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the worst thing you can procrastinate on isn't your to-do list, it's your life. waiting for the right time. waiting for permission. waiting for somebody else. you'll be waiting forever. take responsibility. find something that won’t let you wait. and do it. you can't cram life.↗

Hot take: the most dangerous point in life is not the point of total failure but the point of moderate success. A failed man keeps throwing punches—his spirit is alive and kicking. But a moderately successful man is in the danger of trading potential glory for peaceful mediocrity↗

·@oldbooksguy·Jan 26, 2025·essay·life-advice·motivation·success

- You read 100 books. 99 are meh, 1 changes your life. - You try 100 things. 99 don't work, 1 changes your life. - You meet 100 people. 99 you never see again, 1 changes your life. Life is more random than it seems. Act accordingly.↗

·@dvassallo·Nov 11, 2021·essay·life-advice·motivation·perspective

It’s a lot easier to AVOID things that make you miserable than to predict what will make you happy. There’s an incredible @Harvard Study from 1938 that sheds light on just how to avoid a miserable life. In 2013, reading it caused me to quit drinking and changed my life...↗

1/ Graduating seniors deserve a Charlie Munger Tweetstorm with appropriate life advice to mark the occasion. "I want you to learn as much as you can vicariously. It’s too painful to do it by personal hardship. “You don't have to pee on an electric fence to learn not to do it”↗

Here are the main distilled points fom @naval's talk on @joerogan Since this legendary talk deserves a tweet storm on its own, and Naval is a busy man. 1/ Life is short, you have to generalize, see what life has to offer. Specialization is for ants. …↗

·@loopuleasa·Jun 7, 2019·essay·joerogan·life-advice·naval·youtube