Sacrificing your relationships with family and friends who care about you, in order to be more "successful" and get more validation from a society of strangers who actually don't care about you is never a good deal, but sadly, many people can't see it until it's already too late.
Once you experience, at least once in your life, being very right when the rest of the world was telling you that you were very wrong, then you become immune to groupthink and herd mentality, as you've learned firsthand that most people don't know what they are talking about:
People don't struggle to invest well, marry well, stay mentally well; they struggle to develop and maintain their good judgment; they struggle to apply what they already know they should be doing; they struggle to reconnect with their core intuitions and stay playfully focused:
Living in a place with great weather, in a walkable neighborhood, with family you love, friends you wanna see succeed, in a society made of respectful and purposeful people, with functional and safe public transport, a place that feels like home, that’s already wealth.
Smart enough to understand how to invest in yourself and get what you want in life, not smart enough to understand that relationships with insecure people are bound to fail, that's the most common sequence of smart people who never figure out happiness:
A lot of success boils down to whether you can figure out how to build and stay in an environment where you will consistently retain enough quiet time alone to reflect on who you truly want to be when untainted by groupthink and peer pressure, then invest in yourself accordingly.
Anxiety signals that you are competing where you shouldn’t. When you are smart, you focus on what you do best, you don’t mindlessly work hard out of pride. The best path you could walk makes you feel free: you are playful, relaxed, confident; you are where you are meant to be.
onchain ai agents will get crypto above $10 trillion.
if you're bullish OpenClaw you're bullish crypto.
two things to realize:
1) crypto adoption has stalled because bad UX
2) but "bad ux" for humans is good ux for AI agents
Look at this metamask transaction, it's complicated. imagine a normie trying to make sense of what he's signing. Bad human UX.
But an AI agents sees this msg and think "damn this is good UX" - it's precise, detailed - it's a software command. AI agents see smart contract code and transaction payload and know exactly what's going on.
They love this shit.
what financial system will the moltbots prefer?
(it's obvious)
One more thing to realize:
3) in a year or two there'll be billions of agents, many with wallets (then a year later they'll be trillions)
the "AiFi narrative" is underground like defi was in 2019. The dry tinder is quietly collecting but at some point it will ignite
no one is paying attention to crypto now because price is down...but i believe AI agents will scale to trillions of crypto wallets
AiFi is the next frontier of DeFi.
exciting times.
Most of your current frustrations come from the younger version of yourself who refused to make the necessary changes; be kind to your future self and don't repeat the same mistake.
The only honest advice you will get from successful people is to stop asking them what once worked out for them (because it wouldn’t work the same way for them anymore, let alone for you) and just focus on your own strengths, your own accumulated efforts, your own unique journey.