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[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Naval Ravikant once said:

"When you truly work for yourself, you won't have hobbies, you won't have weekends, and you won't have vacations, but you won't have work either."

Work-life balance is bullsh*t.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jensen Huang: “The best career advice I got was from a gardener”

“Very few people know this but I don’t wear a watch,” Nvidia founder Jensen Huang begins. “And the reason I don’t wear a watch is because now is the most important time. Just dedicate yourself to now.”

Jensen explains by telling a story:

“The best career advice I got was from a gardener. I was on a family trip in Kyoto, and we went to the temple that had the largest moss collection in the world . . . All of the moss is perfect, and every species of the world’s moss is there. It was a hot summer day — anybody who’s been to Kyoto knows how incredibly hot it is during the summer — and my family walked by this old man who was squatted down working on the moss with a bamboo tweezer. His bamboo basket was nearly empty with only two or three small pieces of dead moss.”

“What are you doing?” Jensen asked the old man.

“I am taking care of my garden,” the old man replied.

The old man told Jensen that he has been working on the garden for almost 30 years.

“But this garden is so big and your tweezer and basket are so small. How can you take care of the whole garden?” Jensen asked.

“I have plenty of time,” said the old man.

Jensen reflects:

“That’s the best career advice I can give you. Most of the time I wait for things to come to me. I’m rarely chasing things. I don’t have a watch. I’m focused on now. I’m enjoying my job. I’m the longest-running tech CEO in the world . . . Dedicate yourself to learning all the time, doing the best possible work you can, and leave everything on the field. By the time I go to bed I’m exhausted, and I’m happy about my day because I did everything I could . . . You’ll be surprised. I’m not at all ambitious. I don’t aspire to do more. I aspire to do better at what I’m currently doing. I’m not reaching for more. I wait for the world to come to me.“

He continues:

“People who know me also know that Nvidia doesn’t have a long-term strategy. We have no long-term plan. Our definition of a long-term plan is, ‘What are we doing today?’ . . . You have plenty of time. Enjoy your work. Do the best you possibly can. Just keep learning every day, and good things will come to you.”

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Marcus Aurelius was right. Discipline is the art of not betraying yourself.

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Marcus Aurelius was right. You will lose friends you will lose lovers you will lose comfort but if in losing them you find yourself you have gained more than kings.

[Money Ape @TheMoneyApe]

@saylor 🥲

[Kye @GxldSociety]

You can tell when somebody has genuinely worked on themselves. Their energy feels calmer.

[27. @dimvji]

you just have to get really good at continuing

[blue @bluewmist]

You need to be slowmaxxing. You need to be reading long, fat books. You need to be making 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. You need to spend hours watching wildlife, you need to spend 15+ min making your coffee. You need to breathe in and breathe out. You need to be slowwwwwwwwww.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The thing nobody tells you about exponential change is that it feels like nothing is happening right up until the moment everything happens at once.

[Ex Global @mansbusy_]

I’ve never felt like such a supernatural human being.
I wake up at 4am every day, I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t smoke weed, I don’t smoke cigarettes, I don’t eat takeaways, I do over 10,000 steps every day.

I jog, I pray, I live by the Atlantic Ocean. I’m literally transforming.

[SİYAH SANCAK @siyahsancakx]

🔵 Elon Musk, genç girişimcilere tavsiyede bulundu:

"Mümkün olduğunca faydalı olmaya çalışın, gerçek işe odaklanın, egonuzu kırın ve mütevazı olun; başarı ihtimaliniz çok daha yüksek olur!"

[Black @LilithBlack25]

Power of fasting

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Suffering is the only thing that teaches you who you really are.”

— Rafael Nadal

[Lovers’ Guide 💟 @guideforlovers]

A man who’s able to bring a woman’s inner child out is a man who will own her soul forever

[Knight World @KnightWorld]

Sometimes a knight only wants someone to love him as he is.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Underrated idea... the most productive thing you can do is have fun, love your life, and be unapologetic about it.

[blue @bluewmist]

Run directly at fear. Everything you want in life is on the otherside of that imaginary self built wall. Getting made fun of and criticized by people who don't have the balls to run thru their own fear is just part of the journey.Who gives a fuck. Do your shit and pray for them

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.