There’s beauty in this: Your compounded failures were not wasteful. They’ve just been stockpiling into unseen strengths. Stop needing. Use them. Recognize how they made you strong.

Aim for outcomes, fire, then forget. Once the arrow of strategy is roughly in the right direction… fire and make peace with its unknowable destination. Stop trying to control outcomes. You could only ever control the aim.

Children are mastering a skill many adults still lack: Discerning the difference between displeasure and an attack. Disliking something doesn’t make it wrong, or dangerous. Our small people have a lot to teach when we stop putting them in a separate bucket

The infant-like way in which neural networks learn is something to be emulated. There is no air between action and learning. They don’t stop for 2 weeks or 2 years to “figure it out” or “go back to school”. They are unburdened by expectation

I believe the age of passive investing is coming to a brutal, well-deserved end. There is only one reliable path to success going forward: You must be good at something. You must be useful.

weakness is merely a habit. it can be broken Start by rewiring your brain for strength buff.ly/3IefagX

Your willingness to tolerate being bad at what you do is the sole determinant of how many things you will be good at.

Intention in like quantum superposition -- it decoheres with time and exposure to the desires of others

Independence creates freedom

Open a Notion doc. Favorite it. Every time you solve a problem in your life, write down how you did it. Imagine handing this to your children one day

If you remove all the [high dopamine stimulating] rungs above: passion work, audiobook, thoughtful podcast, reading a physical book, doing your job, suddenly those things become incredibly pleasurable and very desirable. Watch: buff.ly/3MbRYBj

Human beings will rise to the highest permissible rung of the dopamine stimulation ladder all on their own.