Anthony Adenny

Get ready to lose your job…

@AzFlin Anyone who lives in china long enough to get used to this system can’t go back to living in the west.

China is the only country that gives zero fucks about tourists. You must do everything their way. Want to call Uber? Fuck you. It doesn’t exist, use DiDi. Want to pay with credit card? Apple Pay? Fuck you, doesn’t work. Go install Alipay Nobody speaks any English. No signs or menus are in English. Whip out that Google Translate app. Oh wait, Google’s blocked. Go and setup your VPN 🤣 By far the hardest place to travel to, esp without native Chinese speaker. But nothing good comes easy does it!

@RayDalio x.com/i/status/20232…

You need to stop blaming yourself for hating your job. You're not unmotivated. You're not lazy. You're just in an environment that doesn't match what your nervous system needs to feel engaged. Some people need challenge and autonomy. Some need connection and variety. Some need stability and relationships. Some need depth and understanding. When your job doesn't provide what you actually need, no amount of discipline fixes it. The fix isn't trying harder. It's understanding what actually makes you feel alive and building a life around that instead of against it.

You think burnout is about working too many hours. But burnout is about misalignment—you can work 80 hours and feel alive, or 20 hours and feel dead, depending on whether the work fits how you're wired.

What your job is actually missing: • You need autonomy but your job gives you compliance • You need people but your job gives you isolation • You need stability but your job gives you chaos • You need depth but your job gives you shallow speed Stop forcing yourself to care about work that was never designed for your wiring. The problem was never you.

@waronweakness As a Jamaican and a writer, a house with a first class view of the pristine Caribbean sea with a private beach can help with your writing. Worth the investment.

Facts. I grew up in a small town myself, left right after uni and found a job in Asia. Lived in a bunch of countries since. Every 2-3 years I go back home I fit in less because of how the experiences change my perspective so often. Breaks my heart seeing old friends stuck in the same rut not evolving. When I left in 2015 online work wasn't much of a thing but now there's even more opportunities. World is too big to stay where you were planted.

It blows my mind how people stay in the same country all their life. I come from a little village in the North of the UK, and no one leaves. As a result, there’s a close-minded, pessimistic attitude to life. It makes you stupid because you never change your beliefs. There is a whole world out there to see. Different cultures, different perspectives. The more you expose yourself to new environments, the more you realise that reality is much wider than you think. And it’s exciting too. This is one reason I refused to keep working a ‘normal’ job. Working online gives you the freedom to see the world while building something meaningful. You were born to explore.

You can change jobs a hundred times, but if you don't understand what actually drives you, you'll keep hating it. Every. Single. Time.

You don't hate your job. You hate living against how your brain is wired to feel alive.

If you don't know what you want from life then start with that you don't want it to look like. If you can get clear on that, it's easy to start getting clues on what you really want out of life and how to get there.

Car culture died the moment we traded vehicles for appliances. EVs aren't progress. They're the final disconnection. You can't fix them You can't modify them You can't understand them You can't own what you can't understand. And that's exactly the point.

If you think that you deserve more from life, then you do. If you think that you deserve less from life, then you do. There is no middle ground. There is no luck. There is only what you believe you're worth.

Most people are trapped in the rat race because they refuse to live below their means. But most people aren't ready for that talk yet.

Most people are trapped in the rat race because they refuse to live below their means. But they're not ready for that talk yet.

Your life feels boring because you won't listen. You won't listen to your mind's thirst for something new that will challenge your true capabilities. Boredom is simply your mind's thirst for a reason to level up. Feeding it junk food from the algorithm is how you trigger anxiety and depression along with the boredom you already have.

Do what the 99% won't. Question your beliefs. Read difficult books. Journal. Meditate. Seek time alone. Go on walks. Go to the gym. Set goals. Accomplish goals. Self study. Eat healthy. Give more. Take less. It's never been easier to live a great life in a world that celebrates being average.