Imagine you're 85. Body slower. Energy thinner. You get one wish: To come back and do it over. You open your eyes. You're here. This age. Strong, adventurous, capable. With people you love still within reach. You have one do-over, and you're sitting in it.
Live like it's your second time around.
WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU AFRAID OF
- Death : We’re all gonna die.
- Bankruptcy : You can make it all back.
- Shame : Everyone will forget in a week.
- Rejection : It happens to everyone.
- Failure : It’s part of the path.
- Judgment : They’ll judge anyway.
- Losing people : Not all are meant to stay.
- Making mistakes : You’ll survive them.
- Taking risks : Regret hurts more.
Live every day like it's your last day.
Intelligent people struggle with addiction. Their minds need more. They have obsessions nobody around them shares. Philosophy. Astronomy. Dostoevsky. Jazz. Quantum physics. Things they know deeply. Things they've gone so deep into that anything else feel like small talk. And small talk feels like suffocation. So... they drink. Work until 2 am. Doomscroll until they're numb. Because there is a gap. A gap between who you are and the conversations available to you. And it's one of the loneliest places a person can live.
Being with someone who is your intellectual match, will become more important than you think.
Be able to have great conversations.
Having a pretty or handsome idiot may seem fun, but as the years pass their early looks shift, and then you're just left with....an idiot.
Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own
My life began to change at 41. A deal went bad, then another—I was down about a million dollars—I thought I needed to earn it back so I dug in and built—again. All the while knowing in my heart it wasnt the way, but it was the only way I knew
Failures enter as data and exits as action. Our “failures” are just experiments. Why are people so scared of failing? Do they not know that they are actually scared to experiment? Start the business—ask the girl. Life is just a game
Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.
She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.
Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.
She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.
This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.
Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.
Life is strange. You arrive with nothing, spend your whole life chasing everything, and still leave with nothing. Make sure your soul gains more than your hands.
In 2011, Denzel Washington was asked to give a commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania.
Although the entire message is quite good, a single 54-second segment changed the way I think about life...
Underrated life advice: Make yourself easy to root for. Be kind. Be reliable. Celebrate other people’s wins. Work hard without complaining. Carry good energy into rooms. You'll be shocked by how many doors open for you by making life better for others.
"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius
Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up.
Refuse it.
Rise from the dead 1000 times.
Commit to never stay down & never give up.
Everything you want is on the other side of struggle.
Kids in their own naivety can be wise. It’s our own “understanding” of the world and how it works that drowns what we intuitively know about god and the universe
@elonmusk This clown is why all our movies suck now apparently
‘Producer DeVon Franklin co-led a task force developing new representation and inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility’