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Thoughts on creativity in art, work, & life. ▸ Embracing Creativity™ ⩥ Building @4CreativeWheels
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I've always liked the story of Charlie Munger.
At 31, he was basically at rock bottom.
He was freshly divorced, had lost the house, and his son died of leukemia. Munger paid for every treatment out of pocket and was left with almost nothing.
Yet he kept going.
Instead of drowning in bitterness, he worked, he read, and he kept his head down.
With a new marriage and some stability, he began investing his lawyer's salary into stocks and real estate.
Then in 1959 he met Buffett.
Inspired by someone who was already running his own partnership, Munger founded Wheeler, Munger & Company in 1962.
The wealth started to accumulate. Through real estate projects and his growing investment partnership, Munger became a millionaire around age 43.
Many successful investments followed, many alongside Buffett, and the relationship grew close enough that working together was the only thing that made sense.
Munger wound down his partnership in 1975. Over 13 years, he had compounded at 19.8% annually, against 5% for the Dow.
In 1978, he became Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and helped build the empire it was set to become.
Somewhere along the way he lost an eye to a failed surgery, but that didn't bother him much. He still had one left. Plenty enough to read annual reports.
When most people think of Munger, they just see a rich old wise man who almost stood in Buffett's shadow. But the truth is that Munger's wisdom didn't come from nowhere.
He worked himself up from rock bottom, a place where many others would have stayed down, to become one of the most respected investors in history. And a billionaire on top of that.
He never let it go to his head. He lived in the same house in Pasadena for decades. The place didn't even have AC. He cooled it with ice and fans.
Hard to find a better role model than that.
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Why a 1995 documentary called Steve Jobs the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley:
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The saying "It's a marathon, not a sprint" no longer has any meaning. The marathon is a sprint, time for a longer event.
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Nike did not lose. We forget that Eliud's trial for under 2 hrs with Ineos made the idea of the possibility plausible and finally achievable. Minimising the entire work that Nike did to selling shoes is missing the point by a lot. Eliud and Nike's effort made Sawe achieve the sub 2 hr
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Eliud Kipchoge walked so that Sebastian Sawe could run! 🐐 🐐
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He will always remain a legend for instilling the belief that No Human is Limited. 🫡👌
Historic Vids@historyinmemes
"Scientists said that humans would only be able to run the marathon under 2 hours in 2075, but I proved them wrong," said Eliud Kipchoge.
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"The reward for great work is more work.
I find that saying that maxim to the right person, the kind of person I want to spend time with, their eyes go wide and they understand it immediately.
The reward for great work is not money, power, fame.
It is the privilege to get to do more of this thing that I love doing."
— @patrick_oshag
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In 1986, a Texas psychologist told 46 students to write about the worst thing that ever happened to them, 15 minutes a day for 4 days straight. Over the next 6 months, those students went to the doctor half as often as the kids in the control group.
The psychologist was James Pennebaker. He repeated the experiment, and so did other labs. Same answer every time: writing about pain in a notebook was changing something inside the body. Follow-up studies found improved immune cell counts, faster wound healing after surgery, lower HIV virus levels in blood tests, and better lung function in people with asthma.
For years the mechanism was a puzzle. Pennebaker had stumbled onto a much bigger pattern than he realized. Making things of any kind does something to the body.
Take painting. A 2016 study at Drexel University handed 39 random adults some markers, clay, and collage paper and told them to make whatever they wanted for 45 minutes. No rules, no skill required. 75% of them walked out with lower cortisol (the main stress hormone) in their saliva. Beginners and experienced artists got the same drop.
Take dancing. Doctors at Einstein College of Medicine tracked 469 seniors over a 21-year period in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2003. People who danced a few times a week were 76% less likely to get dementia than people who rarely did. That was the largest protective effect of anything they tested. Crosswords came in at 47%, reading at 35%. Swimming and cycling did nothing for the brain at all.
Take singing. In 2004, researchers in Germany measured antibodies in a choir's saliva before and after rehearsal. The antibody count (the stuff that fights off colds and flu) rose significantly. A follow-up study on cancer patients and their caregivers found that one hour of group singing dropped cortisol and switched on their immune systems at a measurable, blood-test level.
And just going to see art helps. University College London tracked 6,710 British adults over age 50 for 14 years. People who went to the theatre, a museum, or a concert every few months were 31% less likely to die during that window. Even going once or twice a year dropped the risk by 14%. Wealth, education, and starting health were all accounted for.
The mechanism seems to live in a brain circuit called the default mode network, the part that wanders when you daydream. When you fall into the zone of making something, that network hooks up with the one that holds your attention, and the brain's stress system quiets down. Cortisol falls, dopamine climbs, and the slow-burn inflammation that eventually kills most of us calms down too. None of it depends on the quality of what you make.
The Spanish tweet sounded like hyperbole. 40 years of peer-reviewed data says it's roughly right.
444 𖤐@poyoetc
No pretendo exagerar pero el arte va a salvar tu vida. la música, la pintura, la cerámica, la escritura, el tallado, el tejido… el acto de CREAR te va a salvar.
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I spent my formative years in the era before Elon was “Elon”. We were terrific Steve Jobs design ethic fans. The inside of the product mattered as much as the outside. Keeping it simple. Use adjectives wrongly in phrases such as “Think Different” and yet make it a sensation. Reality distortion. Control obsession. Spirituality. Pixar and more…
So, when Tim Cook took over after Jobs I remember the debates I have had on how Apple will change for the worse. Now, so many years down the line, Tim Cook has shown so many more ways in which a company can be grown. The biggest lesson that strikes me now is this - life is a multi solution, multi path problem. Stick to your originality, style and focus and chart your path. To take up Apple and run it the way we he did, to fill the shoes of one of the most powerful personalities at that time while also having to lead the company - this is an incredibly hard challenge. Excited to see what Apple will become now.
CNN@CNN
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down as CEO after leading the company in the post-Steve Jobs era. He will be replaced by longtime executive John Ternus. cnn.it/42jcx7f
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All the most successful people I know have the most agency.
They don’t wait to be told what to do. They don't outsource their thinking and planning to AI. They never go unconscious or escape into social media. Their mind is a sword, and they use it to cut through reality to inch closer to their mission at every waking moment.
You can spot this type of person by the way they walk, speak, text, and look at you. No motion is wasted. Their attention is sharp. Every moment is intentional.
Stop looking outside yourself for answers. Stop waiting to be told what to do. Stop asking AI what it thinks. Find the highest-leverage problem and attack it with your full focus and attention. Once it's done, move on to the next.
Cultivate agency first as a devoted practice, and everything you’re looking for will follow.
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Tim Cook hate is overdone. He was the right guy at the right time. Jobs correctly predicted no one would create a post-smartphone anytime soon - so he put in a CEO who would grow what Apple had with the most brilliant supply/logistics in corporate history. Ever.
Cook was great.
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@orenmeetsworld The Internet's Creative Director giving the sauce 🫡🫡
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We are in an intellectual video content boom
As the text networks are overtaken by AI, smart people with niche expertise who can write well are crushing it on Instagram and TikTok.
These are the four content styles to leverage expertise for a brand or creator and put up views in 2026👇
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This paragraph by C.S. Lewis, written in 1948, still hits hard:
“If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
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@orenmeetsworld I'm glad I was born in an era when I can read such for free. To read is nice. But to apply and get to work is nicer and greater.
Thanks for sharing, mate! Much appreciated.
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