Life can be beautiful and painful at the same time.
The same memory that cuts you may comfort you later.
The same person who hurt you may have taught you the lesson that changed your life.
Contradictions are not weakness.
They are growth.
Don’t water a tree that won’t bear fruits.
Stop feeding what starves you back. That person, project, or dream you keep resuscitating has shown you exactly who they are. Believe them. Your optimism deserves better soil.
Met a guy in Latvia who clears $10M/yr
Made me look poor bc we met in his restaurant
Legit psychopath. No emotion on his face ever. Drives a matte black Maybach. Makes decisions like a fucking robot
He taught me something that changed everything about how I operate
We were having coffee and I told him I lost $30k on a failed launch. I was pissed about it
He looked at me dead in the eyes and said:
"You're angry you lost $10k? You're a goon. The $10k is gone. The money is dead. But the data from the loss? That's the asset. Stop crying. Calculate the data"
(translated, mf speaks russian)
Then he went back to his espresso like nothing happened
That hit me different
You mfs are too emotional. You're "sad" about a failed launch. You're "anxious" about a sales call. You're "stressed" about the algorithm
Meanwhile killers feel nothing. They just execute. They calculate. They move
Lost another $15k on a campaign 2 weeks ago
Old me would've been depressed for weeks. Questioning everything. Probably would've given up
New me analyzed the data in 4 hours. Found the 3 variables that killed it. Fixed them.
Your emotions are making you easy to kill in business
Become a psychopath or stay broke
study the yegor method