Vlad Oustinov
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Vlad Oustinov
Les instituted free flat repairs for anyone, customer or not. Competitors called him crazy. Why fix flats for people who bought tires elsewhere? But Les understood reciprocity: humans are biologically wired to return favors, even those that are unearned. Those free repairs created a loop, doing more marketing than marketing could ever do.
Brain Food: The Math of Generosity
Les discovered that splitting profits 50/50 with store managers didn’t cut his wealth in half, it multiplied it. His reasoning was pure math: “If I share half the profits, I still have half. And if Frank makes more money, he’ll work harder to make the store successful. If the store is more successful, my half is worth more than my whole used to be.... See more
Brain Food: The Math of Generosity
I see a strong link between procrastination and what I call "tensing style."
When doing a task, we can either tense into it or relax into it.
Many people force themselves to do productive things with a kind of mental & bodily tensing motion.
When we build a habit of tensing into a task, our bodies start to associate acting with tensing.
This m... See more
Vachax.comthe more you exercise, the more high-energy you become
the more you write, the more clear-minded you become
the more you listen, the more empathetic you become
the more risks you take, the more ambitious you become
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A consistent pattern I notice in all hyper-successful people: The emotion they're trying hardest not to feel is exactly what they're recreating.
Avoid failure → Play it safe → Feel like a failure
I call this the Golden Algorithm. Here's how it works: https://t.co/cufOPZnwCK
The closer you get to God the more you realize you are nothing, and the more you realize you are nothing the more you become everything, and this is the actual mechanical function of how holiness works: complete self-annihilation produces infinite expansion, ego death births cosmic consciousness, the saint who knows he is worthless becomes worthy o... See more
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