J Blake Burrows

Unrelentingly persistent

[J Blake Burrows @jblakeburrows]

Happiness cannot live inside an illusion.

#lessons

[J Blake Burrows @jblakeburrows]

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[Goku @ProjectGokuu]

Novak Djokovic just said only 5% of your daily life is actually conscious.

Djokovic is the 24-time Grand Slam champion and has spent the last 20 years studying the mental side of high performance.

He says he was shocked when he learned the science behind this number.

"How in the world are we then able to live how we want to live where we are actually on autopilot most of the time?"

The 95% on autopilot is your subconscious mind reacting to whatever you have already uploaded into it. It's why you can drive and text and eat without thinking.

Djokovic says most people lose their lives to a subconscious they never bothered to program.

He reprograms his daily through prayer, visualization, and breath work.

The crowd chanting his opponent's name doesn't shake him because his subconscious has already been told what to hear.

— Novak Djokavic (@DjokerNole) on Jay Shetty's (@jayshetty) podcast

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Soumya @ecstatic_0]

There's no point B.

You cannot travel from point A to point B.

All spiritual teachings are really meant to realise this - that Now is everything.

There's nothing apart from this moment - which is complete, One.

Once you truly see, there's no going back.

Because you become aware of the insanity of the mind - that always wants to reach the point B, which is completely imaginary.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Michael Jordan shares the secret to his success and why he has no regrets.

"I really don't have regrets. As soon as you look back in your history and come up with something you want to change - something else has to change."

Every failure, every setback - it all shaped who he became.

"To win, you gotta lose. To be successful, you gotta have something that's not successful. To be happy, you gotta have disappointment."

"All of those things have evolved and happened to make me who I am and understand the benefits and the privileges I have for being who I am."

It means being able to adapt. Adapt to your circumstances and grow throughout the process.

Then he shared the lesson his parents taught him:
"Don't wear your reputation. Don't wear your accolades. Don't wear your personality on your sleeve."

"Let it happen. Let it be you. It is who you are."

"Don't hide from it—but don't rub it in people's faces."

Greatness doesn't need to announce itself.

Be humble in everything you do.

Show up, do the work, and bring a mindset of excellence to everything you do. Then let your work speak for itself.

(🎥 Cigar Aficionado)

[Christian Pérez @cperezauthor]

There's a specific type of knowledge that only becomes accessible after you've failed expensively enough that your ego stops defending itself.

Most learning happens on the surface. You read something, understand it conceptually, apply it when convenient.

That's information. Useful, but not transformational.

Real knowledge, the kind that rewrites how you operate at the identity level, only comes through a very specific pathway.

You have to fail at something that mattered.

Lose something you can't get back. Make a decision that cost you in a way you can still feel.

And then, instead of spinning a story about why it wasn't your fault, you have to sit in the wreckage long enough to extract the actual lesson.

Most people don't do this. Most people fail and immediately start the narrative repair.

The market was wrong. The timing was off. Someone sabotaged them. They were too early. Too late. Too trusting.

The story becomes the shield that prevents the knowledge from landing.

Because the real knowledge is always uncomfortable.

It requires you to confront something about yourself you've been successfully avoiding.

Maybe you're not as strategic as you think. Maybe your judgment in a specific domain is worse than random.

Maybe the thing you're most confident about is the exact thing that keeps destroying your results.

That information is sitting right there in the failure, but you'll never access it if you're too busy protecting your self-image.

The people operating at the highest level have a different relationship with failure.

They're not more resilient. They're not more optimistic.

They're just more willing to sit in the discomfort of accurate self-assessment.

They fail and instead of immediately looking for the external explanation, they ask...

"What did I not see that I should have seen? What pattern am I repeating? What part of my decision-making process is systematically flawed?"

That's the key. That's where the million-dollar lessons live.
Not in books. Not in courses. Not in other people's frameworks.

In your own expensive mistakes, properly examined, without the ego running defense.

The knowledge is already there.

You just have to be willing to stop protecting yourself long enough to let it in.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 Just learned about a 2300-year-old concept I can't stop thinking about

The Empty Boat Theory

It explains why Elon Musk fights strangers on X at 2 am
Why Michael Jordan turned his Hall of Fame speech into a revenge list

Once you understand it, your life will never be same:🧵

[🦋🌼𝕂𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕖🌼🦋 @ladiekerrie]

Your energy is sacred. It is a gift given to you to manifest your purpose, to grow, to serve, and to love. Wasting it on trivial arguments or on explaining yourself to those who are not ready to understand diminishes that gift. Your life is not meant to be a justifcation, but a testament to your inner truth.
- Jesse Wright

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

In 1980, Brian Tracy revealed the #1 skill in life…

[J Blake Burrows @jblakeburrows]

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[Ryan Clark @Realrclark25]

“All is hard homie. You just got to pick your hard” - Steve Harvey.

A friend of Steve Harvey’s asked him what he always takes the hardest road. I loved his answer…

“What makes you think I see two roads”

Life is going to have its trails no matter what decisions you make. So, why not work to have it all?

@ThePivot with @IAmSteveHarvey

#ThePivot #SteveHarvey #HardRoads #Podcast #Comedy

https://t.co/hO6hhV3DTs

[Ryan Clark @Realrclark25]

“All is hard homie. You just got to pick your hard” - Steve Harvey.

A friend of Steve Harvey’s asked him what he always takes the hardest road. I loved his answer…

“What makes you think I see two roads”

Life is going to have its trails no matter what decisions you make. So, why not work to have it all?

@ThePivot with @IAmSteveHarvey

#ThePivot #SteveHarvey #HardRoads #Podcast #Comedy

https://t.co/hO6hhV3DTs

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

Old Man explains why saying this every morning can change your life‼️

[Christian Pérez @cperezauthor]

The mind that seeks formulas will never find truth.

The mind that chases methods will never touch mastery.

What I'm about to share destroys every framework you've been taught.

This is thinking at the level where answers emerge from silence, not systems…

[Ted Zhang @TedHZhang]

I’ve listened to this clip like 10 times over already.

Replace “point” with “trade” and you have some of the best trading advice out there.

[Polina M. Pompliano @polinapompliano]

.@TheSlyStallone wrote this part for 'Rocky,' but also for himself:

“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you’re hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.”

https://t.co/Slhei4f3Oq

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

This advice will change your life ‼️‼️

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

“You don't become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are.

Outwork your self-doubt.” — @AlexHormozi

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Why Napoleon spent so much time learning from history:

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

"Half of the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves."
~T. S. Eliot

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

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[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

Dear son,