Marcello Crivelli 📌

Full Code Alchemist

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Do not show up trying to become important. That is a rookie mistake.

First become useful.

Become useful enough and people start trusting you with harder problems.

Solve enough hard problems and leverage appears.

Importance is downstream of usefulness.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

My favorite line from Atomic Habits has been living in my head rent-free:

“It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Lots of people use brainrot to postpone existential dread. What they often don't realize is that they are also postponing the actions that would create meaning. If your life feels unfulfilling, no amount of distraction will fix that. You can't fix emptiness with more emptiness.

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

We Japanese did and this is the conclusion we came to:

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

The final stage of healing is becoming a fucking weirdo again. Where you’re so powerful and so free inside yourself you just don’t give a shit. It’s all art. It’s all life. It’s all beautiful. That’s the fucking point.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The most important things in life compound. Invest in them consistently. The only way you get impressive gains is by holding steady through the lengthy wind up period before it looks impressive to anyone else.

[blue @bluewmist]

If you want to recover faster from setbacks then skip the "why me" phase entirely and go straight to "what now." Victim mindset isn't just a feeling, it's also a sentence structure.
Change the sentence and you change the trajectory.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The reason I got into my profession is that I f*cking love climbing skill trees and helping others do the same.

And I'm sick & tired of all the BS about "how do I gain status without skill" or "how do I gain skill without work."

Just do the damn work to acquire the damn skills.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The cost of avoiding structure is more than just disorganization.

The greater expense is that your best energy gets spent re-deciding the same obvious things every day, until ambition has no budget left.

Build some rails so your effort can compound instead of evaporate.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

One of the most important character traits to develop in life:

Becoming someone who can bounce back from a bad day or missed habit and get right back on the horse the next day.

A missed day will not derail your habit. But if you wallow in it and turn it into a missed couple days, a missed week, then it might -- and if you let it spiral further than that, then, then kiss your habit and aspirations goodbye.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

At some point, potential stops being a compliment and starts being evidence you haven’t delivered yet.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

You don't earn mentorship by needing rescue. You earn it by bringing so much output that guidance will irrefutably compound.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

You can make a surprising amount of progress climbing just about any skill tree with just 15-30 high-intensity, high-quality individualized training minutes per day.

Corollary: you can also make surprisingly little progress with a massive amount of inefficient practice.

[Electra @Electrarythm]

There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online.

He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history.

He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing.

His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living.

He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action.

He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation.

Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not.

Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation.

He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk.

He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation.

The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable.

Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom.

But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back.

Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.

[Marcello Crivelli 📌 @mjcrivelli]

accumulate corrections

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

If your practice does not expose weaknesses specific enough to correct, you are just practicing staying the same.

[blue @bluewmist]

make yourself so busy, so disciplined, so determined that you don't have time to know what's happening in other people's lives, making pointless comparisons, or irrational opinions. stay focused and devoted to yourself.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

So much of your future is shaped by what you do when nobody is making you do anything.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

It's one of the most elegant psychological traps humans build for themselves.

The genius of this defense mechanism is that it lets you maintain two contradictory beliefs simultaneously: "I could be great if I tried" & "I'm not trying, so I can't fail"

It's Schrödinger's self-image. You're both talented and safe from discovering you're not. The waveform never collapses.