People are really out here achieving great things, and I won’t be left out. I’m headed to the top too, and I’ll get there. Greatness has my name on it, and I’m walking straight into it.

It’s one thing to have friends who love you. It’s another to have friends who love you AND dream big with you. Friends who operate from a mindset of abundance, not scarcity. Friends who feed your big dreams instead of shutting them down. Friends you can grow with! It’s important.

You can tell a lot about a man by if he prefers The Wolf of Wall Street or The Big Short.

Excellent insight from Naval

you can change an entire timeline just by sending a risky text or talking to a stranger. you need to be playing with the fabric of reality

God please, I want to be disgustingly educated, smart, intelligent, everything... take sleep and laziness away from my eyes 😭

Poor money management will keep you stuck in the same situation you’ve been trying to escape for years. At some point you’ve got to draw the line and handle your business like an adult. You can’t elevate if you keep repeating the same habits.

“The 15 Second Nigga” theory is real holy shit!!!

There’s a pernicious idea in the tech world that humans are only “moist robots,” but you are more than just a sentient machine. You need food and friends and sunlight in order to flourish. You need art and leisure and literature. You need natural splendor and other people.

“We cannot conceptualize events in the future because they have not been experienced yet” This explains so much

I strongly recommend watching this, I really learned a lot.

“Teachers need to be more entertaining than phones.” No teacher can compete with the dark wizards of tech and their addictive amusement devices. And frankly, not everything SHOULD be entertaining. Learning is hard but ultimately brings more joy than a life of ten-second videos.

If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.

I think women should cut back in consuming “dating content” on TikTok. It’s alarming, discouraging, and makes you feel like shit. All these theories on why we will never be loved correctly…. I’m tired — I scroll past quickly now.

Work on your physical looks

utterly floored by this moment from an interview with Susanna Clarke; each sentence is better than the last

The cost of not surrounding yourself with ambitious people is too high.