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30 Jul

@JamesClear

This interview with @JamesClear was one of my favorites.

Here are some key takeaways 👇

1. Be mindful of your content diet

https://twitter.com/polina_marinova/status/1349056224122327042

2. Generate better ideas by reading consistently

"It's kind of like driving a car. For me, reading is like filling up the tank, and writing is like going on an adventure and driving somewhere. You need both of those if you actually want to make the journey."

3. Identity is crucial to forming new habits

"The process of changing your habits is the process of re-writing your story & learning to believe something new about yourself. Once you believe, you don't have to convince yourself to do it anymore. You're just acting in alignment."

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7 Jul

@ChristinaTosi

.@ChristinaTosi turned her hobby of making cookies into a delicious, profitable, multimillion-dollar business.

Tosi is the founder and CEO of bakery empire @milkbarstore.

This is her story 👇👇👇

She went to college for engineering, but she realized traditional schooling wasn't for her. Rather than solving math problems, she enjoyed baking cookies.

"Even though I suppose I could have been a baller mathematician, I ended up storming the professional kitchens of NYC."

Tosi moved to New York and enrolled at the French Culinary Institute, where she would go to school during the day and work at restaurants at night.

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Polina

@polina_marinova

16 Jun

Ernest Hemingway was a journalist and author whose writing was sharp, spare, and precise.

He did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the 20th century.

Here's his story 👇👇👇

He used a technique he coined called 'The Iceberg Theory.'

Here’s how it goes:

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.”

In other words, a mediocre writer will crowd the pages with unnecessary descriptors.

A great writer will know the subject so well that they write only the essentials (exposing the tip of the iceberg), while keeping the majority of their knowledge below the surface.

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Polina

@polina_marinova

11 Jun

@ProfileRead

Here are the top 10 actionable lessons I've learned from the world's most successful people by working on the @ProfileRead every week:

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1. Learn, don't idolize

"It's never really been my style to idolize players, to try to copy them. I just try to learn and get the best from the great masters, contemporary and from the past."

theprofile.substack.com/p/magnus-carls…

2. Fiercely promote good ideas

If you're struggling to get your ideas out there, Martha Stewart offers the following recipe: 1) a good idea, 2) passion for the idea, and 3) interesting content that backs your idea.

theprofile.substack.com/p/martha-stewa…

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Polina

@polina_marinova

9 Jun

There's good, there's great, there's exceptional — and then there's Lionel Messi.

Thanks to his speed, control, and mesmerizing ability to shoot the ball into the net, Messi has become a legend.

This is his story 👇👇👇

Messi has been playing soccer since he was in kindergarten. When his mother would send him off to run errands, he took a ball with him. If he didn't have one, he would make one out of plastic bags.

Nothing stood in his way.

In 1997, people began noticing that Messi appeared tiny on the field.

At 10 years old, he looked nearly two years younger than his teammates.

The following year, doctors diagnosed him with a growth hormone deficiency and prescribed him nightly hormone injections.

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Polina

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3 Jun

Chess is psychological warfare, and Magnus Carlsen thrives in the chaos. He doesn't beat his opponents outright, but his style feels more like a "strangling pressure."

Carlsen, 30, became the second youngest world chess champion in 2013.

This is his story 👇👇👇

As a kid, Carlsen showed an aptitude for intellectually stimulating games.

Before he was 2, he was able to complete a 50-piece jigsaw puzzle by himself.

By age 4, he had memorized the names and the population size of most of Norway's 430 municipalities.

At age eight, Carlsen's father re-introduced him to the game of chess.

After playing for a year, Magnus beat his dad for the first time in a game of blitz chess, and he started to play in local junior competitions shortly thereafter.

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