Excuses people tell themselves: • I'm too old • I'm too late • I'm too young • I'm unqualified • I'm not ready yet • I'm not good enough • I'm not smart enough • I'm not good-looking enough If this is you: stop talking yourself down. Start creating anyways.

When a marriage, friendship, or business isn’t working, there’s a time to throw in the towel... ...but it’s probably not now. One of my favorite quotes—from David Goggins—is: “When you think you’re at your limit, you're only at 40% of what you’re capable of doing.” Goggins is

You’re not tired. You’re unaligned. When your actions match your ambition, energy returns.

Join Colossus Loved this section where Josh meets Rick Rubin and asks him about his deepest insecurity, being unable to explain his intuition. Rick’s advice to learn to be yourself, so much harder than it sounds. Anyone in the arena, exposed to the public, will struggle to keep that

Blake Burge Actually, think there’s a need to focus on 2 things: (1) big mission + (2) your own growth They feed into each other. Otherwise too many people get lost in an intellectual “I want to learn and grow” without understanding what really matters (sequence, timing, etc).

1/ Great advice for everyone - whether you're just starting, mid-career, or seasoned. SPEED is truly a Brilliant in the Basics (BIB) fundamental that unlocks everything else. Even more important today where uncertainty is only accelerating. 🧵

Insight: Complex problems require collective intelligence - no single person holds all the information needed to fully understand or solve today's challenges. Challenge: Move beyond "bring me solutions, not problems" to create a culture where information flows freely and

Dwarkesh Patel Andrej Karpathy Controversial take: AI in its current commercial form is “The 2nd Job” on steroids. And worst of all, it’s helping every human generate more workslop…smart sounding, creative looking, LHF (lying/ hiding/ faking) material done super fast. It’s making everyone a bad to

Every rich person I know has a “I just started working for free and then…” story. And every broke person I know insists you should never do free work. Do with that what you will.

Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 Conspiracy theorists = always unhappy Religious fanatics = always happy

The Mentor's Value Chain: Wrong Way…CIA (Capital, Introductions, Advice) Right Way…AIC (Advice, Introductions, Capital) Most seek mentorship backwards, starting with requests for funding (Capital), then network connections (Introductions), and finally settling for Advice

Agree with the first part. Disagree with the second part. Faith is not a passive act. Faith is an active, practiced into weekly routines and a much harder skill than most realize. If you observe anyone’s human energy, you can see those who have faith (they’re constantly

Pessimists - don’t think it will work out. When it does, by definition it means you had an incorrect prediction (judgment). When you do this over and over again (accumulated incorrect predictions) = arrogance.

I get asked all the time...what's the biggest performance hack in psychology? It's Confidence. The impact & ripple effect is massive: There is nothing it doesn't touch. Self-belief, risk-taking, speed, decision-making, and the list goes on.

Human Performance Pyramid: PEMS P = physical (exercise, nutrition, sleep) E = emotional (character traits) M = mental (technical skills) S = spiritual (not religion but the act of helping others) If you score 1-4 in PEMS, bringing your Sweet 16 is bringing your fully engaged

Dan Go 1/ cold plunge 2/ sauna 3/ fermented cabbage 4/ bone broth

Fundamental coaching principle that communication isn't what you say, it's what the other person hears — you can't pass the ball until they're ready to catch it.

1/ Research Shows: BURNOUT isn't from working hard—it's from investing energy with zero return (no momentum). And burnout is often the most extreme form of unhappiness. But there are creative and insightful solutions…🧵

From a very smart man named Tal mentoring me with his faith, he shared this nuance to “hope” that I couldn’t agree more with. Hope: “it’s the fuel that actives us as we hope to make progress towards each of our visions”. B/c to me - hope without action (in the extreme) is