Jayant Kaushik

Tech, Stocks, Geopolitics

[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

All roads lead back to 9 PM bed time, 5 AM wake up, 4 hours of deep, focused work creative work first thing, leaving your notifications off, work out mid day to break it up, admin & calls in the afternoon, hang with friends and loved ones in the evening, repeat forever.

[jonzing. @ehisssss]

becoming less reactive is a huge part of growth, and decreasing stress. if you let everything get you worked up, you're damaging your mind, body, and spirit.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”

— Aristotle

[Jayant Kaushik @jayant_kaushik]

@NBDwrites Next time ask ChatGPT to present the information in a nice infographic so it’s easier to read. Here you go..

[aether @bluewdrift]

my theory is :
if you ever feel like you’re losing your spark, it means that you had it. you never lose what you never had. so, trace back your steps, get back your voice, reignite your spirit and come alive, again.

[Mr Ambrose Efe @AmbroseXchange]

This is why detached effort is such a powerful mindset.

The moment you convince yourself that one interview, one investment, one relationship, or one opportunity will define your entire future, your brain stops performing and starts protecting. Fear takes over. You become more concerned with avoiding failure than producing your best work.

Ironically, the people who appear the most confident are often the ones who understand that no single event is final. If this door closes, another will open. If this idea fails, another can be built. They value the process more than the outcome.

Treat important moments with respect, but never with desperation. Preparation deserves intensity. Execution deserves calm. Your identity should never be tied to a single result.

Pressure is often created by the story we tell ourselves about what will happen if we fail. Change the story, and you change your performance.

[Remz @Remzztrades]

In my humble opinion…

There are weeks to make money, and there are weeks to play defense.

Just scrolling through my feed, I’ve seen a bunch of posts from people whose accounts are down 30-40% this week.

It shows you how humbling the market can be. More importantly, it shows what happens when you don’t have risk management or an exit strategy.

Losing money sucks. But what sucks even more is knowing how long it’ll take to get your equity curve back to its highs.

Avoid large drawdowns at all costs. It doesn’t matter how strong your thesis is on a company. I’ve seen stocks make new highs and then not see those highs again for 2-3 years.

Stay loyal to your equity curve before you stay loyal to any company.

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

Low cortisol + low ambition = bum

High cortisol + high ambition = burnout

Low cortisol + high ambition = effortless achievement, sustainable output, goldilocks zone

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Any incredibly hard thing pursued diligently has an ability to feel like purpose. Those who chase hard problems often never struggle to find purpose in life.

[Mustafa. @oprydai]

i often think about this…

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked by a room full of Stanford students what single trait separates people who change the world from people who don't. Everyone expected him to say intelligence. Or work ethic. Or vision.

He said pain tolerance.

The room wasn't sure if he was joking. He wasn't. He explained that intelligence is common. Ambition is common. Even good ideas are relatively common. What is genuinely rare is the ability to absorb punishment day after day, year after year, and keep building anyway.

He said most people he's met who are smarter than him quit after the first real failure. Not because they weren't talented. Because the pain of failure exceeded their tolerance for it. They found something easier and redirected their intelligence there.

He said the entire history of SpaceX is just a story about absorbing explosions, literally and financially, and refusing to interpret them as signals to stop.

Nobody writes that on a motivational poster. Nobody puts "pain tolerance" on their LinkedIn profile. But it's the actual filter. Not who can dream the biggest. Who can bleed the longest.

[occam’s river @occamsriver]

When you’re a leader—parent, head of an organization, facilitator of a group or 1/1 session—your nervous system becomes the master nervous system that the others around you or under you attune to, and what you can contain sets the stage for how much of their experience is welcome

[Jayant Kaushik @jayant_kaushik]

Your brain is a computer with a tiny RAM. While learning, your brain writes well-indexed data from RAM (working memory) to SSD (long-term memory) - mastery makes it cache-fast, forgetting is the index decaying, and review is a self-query that rebuilds it.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The greatest breakthrough in the science of learning over the last century:

[Jayant Kaushik @jayant_kaushik]

@EOSE_believer77 @EVstockHodler Do they normally release prelim numbers every quarter or was Q1 the first time? If Q1 was first time, was it coz the numbers were good?

[Luc @investingluc]

3) gut feeling
2) balls
1) stomach

> gut feeling to spot great opportunities
> balls to buy with size + conviction
> stomach to hold for the big move

Comes with experience but build these muscles every day.

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

The older I get, the more I feel happiness is a skill in itself. It requires continuously reframing what happens to us in a positive light. And wilful blindness to the tedium of doing so.

[• يمنى♡• @yumnah_elkhabir]

thissssss

[octopus/caveman @octopuscaveman]

The smartphone really revolutionized the waiting room. Oh I get 20 minutes to look at my phone? Don’t mind if I do. The only problem is sometimes when I’m looking at my phone at home my home starts to feel like a waiting room and I realize it is and I’m just waiting to die

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

Something I'm learning as I'm getting older: the best way to inspire your friends is to simply live a good life and let your life be an example of what's possible.

[Jayant Kaushik @jayant_kaushik]

@AnyBodyCanFly 100%. You used to post portfolios for us to follow and invest along. Do you mind sharing those again? Or maybe I can DM ?