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@jammypants4 Same here - just couldn’t make head or tail of it

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@AndrewBolis @heyvalentiinaa Canva

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@TommiPedruzzi @NavalismHQ Asset

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@TommiPedruzzi @NavalismHQ Claude

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@easytoolshq @GymBodyFitness_ INVITE

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@AndrewBolis @GymBodyFitness_ YT

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

11 Greatest Theories I know at 40, I wish I knew at 20:

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[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You just need to take a good look at all the older people who didn't get to live the life they wanted, and it will become obvious that the causes are always the same, generation after generation:

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@orangebook The best thread I’ve come across in years…. You e outdone yourself @orangebook book_

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@mayankw14 Always look forward to these conversations 🙂

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@goodreads Man’s search for meaning

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The most important thing you can buy with money is the freedom to finally become who you always wanted to be.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Make your mental health your first priority.

Once you have clarity, it's easy to figure out how to solve all your other problems.

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@loveofcinemasf8 Your friend is lucky to have a friend like you - who can give him the right advice 🙂😀

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Things everybody wants:

1) living in a place where they feel respected and accepted

2) a home that offers stability and safety

3) a loving family and loyal friends who care

4) enough money to not worry about food, rent, medical emergencies

5) enough free time to be able to keep learning and investing in themselves

6) a meaningful purpose that allows them to wake up every morning with drive and optimism

7) a calm and clear mind, that can come up with creative solutions to difficult problems

8) a healthy and strong body, that gives them enough confidence to face the challenges of life

9) feeling needed, and being rewarded by society for some unique set of talents

10) leaving some sort of legacy behind, to know, on their deathbed, that there was meaning to the whole journey

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@AbhijitChavda @KanwalSibal Brilliant interview!!!

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1997, at the age of 27, Matt Damon won his first Academy Award for Best Screenplay ("Good Will Hunting").

After Damon won the Oscar, he went home, sat down on his sofa, & looked at the award.

As he looked at it, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a heartbreaking thought.

"Imagine chasing that, and not getting it, and getting it finally in your 80s or your 90s with all of life behind you and realizing what an unbelievable waste of your life...It can't fill you up. If that's a hole that you have, that won't fill it."

"My heart broke," Damon said. "I imagined another one of me [not getting that award until I was] an old man, and going like, 'oh my god. where did my life go? What have I done?' And then it's over."

Takeaway 1:

Many successful, rich, famous, etc. people talk about chasing success, money, fame, etc., getting it, and realizing that it didn't feel like they thought it would. That it didn't, as Damon said, fill the hole they had.

One of my favorite analogies for this pattern comes from Sam Hinkie.

Hinkie was asked about what he's learned from reading Robert Caro's books—about some very successful, rich, famous, etc. people.

"I think of it like the Pacific Salmon," Hinkie said. "They spend their whole life making this journey upstream to spawn in this one spot. And as soon as they do, they die. That's largely what Caro shows you."

Takeaway 2:

Before he was a big-time comedian, Hasan Minhaj was asked if he thought he was going to become a big-time comedian.

“I don’t like that question,” he said. “I fundamentally don’t like that question.”

Because that question implies that he is only doing comedy as a means to some end (success, money, fame, etc.).

“No, no, no,” he said, “The set I get to do tonight at 7:20 PM is the win. I get to do comedy—I won. It being predicated on doing X or being bigger than Y—no, no, no. To me, it’s always just been about the work."

"The work is the win," as Ryan Holiday once told me.

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"It's such a gift to be able to [do] something and to love it for the sake of it...I see people with talent, with all those things. But the one thing they don't have is just that love for doing it for the sake of it...So if there's anything, just find joy in what you do for the sake of it." — Rodney Mullen

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@mayankw14 @prosenjitbumba @Aparshakti @aditiraohydari @PrimeVideoIN @NetflixIndia @mayankw14 Happened to catch this a little late. Thoroughly enjoyed this conversation (as always) 👏👏. Request from me - Please make this a weekly/fortnightly show

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others.

It's the same thing when you are stupid.

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@AxisBank @AxisBankSupport I have recieved 8 calls since morning from your credit card sales teams. Please learn to respect people’s privacy. This is despite me asking my number to be removed from your list. This is totally unprofessional and unacceptable #DnD #unprofessional