Which one is it? Writing. Whoa, hold your horses! Before you say: “That’s not a tiny habit!” hear me out. I’m not talking about pages here. Not even paragraphs.
I’m talking about a 1-sentence journal.
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One Thing You Can Learn in 2 Minutes That Will Be Useful for the Rest of Your Life
In 430 BC, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, Greek general Pericles led a fleet of over 100 ships towards the enemy island.
As they were charging ahead at full speed, suddenly, a solar eclipse cast the entire fleet into darkness.
Unaware of the scientific nature of this unexpected and shocking event, panic befell the soldiers and sailors. But not Pericles.
Read MoreDo You Act Differently Online Than You Do in Person?
No.
This is something I take serious pride in. This story illustrates why.
Soon after moving to Munich, I thought a cool way to keep my family up to date was to document my journey on Instagram stories.
How Do You Think Like a Genius?
I don’t have to teach you to think like a genius. You already are.
A genius is by definition someone who’s wrong a lot so they can be very right about one, usually extremely specific thing, way before everyone else is.
But what if that’s not a special trait of geniuses? What if we’re all geniuses?
I mean, you and I are wrong a lot, aren’t we? And sometimes, we get to say “I told you so” to our friends.
All we do when we call someone a genius is elate them to this status in hindsight.
But in order for us to be able to do that, a genius has to do one thing first, and it’s the only thing that really makes them different: when they know they’re right, they speak up and do something about it.
Read MoreWhat Are the Most Valuable Things Everyone Should Know?
In 2010, I wrote down a set of “first principles” for my life. I asked myself:
“Which rules, if I lived by them for the rest of my life, would make me as happy as I can be?”
The result has been stuck on my pin wall for over 7 years now. Most of them apply today as much as ever. Here’s a picture:
How Do I Overcome My Inferiority Complex?
400,000,000,000,000 : 1. The odds of you being born. 400. TRILLION. To ONE.
Do you know how much money is out there in the world? In total?
$75 trillion. And that includes all the institutional money of funds and what’s wrapped up in bonds and other long-term investments no one can really access.
Imagine you took over 5 times this amount, more than 5 times as much as all the money in the world, and piled it all up in one place in $1 bills.
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You’re Not Bored — You’re Boring
James Altucher posted this on his Instagram 2 days ago:
Reposting it made me really uncomfortable – because I think it’s exactly true for a lot of people I know.
The only times in my life when I was bored were the times when I rested on my laurels.
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The Most Important Thing to Do in Your 20s
Learning how to pay for your own shit. You’ve spent enough time sponging off your parents. It’s time to start living in the real world.
One of my biggest “I wish’s” is “I wish my parents had forced me to take a job when I was younger.” I never had to work for anything growing up. If I wanted an Xbox, I could just wish for money for Christmas or my birthday and boom, there it was.
It’s not that I was horrible with money – I knew it was limited in supply. But I had no idea just how limited.
One time I remember trying to get a paper route. It would have meant delivering papers for 8 hours a day, twice a week – for 200 bucks a month. That’s a little over $3/hour for hard, manual labor.
In the end, my parents told me not to take it. I wish I had. Because after that, I would’ve learned an incredible valuable lesson: It’s fucking hard to make 200 bucks. And I never want to do it this way again.
Read MoreWhat Are the Lessons People Most Often Learn Too Late in Life?
I’ve learned all of these from Gary Vaynerchuk. Thank you for teaching a 25-year-old what most 65-year-olds still don’t know.
1. Self-Awareness.
“You have to accept yourself and go all in on who you are.” — Gary Vee
You might not like who you are, but if you don’t know it, you’ll live your life in denial and can never really win, because you’ll keep spinning your wheels.
For example, you can keep saying you’ll write a novel someday, but if you’re a people person, total extrovert and can’t sit still for 15 minutes, you might be a lot better off just organizing public readings for other writers, because that’s where you’ll shine.
If you don’t know, round up your closest family members, friends and loved ones, and let them tell you who you are.
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