Thread by @Levijameshere

🧵 14 simple cheat codes that unlock a life of success.

I’m sharing something deeply personal in the hope that it helps at least one person avoid my mistakes and get out of their own way earlier than I did.

I spent 20 years chasing my tail. Sure, I had my share of success but it came at great cost. Much of my effort was wasted before I found these--14 cheat codes to how our minds work and can enable us to be successful.

🧵1. The tallest skyscrapers are built by first digging deep into the ground to build a foundation that no one sees. Unless you learn to do the underground (internal) work first, you will build towers that will fall when the wind blows.

🧵 2. The most powerful change you can make in life is learning to lengthen the space between stimulus and response. There is no reason to go with your first reaction, with more time a better solution has space to emerge.

🧵 3. I used to think that the thoughts my mind produced were my reality. I later learned that I could quiet my mind and stop acting on its every whim. Learn to watch thoughts and feelings like traffic passing on the freeway, you don’t have to get in every car that passes by.

🧵 4. Status games are for suckers. Until you learn to know and trust yourself you won’t be able to know if you are playing them.

🧵 5. The way you handle money is a direct representation of your inner workings. Learn to understand how your mind works and you can then master money.

🧵 6. As @RayDalio says in his book Principles: “Everything that happens is just another one of those for someone” Finding that someone for your current tough situation and learning to really soak in their advice takes emotional maturity. Getting this right changes the game.

🧵7. Emotional maturity is a journey that will never end. Only once you’ve embraced that path and made real progress can you settle on a great life/work strategy that is a fit for your specific skill set. Do the inside work first, then the outside work will be much easier.

🧵 8. The long game always wins in the end, yet I wasn’t born with the disposition to play it. Before I could get there I had to learn to change the script running in my head, none of that would have been possible without doing the internal work. (Therapy helped so much!)

🧵 9. My insecurity led me to believe that where I was at in my career wasn’t far enough to impress anyone, so I learned to pretend I was more successful than I was. Now I just say it like it is and found that people are more drawn to honesty than puffery.

🧵 10. Real success is not found on a spreadsheet or a step by step guide, it’s in the inner workings of your mind. Learn how your mind works, what scares it most, and what it does to protect the deep vulnerable parts of you.

🧵 11. When you can quiet your mind you can learn to read the signals that your body is sending. I found that I feel fear as a dull pain in my gut. I’ve learned to turn that feeling into a signal to slow down and watch instead of acting. Fear is a terrible decision maker.

🧵 12. I didn’t know it but early on what I craved more than success was affirmation. Once I learned to stop caring what other people think of me, I could then become who I am and get really good at the things I love.

🧵 13. Whenever I think that I am trapped and that I “must” respond in a certain way, I’ve learned that this is a signal that it is time to stop and reset. There are always options.

🧵 14. Our mind is the software we were born with. Each of us has a different operating system. Learning to use yours is a far more important key to success than learning how business works.

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Shoutout to @camp4 for the assist and wisdom shared that helped put this thread together. If you don’t already, go give him a follow, he is an absolute baller who tweets some great life advice.