Gabriel Perera
@gabrielperera
Gabriel Perera
@gabrielperera
“If you’re perceived as a negative person—always picking, pulling, criticising—you will simply get tuned out by those around you. Your influence, ability to teach, and opportunity to make progress will be diminished and eventually lost. When that happens, you become useless, a hindrance to progress. When your feedback is interpreted as a personal a
... See moreBe regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert
"Before you throw more time at the problem, throw more focused action at the problem. You don’t need more time, you need fewer distractions.”
3 lessons to learn from this:
Content = Leverage: The content I’ve created is still doing work for me months and years after it has been posted. Something I wrote in November 2021 is still creating opportunities like this. That’s leverage!
Creating Expands Luck Surface Area: When you put your ideas out into the world, you increase the odds of getting
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” — Joseph Campbell
Reduce Stress
Have low amounts of stress.
It’s a well known and heavily researched fact that chronic stress leads to inflammation and serves as the foundation for nearly every age-related disease. Centenarians in most of the world’s longevity hotspots don’t avoid stress but do have built-in systems that allow them to manage stress on a daily bas
... See moreEntrepreneur Colin Dowling on how to get better at sales: "1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales orgs for almost 20 years and my advice is to walk up and hit the ball. 2. Sales is about people and it's about problem solving. It
... See moreYou are the sun in drag. You are God hiding from yourself. Remove all the “mine”—that is the veil. Why ever worry about Anything? Listen to what your friend Hafiz Knows for certain: The appearance of this world Is a Magi’s brilliant trick, though its affairs are Nothing into nothing. You are a divine elephant with amnesia Trying to live in an ant H
... See more"Entrepreneur’s mind.
Athlete’s body.
Artist’s soul."