One of the clearest signs of high intelligence is staying cool and calm and giving NO reaction to weird and nasty things when people purposely try to provoke you.
Very insightful scene from Hard Knocks.
Mike Macdonald says he had imposter syndrome when he first became the Seahawks HC. He called games not to lose them as sort of a “hedge”.
I’ve always suspected this with new head coaches but nice to see a top HC admit it.
Call me crazy… but I will keep repeating this until I help everyone I can
Claude + instagram is going to make more millionaires in 2026 than real estate ever did if you bought in the 1990s
Stand tall. Dont crack. Endure. You can die tomorrow. Today you do the only thing you can do. You fight. You rage on. You do what you came to do. You finish what you started. No matter how much it costs. How long it takes. Or how much it hurts. Because you said you would.
We sent a lease to a prospective local tenant.
They responded the next day with a bunch of very well-thought-out comments and questions.
They obviously used ChatGPT, which likely made them comfortable they were covering their bases.
Our team hopped on a call with them, went through the items, made some updates, and the lease was signed the next day.
Walking = lower cortisol
Drawing = interrupt rumination
Humming = calm your body
3 ridiculously simple ways to change your mental state in minutes:
1. Your feet contain ~200,000 nerve endings.
This is fantastic. Great way to spend an hour on Sunday morning. Have a cup of coffee, sit back and learn from the best minds to open your horizon about endless opportunities.
Stop giving a fuck about what people think. Crazy things happen in the world. Things that feel like this will change everything forever. Does it? Life moves on. People judge. People talk. And then… people forget. Something else catches their attention. That’s just the reality of life. And once you understand it, you become unstoppable.
I’m convinced the new rich is peace. Go to church on Sundays, stay home more, take longer walks in nature.
I see too many who have everything except that...
"Say yes to everything before you're 40, and say no to everything after you're 40."
"Before you're 40, you don't know what you're good at. You don't know what you're energized by. And the world is changing."
"Trying lots of things that you're curious about allows you to figure out, if you pay attention: here's what the parts of it I'm energized by, here are the parts of it that exhaust me. Then just maximize for your energy."
"By the time you're 40, you should know those things. What are those things for you? And after that, you say no to everything else, because now the bet you can make is: I can work at these things for a long time and know that I care about them."
- Atul Gawande
The more you think about your problems, the bigger they become.
Go outside, look up at the sky, take a deep breath and walk a bit to clear your mind.
Worrying does not change the outcome.
Hand someone a $5 mug and they demand $7 to sell it. ask another to buy the same mug and they offer $3. an MIT professor uses that gap to explain trillions in behavior, for free.
he is Jonathan Gruber, an architect of Obamacare. the mug is trivial, but the moment it is yours, giving it up feels like a loss, and losses hurt more than equal gains. that is loss aversion.
it is why people refuse to sell a house below what they paid, why warranties sell, why insurance is a $1.5 trillion industry. your starting point quietly runs your decisions.
no logic. just the pain of letting go.
a quant I know says this bias shows up on every trading desk he has worked. the lecture is free. almost nobody it controls has watched it.
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Jeff Bezos explains the real cause of stress and how to get rid of it:
Most people blame the workload.
Bezos: "Stress doesn't come from hard work. You can be working incredibly hard and loving it. And likewise, you can be out of work and incredibly stressed over that."
The real source is something you've been avoiding.
Bezos: "Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over."
Bezos: "There's something that I haven't completely identified, perhaps in my conscious mind, that is bothering me and I haven't yet taken any action on it."
The fix isn't solving it. It's starting.
Bezos: "As soon as I identify it and make the first phone call or send off the first email message, even if it's not solved, the mere fact that we're addressing it dramatically reduces any stress."
Bezos: "Stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn't be ignoring."
The relief comes from moving, not from finishing.