Impact Mindset

- A life-defining find, worth as much time as needed. - You don't have many battles in your life, you have one. - It's an infinite game, not winnable, only playable. Learn how to play better :)

There are always driving forces in life. When we are "stuck" in our improvement journey we do not stay in the same place, even though looking back at the last week, month or year of our life may make it seem so. Instead we are stuck in a small (usually daily) loop that goes nowhere, absorbing internal and external energy as it oscillates. Together with the team of psychologists at I Grow Younger (@igrowyoung) we are working on an advanced model for understanding and ultimately breaking out of these cycles. Discipline or habits is not how this works as the driving forces are deeper. In fact in my personal life I've never ever seen any benefit from self-discipline. This is how you achieve burnout, not true success. Driven people appear disciplined but it's not a driving force. It can sustain progress, not create it. If you want to understand how misguided our culture’s obsession with discipline is, look at a story most people have never heard. In 636 AD, the massive Byzantine Empire clashed with the Rashidun Caliphate near Yarmuk. The Byzantines had everything going for them. Superior equipment. Bigger numbers. Elite units. Ridiculous levels of military discipline. They were the Roman Empire in its final act: polished, drilled, and proud. The Muslim forces? A patchwork of tribes. And yet they had something far stronger than discipline. They had purpose. They had creativity. They had momentum in their hearts instead of in their rulebooks. The battle raged for days. The Byzantines attacked again and again, and by any normal metric, the Muslims should have shattered. But they did not. And when the Byzantines finally offered a truce, almost every commander was ready to take it. Except one. Khalid ibn al-Walid refused. He sensed something the others could not see. He felt the psychological fracture forming on the enemy’s side. And he refused to retreat at the exact moment when logic, discipline, and “common sense” said he should. On the sixth day he unleashed a move that was so bold it looked insane. He sent mostly infantry straight into the Byzantine center while holding his elite cavalry far behind the lines. When the Byzantines committed everything to stop the charge, he released the cavalry in a massive sweeping flank that collapsed the entire Roman position. Here is the part our modern self-help worldview refuses to accept: the moment discipline broke down was the moment victory was born. The battlefield dissolved into chaos. Units mixed. Commands became irrelevant. What remained was raw human intention. The idea that “discipline wins wars” falls apart here. It was not discipline that crushed the Byzantine Empire that day. It was conviction. It was improvisation. It was a wave of internal momentum that no checklist or morning routine could ever create. And this is exactly what personal growth feels like. Real change does not come from the part of you that forces yourself out of bed at 5 AM. That part cracks under pressure. Real change comes from the part of you that suddenly decides “enough” and throws the entire old identity into the fire. Real change is violent, not neat. It is emotional, not mechanical. It comes from meaning, not from schedules. So if you keep telling yourself that you “just need more discipline,” maybe the problem is not your discipline at all. Maybe the problem is that you are trying to force yourself into a life that does not excite you, a routine that does not reflect you, and goals you are not actually inspired by. People do not fail because they lack discipline. They fail because they lack alignment. They fail because they are forcing themselves to march when they should be charging. They fail because they follow rules that were never designed for them in the first place. Break the loop. Break the identity that created the loop. Stop trying to be a tidy little disciplined machine. Machines do not grow. Humans do. If you want to change your life, stop trying to become more disciplined. Become more alive instead.

There are always driving forces in life. When we are "stuck" in our improvement journey we do not stay in the same place, even though looking back at the last week, month or year of our life may make it seem so. Instead we are stuck in a small (usually daily) loop that goes nowhere, absorbing internal and external energy as it oscillates. @igrowyoung is the most advanced model for understanding and ultimately breaking out of these cycles. #SelfLove #SelfImprovement

@TEDx an event organizer or someone with access to one asking money in exchange for a TEDx speaker slot is against your guidelines I suppose? We just had such a case and would like to report it.

ImpactMindset was founded with the question: What would you do for the world if you didn't need to fight for money, attention or trust and assumed you'll create something of such quality... that they will come anyway? Projects like @igrowyoung & @nocheaptraffic are the answer.

The YouTube channel of @igrowyoung has basically no dislikes. The like/dislike ratio is ~ 100 to 1. This means we've successfully completed the 1st part of our mission - create serious, yet uniting content in a politically divided world. Enjoy here: @growyounger" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@growyounger

I Grow Younger (@igrowyoung ) is the project of my life. I founded an 8-figure domain company and in the process accidentally discovered life's driving forces. I used to get them all wrong! 100% free! i.gy - Read as a book @growyounger" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@growyounger - On YouTube

*Struggling with phone addiction? This one is for you!* - Who am I to give advice? I use my phone for about 3 minutes a day (apart from talking). - The phone and social media on it are a trap that hijacks your biology for the profit of Silicon Valley companies💰 - If you're into digital work, just get a lightweight laptop and carry it around. It's way better! - You control the laptop and can tweak it! - If you spend more time on the phone, it starts controlling you :( Feel powerless to switch? Check @igrowyoung's 100% free, no-strings-attached full guide to beat the phone once and for all: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Let's call it what it is without any judgement. Change starts with acceptance. #addiction

I'm European & learned who Charlie Kirk is this week. This reactive, divisive, attention-grabbing dialogue about the death of a human is just toxic🥴 Remember, the more others trigger you, the bigger the internal win it is to reach across for understanding, compassion & nuance💜 Is it that hard to admit no one is that one-dimensional, regardless of whether they are in your camp or not? It's biological to like nothing or everything about a person, but we can do better than our tribal instincts 🙈 Respect is not black and white, it's beyond any color, an universal virtue, no matter where you point it 🤝 The attention war turns so many people into unpaid soldiers for the causes of politicians :( In @igrowyoung we ask a simple question about every action👇 - Is it by chance at the same time: 1. Not making you happy; 2. Taking time while being totally unpaid; 3. Not contributing to a better world (even if your intentions are noble they can still backfire in a toxic environment); If the answer is yes to all, maybe just... try not to do it and find a healthier activity? Like walk in nature, listen to music, dance, see some friends?🍺 Everyone who rage-tweets about Charlie can ask these questions and look deep inside. Charlie is dead. You are alive and have the honorable responsibility to build bridges - which can also bring you true joy and meaning. No one wins in war.

#Timeleft: We're not a #dating app! I go to @apptimeleft dinner - 100% single people looking around 😁 Still great conversations and overall experience :) Nothing beats randomness at improving life. Chaos is what you need - i.gy/chaos/ Kudos to the app for helping.

There is a notable exception though - when myths about how hard something is get shattered. My 1st easy money online were more meaningful than all the hard-earned money before - it showed me "easy money don't exist" is just a false, unhelpful myth. It was life-changing for me. I realized then and there things are never as they seem to be, which is probably the most important general realization everyone has to discover.

I have now written ~500 pages of self-improvement concepts in i.gy, 70% done. Could have been a best-selling book but I insist to give you this knowledge free of charge. Where can you be in 5 years & what intuition will help you? No similar resource exists :)

@harari_yuval Impossible is nothing if you know how the world works.

Do you want to make a change in the world? Doing so as an isolated activist is almost impossible. Watch the full presentation and panel discussion: bit.ly/CambridgeYNH Filmed in Cambridge, England, on 27 February 2024.

Recently missed a train by 15 sec :) Smiling at small fails also helps with big ones. And so does running for the train regardless of the odds :)) More about how this works here: i.gy/life-direction/

i.gy/change/ The easiest article I ever had to write. Just about 1000 times shorter and simpler than anything else in life :)

My rad opinion what should happen with the #education system in most countries is... that is has to be destroyed. i.gy/education/

@crunchbase is ranking me world's entrepreneur #4939 & Seo.Domains is at #27535 for a company. To learn what #Mindset I developed to get there, subscribe to my newsletter for personal improvement. I'll never sell you anything there. linkedin.com/newsletters/i-…

How to overcome the strongest force in your life when you need to. i.gy/inertia

reddit.com/user/karakehay… You can also follow me on Reddit now. I believe my deep systematic approach to things and zero tolerance for bullshit makes #reddit a good place for me to help others with my experience in various fields.

Here is a value-packed post about the 4 parts that make life i.gy/life It took me 15 years to understand this well enough to explain it, it will only take you 15 minutes to read it. Via @igrowyoung