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[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

“I’m tired.”
So do it tired then.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made"

—J.R.R. Tolkien

[𖤐 the optimist @t2wweeks]

EM is my mentor

[Ben Wilson @BenWilsonTweets]

Peter Thiel on Why You Must Build a Cult:

"In the most intense kind of organization, members hang out only with other members.

They ignore their families and abandon the outside world. In exchange, they experience strong feelings of belonging, and maybe get access to esoteric 'truths' denied to ordinary people.

We have a word for such organizations: cults. Cultures of total dedication look crazy from the outside, partly because the most notorious cults were homicidal: Jim Jones and Charles Manson did not make good exits.

But entrepreneurs should take cultures of extreme dedication seriously. Is a lukewarm attitude to one’s work a sign of mental health?

Is a merely professional attitude the only sane approach?

The extreme opposite of a cult is a consulting firm like Accenture: not only does it lack a distinctive mission of its own, but individual consultants are regularly dropping in and out of companies to which they have no long-term connection whatsoever...

The best startups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important.

People at a successful startup are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.

You're not going to learn those kinds of secrets from consultants, and you don’t need to worry if your company doesn’t make sense to conventional professionals.

Better to be called a cult—or even a mafia."

[American Debunk @AmericanDebunk]

This is one of the greatest and most life changing clips on 𝕏.

Watch it and you’ll notice your entire perfection of reality change in real time.

[Business Nerd @Business_Nerd_]

Jamie Dimon's counterintuitive rule for pressure:

"It's almost more relaxing to attack the problem than to worry about it."

[@levelsio @levelsio]

If friends come up to me and ask me help because they're tired, depressed or lethargic

I cook them a 400g steak with beef tallow, salt and pepper, maybe some brussel sprouts or broccoli

And go lift some weights + put them on the gym bicycle to do some cardio

Usually cures it

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Suffering is the only thing that teaches you who you really are.”

— Rafael Nadal

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

The rarest object type in the universe isn't black holes. It's us. Conscious matter. The flame of life.

We have a duty to expand it in scope and scale in order to preserve it.

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

He just revealed the most important skill you can learn in your life‼️

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

The answer doesn't have to be in your head; you can look outside yourself. If you're truly looking at things objectively, you must recognize that the probability of you always having the best answer is small and that, even if you have it, you can't be confident that you do before others test you. So it is invaluable to know what you don't know. Ask yourself: Am I seeing this just through my own eyes? If so, then you should know that you're terribly handicapped. #principleoftheday

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Novak Djokovic revealed his mental reset on the Lewis Howes podcast (2024).

When the match is falling apart, he goes straight to conscious breathing to snap back into the present. He says 80% of the battle is won before he even steps on the court, through gratitude, connecting to a higher force, and remembering you can’t control what happens, only your reaction to it.

Hearing one of the greatest tennis players ever talk about breathing and inner strength as his real edge was powerful.

The top performers don’t just train their bodies, they master their minds. These tools are simple and available to anyone.

Do you have a go-to mental reset when pressure hits, or are you still looking for one?

[Blond @BlondB00]

your problem is that you don’t care enough.

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

once you decide on that one thing you truly want, don't let any doubt creep in. just chase your dream and whatever you need to leave behind, you must let it go. the groups, the people, the comfort zone, the doubts, the opinions, the past, the fear of failure, the excuses, everything. cause when you chase something with all your heart, and are willing to let go, you'll eventually get there. because we don't realize it but, we've all been given the same gift by God. so you can be anyone and do anything. just put your heart into it and believe in yourself.

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan CEO: "It's more relaxing to attack the problem than to worry about the problem."

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder of Blackstone, on success:

"When people ask me how I succeed, my basic answer is always the same: I see a unique opportunity, and I go for it with everything I have. And I never give up."

[Denzel Rust @AdemLuz]

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

[PS @dostoevesque]

Just live day by day. It's like driving at night. You only need to see as far as your headlights reach. You don't have to spot your final destination from the start. Keep going with what's lit in front of you, and the rest will come as you move. You're seriously underestimating the universe's ability to surprise you and turn things in your favor. But that only happens if you stop overwhelming yourself by trying to figure out your entire life all at once.

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

“by believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it”. we cannot create extraordinary lives while thinking only within the limits of our current situation. growth begins when we allow ourselves to imagine bigger, believe deeper, and move with conviction even before results appear. that mindset is what turns ideas into reality.

not everyone will understand what you see in yourself. but maybe that’s exactly the point. some dreams are given to you before the world is ready to believe in them. they do not need immediate approval. they need your patience and your willingness to keep going even when there is no visible proof that it will work.

because every breakthrough, every idea, and every achievement once existed only in the mind of someone who was delusional enough to believe it could become real.

[PS @dostoevesque]

A moving man will meet his luck. It is that simple.

You owe it to yourself to discover what lies ahead. You already understand your current reality. What you need now is to deliberately step into new environments and unfamiliar situations.

Even when you stumble, you are still moving forward. You can always continue from the exact point where you fell, without starting over from zero. With every effort, your knowledge grows and your experiences keep building on one another.

Life requires you to willingly subject yourself to uncomfortable situations. If you do not, you will gradually reach a bitter realization: the pain of stagnation and standing still is far worse than any risk, challenge, or obstacle you might encounter by pushing ahead.

As Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen says in Through the Looking-Glass:

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Failure is just information.

This is why Elon wins.

Don’t grieve the past.
Figure out what went wrong.
Fix it.
Repeat.