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wealthisquiet
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High performers almost always want someone who’s also a high performer. Social media sold a fantasy that a rich man will fund your lifestyle while expecting little in return. That’s why so many are shocked by his comments. He’s not saying homemaking has no value. He’s saying people operating at a certain level want someone who’s just as driven & ambitious.
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LeBron James says he couldn't date a stay at home woman “I think personally me today, if I was not in a relationship, I could not have a stay at home woman” “For me, who I am at 40 and what I got going on, just coming home and seeing somebody sitting on the couch every day just chilling, that wouldn't float for me”
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To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
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being around successful people does one of two things to you, and it does one of them automatically
the automatic one is comparison. you don’t choose it. the moment you’re in the room, your brain quietly swaps out your old measuring stick am i better than i was last year for a new one: am i where they are. and you will always lose by that stick, because you’re comparing your chapter three to their chapter twenty. that loss creates pressure. pressure creates rushed decisions. and rushed decisions are how proximity to wealth makes you poorer
the second thing, learning
never happens automatically. it has to be chosen, deliberately, every time. it means watching how they decide instead of what they own. asking the question even when asking feels like admitting the gap. studying their patience, not their results
so both live in you at once. the comparison runs on its own; the extraction runs only on intention. which means the default outcome of being near success is damage, and the earned outcome is growth
the room gives everyone the same heat some people cook with it, some people burn in it, and the difference is never the room.
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