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July 25 - August 2, 2025
Escape competition through authenticity.” Basically, when you’re competing with people, it’s because you’re copying them. It’s because you’re trying to do the same thing. But every human is different. Don’t copy. [78]
The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner. You have to know how to learn anything you want to learn.
Knowing how to be persuasive when speaking is far more important than being an expert digital marketer or click optimizer. Foundations are key. It’s much better to be at 9/10 or 10/10 on foundations than to try and get super deep into things.
Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard.
Learn to sell, learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
You start as a salaried employee. But you want to work your way up to try and get higher leverage, more accountability, and specific knowledge. The combination of those over a long period of time with the magic of compound interest will make you wealthy. [74]
I’m always “working.” It looks like work to others, but it feels like play to me. And that’s how I know no one can compete with me on it. Because I’m just playing, for sixteen hours a day. If others want to compete with me, they’re going to work, and they’re going to lose because they’re not going to do it for sixteen hours a day, seven days a week.
Ways to get lucky: Hope luck finds you. Hustle until you stumble into it. Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss. Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny.
Sharks eat well but live a life surrounded by sharks.
Your real résumé is just a catalog of all your suffering.
What we wish to be true clouds our perception of what is true.Suffering is the moment when we can no longer deny reality.
A contrarian isn’t one who always objects—that’s a conformist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently from the ground up and resists pressure to conform.
IF YOU CAN’T DECIDE, THE ANSWER IS NO.
Simple heuristic: If you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term.
What can I do for the next sixty days to become a clearer, more independent thinker? Read the greats in math, science, and philosophy. Ignore your contemporaries and news. Avoid tribal identification. Put truth above social approval.
Don’t take yourself so seriously. You’re just a monkey with a plan.
Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something.
If you ever want to have peace in your life, you have to move beyond good and evil.
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else.
CHANGING HABITS: Pick one thing. Cultivate a desire. Visualize it. Plan a sustainable path. Identify needs, triggers, and substitutes. Tell your friends. Track meticulously. Self-discipline is a bridge to a new self-image. Bake in the new self-image. It’s who you are—now.
When everyone is sick, we no longer consider it a disease.
the sugar effect dominates the fat effect. If you eat a fatty meal and you throw some sugar in, the sugar is going to deliver hunger and fat is going to deliver the calories and you’re just going to binge. That’s why all desserts are large combinations of fat and carbs together. In nature, it’s very rare to find carbs and fat together. In nature, I find carbs and fat together in coconuts, in mangoes, maybe in bananas, but it’s basically tropical fruits. The combination of sugar and fat together is really deadly. You’ve got to watch out for that in your diet.
The ability to singularly focus is related to the ability to lose yourself and be present, happy, and (ironically) more effective.
If you hurt other people because they have expectations of you, that’s their problem.
The real truths are heresies. They cannot be spoken. Only discovered, whispered, and perhaps read.
Anger is a hot coal you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at someone else. (Buddha)
