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You don't need a goal, you need a theme:"
With a theme, happiness becomes more about how you behave rather than what you achieve. Life is not a series of wins and losses. Though our highs and lows may shock us, lift us up, and forever shape our memories, they do not define us. Most of life happens in the in-between, and what we want in life must be found there."- Niklas Goke
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Tearing someone down is a short term play. Building others up is a long term play.
Surround yourself with people who play the long game.
-Mkobach
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It took me...
200+ articles before I got a book deal.
250+ articles before I got major media coverage (NYT).
100+ interviews before my book hit the bestseller list.
You need a lot of shots on goal. Not everything will work, but some of it will.
Keep shooting.
- James Clear
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Frustration = emotion + inaction.”
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Having social media apps easily accessible on your phone is really like having sweets on your desk all the time.
It’s inevitable you’ll reach out to them again and again as they provide low-effort, high-reward with dopamine hits.
(Maybe social media is worse as with sweets dopamine drops and you can’t keep having a lot of them in one go)
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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📚 BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 📚
Exploring Themes from Elon Musk's Biography
If you enjoyed Elon Musk's autobiography, here are some lesser-known gems:
1. "The Space Barons" by *Christian Davenport*
🚀 New space race led by entrepreneurs
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
2. "Liftoff" by *Eric Berger*
🛰️ Early days of SpaceX
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
3. "The Powerhouse" by *Steve LeVine*
🔋 Race for better electric car batteries
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
✨ Innovation & Leadership ✨
4. "American Icon" by *Bryce G. Hoffman*
🚗 Automotive industry disruption
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
5. "The Founder's Dilemmas" by *Noam Wasserman*
💡 Early decisions faced by entrepreneurs
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
🌟 Visionary Thinking 🌟
6. "Bold" by *Peter H. Diamandis* and *Steven Kotler*
🌍 Using tech to solve global problems
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
7. "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by *David Leddick*
🌕 Biography of private spaceflight pioneer
⭐⭐⭐ 3/5
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These books offer unique perspectives on entrepreneurship, innovation, space exploration, and electric vehicles.
📖 Happy reading! 📖
💬 Which book intrigues you most? Share your thoughts below!
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Just imagine in another 50 years.
I think we're heading down a dark path here, without the majority of us even realizing it. Or do we have the ability to turn this around? Sure, we won't ever be able to stop our advancements in technology, and neither should we want to. But is there another way around this? We've all seen the recent rise in the popularity of genuine content. Podcasts over the last few years have skyrocketed in views, and people just sitting down, talking to a camera, are being heavily pushed in the algorithm. Why is this happening? Well, humans crave social connection.
At first, social media was there to help us with that, and it worked. In the early days, we didn't have this problem. Social media was used as a tool—a tool to connect us with people. But when they realized they could take advantage of that, it was no longer about giving us social connection but giving us a false feeling of it. I mean, when was the last time you actually got some value out of social media? People are starting to realize this. People like you and many more across the world are just tired of being fed the same thing every day. We're actually taking a step back for once.
The whole point of this message is to ask you to take that step—a step away from all the content, my videos included. Because ultimately, it's our children who will suffer the true consequences if we carry on at this trajectory. So, keeping that in mind, just ask yourself: What do you value more? Keeping those apps on your phone, or a better future for your children?
Tim Ferriss × Chris
“It’s easy to assume that getting rich in money will also mean you are rich in time, but it is often the case that when you earn more money, you end up with less time and more responsibilities.
Being rich is nice, but what you really want to optimize for is
(1) an income that exceeds your spending by a healthy margin and
(2) a lifestyle that is free from rushing.”
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“It’s normal not to know what you’re doing.
If you did, it wouldn’t be called growth.
High-five your fear, uncertainty and doubt, and carry on.” — AlexHormozi
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“You’re gonna be fine.
And even if you’re not gonna be fine, isn’t it better to just exist thinking you’re going to be fine until it’s not fine?
And then when it’s not fine you can just deal with it then.
But it makes no sense to ruin right now.” — billburr
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Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
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Everyone owns a phone; maybe you're holding one in your hand right now. If you look up around you, chances are you'll see someone else on their phone. When we're standing in line at the store, in between sets at the gym, it's really become second nature to us by now. But why? Sure, we use our phones when we're bored, but we also use them at concerts, at dinner with friends, even when spending time with the people who gave birth to us.
When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone back in 2007, there wasn't really much you could do with it. Sure, you could send a text to your friends, call them if you needed, maybe play a game of chess if you liked. Fast forward 6,238 days later, and the impulse to pull out our phones and mindlessly watch split-screen TikToks pretty much consumes every single one of us. So, what happened? And more importantly, what does the future of content addiction really look like?
Now, if there's one fatal flaw the human species has, it's our curious nature. Sure, it helps us advance as a species and as individuals. It gives us a reason to learn and create new things, but how does it end? We've already become so addicted to watching what everyone else is doing, scared that if we don't open the app, we're going to miss out on something. You don't even really like using them, yet we still find ourselves opening the app for the 10th time today, ready to waste another two hours of our life. And without you even knowing, there's an army of people working to make sure you stay like that.
None of this is random. These big social media companies have one main objective: keep you on the platform. And so they manipulate you. They know exactly how the human mind works, and they take advantage of that. When you grab your phone first thing in the morning, when you open an app without even thinking about it—all of the habits you have, all of them, have been specifically engineered to happen. The apps are literally designed after a slot machine—the way we can pull down and refresh the feed, getting another hit of instant dopamine.
Dopamine. There's a common misconception with dopamine online. It's currently being portrayed as the "feel-good chemical," the chemical that's released in your brain whenever something good happens. Many believe we're addicted to dopamine, and as a result, we seek constant stimulation to fulfill this addiction. This idea works well if you're selling a course on a "dopamine detox." But dopamine is originally a hunting mechanism; it's not released when we catch what we're hunting for, but when we're in pursuit of it. Dopamine's primary role in the human brain is to make the hunt fun. If you put two and two together, you can see why social media is so addictive—it's basically one big hunt. A hunt for a funny video or a post you actually want to see.
But what does this mean for our future? Well, ultimately, there are two different ways this can go. The first path will be one of dystopia. Think back to the year before the iPhone was released. What would give us a hit of dopamine? Maybe a walk in the park, spending time with our families. These things would produce a level of dopamine in our brains that satisfied us. And then imagine the year later, when you could still do those things, but this time you could use your iPhone at the same time. What happens now? It's not that we receive more dopamine; we receive the exact same amount as before, except this time our tolerance has gone up. We now find those previous things not as fun anymore because we've experienced "better."
This is exactly what's happening now. It's why we can't do anything without some sort of noise in the background. It's why we have to watch a TikTok while also watching another TikTok. In simple terms, our baselines have shifted. As long as new and better things keep coming out in the world, we're constantly going to be increasing our baselines. For most people, day-to-day life without any technology has already become unbearable. And we're only 16 years in from the first iPhone coming out.
People criticize because it helps them justify the risks they chose not to take
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