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[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

The easiest way to enjoy something more is by spending 30 minutes beforehand doing nothing. Scroll reels for half an hour and anything afterward will feel like you're withdrawing. Stare at a wall for half an hour and anything after will feel like a drug.

[Fernando Nido @fjnido]

@mariomunoz @grok el post al que se hace referencia aqui es justo o engañoso?

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Conviction is when you are frustrated that a stock is not down more.

[a16z @a16z]

.@pmarca: "The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power."

@david_perell

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The thing nobody tells you about exponential change is that it feels like nothing is happening right up until the moment everything happens at once.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Rick Rubin’s House on the Mountain test:

Create according to your own taste, not for applause, critics, algorithms, or market demand.

“Imagine going to live on a mountaintop by yourself, forever. You build a home that no one will ever visit. Still, you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you’ll spend your days. The wood, the plates, the pillows—all magnificent. Curated to your taste.”

“This is the essence of great art. We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves.”

“I'm willing to go to extremes to make the thing that I want to inhabit and it's not for anyone else. it's just for me.”

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Your entire life will change when you realize that nobody is thinking about you. I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives fearing the judgement of people who were never even thinking about them in the first place. Fearing a spotlight that was never even on. Performing for an audience that was never even there. Because the truth is that you aren't afraid of failure. Not really. You're afraid of other people seeing you fail. You're afraid of what other people will think of you if you fail. But nobody is thinking about you. Everybody is too busy thinking about themselves. So, that thing you've always wanted to do? Go do it.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Key to winning:

Choose to be positive and grateful. Then, just keep at it. Time is the great compounder and will do the rest.

So many people just don’t have the discipline to stay positive and grateful. Then time compounds the bitterness instead.

[Fernando Nido @fjnido]

@ac13alex @Steve_Perrault @RedSox GRACIAS AC 🇵🇷

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

the greatest regret i have is underestimating the value of long term compounding.

friendships, people, places, all get better with decades. beautiful things dont even start to reveal themselves for years. it is entirely what life is about. a few good things for a long time.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The older I get, the more I realize intelligence is overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong.

The truth is that intelligence is abundant. Courage is not. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t.

I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. It's taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things.

Courage beats intelligence.

[Naval @naval]

If you do not direct your attention, it will be directed for you.

[Fernando Nido @fjnido]

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[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

A wonderful life lesson from Charlie Munger:
“Crooks, crazies, egomaniacs, people full of resentment, people full of self-pity, people who feel like victims … avoid them like the plague.”

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

the tragedy of the intelligent man who never creates anything is that he dies an expert on other people’s lives.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Kindness is peak human performance and high status.

Kindness requires metabolic abundance: the capacity to override primal impulses, regulate emotions, and extend empathy.

Meanness is dirty energy: high cortisol, inflammation and an exhausted executive function.

[Founder Mode @Founder_Mode_]

Jensen Huang: "People with really high expectations have very low resilience."

"I think one of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations. And I mean that.

Most of the Stanford graduates have very high expectations. And you deserve to have high expectations because you came from a great school.

You were very successful. You're top of your class.

Obviously, you were able to pay for tuition. And then you're graduating from one of the finest institutions on the planet.

You're surrounded by other kids that are just incredible. You naturally have very high expectations.

People with very high expectations have very low resilience. And unfortunately, resilience matters in success.

I don't know how to teach it to you except for I hope suffering happens to you. And I was fortunate that I grew up with my parents providing a condition for us to be successful on the one hand, but there were plenty of opportunities for setbacks and suffering.

And to this day, I use the phrase pain and suffering inside our company with great glee. And I mean that. Boy, this is going to cause a lot of pain and suffering.

And I mean that in a happy way, because you want to train, you want to refine the character of your company.

You want greatness out of them. And greatness is not intelligence.

Greatness comes from character, and character isn't formed out of smart people.

It's formed out of people who suffered.

And so if I could wish upon you, I don't know how to do it. For all of you Stanford students, I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering."

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Marrying someone you love and having plenty of time to raise your kids together, that’s wealth.

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

People ask for one rule to live by: move daily, sleep regularly, build muscle, avoid sugar, seek polyphenols, treat ultra-processed foods like poison, find a supportive partner, call your parents, and have purpose in life

I know. That’s the point

[E-go @EgoDriv]

The balls to dare to do what no one else dares to do.

The strength to get through anything life throws at you.

The belief that you’re capable of taking on whatever challenges stand in your way.

The courage to be disliked by people who have none of the above.

All it takes.