Good example by The Real Estate God of converting Income > Capital I prefer business equity over real estate, but it still illustrates the point.

If you can't spit out the answer to 8x7 instantly, spending a few minutes re-memorizing your multiplication table is a very high leverage use of your time.

51 frameworks in David Perell’s thread below to improve one’s thinking. 6 which stood out to me: - Inversion (1) - Preference Falsification (4) - Mimetic Theory of Desire (6) - Opportunity Cost (17) - Parkinson’s Law (25) - Convexity (46)

Great storytelling is a superpower that predates civilization. We are evolutionarily hardwired to suspend critical thinking under the spell of a skilled storyteller. Like any tool, can be used to inspire great or horrible things.

1/ Zero exceptions. ☑ Blue collar or white collar ☑ Educated or drop out ☑ Creative or manual worker You need to build multiple streams of income. Line cook? Diversify:

An uncomfortable but effective way to become a progress machine: ✔ Sort to-do list from “I’m most dreading” down to “easy”. ✔ Ruthlessly attack your top item. Call it a day. Do this 5 days in a row and you’ll achieve more than most do in a month.

🗝️ Never confuse “Should do” and “Must do.” ✔️ Cut “should do” off your to-do list without guilt. Drop that mental baggage right now. If you have time for “should do” you haven’t set aggressive enough goals.

Debate here on multiple income streams. People often mistake it to mean “get a second job.” Maybe. But that’s not the point. I share thoughts in thread on what is.

You’ll be much happier and empathetic if you internalize Hanlon's razor: “Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance.” People aren’t out to get you. They’re too busy stumbling around in a fog of confusion.

Read more fiction.

If you seek work-life balance, get a job. If you seek total freedom on an accelerated timeframe, forget balance. By definition you desire the extreme. And extreme outcomes require extreme investments.

There’s never been more opportunity accessible to more people in human history. Seize it.

“Next week” Where progress goes to die.

Naval Literally so. The word paradise comes from the ancient Persian word for garden / orchard.

Overcomplicating is procrastination for the book-smart