Wealth
1/ Solve For Local Before You Can Go Global: If you want to change the world with your company, start by changing your local community. Then expand to your local city, then your country, and then when you have a global brand, you can work on tackling global issues. – Sir Richard Branson
2/ Imposter Syndrome: “If you don’t feel like an impostor, either you’re a sociopath, or you’re not trying hard enough” – Seth Godin [Premium]
3/ Ethereum is a general-purpose blockchain” – Vitalik Buterin
- Bitcoin is a spreadsheet, Ethereum is a spreadsheet with Macros – Naval
4/ Founder Stories Are Fake: It is a warped and distorted image made to appeal to the public and particularly investors
- “In mimetic theory, the idea of founding myths always covers up some kind of original violence” – Luke Burgis
Wisdom
5/ Mimetic Desire: “Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” - Rene Girard
6/ Passion: “I don’t believe you should do what you’re passionate about; I believe you should be passionate about what you do. Waiting for passion to show up means waiting for fear to go away, and fear is never going to go away.” – Seth Godin [Premium]
7/ The Mindset Hierarchy: - Ben Bergeron
- The victim
- The pessimist
- The optimist (most people stop here)
- The extreme realist
- We can still thrive, despite the inevitable adversities
- The curious competitor
- Actively seeking out difficulties and challenges
- “You can do things that you don’t know you can do, and you won’t know that you can do them until you need to” Chris Williamson
8/ The Cup Is Like The Mind: If it’s full, it’s useless, rather let it be empty to allow for maximum learning – Bruce Lee
- Let go of your judgment – meet each moment with openness and awareness and allow for new perceptions
Health
9/ How Do Body Builders Prepare to Compete? – John Romano
- Pre-contest cutting regimen: testosterone + winstrol (5 mg every other day) + primobolan (100mg, 3/week) + anavar (2.5 mg, 10/week)
- The cutting regimen started about 10 weeks before the contest
- Cycle on and off steroids in 4-6 weeks until 10 weeks before the contest
10/ “A Healthy Man Wants Many Things, A Sick Man Only Wants One”: “Healthcare is the ultimate inelastic good. On your deathbed, you will spend any amount of money to live an hour longer” – Naval Ravikant
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