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“You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.” — Bhagavad Gita

"Persistence beats timing. Execution beats luck. Not immediately, but eventually." @naval

Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

There's one ritual that helps me go from chaos to clarity in just 30 minutes every week: The Weekly Review It allows me to: • Clear my digital workspaces • Update my tasks • Decide on my priorities for the week Here's my simple, 5-step process for doing a Weekly Review:

If you’re a new business owner - you’re first objective is to let people know about your stuff. For context: that usually means four hours per day minimum spent promoting the thing you sell. After all, you can’t improve your stuff until you’ve got someone to give you feedback.

James Cameron has written & directed 3 of the top 4 highest-grossing movies of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic). Before he made movies, Cameron was a truck driver. He didn't go to film school. Instead, on the weekends, he would go to the library and.. "I'd pull any thesis that [University of Southern California] graduate students had written [on] anything that related to film technology," Cameron explained. "And for the cost of xeroxing (photocopying), I [got] all these doctoral dissertations [and] build up these big binders on how everything was done." "So I literally gave myself a full graduate course on film technology for about $120. I didn’t have to enroll in school because it was all there in the library. I’d set it up to go in like I was on a tactical mission, find out what I needed to know, and take it all home." Takeaway 1: When asked what motivated him to read those big binders full of information on filmmaking, Cameron said he was just following what excited him. "People seek out the information and knowledge they need," he said. "It's like a divining rod." The mythologist Joseph Campbell similarly talked about how reading is like "a divining rod," a way to find what you are uniquely attracted to and meant to do. "You’ve got to read," Campbell said. "Find [what] excites you. And if it doesn’t excite you…It’s not yours.” Takeaway 2: Of course, at some point, Cameron had to put the binders down and pick up a camera. When he eventually attempted to make his first movie, Cameron said, “It was a bit like a doctor doing his first appendectomy after having only read about it." The bestselling author and learning expert, Scott Young, has a great article with a great title, "Do The Real Thing." "When you examine case studies of people who have had major accomplishments," Scott writes, "you expect there to be some trick or shortcut...More often, however, the strategy used is dead simple: doing the real thing." Takeaway 3: Leonardo da Vinci used to sign off his letters, “Leonardo da Vinci, disscepolo della sperientia” ("disciple of experience"). He used to believe that one learns best by solely "doing the real thing." Over time, however, he evolved out of this belief and, biographer Walter Isaacson writes, "became a disciple of both experience and received wisdom." When you examine case studies of people who have mastered their craft, you usually find they are "disciples of both experience and received wisdom." Like Cameron, they read the library and they do the real thing. - - - “Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going.” — Leonardo da Vinci Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

The most effective networking strategy I’ve found has nothing to do with conferences, cocktail hours, cold emails, or any of the common ideas you hear. 1) Do interesting things. 2) Share them publicly. Like-minded people will come to you.

What's the difference between Getting Things Done and Building a Second Brain? They're meant for different types of information! GTD is for tasks while BASB is for notes Here are our approaches side by side:

In general… When I’m looking at a screen, I feel like I need more. When I’m looking at nature, I feel like I have enough.

Daily Reminders: Sleepy → Walk Stressed → Meditate Exhausted → Power Nap Overload → Second Brain Distracted → Time-blocking Unmotivated → Set Daily Goals Bookmark this tweet for later.

Sometimes we are too hard on ourselves and criticize our mistakes to an unhelpful degree. Sometimes we are too easy on ourselves and let excuses run our lives. Which way are you leaning right now? How can you pull yourself back to center?

The person who focuses on one task and sees it through to completion—even if they work in a somewhat slow or outdated manner—beats the endless optimizer who jumps from tool to tool and always hopes a new piece of technology will help them finish what they start.

Do your job—whatever it is—well. How you do anything is how you do everything.

You’re underestimating the power of Notion. It’s a landing page builder in disguise. Here's how you build Notion websites in under 10min:

If you want to be good and feel good, you have to do good. There is no escaping this.

Practice the law of action, not attraction.

Rather thank picking up your next book, take action on your last book.

Sometimes, when we receive advice, we force it upon ourselves and then blame ourselves when it doesn't work. Here's how to make advice work for you:

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