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Overwhelming talent + Hard Work makes you a billionaire / world-class athlete / billboard artist If talent is a multiplier and hard work is the variable. If both can be quantified. (Eg Talent is 1/5, hard work is 5/5, result is 1x5 = 5)

Tennis players live 9.7 years longer than sedentary people. Not 9.7 months. 9.7 years. Nearly a decade. The Copenhagen City Heart Study tracked 8,577 people for 25 years and ranked every sport by how much life it adds. Badminton: 6.2 years. Soccer: 4.7. Cycling: 3.7. Swimming: 3.4. Jogging: 3.2. Tennis almost triples jogging. A separate study of 80,000 adults found racket sports cut all-cause mortality by 47% and cardiovascular death by 56%. Swimming hit 41%. Aerobics hit 36%. The question is why racket sports destroy everything else. Three mechanisms stack on top of each other. First, the physical demands. A tennis rally requires explosive sprints, lateral cuts, and sustained aerobic output. You're training fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers simultaneously. Most cardio only trains one system. Second, the cognitive load. You're reading spin, predicting angles, adjusting position, and executing motor patterns in real-time. Your brain is solving spatial puzzles at 80+ mph. That hand-eye coordination and strategic processing builds neural connections that protect against cognitive decline. Third, and this is the one researchers keep coming back to: you literally cannot play alone. Every racket sport requires another person on the other side of the net. That forced social interaction triggers neurochemical benefits that solitary exercise cannot replicate. Strong social connection alone increases your chance of longevity by 50%. Jogging is you and your thoughts. Tennis is you, a strategic opponent, and a community. Dr. Daniel Amen is right. The data is overwhelming. If you want the single highest-ROI activity for a longer life, pick up a racket.

My boomer uncle saved $1.2 million for retirement. - drove a 2003 Honda until it felt apart - packed his lunch everyday for 33 years - had a whole list of things he was going to do He died 2 weeks before retiring

Habits so simple you think they’re not worth doing, but have a profound impact on your life: - Not touching your phone when you wake up - Not thinking about work after work is done - Putting a book down once you find an idea worth thinking about - Setting aside time to do nothing for 10 minutes a day - Going on a short walk after each meal - Eating a meal without a screen in front of you - Saying "I don't know" instead of pretending you do - Asking "What if this isn't actually a problem?" before trying to solve it - Letting yourself be bad at something instead of expecting perfection - Trying to understand something you disagree with instead of looking for flaws - Defaulting to "no" until you think through the commitment

i just read a post that said " life becomes so beautiful when you realise that one step backwards is also the part of the dance" holyyyy fuccckkkkk

If you want to make serious money, understand that you’re competing with people who already have capital, networks, and leverage. You’re not just competing on skill. You’re competing on resources. That’s why trying to do everything alone is a disadvantage. You need strong relationships, solid partnerships, and people who can lock in, share knowledge, and move faster with you. “I don’t have friends” is not a flex. “I don’t like asking for help” is even worse. Because the people you’re competing with are collaborating, pooling resources, and accelerating each other. You don’t win big alone.

fuck LinkedIn fuck experience fuck cover letters fuck internships fuck careers

As the founder of a $100M business, I’ve read thousands of books. A tiny fraction of them are worth your time. Here are 9 that changed my life and business:

10 THINGS TO KEEP A SECRET... - Thread -

My dads an incredibly smart man. •Great leader •Can fix anything •Socially strong & networks well •Read a book a week for 30 years He NEVER moved up in his company. I asked him WHY & the answer he gave me brought me to tears. Here’s the best lesson my dad ever taught me.

“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.” — Charles Bukowski

If you casually flirt with every woman you meet and greet random guys with a “what’s up bro” energy, you'll go far in life. Everyone’s just a kid in an adult body. They want complements and connection. Be that guy and you’ll never be lonely or broke.

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature: “Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.” The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.

If you are 22 and wondering how to start your life properly, understand this first. You are at the very beginning of the most important decade of your life. At 22, the greatest mistake many people make is thinking life is still a game. They drift through their early twenties experimenting with everything except discipline. Years will pass quickly and before they realize it, they are approaching 30 with no real direction at all Now I am writing this because the smartest thing you can do at 22 is to focus on building yourself. Learn skills that the world actually pays for such as in technology, finance, engineering, AI, data, cybersecurity, design, sales, anything that puts you in the global economy. Your degree alone will rarely be enough. Second, learn how money works early. Understand saving, investing, and compounding. Even small amounts invested consistently in your twenties can change your entire financial future. Many people wait until their late thirties before they start thinking about this, and by then time has already taken a large portion of the advantage away. Third, choose your environment carefully. The people around you will either accelerate your life or slow it down. If you spend most of your time with people who are unserious about their future, you will slowly become the same. But if you surround yourself with people who are building something, thinking bigger, and pushing forward, their mindset will rub off on you. Finally, take responsibility for your life early. Do not wait for the government, your parents, or society to create the perfect conditions for you. The world rarely works that way. The people who move ahead are usually the ones who decide early that their future is their own responsibility. At 22, you may not have everything figured out yet, and that is normal. But if you focus on discipline, skills, financial awareness, and the right environment, you are already doing more than most people your age. And that small difference, repeated over years, is what eventually creates extraordinary lives.

Life is amazing: -gyms exist -Coke Zero exists -hot girls outnumber even moderately put-together dudes 2000 to 1 -every food item in the world has been hunted and gathered for you (grocery stores) -you and your wife can drink 4 bottles of wine then smash all night without a condom -you and your friends can hit the gym then smoke a joint at a John Mayer concert -you could be working 16 hour days in a coal mine in a third world country breaking your lower back for less than $1 There’s kids who live in wheelchairs. There’s kids born with disabilities. No Prom, no Shoulder Presses, no sleepovers with their best friends staying up until 2AM watching Interstellar. And you’re not SMASHING the gym like a grateful SAVAGE!? Eating healthy 90% of the time, calling your friends for no reason, CRUSHING it in your career, asking for the promotion, asking out your crush making her your girlfriend then your wife!? You’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion MIRACLE. You’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)

Nobody tells you this: Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. It’s the dopamine from reading, planning, or learning, but never doing. Stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Get your dopamine from action.

@ysuckme Question: how do you know if something you are doing has great long term potential at given moment, I.e how does one develop farsight?

Neverrrrrrrrrr quit something with great long term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment.

this quote from Carl Jung hits so hard. “The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”

I have seen intelligent people destroy their careers by never learning to play dumb. Showing your full intellect in every interaction signals a threat to those above you. They will become defiant. They will resent you. Strategic ignorance, however, lets others feel superior. They relax. They reveal information. Then you are free to act on what you learned, while they underestimate you. Ask clarifying questions you already know the answer to. Intelligence is power.

@danielbarada Deep work by Cal Newport, read it

Focus is focus. The ability to lock in on a book for 2 hours is the same ability that lets you be present in a conversation, push at the gym, or sit with a problem until solved. You're building 1 capacity that shows up everywhere. Doesn't matter where you train it. It transfers.

approach 100 girls, you’ll find a girlfriend test 100 products, you’ll get rich off one post 100 tweets, you’ll get a banger life is a number game, take more shots