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NeverBeNeedy33
Tom Schmidt

Maybe if I interviewed them, if I talked to 50 top performers in different fields about what makes them tick, then I’d be able to derive a set of firs

"Results tend to accumulate to the person who enjoys the lifestyle that precedes the result."

There comes a point where a person goes from "old enough to know better" to "too old to know better."

The left and right are divided on whether human nature is perfectible or not — which determines every other detail in a society’s social structure

Video tricks and tech1
Tom Schmidt

“Start your story as late into the action as possible. End it as early into the action as possible.”​ – Frank Miller

Thought provoking5
Tom Schmidt

it feels like an angel has snatched you out of the maw of Hades.

A timely reminder from Clear Thinking: “One reason the best in the world make consistently good decisions is they rarely find themselves forced into

Prompting is secondary; the real skill is slashing, annotating, and rewriting the version of you the AI proposes until the roadmap sounds like a life

“Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. En

Quotes and phrases6
Tom Schmidt

verything Is Waiting For You: “Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.” – David Whyte

before their stories have been injected with narrative collagen to smooth out the unsightly wrinkles

let me ping you when the dust settles

Philosopher Baltasar Gracián on giving advice: “When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of

Health and Fitness0
Tom Schmidt
Grandpa stuff0
Tom Schmidt