Rupert

Trying to live a life I don't need a holiday from

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The pension letter says if you keep doing exactly this, you can stop at 68.
Freedom, just in time for the knees to go.

That's not a plan. It's parole with a carriage clock.

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@Tim_Denning Reading about rejection is like reading about the sea in November. You learn everything except the bit where you swear.

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@Codie_Sanchez Three hours watching a stranger restore a lawnmower and you feel worse. Ten minutes fixing your own wobbly chair, badly, and you're smug till bedtime.

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There's one office ritual that explains most careers better than any book: the leaving do.

Twelve years in the same job. Someone gives a speech, mostly about the time the printer caught fire. There's a card signed by forty people, three of whom spell his name wrong. A Colin the Caterpillar cake, cut with a key because nobody can find a knife.

Then Monday comes.

By Wednesday someone's got his chair. By Friday they've had the good monitor. Within a month, all that's left of twelve years is a login nobody's switched off and a mug in the cupboard that says World's Best Dad.

I don't say this to be bleak. The company isn't being cruel. It's doing exactly what it was built to do, which is carry on without you. That's the deal. It always was.

The mistake is thinking loyalty buys you a place in its memory. It buys you a cake.

So give the job your best hours if you want. Just make sure some of them go into something with your name on it. Something that would actually notice if you left.

Twelve years is a long time to spend earning a speech about a printer.

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@AlexHormozi The audience you're dreading is in the loos rehearsing its own speech. Cheapest stage you'll ever get, so go and be rubbish on it.

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Packing for a holiday: four books, some shorts and the work laptop.
The books come home unread. The laptop comes home with a tan.

That's not a holiday. It's a desk with a sea view.

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@Codie_Sanchez Step one is retiring from the shower arguments. You've been winning debates for years against people who haven't thought about you once.

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@morganhousel Best possible review for a money book. Someone risking a criminal record to save €20 is exactly who it was written for.

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@thejustinwelsh Keeping your word is the rare one. Plenty of brilliant communicators said "I'll send it over tonight" back in March.

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@Codie_Sanchez Easy way to find your real level: go a week without checking your phone. Most Level 5 pitch decks are Level 1 by Wednesday.

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@AlexHormozi Point that intolerance at yourself first. Otherwise you're not a high earner, you're just the bloke tutting at the self-checkout.

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@SahilBloom Within reason. Unapologetically yourself doesn't cover chewing with your mouth open. Some edits aren't filtering, they're just manners.

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@Tim_Denning A psychopath who helps others with zero expectations is quite the combo. Basically a bloke who holds the door for you, then follows up twice to check you walked through.

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@Markmanson Genuinely useful trick. Stuck in traffic is grim until you picture being stuck in traffic needing a wee, and then it's quite pleasant.

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@RyanHoliday Small print: you control the second response. The first one is always swearing at the parking ticket.

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@shaneparrish Important problems never ping you. That's how they lose every single day to 47 emails about the Christmas party.

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@thejustinwelsh Day one with $5M, everyone's answer is a boat. Ask what you'd work on in month seven, once the boat's just a mooring bill.

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@SahilBloom Fake emergency for the hook, duck pun for the payoff. He's four and already writing better threads than most of this app.

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@orangebook Insecurity rarely announces itself. It says "is that what you're wearing?
You don't need it fixed first though. Catching yourself halfway through the sentence counts.

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@LewisHowes Stop the Friday pints and you find out which mates were friends and which were just Friday. The real ones start suggesting breakfast.