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[The Night Warrior @WarriorNight007]

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[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

40. Finally, it’s never too late to change. A friend of mine once told me a story about his grandmother. He said that when her husband died, she was 62, and for the first time in her life, she began to take piano lessons. For weeks, she practiced all day, every day. At first, the family thought it was a phase, a way for her to process her grief. But months went by and she continued to play every day. People started to wonder if she was crazy or something was wrong. They told her to give it up. To go back to her life. To face reality.

By the time she was in her 90s, she had been playing piano every day for 30 years—longer than most professional musicians have been alive. She had mastered all of the classics: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and Vivaldi. Everyone who heard her play swore she must have been a concert pianist in her youth. No one believed her when she said she took her first lesson in her sixties.

I love this story because it shows that even at an impractical old age in life, you still have more time left to learn something than most professionals at that thing have even been alive.

I didn’t start writing until I was 27. I didn’t start this YouTube channel until I was 36. In every phase of my life, I’ve started five to ten years later than most people. Yet, it didn’t matter.

It’s never too late. There’s always time. The only question is how long we’re going to make excuses and pretend there’s not.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

36. My whole life, I promised myself that I’d never be that boring old guy who went to bed at 9PM on a Friday. But now that I’m 40, I’m wondering: why did I wait so long? Look kids, I know you think you’re cool with all your glowy neon lights at 5AM and everything. But uncle Mark is here to tell you: waking up at 5AM, now that’s the real shit.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

33. Trust is the currency of all relationships. Every good relationship is built off the back of years of trust. Every failed relationship fails because of broken trust. Therefore, honesty and integrity are the backbone of a life of healthy relationships and happiness. Dishonesty and a lack of integrity might be a shortcut in the short term, but you are completely fucking yourself in the long term.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

25. Nobody thinks about you as much as you think about yourself. Whatever you are insecure about, chances are 99% of the people around you haven’t even noticed it. This is because everybody else is too busy thinking about themselves too. This may strike you as depressing, but it is actually liberating. It means you will be judged far less than you think.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

24. Don’t make assumptions about people. You have no fucking idea what they’ve been through. Don’t make assumptions about yourself either—chances are you massively inflate some things about yourself and are completely oblivious to others.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

20. Growth is rarely accompanied by joy and celebration. On the contrary, growth is usually painful to some degree. That’s because growth requires loss—a loss of your old values, your old behaviors, your old loves, your old identity. Change always has a component of grief to it. So be sure to let yourself grieve.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

18. Trust people. Most of them are good and while you might get hurt or embarrassed occasionally, the alternative of distrusting everyone is far worse.

19. There’s no such thing as a life without problems. Warren Buffett has money problems. A homeless guy has money problems. Buffett’s money problems are way more desirable than the homeless guy’s. Problems don’t disappear—they merely get exchanged and upgraded for better problems as you grow. The solution to today’s problem will be the seed of tomorrow’s. Set expectations accordingly.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

15. The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice. Whatever makes us feel good will inevitably make us feel bad.

16. A happy life is not a life without stress, it’s a life of meaningful stress.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

12. Motivation is not the cause of action, but the effect. If you want to feel motivated to do something, take the smallest action towards doing it, then let the momentum carry you forward.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

5. Be the partner you want to have. If you want a healthy, fit partner, then be healthy and fit yourself. If you want an honest and loyal partner, then be honest and loyal yourself. Put another way, would you date yourself? If not, then that’s a fucking problem.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

4. No one is coming to save you. No single thing will solve all of your problems. No goal, no achievement, no relationship will ever fix you. You will always feel mildly inadequate, and somewhat dissatisfied with your life. Nothing is wrong with you for feeling this way. On the contrary, it may be the most normal thing about you.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Today is my 40th birthday. Here are all the things that I know at 40 which I wish I knew at 20.

Starting with…

1. Your relationship with others is a direct reflection of your relationship with yourself. If you treat yourself poorly, then you will unconsciously seek out and tolerate others who treat you poorly. If you treat yourself with dignity and respect, then you will only tolerate others who treat you with dignity and respect.

Get right with yourself. Get right with the world.

[Josh Gessner @joshgessner]

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