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“Health lies in action, and so it graces youth. To be busy is the secret of grace, and half the secret of content. Let us ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them.”
— Will Durant
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Wow... Warren Buffet says goodbye in his final annual letter today (full copy in the comments below).
As he signed off, the following were final words of advice:
"One perhaps self-serving observation. I’m happy to say I feel better about the second half of my life than the first. My advice: Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes – learn at least a little from them and move on. It is never too late to improve. Get the right heroes and copy them. You can start with Tom Murphy; he was the best.
Remember Alfred Nobel, later of Nobel Prize fame, who – reportedly – read his own obituary that was mistakenly printed when his brother died and a newspaper got mixed up. He was horrified at what he read and realized he should change his behavior.
Don’t count on a newsroom mix-up: Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it.
Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, great amounts of publicity or great power in government. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless. Whether you are religious or not, it’s hard to beat The Golden Rule as a guide to behavior.
I write this as one who has been thoughtless countless times and made many mistakes but also became very lucky in learning from some wonderful friends how to behave better (still a long way from perfect, however). Keep in mind that the cleaning lady is as much a human being as the Chairman."
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“Insecure overachievers can endlessly complicate any task to an infinite degree. … If you don’t know what done looks like, you cannot be done.”
— Greg McKeown
Listen to my interview with New York Times bestselling author Greg McKeown: tim.blog/2025/01/09/personal…
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If you have 50 tabs open right now, that’s not productivity, that’s your business dying.
Stop lying to yourself.
This isn't research.
This isn't analysis paralysis.
This is slow death by distraction.
Let me be crystal clear: You're running from something.
Something big. Something that scares you.
Your inadequacies.
They stare back at you in the mirror each morning.
So you open another tab.
Watch another video.
Read another post.
But successful people? They do something different.
They face themselves naked. Raw. Honest.
They look at their weaknesses without flinching. Then they get to work.
Every day, they stack new skills.
Every week, they close the gaps.
Every month, they grow stronger.
While you're drowning in tabs, they're building empires.
While you're chasing dopamine, they're chasing greatness.
The choice is yours:
Keep running from yourself.
Or start running toward your potential.
The most successful people don't know more. They just face what they fear.
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The 5 principles I live by:
1. I'm responsible for everything in my life. Everything.
2. Action cures all.
3. I can learn anything.
4. Take care of yourself, body and mind.
5. Momentum matters.
Most people read lists like this and nod. Then do nothing.
Here's what separates winners from wannabes.
Winners take principle #1 and:
- Audit their calendar daily
- Cut toxic relationships instantly
- Fix problems without blame
Winners take principle #2 and:
- Start before they're "ready"
- Build while others plan
- Ship products at 80%
Winners take principle #3 and:
- Read one book per week
- Reverse engineer success
- Learn from their competitors
Winners take principle #4 and:
- Sleep 7+ hours (non-negotiable)
- Exercise like their income depends on it
- Feed their brain like an athlete
Winners take principle #5 and:
- Do one revenue-driving task daily
- Build systems to multiply results
- Never break the chain
I've taught these principles to thousands.
The readers stay poor.
The doers get rich.
You don't need more principles.
You need more action.
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Going all in on something for a month gets better results than dabbling in it for a decade.
The dabbler spreads their energy over many things. The focused person concentrates effort on one.
The most dangerous competitor is the one with a single goal.
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Longevity in action. Larry Lewis (shown here at 99!) lived to be 106, and ran 6 miles+ every morning, rain or shine, even at 104. Check out what he says & see his take on what allowed him to maintain such vigor for so long. Respect!
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Andrew Carnegie's 23 traits of an attractive personality
pretty timeless advice
source: The Wisdom of Success
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“If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you’re going to lose. The only way to really get ahead is to be different.”
~ Larry Ellison
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95% of business folks still hate cold calling and door knocking and prefer people to come to them.
That's the nature of it.
Let me tell you, in the internet business world you can easily survive without it…
But in the world of very boring, very traditional businesses, you’re leaving so much money on the table when you or your team is not doing it.
Take a B2B space, selling gloves or other protective equipment — you can make so much money just by calling every manufacturing company in your city.
Just call them, introduce yourself, tell your story, offer any type of value (like sending free products - be creative with your packaging), do whatever it takes.
Remember, the goal is not to sell, but to get them to know you.
5 calls a day… for next year… you end up with a list of ca 1,500 businesses
The first year is hard, then they already recognize you.
Add birthdays and anniversaries and some chit-chat follow up calls and you have 5-6 conversations a year.
Many of them will end up buying from you.
Now just imagine if they become repeat customers?
Pretty great return of investment… sorry, return of cold-call, isn’t it?
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Larry Ellison: “Give me human will and the intense desire to win and it will trump talent every day of the week.”
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*How to defeat your amygdala: 8 principles for killing fear*
Every day you wake up: You arrive in the UFC octagon.
Across from you is a deadly competitor: The Amygdala. Your brain’s fear response centre.
Who is going to win the fight today: Your amygdala — or you?
The bookies have stopped taking bets.
You are the ultimate underdog.
The Amygdala has been training for this fight for 340 million years.
And most importantly, it’s learnt everything from the best coach the universe has ever seen: Evolution.
It’s beaten you and so many of your ancestors trillions of times.
The average human opponent turns up to this fight like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. Unprepared.
But not today… You are prepared.
You have the playbook to defeat the Amygdala.
You have MMA. Mixed Mental Arts.
The ultimate toolkit to beat the Amygdala.
Are you prepared for the biggest sporting upset in history?
Let’s break down the principles of Mixed Mental Arts:
1. There's no rules
When it comes to defeating your amygdala, no trick is off the table.
Why? Because your amygdala will use every trick it knows to defeat you. It’s a dirty fighter.
Remember that time it gave you sweat patches on your shirt on that first date? Or all those nightmares of being late and naked to a meeting?
Treat the amygdala how it treats you. You can eye gauge your amygdala. You can kick it in the groin. If you don’t — it will.
Remember: All that matters is that you win.
You’re in a cage fight — leave your ethics at the door.
2. Identify the character you’re fighting
Is personalising the amygdala into a character scientifically correct?
No…
But remember principle number 1. There’s no rules. The game here is to defeat your fear — not get a PHD in Neuroscience.
The Amygdala will constantly create fake characters and unrealistic scenarios to defeat you? … So why can’t you create fake characters and unrealistic scenarios for you to defeat it?
During the press conference last night before this fight, the Amygdala called you a loser 50 times in your head and replayed 27 made up videos of people laughing at you.
Remember: All that matters is you win. You’re in a cage fight — leave your ethics at the door.
3. The Southpaw Stance
Ok. Time to get more tactical in how you fight…
The Amygdala knows how to fight orthodox fighters and hates to fight southpaws.
Orthodox fighters = View themself in 1st person.
Southpaw fighters = View themselves in 3rd person.
The Amygdala absolutely hates when you switch to the southpaw stance…
Here’s the basics of the Southpaw stance against the Amygdala:
“How would I advise a best friend in this situation?”
Asking that question immediately knocks down the Amygdala to the floor.
4. Avoid It’s Strengths.
Now we have you in a 3rd person southpaw stance… You must not enter any of the Amygdala’s strengths.
The Amygdala has one main fighting style: It loves to fight you in your head.
All its negative non-useful toxic thoughts hurt when it’s kept in your head.
If you keep the fight in your head, it will win.
5. Attack its weaknesses.
If you get the fight out of your head, you will attack its weaknesses.
When the Amygdala calls you a “fucking loser” in your head — it really stings.
When you write that down or say it out loud to another human being: You can see the flaws in its thinking. When you see the Amygdala’s thoughts in writing or hear yourself saying them out loud to another person — you’ve reduced 80% of its power.
This is the Amygdala’s Achilles heel. It hates when you take the fight outside of your head.
6. Hardware > Software
Whenever you have a fight with the Amygdala: Look after your hardware (physiology) before you focus on your software (psychology).
Trying to think your way out of overthinking is like trying to snort away a cocaine addiction.
The Amygdala grows stronger the weaker your hardware is. And the stronger it grows: The less likely you are to take card of your hardware.
The Amygdala will convince you to avoid working out, getting a good nights sleep or to eat a healthy meal. It’s a master of mind tricks.
Before you fight the amygdala, always take care of your hardware first. 95% of the time after taking card of your hardware, the Amygdala will not even turn up for the fight — and you’re left with no opponent.
The other 5% of the times he remains — you’re fighting with performance enhancing drugs.
7. How To Punch The Amygdala In The Nose
The Amygdala loves to keep you in one fixed perspective on viewing a situation.
The way to defeat this is to punch it in the nose: Questions that give you a different perspective.
“A change of perspective is worth 50 IQ points”
There’s thousands of nose punch combinations — but here’s some specific ones it hates:
1. Has anyone less intelligent and less driven figured out this problem in the history of humanity?
2. How could I turn this decision into a reversible door?
3. What is the worst possible case scenario? How can I prevent that from happening? And what can I do to recover if the worst possible case scenario does happen?
Now let’s save the best to last…
8. The Judo Throw.
This is where you use the Amygdala’s momentum against itself…
You use the Amygdala to fight the Amygdala.
Become fearful of fear by asking the following question:
“What is the life I’m missing out on by letting the Amygdala win this fight?”
The beauty of this technique is that you’re using the Amygdala’s speciality, Fear, against itself.
The Amygdala loves to present you the downsides of not listening to it…
But instead, get clear on what happens if you live a life giving into it.
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You've now learnt the skills of Mixed Mental Arts.
Few closing notes for your post fight speech:
1. Make sure you turn up training everyday. The Amygdala is a relentless opponent.
2. Have compassion to other people. You never know the cage fight they are in with their own mind.
3. Advise other people to train Mixed Mental Arts. Share this essay with anyone you think might need it.
