Gabriel Shpitalnik @thefigureouter_ - Twitter Profile

Bunch of new faces on here :) For a quick backstory, I am 6 years sober. I gave up drinking during nyc covid, yet gained so much time and energy I can never go back. I was 23 in a nightlife city working in sales. For my “one year,” I wrote about it on X and went viral for the first time. I had founder market fit so I went searching for a product. In the pursuit of that mission, i helped 100s of people get sober, too. I credit a lot of who I am today to making that decision and keeping that promise to myself. You build a lot of personal power and respect from others sticking your values when oftentimes no one else in the room agrees with you. I remember sitting at a bar in Atlanta with my boss at the time, and he kept throwing #s to see what it would cost to get me to take a tequila shot with him. I remember his reaction when I said there’s nothing you can pay me to drink. That’s what inspired this line in the essay I wrote 5 years ago. Take a simple idea, and take it really seriously!

brookeleblanc's tweet photo. Bunch of new faces on here :)

For a quick backstory, I am 6 years sober.

I gave up drinking during nyc covid, yet gained so much time and energy I can never go back.

I was 23 in a nightlife city working in sales.

For my “one year,” I wrote about it on X and went viral for the first time. I had founder market fit so I went searching for a product. In the pursuit of that mission, i helped 100s of people get sober, too.

I credit a lot of who I am today to making that decision and keeping that promise to myself. You build a lot of personal power and respect from others sticking your values when oftentimes no one else in the room agrees with you.

I remember sitting at a bar in Atlanta with my boss at the time, and he kept throwing #s to see what it would cost to get me to take a tequila shot with him. I remember his reaction when I said there’s nothing you can pay me to drink.

That’s what inspired this line in the essay I wrote 5 years ago.

Take a simple idea, and take it really seriously!

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Gabriel Shpitalnik @thefigureouter_

22 days ago

@brookeleblanc Love everything about this. As a gambling addict in recover (2+ years sober now), I credit so much of who I am today to that. Love the concept of a dare > bet as I can take a dare but not a bet.

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Chamath Palihapitiya

@chamath

23 days ago

Key to winning: Choose to be positive and grateful. Then, just keep at it. Time is the great compounder and will do the rest. So many people just don’t have the discipline to stay positive and grateful. Then time compounds the bitterness instead.

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Gabriel Shpitalnik @thefigureouter_

22 days ago

@benln Hyyyype

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@FarroYossi Incredible

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Jack Altman

@jaltma

28 days ago

There’s a lot of alpha in putting your ego aside by being willing to be cringe, willing to fail in public, willing to ask for what you want and face rejection, etc.

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