ArreYaar

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[ArreYaar @arre_yaar]

#NegativeNationalism - nationalism based on exclusion, superiority complex, hate & fear. E.g. Hitler's Germany
#PositiveNationalism - nationalism based on love, respect & problem-solving. E.g. Gandhi's, Nehru's, Ambedkar's, Patel's India
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[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

The founder of Pinterest on what surprised him the most when starting a company

“It can take a really, really long time to build things that are worthwhile.”

Ben Silbermann describes just how demoralizing things were in the beginning of building Pinterest:

“In March 2010, we launched Pinterest and were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn’t have been so bad if we hadn’t started building Pinterest in November 2009. And that wouldn’t have been so bad if I hadn’t left my job to start a company in May 2008.”

A lot of people will compare startups to running a marathon, but Ben disagrees:

“The part of the analogy that’s right is that it’s long. But it’s actually really different. When I think about my experience, it’s more like going on a roadtrip in a car that doesn’t have very good headlights and you don’t have much gas and you think you’re going to Toledo, but you find out you’re supposed to be in Miami and if you really have to buy gas you might have to buy gas from someone who might just kick you out of your own driver’s seat.”

He continues:

“That uncertainty and the fact that every single day you’re dealing with a lot of choices and you don’t have perfect information is the lesson for me that was hardest to learn and continues to be a real challenge in doing a startup today.”

Source: @ycombinator (Oct 2013)

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: realizing you really can just wake up one day and say "that's enough of that" and change direction completely.

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

don’t forget to use your teeth

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

If you don’t prioritize, everything seems urgent and important. If you define the single most important task for each day, almost nothing seems urgent or important.

[Scott D. Clary @scottdclary]

Something I noticed about resilient people: They don't have fewer problems. They have faster reset times. Bad news hits at 9am. By 10am, they're back to their priorities. They feel it, process it, and move. The speed of the reset matters more than the size of the setback.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
— Arthur Ashe

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Always assume things will work out, then do the work to make it true. It’s a mindset of active optimism. Earned faith. It creates a quiet confidence that allows you to tolerate the uncertainty of life better than anything else.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. … What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing … the thing that might be worth saying.”​ — Gilles Deleuze

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The easiest way to stay mediocre is to keep your goals abstract and your days unexamined. Vague ambition lets you feel serious without forcing contact with serious work. The truth shows up in what you repeatedly do, not what you admire.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

No amount of admiring an activity will make you good at it. Whether it's math, music, coding, or anything else: you have to do the exercises the same way athletes have to train, not just watch the game.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You can't force someone's growth, you can only provide a nurturing environment, be patient, and have faith in them; so many parents actually fail to do this because they get caught in pointless games of status and prestige instead of paying attention to their kids' real needs.

[Polymath Investor @polymathinvest1]

Focus, focus, focus.

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

i’m not even joking when i say this instagram post changed my life and i have it all committed to memory.

[Max @MaxTorchbearer]

RECOVER FASTER THAN EVERYONE

Lose the day. Come back at night. Miss the gym. Go tomorrow. Waste a week. Win the next one. Get embarrassed. Stay visible. Get rejected. Try again. Fall behind. Move anyway. Stop turning every mistake into a new identity. Stop making failure mean more than it does. Stop disappearing every time life proves you’re still human. The men who win aren’t perfect. They just don’t stay gone.

The cheat code is simple.

Become impossible to keep down.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The highest wealth for a kid: growing up with two intellectually curious parents who have the courage to take risks, and who remain enthusiastic about their own agency and their own ability to write a great life story. That's the kind of parent you should aim to be.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre.

The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.

Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.

If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits.

There is just less competition for bigger goals.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to hear this…

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Hardeep @hardeep_gambhir]

I read this every week for 3 years and had it pasted on my dorm room's wall.

Best writing is not literary or PhD-esque.

It is persuasive. It is simple. It's humorous. It has short sentences.

That is more valuable, than any other type of writing.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis with maybe the most important paragraph ever written for people with creative ambitions