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Mar 23, 2024 13 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Charles Bukowski's work will change your life forever.

His work takes 100s of hours to read. I've gone through it so you don't have to.

11 ideas. 11 opportunities to upgrade your mind. Image
“Find what you love and let it kill you."

I gave up my corporate career to let online writing kill me.

Find the thing you want to kill you. Take the subject you’re crazy about & make it your entire life.

Work on it after hours. Then have this wild task take over your career.
“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things,

But on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”

The biggest debate we should have is with ourselves. What the heck are you doing in life?

Stop majoring in minor things.
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way”

The smartest people talk simply

This is why online writers are becoming so stupidly wealthy.

Cheat code to the universe: simplicity

Take complexity. Make it simple.
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it –

Basically because you feel good when you are near or with them”

Most people aren’t free. They hate their life, desperate for an escape.

But fear stops them from finding one.

Find free souls and ask them questions.
“People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water”

Life is a paradox.

We say we don’t want one thing but then secretly let it into our lives in other forms.

When you realize how conflicted the average person is you understand why we suffer.
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live”

If life were a video game played on a phone, you wouldn’t play it safe.

Nope.

You’d push the limits, step on landmines, blow stuff up, enter cheat codes, and have fun.

What the hell have you got to lose? Image
“They disgust me, the way they wait for death with as much passion as a traffic signal”

Cruising through life is effectively waiting for death.

Obsession is the compass to the good life. It starts with not giving a f*ck.
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence”

Once you learn the power of confidence, you can use it to get unfair results you haven’t even earned yet.

To get there, understand all obstacles are good Image
“The 9-5 is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn’t interest you”

• No transparency

• Overworked

• Incentives/bonuses subject to interpretation

• The value created earns you a tiny bit back (salary) Image
"How the hell could a person enjoy being

awakened at 6:30 AM

leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss

brush teeth & hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money

for somebody else & were asked to be grateful for the opportunity?" Image
“You have to die a few times before you can really live”

Dying is:

Divorce

Rejection

Getting fired

Going bankrupt

Facing public humiliation

Watching someone you love die

They can make or break you. When you die inside a few times, you become braver.

That's really living.
If you love this post, then you’ll love my free eBook that’ll help you reach personal freedom faster:

timdenning.com/tb/

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More from @Tim_Denning

Sep 8
If I had to start from $0 and make at least $100K per month online again at 39, here’s what I’d do:
I'd stop changing business models every 5 seconds.

It's not the business model. It's your impatience.
I'd start selling my offer today before ever f*cking building a single thing.

If there's no demand, then having a product or working out a tech stack is a waste of time.
Read 26 tweets
Sep 6
If I had 12 months & wanted to make $100,000 per month online at 30 years old, I'd copy this unknown entrepreneur:
@thedanielfazio turned his Twitter/X account into 157K followers

He now does ~$800K/month in revenue from:

ListKit — a software tool for cold outreach.
Client Ascension — a coaching program
Olympia — a marketing automation platform

I've followed him for 5 years & read every piece of his content

Here's exactly how he did it (and you can too):
@thedanielfazio 1. Convert from a faceless X account to a personal brand

Daniel became well-known because of his Cold Email Wizard X account.

But after the rise of AI in 2022 he saw a shift. Nobody trusted faceless accounts anymore.
Read 16 tweets
Sep 5
I studied finance and worked in a top tier bank.

It took me 10 years to learn what I’m about to tell you in 2 min:

1. Real wealth is free time, not a Lambo.
2. Investing in index funds is the slowest way to build wealth

• Gurus preach it because it's easy
• Returns don't factor in currency debasement
• Returns often ignore taxes payable

If you choose this option you guarantee you'll be stuck struggling until 65.
3. Raising money from investors is an art

• Sell them on how they get an ROI
• They don't give a f*ck about ideas
• They buy into ideas that already have traction
• They will laugh if you ask them to sign an NDA
• Statistically you're highly unlikely to raise money
• Expect to talk to at least 100 investors

This is why most people should run a one-person business or work a job.
Read 16 tweets
Sep 4
The most important skill to master in 2025:

Entrepreneurship.

Without it, you'll be underpaid, doing work you don't give a f*ck about, and stuck settling for second best.

After 11 years of being an entrepreneur, here's how to finally build a digital business that'll set you free: 🧵Image
Most people overcomplicate entrepreneurship.

• They think of it in grandiose terms & make plans that take years to execute.

• They try to become the next Zuckerberg, Jobs, or Bezos. The odds of that are worse than the lottery

There's another way.
The most important thing to focus on

• Isn't product development
• Isn't customer journeys
• Isn't tech stack

It's sales and marketing.

But it's the #1 thing people I start out working with avoid at all costs. They'd rather jerk off to a lead magnet draft.
Read 19 tweets
Sep 4
15 months before my daughter was born, I quit my $200K/year banking job.

Why?

I became financially free.

Here are 32 financial secrets the finance industry doesn’t want you to know:
1. The answer to 99% of money problems is just to make more money.

2. The wealthiest people start businesses, not buy index funds.

3. How you think about money has more to do with building wealth than learning about money does.
4. The average salary hasn't risen in real terms for decades.

5. The paper money in your wallet is endlessly printed out of thin air. You have to earn money, while central banks and their rich friends do not.

6. Gambling is a tax on the stupid.
Read 14 tweets
Aug 28
This man healed what psychologists couldn't:

Søren Kierkegaard

It's impossible to be depressed, stressed, or anxious after understanding his philosophy

Here's his 7-step approach to reprogramming your mind that'll set you free: 🧵 Image
Modern culture is now black & white.

You either voted red or blue. Or you love Elon or hate him. Nuance is lost.

Everything has become polarizing. People have been dumbed down to conform.

This is why Søren Kierkegaard's work is making a comeback.
Søren Kierkegaard is the father of existentialism.

This made him one of the most influential philosophers in history.

His work explored themes of faith, individuality, anxiety, despair, and the meaning of existence.
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