@karunpal Money isn't just about buying stuff it’s about having the power to say no. When you’ve got enough, you can walk away from toxic people, garbage jobs, and forced socializing. Saving isn't about being cheap it's about making sure you never have to please anyone just to survive.
If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.
Your day collapses because you never structure time. The mind panics in open space, then it fills the void with easy dopamine and pointless conversation. Create fixed rituals, fixed work blocks, fixed recovery, and your self-control stops being a heroic fight. Structure is the silent parent that keeps you in line.
Marcus Aurelius was right when he said the crowd will forget you no matter what you do. So the only real question is whether you spent your years chasing their approval or actually living for yourself.
real charisma is when you leave a conversation & the person you spoke with keeps thinking about you fondly, & curiously long after you’re gone.
I've tweeted about this before but it's a good reminder
The founder of Tik Tok was running out of money trying to build an education start up. One day, he looked at the people on his train. Eyes blank. None of them were learning
the next day he pivoted to brain rot and won
For the love of God, capitalize your sentences.
And while you’re at it, capitalize proper nouns too. Not doing so isn't a statement. It's just confusing.
Picasso drew like a child. But he could have painted the Sistine Chapel if he wanted to. That's the difference between breaking rules on purpose and just not knowing them.
Punctuation exists for one reason: clarity. It's a gift to your reader.
It says: I respect you enough to make this easy to understand.
By all means, break the rules sometimes.
But do it deliberately. Do it for a reason.
Don't just do it because pressing Shift is too much effort.
The older I get, the more GLARINGLY obvious it becomes that everyone is following a fucking script. Very few people know what their core values are and even fewer know how to identify their unmet needs. Bottom of the barrel is team “ignorance is bliss” with no desire to learn.
There is no greater illusion than thinking the accomplishment of some goal will change your life. What will change your life is the person you become in the process of going for it.
The narrative that you’re not supposed to care about people’s perceptions of you is not based in reality. To be in community you literally have to address how you’re being perceived because how you are perceived directly effects how you’re treated