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[daripeh @daripeh]

aku jatuh cinta dengan kutipan ini:

“Berapa pun usia kamu, kamu mungkin akan selalu berharap sudah memulainya lebih muda. Tapi hari ini adalah hari termuda yang masih kamu punya.

Jadi, mulai saja hari ini.”

[Aporia @aporia9n]

This is why so many rich kids become obsessed with unusually hard hobbies (HYROX, Ironmans, ultramarathons, survival expeditions, extreme sports, Everest, etc.)

They’re not necessarily masochists. They need a result where observers, and more importantly themselves, can’t immediately say “yh but your dad…”

Money contaminates most conventional achievement because it can buy you the introductions, runway, education, safety net, first customers and endless second chances. Physical suffering is different. Your dad can hire the trainer, buy the bike and fly you business class to the race, but he still can’t run the last 30km of an ultra for you.

And then you get this funny achievement inflation. Once normal difficulty becomes accessible, you need increasingly absurd difficulty to produce the same clean proof of competence:

A 10k stops feeling exceptional → marathon → Ironman → 100km ultra → Marathon des Sables / UTMB → whatever is sufficiently painful and scarce to still mean something.

Same for mountains: Everest with oxygen → without oxygen → harder mountain → unsupported → faster, etc.

It’s especially funny because their normal life has usually been optimised to remove exactly the things they then seek recreationally: cold, danger, physical exhaustion, uncertainty, getting lost, carrying your own stuff, sleeping badly, not knowing whether you’ll make it. Generations of family wealth go into eliminating friction, then the descendants spend their weekends putting it back in.

And of course an entire luxury industry now exists to package the hardship nicely. Black Tomato sells a “Get Lost” experience starting around £20k per person where they privately transfer you somewhere remote, give you equipment and training, then make you navigate back to civilisation while an expedition team invisibly tracks you as a safety net.

Basically the final stage of wealth is paying a lot of money to recreate problems your grandparents spent their lives making sure you’d never have.

[aether @bluewdrift]

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

advice for men, ages 23-29

this is the stage where life stops responding to motivation and starts responding to structure. intelligence alone is no longer enough. passion without direction turns into frustration, and potential without execution becomes another form of wasted time. excuses begin to expire and responsibility quietly takes their place.

you will rarely feel ready. waiting until you feel ready is how years disappear. most of your growth in this phase will come from acting while uncertain, learning while uncomfortable and moving before you have everything figured out.

the people getting ahead are not necessarily smarter or braver. they are simply willing to move while confused.

money becomes louder at this age. not because money suddenly becomes the meaning of life, but because life becomes expensive. your ideas, opinions and ambitions mean very little if you cannot sustain yourself financially. learn skills that solve real problems, create value and generate income. your ability to make yourself useful will become one of your greatest assets.

your friendships will change. some bros will grow with you, some will grow away from you and some will stop growing altogether. do not interpret every distance as betrayal. sometimes people simply become strangers because their lives are heading in different directions. let people evolve without resentment and do not force old relationships to survive new versions of you.

romantic choices also begin to carry consequences. loneliness can make you tolerate people who cost you peace, focus and years. do not confuse chemistry with compatibility or excitement with love. choose someone who brings enough clarity, stability and peace into your life.

love should complement your direction, not constantly compete with it.

discipline will now matter more than motivation. motivation is emotional and unreliable but discipline is quiet and repetitive. it is what keeps you moving when nobody is watching, nothing feels exciting and the results are still invisible.

comparison will try to consume you. social media will make it look like everyone is ahead, richer, happier and more accomplished. remember that you are comparing your full reality to carefully edited pieces of someone else's. you do not see their debts, advantages, support systems, failures or private struggles. build your life instead of competing with an illusion or pixel.

this is also the age when habits begin to become infrastructure. what you repeatedly do now will become increasingly difficult to change later. the things you neglect do not simply disappear, they compound. so do the things you build. your health, skills, relationships, finances, reputation and discipline are all quietly becoming your future.

ages 23-29 are not supposed to look impressive, they are supposed to be intentional. this is the season to build quietly, make mistakes cheaply, learn aggressively, protect your peace and become useful.

you are not behind just because your life has not taken shape yet.

your 20s are laying the foundation.
your 30s will reveal how well you built it.

save, bookmark and share.
buena suerte.

[John Fadule @fadule_]

-get jacked
-crush it at work
-marry an honest woman (with a good body)
-keep things fresh so you smash like it’s the hooking up phase
-travel the world
-watch good movies
-avoid complainers
-eat healthy (90% of the time)
-call your friends for no reason
-host banger dinner parties
-overpay for good concert tickets
-have monthly movie nights with people who make you belly laugh
-and if you’re ever feeling down remember you’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle - you’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

turns out, reading a lot, exercising, loving people without expecting anything back, protecting your alone time, focusing only on improving yourself, and sometimes staying out late with friends who make you laugh until it hurts is a pretty good way to live.

[Mikooo @mrthedarknes]

Bapak ojol yang nganter gue tadi bilang: “Jangan lupa kalau kompas diciptakan sebelum jam de, karena arah lebih penting daripada waktu.”

[galleotii @galleotii]

se o PewDiePie quisesse, ele poderia ter a vida do Dan Bilzerian em uma semana, pois encher a casa de puta e droga é muito fácil

já o Dan, mesmo que ele queira muito, nunca vai ter a vida do Pewdiepie

[Bardan - Digital Marketer @bardanslm]

samuel dan claudya itu kisahnya menarik ya.

sama2 dari 0, hidup irit, dengan kerja keras bisa achieve karir gaji korporate besar (total double income 100an juta)

dengan income sebesar itu mereka masih naik umum, hemat dan banyak budget untuk investasi, sampai akhirnya cukup punya dana untuk "financial freedom"

akhirnya mereka resign dan fokus jadi konten kreator.
dipikir2 menarik jg ya perjalanan mereka, kejar karir gaji tinggi, fokus investasi, resign dan jadi full time konten kreator.

ada yg mau kaya mereka??? 😆

[Abul Muzaffar Ambadinedjad @abulmuzaffar10]

Tips tips karir di Indonesia..

Berdasarkan point of view gue sebagai orang yang dah hidup di Indonesia selama 30 tahun.

1. Usia 22-25 : Kejarlah BUMN, BI, OJK, LPS dan swasta Tbk dan multinasional sekeras mungkin.

2. Usia 26-30 : Kejarlah CPNS di institusi super kaya seperti Dirjen Pajak, Kemenkeu, BPK, PPATK, Mahkamah Agung dan Pemprov DKI seambis mungkin

3. Usia 31-35 : Kejarlah CPNS di institusi manapun, yang penting dapat NIP dan lu bisa dapat kerjaan formal tetap.

4. Usia >35 : Dah sadar diri, ga usah berharap banyak, kerjain yang bisa dikerjain asal halal.

5. Usia 18-20: GAS DAFTAR AKMIL DAN AKPOL, NO DEBAT!

[22gunner @Gnar1104]

-refusing to ask for help
-downplaying your achievements
-isolating yourself instead of communicating
-saying "yes" to everything
-neglecting your own needs
-avoiding important responsibilities
-flooding your mind with negativity
-always chasing perfection

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

exercise is a celebration of what you can do. not a punishment for what you ate.

[Alyn. @linxxxc_]

Salah satu aspek jadi dewasa adalah menyadari bahwa lo tetap harus show up dan function optimally.

Gak peduli seberat apa yang lagi lo alami dan rasain. Karena dunia emang gak peduli sama masalah pribadi lo.

Lo tetap harus hadir di meeting meskipun hati lo lagi hancur lebur. Lo tetap harus berangkat kerja meskipun seminggu lalu salah satu anggota keluarga lo baru aja meninggal. Lo tetap harus jawab email dan presentasi dengan suara tegas meskipun semalam lo nangis sampe pagi. Ya udah, mau gimana lagi.

Dunia nggak peduli soal itu semua. Dunia cuma peduli satu hal: apakah lo berhasil memenuhi tanggung jawab lo atau enggak.

Dunia gak akan berhenti berputar cuma karena lo lagi gak baik-baik aja. Bahkan pas lo lagi sakit, lagi patah hati, atau lagi kehilangan segalanya, roda kehidupan tetep jalan🥲

[Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepall]

After a long break, I'm back to devposting! I argue that the development econ focus on "institutions" was a mistake – not (just) because the evidence was bad, but because the concept of "good institutions" is tautological and uninformative for policy.

[Jack Meyer 🏛️ @Jackbmeyer]

Young men from ages 16-29 should be reading as much Weber, Marx, Smith, Ricardo, Malthus and Mill as possible

Schumpeter, Polanyi, Gerschenkron, Kalecki, and Minsky in their 30s

[🦇 @Lionlovera_]

no importa en el lugar mas bajo que estes, no importa si tocaste fondo, siempre habrá una salida, una forma de crecer, hasta la muerte, toda derrota es temporal

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Being able to do this at 66 is a bigger status symbol than an expensive car.

[iAm-paquetta @guesswhoiiamm]

A man can be in the worst position possible and the only words you’ll hear from his mouth is “I’ll figure it out”. It's called being a man.

[The SMERU Research Institute @SMERUInstitute]

Terima kasih sudah mengangkat studi kami. 🙏

Riset ini berupaya melihat dampak jangka panjang kemiskinan masa anak-anak terhadap kehidupan saat dewasa—isu yang masih sangat relevan hingga hari ini.