Everyone thinks success comes from being smart, but I'm living proof it doesn't.
What matters is being pathologically optimistic and having the guts to test ideas instead of just planning them in your head.
The goal isn't money, it's to compound your knowledge, relationships, talents, mental clarity, toughness, it's to get closer to the most confident version of yourself as you get older. You will then sense what true wealth is about: freedom, peace of mind, love beyond yourself.
Always have a few goals that are too difficult for the current you. It will force you to grow as a person, and you will no longer have time to feel anxious, you will already be too busy improving yourself.
For Kidney Health Advocates- lets all get on the same page: 1) only <5% of incident CKD is caused by HTN;2) progression of CKD can be slowed by treatment of HTN when proteinuria is concomitantly present; 3) HTN is mostly consequent to CKD, not caused by CKD.
Build your own thing for the first hour every day. See where it takes you. Commit to it. Produce something of value that you weren't forced to produce to pay the bills or because your parents or teachers told you to. Your future self is begging you and I know you hear that voice.
(What I consider good) Career advice that no one asked me for: Over the past few weeks, I've been trying to crystallize some of my thoughts around winning in a job/career. Thought of putting this out there, in case it helps someone.
Play the long-term game strategically: every few years, take a break of a few weeks or a few months, and reassess whether you are still the same person, whether you still care about the goals you are working on, and what you need to unlearn and relearn in order to stay lucky.
“If you’re a competitive chess player, you might get very good at chess but neglect to develop other things because you’re focused on beating your competitors, rather than on doing something that’s important or valuable. So I’ve become, I think, much more self-aware over the years about the problematic nature of a lot of the competition. There have been rivalries that we get caught up in. And I would not pretend to have extricated myself from this altogether. So I think, every day, it’s something to reflect on and think about ‘How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?’”
— Peter Thiel
Science is not really happening when the goal is a paper, a presentation, a grant, or any product. It only really happens when the goal is a process of discovery.