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DAN KOE
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DAN KOE
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Go on more walks. Walk for no reason. Walk to solve a problem. Walk to blow off steam. Walk to get outside. Walk to listen, read, and learn. Walk to escape distractions. Walk to improve your health. Walk to think. A simple walking habit can change absolutely everything.- Normalize not having an opinion on things you don’t understand.
- How to do a hard reset on your life (in 30 minutes):
- Nobody is coming to save you. Not your friends. Not your family. Not the government They can offer advice and tools. But at the end of the day, it's up to you to change your mind and act regardless of how you feel. A thread of advice you need to hear:
- Wake up. Hit snooze 4 times. Stare at your phone. Roll out of bed. Make coffee. Sit in traffic. 8 hours of unfulfilling work. Sit in traffic... again. Argue with your "significant" other. Walk the pet. Watch TV. Pass out. Repeat. This should scare the shit out of you.
- Self-discipline is when the desire to become the highest version of yourself outweighs the desire for cheap pleasures. A thread on reaching your potential:
- You don't magically become focused. You practice it. You notice you're distracted and snap out of it immediately, over and over again until it's second nature. Most people have not trained this muscle, and they are not anywhere close to as focused as they think they are.
- You feel terrible because your subconscious knows you could be doing better. A thread:
- Mental masturbation: The process of raising dopamine in the brain by telling people your goals, plans, and how you want to change but never actually doing anything about it.
- Hard pills you need to swallow (if you want a fulfilling future):
