The happiest and most meaningful life that you could build probably involves a lot of time spent on activities that will not make you any money; and that's actually the main purpose of money, to not have to think about the money component at all anymore.
5 reasons you should go for it:
• Nobody is thinking about your life as much as you are.
• Playing it safe is still a risk.
• You can always change direction. You can’t get back lost time.
• The worst-case scenario is usually survivable.
• The best-case scenario could change your life.
Underrated life advice: Laugh more. At yourself. At life. At the absurdity of it all. The people who take themselves the least seriously tend to enjoy life the most. Lighten up. Most of what worries you today won't matter in a month.
This sentence by Dostoyevsky never fails to hit hard:
“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”
A lot of “smart” parents fail to raise confident kids because the most important part is to believe in them, and these “smart” parents are too busy constantly judging their kids for them to have any room to grow into anything but insecure adults who are afraid of making mistakes.
What happens when you die:
They divide up your shit.
They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.
People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.
Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.
Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.
You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.
Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.
Contrary to newsfeed hype, getting in shape will not make you more money.
Believe me, tons of broke fit people.
100 bicep curls will not beat 100 cold emails.
If you wanna make more money, spend your time on things that make you more money.
Robert Greene was right when he said:
“Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful.”
People want the great relationship but don’t want to be the great partner.
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People want the dream job but aren’t the dream employee.
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People want respect but don’t do anything respectable.
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If you want the result you have to become the kind of person who gets that result.
i genuinely have no desire to be rich so i can buy a rolex or a Lamborghini.
i want to be rich so i can control my time and go to the gym at 3pm on a monday.
sit at a cafe and relax for an hour on a rainy afternoon.
so i can cook meals at home with fresh ingredients.
spend on my family and friends without worrying about a budget.
that's my idea of a rich life, not the fake consumerist idea shoved down my throat.