Coming back to the same blank canvas night after night will destroy your soul. Yet that's exactly what most people do with their life. We stay stuck, paralyzed, waiting for our "purpose" to magically appear. 🧵👇

If you listen to every study or what everyone has to say about dangers of products, you will end up living like a baboon. One thing is sure: the less chemicals you put near you or inside you, the better. Don't listen to new solutions for a problem that didn't exist 20yrs ago

Always having something to look forward to is powerful. Managing to use that power of dopamine to our advantage instead of falling for manipulation is essential.

Most people avoid pain, which means they avoid growth, which means they live a meaningless little life.

Burn so bright that you attract those who bring their own fuel and incinerate those who only come to steal yours.

At the beach and I can't wait to get back to work. Enjoying the present moment, but eager to get back to the routine. I wish this feeling to everyone in the world. When you love what you do, I believe you truly have won.

We have had it very easy, too easy our whole life. Our path has been designed for us at birth, and we are to safely follow it without making any fuss. When you wake up from this one day, you realize how meaningless it all is. Live your own life, go your own path. Conquer.

When you have spotted the prey on the hunt, you don't stop until you get the kill. That said, you increase your chances to hunt down the prey if you are well rested and fresh.

All the school questions about school you may have in your life will be answered by: school is made to create obeying factory workers. When you understand this, it all makes sense. It's supposed to be the way it is, because it's not made to learn, but to condition you.

You think writing 50 words a day or doing 2 minutes of something is going to change your life? Look at the most powerful and successful men in history. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Rockefeller. Do you think they did little hacks? Do you think they needed to trick themselves into

If you have enough will, you can make the world bend to you. Your ability to not change your mind and to be final and unbreakable on your ideals is important. People accept much more than we think if we are absolutely certain in ourselves. Confidence is essential for that. An

COVID taught me that most people will follow any government directive, no matter how extreme. We should all be extremely concerned by this fact.

Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own.

Everything EVERYTHING is propaganda. The sooner you realize this and the sooner you can pick what propaganda you want to brainwash yourself with. Your criteria should be: what makes my life better. And this should logically align with what would make humanity better.

People are too used to screw humanity for their own benefit. Evil corruption. Humanity thriving should be your goal too. Short term thinking will put a bit of comfort in your life now, in exchange for a worst life for your kids.

Just learn relentlessly, avoid cheap distractions, work hard, ignore the opinions of others, dream big, become great, conquer, shake the earth.

Paul Graham's essays are full of wisdom Paul Graham

People talk about genes, being born some way as a reason these people were so prolific. What is the point of talking about that? It just gives you an excuse to not perform, nothing else.

Overstimulation that provides nothing to your life is actually evil, because it makes all the rest of your life dull by comparison.

We are built to overestimate danger. Throw yourself in a problem without knowing it's that problematic, and you'll prevail inside the storm. If you overthink it, you'll never start anything.