Paul Graham | It’s not that unprestigious types of work are good per se. But when you find yourself drawn to some kind of work despite its current lack of prestige, it’s a sign both that there’s something real to be discovered there, and that you have the right kind of motives. Impure motives are a big danger for the ambitious. If anything is going to lead you astray, it will be the desire to impress people. So while working on things that aren’t prestigious doesn’t guarantee you’re on the right track, it at least guarantees you’re not on the most common type of wrong one. |
Jordan Peterson | You don’t stagnate, you digress. You are not the same you were yesterday, you are older and weaker. Working towards your goals is the only way to stop that[..] |
Naval Ravikant | School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. |
Unknown | Suffer the pain of discipline, or suffer the pain of regret |
Original | Beautiful women are cursed with an endless crowd of men. All willing to court, few willing to stay. |
Original | A true titan is forged in solitude. |
OB | Think less. Act more. Life gets better. |
RichardFeynman | When you are dead, you don’t know you are dead. It’s pain only for others.
It’s the same thing when you are stupid. |
OB | Happiness is a function of directed focus.
Focus, as in calm, uninterrupted states of flow.
Directed, as in aimed towards interesting, meaningful work. |
OB | A great relationship involves two people who understand that a clear mind needs time alone. |
NavalRavikant | In an age of permissionless leverage, judgement not work, determines success and failure.
Good judgement is the product of a calm and curious mind, reasoning without motivation and attachment.
Whatever strengthens your ego weekend your judgement, and ultimately, your success. |
OB | You’re most attractive when you are happy. |
OB | Enjoying the process of reaching your goals, that’s success. |
NavalRavikant | Tune out society and it’s endless and noisy demands. |
NavalRavikant | Are you really living or just duying slowly over seventy years |
Unknown | Don’t waste your time with people who constantly waste their own |
OB | Anxiety is the gap between what you are meant to create and what you are actually creating. |
NavalRavikant | Tune out society and it’s endless and noisy demands. |
ShaneParrish | 90 percent of success is not getting distracted |
OB | To move abroad is to rewire your brain |
OB | Creating is the antidote to overthinking |
Horace | Rule your mind or it will rule you. |
OB | Being free to spend time with people you love on your on terms I another sign of success. |
ShaanPuri | Hard work helps you win the game. Choose the right game. |
OB | Life is generous to people who are serious about their dream. |
JordanMenashy | Potential is a debt you owe to yourself that you can never fully pay down. |
LarryMcMurty | The hardest thing on Earth is choosing what matters. |
OB | Entrepreneurship is the fastest way to connect all the dots about how society works. |
Markiplier | I firmly believe that the entirety of what something is cannot be truly appreciated until it ends. |
GJ | Fall in love with the pattern, not the potential. |
Original | Build a scalable business from day one. If your fulfillment is not scalable, you’re building a job – not a business. |
Original | Higher risk comes with higher reward. The differentiator is courage. |
oB | The world is built by people who don’t mind failing |
oB | The clarity of your thoughts is the quality of your life |
Richard | Feyneman Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention. |
PeterThiel | Courage is in shorter supply than genius. |
PaulGraham | If you’re a maker, resists being told what to do by people who aren’t. |
AndrewWilkinson | Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder harnessed für productivity. |
OB | Learn to relax, you will be healthier |
APompiliano | Write. Record. Build. Whatever. Just create shit and good things will happen. |
If | you don’t know it, it’s because you are not interested in it |
Naval | Every man is at war with himself, except a Buddha. |
Naval | you can never be too rich, too thin or too clean. |
SamAltman | The interval from gratitude to entitlement is so short |
NavalRavikant | We try and make every good experience repeatable, and then run away from the resulting boredom. |
Naval | Optimise for independence and freedom. |
Naval | Pick the games you want to play. |
Naval | One path to a happy life is to retain a sense of wonder. |
Orange | the most valuable personal assets are health and a peace of mind. |
Orange | you’ve never heard of most of the happiest people out there, and never will, because they are smart enough to treasure their privacy. |
Orange | Life ends once you fall in love with comfort. |
Naval | Choose the non-emotional response to any given situation and see how much easier your life becomes |
Sahil | you’re not running out of time, you’re running out of energy working on the wrong stuff. |
LoganPaul | Life’s not short, you just gotta do more. |
oB | The happiest people out there don’t have “real jobs.” |
ob | You become unemployable the day you are confident in your ability to create value. |
orange | Anxiety decreases once you are busy living your life instead of watching others living theirs. |
oB, | The goal is freedom.
The path is consistency.
The reward is peace of mind. |
ErikGriffin | The hardest thing for people is to make a choice, because they are always so busy thinking about the future. |
oB | Interesting people are simply people who truly lived. You can’t replace experience. |
ob | money without freedom is not wealth |
ob | People claim they want you to be honest, then they take offense when you are. |
Naval | The only thing that will make you happy is choosing to be happy. |
oB | Maybe that’s not anxiety, maybe that’s your potential reminding you that it’s too early to settle down. |