them is understanding how the system you operate in works and understanding what incentives drive what behavior. Match your incentive’s with the system’s, and you win and get called lucky.