<<<managing a social life the old fashioned way.
- hold a few in person gatherings a year and use that as a means of updating large amounts of people.
- avoid social media dependency , call or hang out irl to connect.
@MakerInParadise@MrBeast How easily you make that $1M depends on which platform you get the followers on & the niche you're in, speaking from experience.
it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.
When British explorer Hugh Clapperton visited Sultan Muhammad Bello of the Sokoto caliphate in the 1820s Clapperton brought a copy of Euclid’s *Elements* as a prestigious gift, intending to impress the Sultan with Western knowledge.
To Clapperton’s shock, the Sultan didn’t just recognize the book he pointed out that he already owned a copy and had studied it extensively. Bello, like many West African intellectuals of the time, had access to the vast libraries of Timbuktu and the wider Islamic world with works that had been translated by sheikhs who were incredibly well travelled