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Uncomfortable truths to internalize before you get βluckyβ in life:
Orange Book ππ
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Orange Book ππ
@orangebook
Thoughts triggering thoughts. No label required. Learning on the go. Novel in progress. Musing in Tokyo.
- You just need to take a good look at all the older people who didn't get to live the life they wanted, and it will become obvious that the causes are always the same, generation after generation:
- Marrying the right person, a thread.
- The more you exercise, the more high-energy you become; the more you write, the more clear-minded you become; the more you take risks, the more ambitious you become.
- Reading for ~5 hours a day for 2 years completely rewires your brain. If you did it as a child, youβre already smart & may believe itβs innate talent instead of stored effort. If you didnβt, you wonβt be able to try the experiment as an adult unless you suddenly get βrichβ.
- Not having a clear deadline is the most common way to waste many years.
- Smart people who lack the courage to take risks often end up bitter, as they keep witnessing less smart people with more courage do much better than them.
- You will suddenly get much luckier in life once you figure out how to be consistently high-energy and clear-minded. The quality of your lifestyle is your luck.
- You donβt fix anxiety, you fix your finances, your diet, your habits, your relationships, your sense of purpose, then anxiety goes away.
- Instagram: where average people pretend to be millionaires. Twitter: where millionaires pretend to be average people.
- Calm people are just people who noticed that being angry and stressed out all the time wasnβt going to help them build the life they wanted.
- You just need to be smart enough to understand that your success is more about your courage than your intelligence.
- Getting rejected early in life is actually one of the best gifts one can get.
- Anxiety is what happens when you grow your intelligence without growing your courage.
