Until you win, effort always goes unnoticed. Get used to it.

"Say, what is a mountain goat doing up here in a cloud bank?"

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Everyone needs to hear this…

The best way to identify a great friend is how they react when you win.

Nietzsche.

95% of people already live better than the richest people in all of human history. And yet we still think that an age of AI abundance (aka more & better) is somehow going to be "different this time". We suffer because of how we think about reality, not reality.

Your days are numbered. Will you pass them half awake and halfhearted or will you live with a sense of urgency?

famed psychologist Abraham Maslow

The only point of suffering is who you become from it. The price of becoming is suffering.

Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target. You should relish the attention and the chance to prove yourself.

“Stay in the game long enough to get lucky” is underrated advice.

“Go do something great and your network will instantly emerge.” - Naval And as Carl Jung said, no matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.

Until you win, everyone asks you why you’re working so hard. After you win, everyone asks why you’re working so hard.

"Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you." Naval

“I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people.” - Richard Feynman, Fun to Imagine (1983)

"No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good." - Marcus Aurelius

The reason focus is so important in the beginning is that the only solid employee in your business is you. And you would never tell that person to work on four things at the same time and see what works.