A reminder from Atomic Habits:
New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.
Some of the best career advice I've ever gotten: comfort is the enemy of learning. If an opportunity is a little intimidating and feels like a stretch - it's probably the right opportunity.
A multicultural society can’t bind together or share values, so it can’t self govern
Multicultural societies require emperors, kings, or dictators
They can’t be governed as republics
It’s actually good to fail astronomically at least once in your life. It will humble you, shock your system, and strip away the illusion that everything must always go right. Once you’ve survived something that shakes you to your core, the fear around failing loses its power.
One skill that isn’t talked about enough is mastering emotion regulation. Knowing how to stay cool under pressure, how to manage & work through negative feelings & mastering the art of never allowing people to get you out of character. Learn how to control & manage your emotions.
no one prepared me for the fact that when you have a 9-5 you can't like. go to the dentist or the doctor or anything anymore. because you work. and when you don't work they're closed.
tip for newlyweds: send a wedding invite to every billionaire whose address you can find because it's a 50/50 chance their assistants just send you a perfunctory gift without ever wondering who the hell you are
i'm a big advocate of abusing your unfair advantage everywhere
- if ur an attractive guy/girl, post pics of yourself to get more traffic
- if u still live with ur parents, work 12hrs/day since u have no responsibilities
- if you have good savings, invest heavily in mentors to get ahead
everyone who’s now at the top 0.1% got there by playing unfair
and “playing unfair” doesn’t mean you should lie and do illegal things
it just means abusing ur own unfair advantage
everyone has one
find yours