Khush Mistry

Do what you gotta do, for the life you wanna live

[Khush Mistry @mistry_khush]

Look Good, Feel Good, Do Good

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

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[Dickie Bush @dickiebush]

I used to have one crippling addiction:

Planning.

My brain loved the cheap dopamine of gathering books to read, tasks to complete, and videos to watch.

But when it came to taking action, the euphoric rush faded.

What ended my addiction?

This story of two men learning to fish

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The first fisherman was a planner.

He heads straight to the marina to buy the best fishing boat money can buy.

Then, he specs out an expensive, custom, carbon-fiber fishing rod.

And from there, he spends hundreds of hours reading up and watching videos on everything there is to know about fishing.

• Casting angles
• Weather patterns
• Baiting techniques

You name it, he's bought the book on it.

And of course, he's watching the fishing channel every night for hours, learning from the best of the best.

A few months later—after months of diligent preparation—he *finally* feels ready to fish.

So the next day, he heads out on the lake in his new boat with his fancy rod and wealth of fishing "experience" built up over the last few months.

But six hours in, nothing. Not even a nibble.

He fiddled with his tangled rod which was much more difficult to cast than it looked on TV.

Still nothing.

He moved to a spot upstream, just like his favorite guru would suggest.

Still nothing.

So—what happened?

Turns out, the second fisherman had already sucked the lake dry.

On day one, the second fisherman grabbed a shitty rod, sliced up a hot dog, and went to the lake.

The first day, nothing.

So he moved to a new spot.

Second day, nothing.

So then he moved again.

And on the third day? His first nibble.

From there it was time to iterate.

And every day after, he honed his technique.

He found a baiting technique that worked a bit better.

Or a new lake with a few more fish.

And after three weeks of iteration, he found the winning combination.

Before long, he was hauling in hundreds of fish every day.

To keep up with his daily haul, he hired a small team to help him.

And from there, he opened a restaurant with fat margins to sell his fresh fish.

And after that, he opened a fishing school to teach others his craft.

He did all of this while the first fisherman sat around gathering gear.

Sure, the first fisherman felt productive during those months of preparation, right?

He was "learning" after all, right?

But there was one difference: feedback.

Every day the second fisherman had an idea of something that might work better.

And he went right to the market to validate his assumption.

If it worked, his strategy improved.

And if it failed, he learned something new.

The moral of this story?

Get to action as quickly as possible.

When you find yourself gathering gear, stop.

Instead, grab a shitty rod and start fishing.

[Ted @Tedinati]

The proposed title transfer tax by Mayor Johnson is a failure to understand basic economics.

Who will eat up the increase in the tax? Not owners that’s for sure. As if Chicago didn’t already have high enough rents…

[Clinton @614clinton]

The donkey told the tiger, “The grass is blue.”

The tiger replied, “No, the grass is green.”

The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, so they approached the lion.

As they approached the lion on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn’t it true that the grass is blue?”

The lion replied: “If you believe it is true, the grass is blue.”

The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me, contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him.”

The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 3 days of silence.”

The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating ′′The grass is blue, the grass is blue…”

The tiger asked the lion, “Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?”

The lion replied, ′′You’ve known and seen the grass is green.”

The tiger asked, ′′So why do you punish me?”

The lion replied, “That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green.

The punishment is because it is degrading for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with an ass, and on top of that, you came and bothered me with that question just to validate something you already knew was true!”

The biggest waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn’t care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions.

Never waste time on discussions that make no sense. There are people who, for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand.

Others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.

#614clinton

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

A powerful concept everyone needs to understand.

The Wheel of Time:

In Ancient Indian traditions, there is a belief in a concept called the Wheel of Time (or “kalachakra”).

The idea is that time goes through a natural three-part cycle:

• Creation
• Destruction
• Rebirth

Every period of creation is followed by a period of destruction. Every period of destruction is followed by a rebirth and period of creation.

This has always resonated with me. I believe our lives follow a similar natural cycle from creation (growth) to destruction (struggle) to rebirth (new beginnings).

The wisdom is found in:

1. Embracing the periods of creation but knowing that they won’t last forever (a core insight of the Surfer Mentality).

2. Outlasting the darkness of the periods of destruction and knowing that destruction is a precursor to rebirth.

The seeds of destruction are sown during creation, and the seeds of creation are sown during destruction. Our good fortune is rooted in our bad fortune and our bad fortune is rooted in our good fortune.

Life is cyclical!

Good is born from the bad and bad is born from the good.

Lesson: When times are nice and sweet, enjoy them, but know that darker times will come. And when times are stormy and dark, adjust your eyes to the dark, and remember that the seeds of light are already being planted.

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If you enjoyed this or learned something, follow me @SahilBloom for more.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

If you want to see who has the most control over your life…just look at who you blame.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

The Silent Pandemics

1. We don't eat real food.

2. We don't exercise.

3. We sit at desks and then come home to sit on couches.

4. We numb our emotions with food, drugs & alcohol, which makes the emotions come back even worse.

5. We decided that the sun is dangerous for our health.

6. We don't allow ourselves to be bored anymore.

7. We created a pill for every ill.

8. We've decided that being entertained is more important than living.

9. We have a constant connection to our devices but no connection to ourselves & our communities.

10. We eat too many calories but not enough nutrition.

11. Testosterone levels are declining and some people think that’s a good thing.

12. Some scientists promote sugary cereals to be more nutritious than eggs and beef.

13. We believe our feelings are facts.

14. We want to cancel others we disagree with and people who hang around others we disagree with.

15. Pharma companies are second to tech companies in marketing spend to consumers.

16. We trade our sleep for more social media time, which messes up our sleep even more.

17. We are mentally unhealthy because we're physically unhealthy.

18. There's a health food section in the grocery store when it should be where the whole foods are.

19. We get exposed to the extremes on social media and think they are the reality we live in.

20. People watch mainstream news to keep us informed when they’re incentivized to keep us angry & scared.

21. We put focus too much on money & status and not enough on health, family & community.

I don't have all the answers but I believe that we can live better lives by doing the opposite of this list.

Take action. Be proactive.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

It’s amazing what you can endure when you have no choice.

[Business Mindful @BizMindful]

15 Hard Truths of Psychology and Life:

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[FUTURE/FREEBANDZ @1future]

Locked in album mode.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In Jaws, you don’t see the shark until 1 hour and 21 minutes into the movie.

That wasn’t the plan.

According to the script, the mechanical shark, “Bruce,” was supposed to get way more screen time. But Bruce was built for and tested in a North Hollywood freshwater tank.

Oops:

Jaws was to be the first major motion picture shot in the Atlantic Ocean. The first time the mechanical shark got into the ocean, the electrical substructure was destroyed by the salt water.

So director Steven Spielberg had to film the movie without his main character.

This, Spielberg said,

“torqued up the suspension of the movie…Rather than seeing the shark in every scene, I played a lot of the fear from the people in the water, from seeing their legs kicking, from the point of view of the camera moving along the surface of the water. That’s what turned the movie into more of an exercise in suspense than just a horror film.”

“So if you had the shark when you wanted it,” Spielberg was asked, “you probably would have had a different movie?”

“I probably would have made a movie that wouldn’t have been as successful,” Spielberg said. “I think the film would have made half the money had the shark worked.”

Jaws had a record-setting $7 million opening weekend and grossed $100 million in its first 59 days, passing “The Godfather” as the highest-grossing film in history.

Takeaway 1:

The iconic POV scenes in Jaws were forced out of necessity.

Innovations are often forced by limitations. Tony Hawk, for example, is credited with being the first skateboarder to ollie into his aerials.

"It wasn’t like I was trying to create movement," he said. Hawk was too small and skinny "to get the inertia to get in the air like other skaters."

Because of his limitations, Hawk changed skateboarding forever...

Takeaway 2:

In Jaws, you don’t see the shark until 1 hour and 21 minutes into the movie.

“This goes to show,” @_coleschafer writes, "that anticipation is scarier than confrontation."

The Stoic philosopher Seneca famously wrote, "We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

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"If you break the human struggle down to one word," Jerry Seinfeld says, "it's CONFRONT. And so, I approach everything that way."

Confront the reality that the shark is broken. Confront the problem you're putting off. Confront the hardest task on your to-do list. Confront the workout. Confront the blank page.

Anticipation is scarier than confrontation.

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[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The best games in life can’t be won, only played.

You don’t “win” at marriage. The point of marriage is to keep the marriage going.

You don’t “win” at health. The point is to stay healthy.

You don’t “win” at business. The point is to stay in business and keep the game going.

[bobo @michaelbobowik_]

One day or Day one ? Choice is yours.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

When I was 19 years old I pledged a fraternity, and I learned one of the most important lessons of my life on how to deal with women (and others)…
*context*
So when you’re a pledge you have to drive drunk brothers around. You’re the designated driver.
One night, I was driving an older brother home. This guy always pulled smokeshows. Just 10s.
So I was driving, silently.
And in the rearview mirror I could see yet another 10 was drooling all over him.
Everything was fine until she started complaining that he had a lip in (tobacco) and that it was gross. “It’s gross. Spit it out. So nasty” etc etc
She even tried to egg me on “tell him it’s gross”
I stayed silent. This continued for a minute. She kept trying to reach for his mouth to pull it out then he stared at me through the rearview mirror.
He spit in his cup, keeping the dip in his mouth, “Hormozi - listen up. Life lesson. This girl is more attracted to the fact that I don’t give a fuck what she thinks more than she’s turned off by the fact that I dip. Watch.”
Then he proceeded to make out with her and she seemed happy to oblige.
Now I’m sure you can take this in a lot of ways, but I’ll tell you what I took from it.
—>Don’t conform.<—
Sure. Maybe I’d look better in a suit. Or I should do the things to look better.
But it wouldn’t be me.
And at the end of the day, someone pretending to be someone they’re not is never going to be as formidable as someone who’s grounded in their identity.
So whenever I feel tempted to conform, I just remember that lesson. People are more attracted to someone who is themselves than someone who bends the knee to society’s demands.
And the older I got, the less patience I had for anyone who wanted to change me.
And for a young man who was trying to figure out who they were, it was a lesson that forever shaped how I interacted with the world.

[Zain Kahn @heykahn]

Google's market cap fell by $100B yesterday because the markets thinks they're too late to the AI party compared to companies like OpenAI.

Someone should tell the market that Google invented the Transformer technology that companies like OpenAI are built on.

[FUTURE/FREEBANDZ @1future]

Im in album mode.

[Jaquis Covington @JaquisCovington]

Remember, you only fail if you give up.

Keep going!

[Chicago Bulls @chicagobulls]

Happy Jordan Year!

May your 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ be the greatest ever.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"You get rewarded for unique knowledge, not for effort.

Effort is required to create unique knowledge."

@naval