Pratham Vaidya

i read, think and write. sometimes.

[PVO @pvobranden]

Set a deadline my boy. Not a comfortable one. A scary one. Pressure is what gets shit done

[Sakshi @Sakshi50038]

1. Elon Musk: College won't make you rich. Curiosity and technology will.

2. Naval Ravikant: Turn yourself into a product. If it feels like play, you'll outwork everyone.

3. MrBeast: Live broke, build big. Reinvest. Money is fuel, not flex.

4. Warren Buffett: Get so good they can't ignore you. Your skills are your fortress.

5. Michael Jordan: Fail loudly. Miss more shots. That's how you win.

6. Taylor Swift: The dumb ideas are what lead to the genius ones. Try more.

7. Mark Cuban: Read like a maniac. knowledge compounds faster than money.

8. Jeff Bezos: Obsess over the customer, not the competition.

9. Charlie Munger: No one's handing you the map. Build your own route.

10. Peter Thiel: Stop stacking resumes. Start stacking value.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A peak life advice from Alex Hormozi:

“The fastest way to become the person you want to be is to put yourself in a situation where you have no choice but to become them.”

[Pratham Vaidya @prathamvaidyaa]

High agency doesn’t always announce itself through big achievements. Sometimes, you can see it in how someone cleans a room when nobody is watching.

[Pratham Vaidya @prathamvaidyaa]

High agency is visible even in the most ordinary work.

I noticed this recently with two cleaners in our hostel.

The previous cleaner would clean the room with a level of care that went far beyond simply “doing the job.”

[Pratham Vaidya @prathamvaidyaa]

The difference isn’t in the job itself; it’s in the attitude toward the job.

I don’t know where either of them will be a few years from now. But if I had to bet on who would eventually do exceptional work in a completely different environment, I’d bet on the former.

[Naval @naval]

The time to be most ambitious is when you have nothing to lose or nothing left to gain.

[Prem Soni @ValueWithPrem]

HNI Indian parents are actively destroying their GenZ kids with their passive income. They thought they were securing their family's future.

In reality, they just planted a generation of completely unemployable lethargic kids.
If you go to any Tier-1 or Tier-2 city today and you will see alot of 25 year old Gen Z kids trapped in the ultimate wealth dilemma

1. The Ego Trap: They refuse to take blue collar or ground level sales jobs because it hurts the family reputation.

2. The Lifestyle Trap: They refuse to take an entry level ₹30,000 corporate job because that doesn't even cover their baseline monthly expenses for cafes, fuel, and weekend trips.

3. The Entitlement Trap: They refuse to take over the traditional family business that actually built their wealth because it isn't aesthetic or is too boring.

So what do they actually do? Absolutely nothing.

They wake up at 11 AM. They live off the passive rental yield their parents built. Maybe they stroll into their dad's office for 4 hours a day to sit in an AC cabin to play Director-director and leave.

And the parents are 100% to blame.

Their obsession with providing a comfortable life and feeding their kids passive income has completely killed the family's active ambition. The father is still grinding 10 hours a day at 55, while the 25 year old son is treating life like an all inclusive resort.

If your father is funding your comfort zone, you are just a massive liability on a monthly allowance.

Worse, Indian parents actively refuse to let their kids move out of the city to struggle. Their entire logic is why leave when your father is already earning enough here?

In the US, kids are pushed out to build their own survival skills. In India, We are suffocating our kids with comfort.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

All is reps. There’s no substitution for reps. 10,000 hours is just a metaphor for reps. Chess is reps. Painting is reps. Thinking, wisdom, even prayer is reps. There’s a reason the French say ‘apprendre par cœur’ (to learn by heart). Repetition itself is the stairway to heaven

[aether @bluewdrift]

"i wasted those years" who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments. you did the best you could with all you had and knew. that was then. here is now.

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

Elon Musk was right when he said, "Go Get your fucking confidence back. Without it, you will fail miserably no matter how skilled or smart you are."

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

Yesterday, Nithin asked all of us at Zerodha to have a mission statement for every new business or initiative we start. And then he shared the mental framework he uses to make decisions.
“Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you.”- Confucius

You could probably run most businesses with just that.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Underrated truth: your life gets better when you stop needing every decision to be optimal. Pick the restaurant. Buy the decent pair of shoes. Choose a book and start reading it. We waste an absurd amount of life comparing versions of experiences instead of having one. A good choice made quickly is often more valuable than the perfect choice you spent three weeks researching.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Derek Sivers had it right:

“Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.”

[Aravind @aravind]

Which city will you choose? Note:

- The X and Y axes are percentile, not percent.
- Hyd & Mum are 100th percentile for QoL & CoL.
- QoL takes into account work opportunities, healthcare quality, also. Not based only on infra or cleanliness.
- Your individual perception can vary.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Stand up for yourself. Know that trying to please everybody is a one-way ticket to an unhappy and unfulfilling life. You must understand that conflict is an inevitable part of human existence and be not afraid to offend others if need be. Have strong boundaries. Say “no” often

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Trust me on this: Possibility expands when you move. You meet someone because you went. Discover something because you tried. Find an opportunity because you asked. The world reveals doors to people in motion that remain completely invisible to people standing still.

[Dopamine Focused Warriors @ScandinavianBob]

Keep your dick in your pants and your eyes on your goals and you might actually get somewhere in life

[aether @bluewdrift]

One day you will realize discipline was never a punishment. It was protection. The walk protected your mind. The budget protected your future. The early night protected tomorrow. The hard conversation protected the relationship. Discipline is not the enemy of freedom. It is how you stop your impulses from stealing it. Take care of the boring things. The beautiful things usually live behind them.