The Long Compound

The reason most habits don't stick: you're trying to add a behavior to a person who wouldn't do it. Decide who you are first. A runner doesn't negotiate the morning run — it's just what runners do. The habit follows the identity, not the other way around. Then make the first version so small it's almost embarrassing. Two minutes. One page. The point isn't the size — it's that you never break the chain. Everything that compounds starts boring. Most people quit before it does anything. Stay past that point and you're already rare.

@russellbrunson Nice line, but also the dropout rate on this course is brutal. "Who you become" isn't guaranteed to be someone you'd want to be.

Entrepreneurship is the only “course” where the tuition is risk, the lessons are failure, and the diploma is who you become.

@DearS_o_n On a bad day the trick isn't more willpower, it's shrinking the task so you still show up. Lower the bar, don't skip. That's my only advice here

You're a man. Show up every day to fix your life. Do it alone. Do it broke. Do it tired. Do it scared. Fuck your mood, just do it.

@DearS_o_n Survivorship bias hiding in this one. For every risk taker who started a dynasty there's a pile who took the same risk and lost everything.

Generational wealth starts with one risk taker. Let that man be you.

@paulg The length is the symptom. The real problem is AI optimizes for plausible, and plausible means averaged. It sands off the exact thing worth reading, the person's actual voice. A short blunt email from a real person beats paragraphs of competent nothing.

Another annoying thing about getting emails people have used AIs to write for them is that they're usually longer than they'd have written by themselves. Paragraphs and paragraphs of plausible-sounding text. Ugh.

@ItsKieranDrew "Finding the thing" sometimes becomes a permanent excuse to never commit long enough to actually get good. Should grind somewhere until you find it, don't wait to find it first.

If you feel like you are in the wrong career, start exploring your curiosity. You need to find a craft where consistency feels effortless. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t very good. Energy is more important than expertise, and nobody can compete with you if you are having fun. Find the thing, then go all in.

@DearS_o_n None of this is automatic though. You don't get a better job by losing one, you get it by being someone who can land a better one. Abundance mindset isn't "better things show up," it's "I can go build more." Drop the work and losing just leaves you with less.

Lose a girl, get a better girl. Lose money, get more money. Lose a job, get a job with better pay. Life is all about abundance mindset.

@russellbrunson "No one drifts into greatness" is a clean line, but plenty of people stumbled into their thing chasing curiosity, not a written destination. Think scientists of the golden age as well.

"No one drifts into greatness. Write the destination. Then steer hard."

@DearS_o_n This movie should be AI edited. Put Denzel instead Will Smith.

Whenever life gets tough, I watch this scene 1000 times.

@ItsKieranDrew Thet "best self" usually isn't blocked by one big thing. It's a hundred small days you keep postponing. It almost goes unnoticed. That's what's scary I think.

My biggest fear is dying without letting my best self live.

@DearS_o_n Nobody picks the regret on purpose. The pain of work is loud and right now, the pain of wasted potential is quiet and far off, so doing nothing quietly chooses it for you. It's not one wise choice, it's re-choosing the work every day.

Every man has to choose a pain: • The pain of hard work • The pain of unfulfilled potential Make sure that you choose wisely.

@russellbrunson The discomfort that grows you is usually boring, not dramatic. No need to chase the dramatic kind because it feels more impressive.

Avoiding discomfort guarantees mediocrity. Leaning into it guarantees evolution.

@hvgoenka You don't leave values in them by deciding to. Kids copy what you do, not what you say, including the parts you're not proud of. The real question is what you model daily, not what you hope to instill.

Many people spend their lives worrying about what they will leave for their children. The deeper question is: what will you leave in them? -Values. Character. Kindness. Courage.

@lawrencekingyo Also like a striker, the misses are public but the work to get into position isn't. Everyone sees the goals, nobody sees the reps that put you there.

Doing sales is like being a striker in football (soccer) Some days everything you touch is a goal, you score 4 goals, and everything goes your way On other days, you hit the bar, the ball goes wide and nothing works The trick is to keep putting yourself in a position to score

@DearS_o_n Good message. Small thing in the framing though: respecting someone only because their dream died is closer to pity. The work is real and necessary on its own. You don't need to cast them as failed dreamers to respect them.

Nobody grew up with the intention of being a cleaner, cashier, or security guard. We all had big dreams, but life happened. Dear son, Respect other people’s jobs.

@MasculineTheory Confident, low-shame men also have hips.

You think you’re ugly and can’t make eye contact with women because you have tightness and tension in your hips and pelvic floor. Most likely because you’re a man who feels shame and guilt quite often.

@thejustinwelsh That's an amazing thing. But careful making it as a metric. The deepest help usually ends up credited to the person themselves, which is exactly how it should work.

A great measure of personal success is how many people thank you for theirs.

@readswithravi Let's not confuse the people who think they reached "blame no one" with the ones that actually just gave up and called it acceptance.

There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love: “He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”

@dickiebush The genius thing is the admin now can't be skipped, because it's bolted to a workout you're already doing. Forcing function beats willpower.

Current Sunday life hack: Hammering out all of my admin / planning / scheduling while doing a Zone 2 workout on the incline treadmill. 60 minutes of zone 2 & all the trivial things I have to do each week accomplished. I step off that thing with insane momentum & dopamine afterward. Highly recommend.

@Nicolascole77 The honest problem with "trust the process" is you can't tell a slow-compounding process from a broken one until a lot of time has passed.

The hardest growth is the kind you can't see on a daily basis. If you can measure it in 24 hours or less, it's incremental. Whereas anything exponential must be measured over longer time horizons. Trust the process.

The line isn't really per-domain, it splits inside a single task. Building an audience: what converts is verifiable, you can measure and test it. But the voice that earns the click is taste, and AI can't fake it. Same task, AI takes the measurable half, the human keeps the taste. I don't think AI have taste, or maybe it has one but it can't be unique by user/AI.

it’s said that to be a true science, then it must be testable and falsifiable. The scientific method (hypothesis->experimentation->theory) can then be used to discover truth within these testable domains There must be a deep connection to AI’s mastery of verifiable truths. That is, there’s an AI-native version of the Scientific Method where if a system is highly verifiable (AlphaGo, Erdos problems, etc) then AI will eventually know everything. And there are domains that might be in-between (it may turn out lots of science is like this). We’re use embodied AI/robotics to move the bar over time. Then there be some areas which are inherently non-verifiable and/or irreducibly complex, which is the domain of taste and human essence Just as falsifiability determines the line between science and “not science” it feels like verifiability becomes the line between “AI can do it” and “needs a human”