Evan Pitchie

About a year ago, @blader came to @fdotinc and explained the secret to get a "hell yes" from investors instead of a no. You need to engineer an emotional experience. Make investors feel these emotions in this order: amusement -> curiosity -> surprise -> awe -> greed

the reason to snap yourself out of doubt isn’t because there may be no validity at all to some of your lowest vibrational thoughts, but because embodying those thoughts and letting them occupy your mind leads you to act in a way that will prove those thoughts right

Most people need permission to stay calm. They need a school to say, "If you pay us 6 figures, you'll get a job." They need an employer to say, "If you stay for 2 more years, you'll get promoted." They need someone to say, "If you do this, you'll be fine" They need to be fed the illusion of a guaranteed outcome in order to not go off the rails. If... See more

We control more than we think in some areas, and less than we think in others. The only way to find out, is to assume you control everything, then see where that’s not true. Also, this maximizes what you do control.

Life gets drastically better when you brainwash yourself to the point that no matter what happens to you It is all part of the big plan, which leads you to an even bigger victory around the corner Impossible to feel down following this basic approach to mental models

Tattoo this to your brain: "The world is a malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.” – Marc Andreessen

How magnetic you are really comes down to how present you are. The way you talk about what you do, what you like, all of it. No hesitation. No second guessing. Just comes out effortlessly, naturally. You're expressing yourself simply because there's no reason not to There's no

the moment you take the leap, life throws a punch. not because you’re cursed. the fall is a right of passage. it separates the ones who like the idea of the dream from the ones willing to bleed for it. you’ll lose friends. you’ll lose comfort. you’ll lose the ego that told you it