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fly guy | scholar | 1911 ♦️

[Aporia @aporia9n]

We should all stop with this modern obsession of having a perfectly balanced, optimised life (8 hours sleep, daily cardio + gym, eat well, deep work, etc.)

Most exceptional lives are heavily overallocated somewhere and any pursuit of greatness (in business, art, sport, research) requires big sacrifices.

Online gurus love selling this perfect recipe of life but reality is you only have a 24h day. No way you can sleep 8h, do 10k steps, gym, morning sunlight, read, eat perfectly, do 9h of deep work, see friends, maintain a relationship and somehow be happy through all of it.

I think a better thing for ambitious people is to think of life in seasons: a year obsessed with work, then a period focused on health, family, travel, etc. You can be massively overallocated to one thing for a while without deciding that’s what your entire life should look like. Balance probably makes more sense measured over years than every single day.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you even slightly entertain the thought of failure, you give your mind a chance to start noticing reasons to fail. But if the only option on your mind is to win, then the world seems to conspire in your favor, because your mind will notice opportunities it wouldn't have before. Become delusionally optimistic, not because it's realistic, but because it's effective. It drastically increases your chances of success.

[Symoné B. Beez @SymoneBeez]

I'll never stop completely working. Love building.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

If you want to rise to the top in your area of work, there is one simple rule:

Work very hard, over a long period of time.

- Most people don't want to work
- Fewer want to work hard
- Fewer still will want to work hard over a long period of time

Elite = Doing Uncommon things

[$ @jxtsummer]

does anyone know what to do. like in general

[rahul @0interestrates]

another banger from naval

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you don't wake up excited and go to bed tired, drop everything and think of what your future will look like if you keep repeating the same day for the rest of your life. Sit with that discomfort until a new direction appears.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Go all in. Because half in is actually all out. Even 90% gets you nowhere. There’s magic in that last little bit. New levels unlocked. Simply because so few have the courage to go there.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Five dimensional chess doesn’t exist. Everyone is furiously improvising all the time. The future is utterly uncertain.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Pessimists sound smart. 

Optimists build the world.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

YOU MUST BELIEVE YOU ARE GREAT BEFORE THERE IS EVIDENCE

[E-go @EgoDriv]

If you’re a hyperactive, high agency type of guy, the only path where you don’t go insane is entrepreneurship. It’s the only life that will stimulate you enough and put you in different situations and problems that actually make your brain function. The more you try to tame that energy the less you will feel alive. Some of us were made for complexity and ambiguity. The safe path is the most dangerous one. You know deep down you’re made for something different. Business is what gives you that. Avoid traditional jobs at all costs. Of course the price is high stress, uncertainty and lots of ups and downs… but let’s be honest, would you have it any other way? No. It’s too boring.

[Jacob Klug @Jacobsklug]

Now this is an ad.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The easiest way to get ahead in life:

[Dre @drearetas]

The one JAŸ-Z quote that stood out to me in his new GQ interview

“I just see the world for what it is, not for what I want it to be. I’m a realist. It’s not idealistic. People speak about the world how they want to see it. You’re never going to win like that.”

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

Marissa Mayer (Former CEO of Yahoo!):

[Ian Schwartzman @Ian_Schwartzman]

You’re better off starting and fine tuning as you go, instead of fine tuning so much that you never get started.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Austin, TX really is the place to be.