Alex

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I am here to enjoy life. Make the best of it. Pushing myself to become a better person. Share some thoughts and mindset I have adopted.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

I have read this book many times. It’s a wonderful and short reboot for possibility, excellent for all students of life and those who want to overcome self-imposed limitations.

[BUILD OR DIE @BUILD_OR_DIE]

The most important decision you can make early on in your life is who you surround yourself with. You become like the people around you.

[Triple Net Investor @TripleNetInvest]

This is one of my favorite entrepreneurship stories of all time

In this 30 min clip, casino/RE tycoon Phil Ruffin shares how he went from 1 c-store in Wichita Kansas to becoming a billionaire, including owning the Treasure Island on the Vegas Strip

In a remarkable series of transactions, he managed to turn $20M into $1.24 billion in just 13 yrs in one of the wildest series of RE transactions ever

In this video, Ruffin shares his rag to riches story - it's a must watch if you've got 30 minutes to spare this long weekend

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Here are a few GPTs that I personally feel are very powerful.

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[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

The reason to deliberately do hard things is so that when non-self-elected challenges arrive (& they will), you can tell yourself: “I don’t know how this is all going to turn out, but I am certain I can do hard things.” Don’t self injure. But doing hard things is always worthwhile.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

This short book has completely captured me. It was first recommended by @PeterMallouk, who said it gave him peace for weeks at a time. I grabbed the Kindle version with low expectations, devoured it in three days, and I’ve since bought 60+ copies of the paperback to give out to friends. It found me at the right time and won’t resonate with everyone, but it has equally impressed several of my best buddies.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer the negative elements in your life, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy!” — Dale Carnegie

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

NEW blog post is up! 👇

25 of My Favorite Books, Articles, Gadgets, Tech, and More (So Far in 2023)

https://t.co/NHky5e7TdA

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

NEW podcast episode is up!

Sam Corcos (@SamCorcos), Co-Founder of Levels (@levels) — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes)

Please enjoy! 🙌

https://t.co/2e1L7jO28I

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy you can turn off the spyware that got inserted into the latest version of Chrome.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

To become “successful,” you have to say “yes” to a lot of experiments. To learn what you’re best at, or what you’re most passionate about, you have to throw a lot against the wall.

Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. Instead of throwing spears, you’re holding the shield.

From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Would I like to go to a conference in South America? Write a time-consuming guest article for a well-known magazine? Invest in a start-up that five of my friends were in? “Sure, that sounds kinda cool,” I’d say, dropping it in the calendar. Later, I’d pay the price of massive distraction and overwhelm. My agenda became a list of everyone else’s agendas.

Saying yes to too much “cool” will bury you alive and render you a B-player, even if you have A-player skills. To develop your edge initially, you learn to set priorities; to maintain your edge, you need to defend against the priorities of others.

Once you reach a decent level of professional success, lack of opportunity won’t kill you. It’s drowning in 7-out-of-10 “cool” commitments that will sink the ship.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

If I have 10 important things to do in a day, it’s 100% certain nothing important will get done that day. On the other hand, I can usually handle 1 must-do item and block out my lesser behaviors for 2-3 hours a day.

It doesn’t take much to seem superhuman and appear “successful” to nearly everyone around you. In fact, you just need one rule: What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.

If you consistently feel the counterproductive need for volume and doing lots of stuff, put these on a Post-it note:

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

And when—despite your best efforts—you feel like you’re losing at the game of life, remember: Even the best of the best feel this way sometimes. When I’m in the pit of despair, I recall what iconic writer Kurt Vonnegut said about his process: “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”

Don’t overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say.”​ — Gilles Deleuze

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

This is my favorite Dr. @jordanbpeterson clip. The message changed my life and it crossed my mind today, so I wanted to share it with you.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Heading into another work week, a sincere acknowledgment to all those staying forward center of mass creating, learning, and building and especially to the givers. Over time you will be the signal above the noise. The rest, as they say, is just vapors.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Have a good weekend. Find some inner agency and do something, anything, for the good of the world.

[Ernst Hausleitner 🏁 @ernie1c]

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[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

The key to overcoming procrastination is to do something *more* unpleasant than the thing you are procrastinating about. What you choose is subjective but the reason it rebounds you to a heightened state of motivation is due to dopamine-dynamics (biology). Which is why it works.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Steven Pressfield's rule of thumb: the more Resistance you feel towards doing something, the more sure you can be that you have to do it.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

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