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12 Sep, 19 tweets, 5 min read
• 4 Months
• 37 Threads
• 20,000+ New Followers (Thank You!)

My top 15 so far... 🧵
1/ Building wealth, learning anything, and being more productive.
2/ Kodawari.
3/ A story about fathers and sons.
4/ Get from where you are to where you want to be.
5/ A primer on crypto.
6/ The story of Crocs.
7/ What NOT to do.
8/ The story of Chuck Feeney.
9/ 8 Steps to learn anything.
10/ Illusory Truth Effect.
11/ Limiting Beliefs.
12/ Stop being busy & get productive
13/ Principles for guiding you when life gets tough.
14/ The limping lady of Lyon.
15/ The story of Emal "Ernie" Fraze
As for me...

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11 Sep
NFT's, Cryptocurrency, Blockchains...

What does it all mean?

12 Tweets that will teach you the basics (and much more). 🧵
1/ How does crypto work?:

User: @3blue1brown

Let's start with the basics:

A quick YT video explaining how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) function.

Taught in a way that anyone can understand.
2/ Beginner's guides to cryptoassets:

User: @ljxie

A series of articles covering multiple currencies.

What they are, how they work, and how each compares to other digital assets.
Read 15 tweets
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9 Sep
Not everyone is going to like you.

And that's ok.

THREAD: 7 steps for dealing with criticism - The right way.
I've had a good run.

Since becoming active on Twitter this year, I've gone from 0-20K followers.

While I remain a mixture of excited, optimistic, & frankly unsure why anyone is following me at all, one thing has come to my attention:

Everyone won't like what I have to say.
With this in mind, I began to wonder...

What are the best ways to handle negative feedback when it comes our way?

Fight or flight?

Stand your ground or admit defeat?

I'm not sure I have the right answer, but I'll give it a shot.

Let's dig in...
Read 11 tweets
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5 Sep
How to get rich, learn anything, and get more done.

11 Tweets to change your life. 🧵
1/ Learn Anything:

A masterclass from my friend @SahilBloom

The 6-step framework he uses to learn anything.

(1) Identify & Establish
(2) Research
(3) Skin in the Game
(4) Engage Community
(5) Teach
(6) Reflect & Review

2/ A cheat sheet for building your career:

20 things you'll wish you knew sooner.

An amazing piece by @RomeenSheth on career growth.
Read 13 tweets
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4 Sep
Warren Buffet calls him his hero.

He's known as the "James Bond" of philanthropy.

THREAD: The story of Chuck Feeney-The man who gave it all away...

$8. Billion. Dollars.
Meet Charles Francis Feeney.

Born in 1931 during the height of the Great Depression, Feeney was the son of Irish-American parents.

Raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Charles (or "Chuck" as he's commonly known) was bitten with the entrepreneurial bug early on.
As a child, he earned extra money shoveling snow for neighbors & selling Christmas cards door to door.

After graduating high school in 1949 he would go on to enlist in the U.S. Air Force.

There, he worked for 4 years as a radio operator stationed in Japan during the Korean War.
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2 Sep
It's easy to be happy, driven, and motivated when things are going well.

The true test?

How you handle adversity.

THREAD: 8 principles to guide you when the going gets tough.
Perception:

"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems" -Epictetus

Often our worry about what "might" happen or what we perceive to be a problem far outweighs reality.

Take a measured approach.

Facts > Assumptions
Control what you can control:

Many times in life our emotions are driven by trying to control that which we cannot.

Frustration & anger creep in clouding our judgment, taking a bad situation & making it worse.

Narrow your focus -> Control what you can -> Be far more effective.
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26 Aug
25 years ago my father made me a deal...

I only had to do one thing.

I failed.

THREAD: A story about a father, a son, and life meeting you halfway.
It was the summer of 1996, I had just turned 15 & like any 15-year-old boy, I only had one thing on my mind.

OK, maybe two.

Other than girls, the main thing I wanted, all I could talk about, was a car.

Or in my case a truck.
The deal was simple.

Over the next year, I'd be given chores to complete around our home.

With an agreed-upon hourly rate, I was free to work as much, or as little, as I choose.

At the end of the year, whatever I earned, my father would match.

Up to $2500.
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