Арнольд Шварценеггер: "Знаешь, почему большинство талантливых людей так и остаются никем? Они включают фальшивую скромность. Они говорят: «Я творец, я просто делаю свою работу. Пускай мир сам меня заметит».
Это чушь. Ты можешь быть гением, создавать лучшие продукты или писать шедевры. Но если люди об этом не знают, у тебя ничего нет. Абсолютный ноль. Твой талант просто умрёт вместе с тобой.
Умение продавать, продвигать себя. Доносить свою ценность до других и убеждать — это не грязное ремесло. Это величайшее искусство, без которого ты никто.
Чем больше людей узнают о том, на что ты способен, тем ближе ты к вершине. Перестань прятаться в тени. Выходи и учись заявлять о себе на весь мир. Твой успех зависит только от этого"
My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends:
Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.
Four top sales habits to close big deals:
1. Respond in under two minutes.
2. Talk less than 50% of the time.
3. Follow up until they block you or buy from you.
4. Spend 18 minutes daily organizing all your pipeline deals.
Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic.
Joy is a biological necessity.
A guy was ready to drop $1,500 on a new OLED TV because his 3-year-old Smart TV was freezing up and took 5 seconds just to respond to the remote.
He unplugged it. Deleted old apps. Cleared the cache. The lag kept coming back.
He went to Best Buy to get a replacement.
The home theater installer in the blue shirt stopped him: "Before you spend a grand, let me show you something."
He grabbed a remote and shook his head.
"There are 8 hidden tracking settings throttling your TV's processor right now. Manufacturers turn them all on by default. Nobody tells you they exist. Let's fix this."
Here's what he showed him in the next 8 minutes. 🧵
How to be a winner:
1. Quit being a pussy
2. Assume everything will work in your favor
3. Be delusionally optimistic
4. Take a psychopathic level of action
5. Have an incredible sense of urgency
6. Be unhinged online to attract the right people
7. Study pattern recognition.
7. Attract a few haters.
8. Retire from corporate forever in your 30s.
9. Figure out how to access personal freedom.
10. Never believe climbing the corporate ladder leads anywhere
11. Assume the gatekeepers are full of sh*t
12. Join the permissionless economy
13. Stop trying to fit in and just be weird AF
14. Replace delayed gratification with "I want it now"
15. Build a one-person business. Then build whatever the heck you want.
16. Be unreasonable enough to believe in yourself
17. Let the madness overtake your life
18. Let the world see your dark side.
19. Do what you say you're going to.
20. Forget about saving money. Just make more money.
21. Never say "I'll start in 6 months."
22. Assume there will always be chaos around you.
23. Learn to love uncertainty.
24. Seek our rejection and failure.
25. Fall in love with embarrassing yourself.
26. Apply more effort than is rational.
27. Be irrational about who you can become.
28. Rewire your brain with neuroplasticity.
29. Put your family first, always.
30. Have a personal mission.
31. Lead people even if you're not a leader.
32. See the world better than it is.
33. Lower your expectations in every scenario.
34. Accept that society will disappoint you.
35. Ignore politics and the news.
36. Act like Keanu Reeves.
37. Collapse at the end of the day from going all out
38. Rewrite the rules in your favor.
39. Study the art of negotiation.
40. Worship quiet people.
41. Live the good life before you die.
42. Assume you only get one life.
Be forgiving with your past self. What's done is done. No sense in beating yourself up about it.
Be strict with your present self. Win the moment in front of you right now.
Be flexible with your future self. There are many paths to success. You don't need life to be a certain way to live well.
To achieve your dream life, you must first live and move like the person who has it. Once you prove to the universe that you are capable, it has no option but to yield.
My advice to most:
Don't start, buy.
Entrepreneurship is incredibly hard.
• Failure rate: 90%
• Avg salary: $46k
Instead, go buy a profitable $1M/year business using SBA loans just like you would a mortgage.
Here’s how:
The older I get, the more I realize the power of always having something on the calendar you're excited about. It can really be anything. Difficult physical challenge, big project, fun trip, ambitious goal, whatever. It creates energy and gets you through the lows. Life hack.
Facebook is quietly pulling photos off your phone that you never once posted.
A toggle called Camera Roll Cloud Processing ships your private pictures to Meta's servers, where its AI reads the faces, the locations, and the people inside them.
Here's how to kill it in under a minute and clear out what they've already grabbed: