You'd be surprised how far you can get by only knowing what you want and not accepting anything else until you get it.

Every time you hesitate, someone less talented takes your spot. The world rewards audacity, not potential.

Major cheat code in life: Understanding you can reinvent yourself at any time. New habits, new standards, new friend group, new career, etc. There's no rule that says you have to stay the person you've always been. You're allowed to decide, "I'm done being this version of me.”

The people who win aren't smarter they're just damaged in a way that makes quitting physically impossible, like their failure response is broken so they keep walking into the wall until the wall breaks first, and we call this "resilience" or "grit" but really it's just a specific form of blindness, a holy ignorance that lets you keep walking when... See more

if he perma grinded like a good boy instead of "idling around" and "making errors" the probability that he'd have died as a noname normie journalist rounds to 1

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it’s called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don’t care, but because you care too much.

Some guy who is 30 pts lower than you on the IQ scale is in the arena trying stuff while you’re “exploring ideas”.

In some small ways (or the entire thing as a whole) you are already living what you used to wish for. Don’t forget to appreciate what you already have. Gratitude for what you’re experiencing right now - rather than looking endlessly towards the future, that is magical

my theory on bryan johnson is that while he's spending millions trying to live forever, his most effective 'longevity hack' is having a mission he wakes up excited about.