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[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

if you want to survive AI, now is the time to fight as hard as you possibly can to be a COMPLETE human... the specialist won't survive 👇🏾

Your grandfather could probably build a house, fix an engine, grow food, play piano, speak french, and tell you which way was north without checking a phone.

He had skills across the spectrum of survival and craft.

Slowly we told everyone to pick one thing and get really good at it.

At 16 I was told to pick a career for the rest of my life...

But in a world of AI, and incoming super-intelligence, this has never, ever, been worse advice.

The specialist programmer? ChatGPT codes faster. The specialist writer? Claude writes cleaner. The specialist designer? Midjourney does it faster.

The inconvenient truth is that the specialist won't survive.

The people I am now hiring into my companies and what I want my future kids to be, are COMPLETE HUMANS.

The complete human is the one who builds AND creates AND thinks AND feels across disciplines - that's the person that becomes more interesting, more rare and more valuable, as machines become more specialised.

It's hard for machines to automate the weird intersection of human experiences that makes someone decide to explain a marketing campaign through jazz metaphors, design a product inspired by stoic philosophy.

Your ancestors weren't specialists because they couldn't afford to be.

We can't afford to be specialists because the machines are going to win that game.

Fight as hard as you can, to remain a complete human!

Fight the voice in your head that says successful people don't waste time painting, or dancing, or learning languages they'll never monetise.

That voice is lying. The most interesting founders I know are part-time sommeliers, weekend pilots, terrible poets, decent drummers.

They bring their whole weird, complete humanity to everything they touch. And that's exactly what makes them irreplaceably human 👊🏾❤️

Interested to hear about some of the weird things my community on here does to remain a complete human!
Anyone wanna share?

[Thought_Scope 🧠 @Thought_Scope]

SIX LAWS OF MATURITY :

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[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

this is probably an unexpected opinion coming from me... entrepreneurship is over-sold and self-awareness is under-sold 👇🏾

The not so popular truth is, most people would be happier with a good salary than a successful startup.

But social media continues to push a generation to optimise for lives they don't actually want.

Entrepreneurs like me get a lot of likes and followers when we tell people to quit their jobs and chase their dreams.

But here is the context that we nearly always miss👇🏾

Entrepreneurship can be really really boring - you will have to do things you do not enjoy.

You will deal with big, hard, stressful problems, every day - including bank holidays, christmas and any other time off - for years.

If you're lucky enough to be successful, the problems will get bigger, not smaller.

You will not have one boss. You will have hundreds - every customer, every investor, every employee. You will answer to them 24/7.

You will probably work 3x the hours you do now, have 10x the stress and a tiny probability of significant success.

A recent survey found 87.7% of founders deal with at least mental health issues. That's not a bug. It's a feature of entrepreneurship.

You'll see your kids less. You'll probably earn less (for years, maybe forever).

You will probably pay yourself last and as little as possible.

You'll struggle to switch off. Forever. Your phone will probably become a prison.

And here's the punchline: If you succeed, it all gets harder.

More money = more complexity. More growth = more anxiety. More success = more people depending on you.

In life, when you find yourself following someone else's playbook, you are at risk of winning someone else's prizes. All I'm saying is be intentional.

I'm not AGAINST entrepreneurship, I'm FOR self-awareness.

Truth "wealth" is probably👇🏾

✅ Knowing what game you want to play and why
✅ Having the courage not to play other people's games
✅ Understanding your real strengths and weaknesses
✅ Designing within them, not against them

Happiness is not about the structure, the social media post or the story.

Happiness is about alignment. Building a life that's aligned to whoever you are!

This does the beg the question, why do I do it?

If I'm honest, the answer is probably....I don't know.

It's probably some blend of lower t trauma, my inability to fit inside normal structures like school and conventional work-places (I was fired a few times), my adhd brain that makes working on something for 14 straight hours feel like 7 minutes and some childhood self-esteem issues.

Whatever the reason, this is who I am and what works for me.

This is the weird way I make myself happy and fulfilled.

To someone that is not me, it would probably feel like torture.

And to me, their life would probably feel like torture.

And that’s the thing… when you create a life that feels like home to you, it will probably look like hell to tourists.

Please know what you are not!

[charles chisango @charleschisango]

Kevin O'Leary discusses the "Signal-to-Noise Ratio," with Steven Bartlett. A concept he learned from Steve Jobs, emphasizing that successful individuals focus on 3-5 critical tasks to achieve in the immediate term, minimizing distractions.
https://t.co/wmLtcEf8P6

[Power Beast @powerbeastt]

11 Greatest Theories I know at 40, I wish I knew at 20:

1. The Lighthouse Theory

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The Failure Paradox

[StoicRise @StoicRise]

15 Hard Truths of Psychology and Life:

1.

[James Carran @getpaidwrite]

Focus on building your skills, not your bank balance.

[Ross Harkness @THEROSSHARKNESS]

Your mind is your biggest bottleneck and until you learn how to manage it, you’ll never manage your business

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

When I was in Bali, we climbed a mountain called Mount Agung. As we looked across the horizon, we saw this huge mountain called Mount Ranjani, which is about the same size as Mount Agung. And my guide told me: "Mr. Daniel, you need to learn to appreciate the mountain you're currently standing on".

When I work with entrepreneurs, I find they're already standing on a mountain of value, but they can't see it from where they are. Learn to appreciate the mountain you're already on.

[charles chisango @charleschisango]

Those who win tomorrow, start today.

[Harsh Hada @MasculineM7]

4.

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

Marry someone who’s equally yoked.

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

The “basics” don’t sell—because no one wants to hear them.

To lose weight, move more & eat less.

To build a business, sell something people want.

To improve your life, do the things you know you should be doing & stop doing everything else.

Winning = focusing on the basics.

[James Carran @getpaidwrite]

Great writers read more fiction than non-fiction

[Ross Harkness @THEROSSHARKNESS]

You can get anything you want, but you must know what it is

Not happy with how you work? Get clear on how you want to work

Not happy with how your business operates? Get clear on how you want it to operate

Not happy with your week? Get clear on what you want it to look like

[charles chisango @charleschisango]

🪔In business #success is temporary.