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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

Mar 21
I’ve made over $1M online.

Here are my 10 contrarian observations about making money online: Image
People are f*cking scared to do it for no reason.

They care what family, bosses, and friends think so much that they never do it.

Choose yourself.
People tell themselves "I don't want to be salesy."

There's no such thing.

There's being helpful with your products/services, and there's being a cog in someone else's machine.

No in between. Sell or be sold.
Read 12 tweets
Mar 19
I became a millionaire writer in my 30s.

• No mentors
• No trust fund
• No illegal activity

Here are the simple ideas I used to quit the cubicle life forever: 🧵 Image
1. Choose a job where you can work the least

99% of jobs will never pay you as much as you can earn online.

Stop falling for the clown show of:

• Bonuses
• Promotions
• Pay increases

It's peanuts.

Choose a lazy job that pays the bills and lets you build after hours.
2. Tell stories

Storytelling is such a superpower.

• The best products are sold with stories

• The most influential people use stories

Document the top 20 events from each year of your life.

Use them to tell stories on:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Substack
Read 21 tweets
Mar 18
I used to have daily financial stress.

Now, I've retired from 9-5 work forever and run a 7-figure a year online business.

20 sentences that helped me reach financial freedom 10x faster: Image
Success

Waking up on Monday morning and not hating your life because of money.
How to make more money:

Make more of a difference in people’s lives.
Read 22 tweets
Mar 15
I’m obsessed with how to reach financial freedom.

So, I spent 60+ hours studying how Naval Ravikant thinks about money.

Here’s what I found on becoming a quiet millionaire: Image
"Money doesn’t buy happiness — it buys freedom"

Freedom to do what you want when you want.

Freedom to use your time doing work you enjoy, rather than work you do to pay off debt, for stuff you probably don’t need.
"It’s the mark of a charlatan to try and explain simple things in complex ways"

... And it’s the mark of a genius to explain complicated things in simple ways.

• The world doesn’t have to be complex
• You get to choose to embrace simplicity.
Read 19 tweets
Mar 14
The most addictive drug in existence isn't heroin, TikTok, s*x, or social media.

Here’s what it is (and how it'll make you unstoppable): Image
Making money doing something you love is the most addictive feeling you'll ever experience.

Yet most never get to do it.

I got to. It let me quit my 9-5 job 3 years ago.
Boring work makes $0

Why? It lacks emotion.

We feel nothing so we do nothing.

Because emotion is motion. It’s energy that helps us to do the real work.

And real work we get energy from is hard. Hard work is easier to achieve when you’re not living a 1% battery life.
Read 15 tweets
Mar 6
After writing 5000+ essays on the internet I've come to ONE conclusion.

Writer's voice is the most important skill to master.

Here are 7 writer's voice tricks to make your reader obsessed with you (in 3 minutes): Image
1. Write like you talk

People try to write like they're smart. They use big words and are afraid t be judged.

Instead, recording yourself saying the article you want to write.

Then use Otter dot AI to turn it into text.

Now you sound like yourself, not a professor.
2. Write the draft as an email to your best friend

Tim Ferriss wrote 4-Hour Workweek as a draft in Gmail to his friend.

It made the book more personal & like he was talking to one person.

When I write about business I write it as a Slack message to my community.

1-1 = Better
Read 8 tweets

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