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What you avoid controls you.

What you face frees you.

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@thesamparr I think it becomes less about chasing to have and more about chasing to become. It happens at different levels for different people, but eventually, the art of the pursuit overrides the pursuit of money.

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To stay awake on your Mount of Olives is to live intentionally enough to feel time expand.

This is the practice of awareness, slowing not the clock but the mind. The more consciously you live in a moment, the more infinite it becomes.

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This is the synthesis of Camus and Watts: the union of lucidity and compassion, clarity and warmth. To contemplate the absurd inwardly is to accept the truth of existence, that meaning is not given but made. When you turn outward, you become a mirror, reflecting life as it is, without judgment or illusion. You do not distort the world to fit your expectations; you illuminate it through awareness. Inward depth, outward clarity, this is the art of living deeply, fully, and without appeal.

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Be your own best friend and contemplate the absurd, inwardly, and then be a mirror to the outside world.

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@JasonKPargin I don’t now, and I, unfortunately, didn’t a decade ago either…

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To live well is to be conscious of moments, not to hoard time. Attention multiplies what money can’t buy.

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To love well is to intentionally hand off the title of main character for a season.

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@rainnen23 @cobie They will thank you later!

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@UncleRewards You are welcome, Ansem!

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@antiprosynth ETH looks good everywhere!

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I just finished the chapter, Enough, in Ryan Holiday’s Stillness is the Key, voiced my takeaway into GPT, and had it send me an email to myself.

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I had one of those moments today — the kind that doesn’t feel like a lightning bolt, but more like a subtle click. Something lining up inside me that I’ve always kind of known but didn’t have the words for until now.

I was reading Stillness Is the Key — the chapter on “Enough” — and at first, I thought, “Yeah yeah, I’ve heard this before.” You know the drill: chasing success won’t make you happy, be careful not to get lost in ambition, etc. I’ve always nodded along with that stuff. But this time, it didn’t land like a warning. It sparked a question.

What if the problem isn’t having ambition? What if the real trap is believing that there’s supposed to be a finish line?

That’s when it hit me: I don’t think there is one. Not for me.

I’m not working toward a number so I can retire and disappear to some beach. Honestly, I already have enough freedom to live a version of that life. I’m not chasing money to feel safe, or respected, or to check some ego box. I’m chasing because it’s the chase itself — the act of building, improving, staying sharp — that makes me feel most like me.

I don’t think I’m addicted to success. I think I’m addicted to becoming. Not becoming someone new — just becoming more of who I already am, over and over again.

It’s funny — people ask what my “number” is, as if I’ll wake up one day at $20M or $50M and say, “Cool, I’m done now.” But that’s never been it. The number isn’t the destination. It’s the signal. It’s the feedback loop that tells me I’m staying true to my discipline, my drive, and my ability to create.

And the crazy part? I feel the most still — the most at peace — not when I’m resting, but when I’m deep in pursuit. When I’m building something real. When I’m clear. When I’m working from alignment.

So no, I don’t think I’ll ever be the guy who hangs it up. But not because I’m broken. Because I’m finally starting to understand how I’m wired — and I’m learning to love it.

Anyway, just wanted to share that. Felt like something I needed to name out loud.

Hope you’re good.

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Good men must die, but death can't kill their names.

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@VivekVentures @antiprosynth The world is moving onchain just like the world moved online in the 90s/2000s. Ethereum is the only choice. Everything else is noise.

The ticker is ETH!

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@Evan_ss6 The world is moving onchain just like the world moved online in the 90s/2000s. Ethereum is the only choice. Everything else is noise.

The ticker is ETH!

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@leolanza The world is moving onchain just like the world moved online in the 90s/2000s. Ethereum is the only choice. Everything else is noise.

The ticker is ETH!