Thread by @GessnerJosh

27 sentences that’ll upgrade your mindset more than reading 100+ books

(from @naval):

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@naval @FlatgroundApp "Every man has two lives. The second starts when he realizes he has just one."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "All greatness comes from suffering."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Escape competition through authenticity."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Relax. You’ll live longer and perform better."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Impatience with actions, patience with results."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "If you don’t care to be liked, they can’t touch you."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "It isn’t 10,000 hours that creates outliers, it’s 10,000 iterations."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "There Are No Adults". Everyone's making it up as they go along."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Grind and sweat. It’s all part of becoming an overnight success."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Don’t take yourself so seriously - you’re just a monkey with a plan."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "If you can’t be happy with a coffee, you won’t be happy with a yacht."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "The measure of how much you love something is what you sacrifice for it."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside is play from the inside."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "We don't always get what we want, but sometimes what is happening is for the best."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Courage isn’t charging into a machine gun nest. It's not caring what other people think."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term so you can get paid in the long term."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own name actually gain a lot of power."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Life hack: when in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation or fall asleep. Victory either way."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "If you can't decide between 2 choices, take the path that's more difficult/painful in the short term."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "We prefer to see “winners” as “naturally talented” rather than “hard working - because if it were reversed, what would that imply about us?"

@naval @FlatgroundApp "The less you want something, the less you’re thinking about it, the less you’re obsessing over it, the more you’re going to do it in a natural way."

@naval @FlatgroundApp "Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you."

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