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3x #1 New York Times Bestselling Author. More than 20 million books sold in 75 languages. Life advice without the fluff or BS.
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Mar 15 6 tweets 2 min read
Why you shouldn't necessarily take life advice from rich people (a thread)👇 Image Have you ever noticed how many rich people advocate for a balanced, healthy and happy lifestyle—after they’re rich?

You know, after they've spent 10 years grinding, failing, suffering and eating Big Macs for breakfast?
Mar 9 34 tweets 10 min read
Today is my 40th birthday. Here are all the things that I know at 40 which I wish I knew at 20.

Starting with…

1. Your relationship with others is a direct reflection of your relationship with yourself. If you treat yourself poorly, then you will unconsciously seek out and tolerate others who treat you poorly. If you treat yourself with dignity and respect, then you will only tolerate others who treat you with dignity and respect.

Get right with yourself. Get right with the world. 2. The only way to feel better about yourself is to do things worth feeling good about. Respect is earned, not given.

3. The only failure is not trying. The only rejection is not asking. The only mistake is not risking anything.

Success and failure are fuzzy concepts that only exist in your brain before you do something, not after. After the fact, everything will have some mixture of both success and failure within them. And the only real failure is doing nothing.
Feb 16 7 tweets 2 min read
What I’m about to tell you is going to help you stop caring what people think so you can get on with your life and start being awesome like this guy 🧵👇 Image There's a concept in psychology known as the Spotlight Effect. Now, the Spotlight Effect says that we all tend to assume that people are paying far more attention to us than they actually are.
Feb 2 8 tweets 2 min read
There’s an amazing concept in psychology that might explain why you’re not making progress on your problems: Image Years ago, researchers at Harvard sat people down and showed them a series of dots and asked them to identify which ones were blue.
Jan 17 4 tweets 3 min read
It’s the middle of the night and I'm in some cheap bungalow accommodation in rural India.

I’m having cold sweats. My head is throbbing. I’m dehydrated. And there’s no access to clean water.

Then, suddenly, the whole room becomes infested with thousands of giant buzzing mosquitos.

This was actually one of the best nights of my life 🙏

Not the situation itself. That sucked. But the experience. Because when you go through that sort of hell and return home, having an awkward conversation isn’t a big deal anymore. Feeling a little hungover will never make you cancel brunch with your friends again. And getting out of bed early for the gym is a breeze.

My experiences traveling have without a doubt been the best part of my personal development. Here are just a few of the lessons I took from 10 years overseas, which I get into in this episode:

✴️Every culture around the world has a trade-off of values—which positive systems it chooses to prioritize or what expectations it chooses to put on its people end up being at the expense of something else.

✴️Happiness is the wrong question. The human mind is incredibly resilient and the happiness found in children playing in ditches and watching their siblings get typhoid doesn’t eliminate their general suffering.

✴️Most people are good and it only takes hanging out with the people of any country you have a strong political view about to realize that most people are cool, and it’s only the system or the government that’s being obnoxious or murderous.

✴️If you value minimizing human suffering, prosperity, health and mental well-being, some country’s systems work better than others. I think it's really important to not make that a taboo statement.

✴️And much more…

This episode was a team favorite because there’s something for everyone, even if you can’t travel right now. So get into it, like it, review it, share it with someone you want to inspire the hell out of. And stay fucking frosty.

Link below 👇Image Get in on YouTube:
Oct 10, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read
I just optimized the most efficient morning routine ever, based on theories and knowledge that no one is talking about.

It goes like this:

1. Wake Up
2. Walk to My Office
3. Start Working

"Mark, but how??!?" you ask. Follow along as I break it down, step-by-step. 🧵👇 Step 1: This is the first step. Next to my bed. I step here first.

My wife is usually asleep so I try to be quiet and not to fart. But if you're single or hate your partner, you can be noisy or fart. Image
Aug 9, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
5 Truths That We Don’t Want to Hear, But Need to Hear: 1) Pain is inevitable.

We falsely believe it’s possible to get rid of the pain in our lives. We think, “If I could just have a jet ski, everything would be grand,” while not foreseeing the pain we'll feel when our drunken sister rides away on it, never to be seen again. Image
Aug 4, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
6 Books That Will Help You Grow From Your Pain: Image 1) The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

Watts is one of the most popular pop-Buddhist writers from the 1960s and 70s. And his clarity on the fundamental tenets of eastern philosophy is still unmatched. There’s no better book for a quick and dirty introduction to it. Image
Jul 21, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
Most people suck at reading.

Here are my five rules to help you become a better reader: Image Rule #1: Cut the inner monologue.

When you read, there's a voice inside your head talking out each and every word. The problem with this? It's slow and you don't need it. Practice reading without it. Don’t make every sound of every word in your head. Weird, eh? Image
Jun 9, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
There’s no such thing as a “good” or “bad” emotion—there are only “good” and “bad” reactions to your emotions. Here’s why your emotions might confuse the hell out of you: Image Anger, for example, gets a bad rap for being a “bad” emotion, but it isn’t necessarily so. While anger is often mismanaged and results in things getting ugly pretty fast, it does a lot of good for us and the world too. Image
Dec 30, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
In 2018, I was fortunate enough to stumble into a small room with Pele in it. I sat down next to him and began speaking Portuguese. He said, “Who’s this American guy and how does he know Portuguese?” He had never heard of me but he also seemed relieved to speak to someone in his native tongue for awhile. So we spoke.

I explained that my wife was Brazilian. He quipped “makes sense, the best way to learn a language was between the sheets.” We laughed. The ice was broken.
Jun 15, 2022 8 tweets 1 min read
7 Realizations That Changed My Life (a thread): 1/ Nobody is paying attention to you as much as you are to yourself. That thing that mortifies you? Other people probably don’t even notice.
Jun 10, 2022 19 tweets 4 min read
Here are some of my most popular tweets from 2022 so far, in one thread…⬇️
Oct 9, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
1/ The Three Layers of the Self-Awareness Onion (a thread): 2/

Layer 1: A simple understanding of one's emotions.

"I'm angry... I'm really fucking angry."
Sep 15, 2021 6 tweets 1 min read
1/ Five words we misuse/overuse (a thread)... 2/ Happiness

Most people mistake pleasure for happiness. They think moments of heightened satisfaction mean they're happy, when really, all it means is they're satisfied. True happiness is fulfillment - finding things you care about so much you're willing to sacrifice for them.
Jul 21, 2021 10 tweets 1 min read
1/ Things you wish you knew 10 years ago 2/ Acceptance means moving on. Lack of acceptance means drama.
Jun 23, 2021 21 tweets 5 min read
My Top Tweets of 2021 so far... a thread.
Jun 22, 2021 10 tweets 1 min read
1/ I asked you to tell me what you would share with every person on the planet if there was a way to reach the ears of every single one of them. These are some of the things you all said. (A thread.) 2/ Once you stop trying to be right about everything, you'll find the freedom and beauty in being wrong.
Jun 11, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
1/ Five Tempting Things You Should Avoid (a thread) 2/ It's tempting to be a people-pleaser...

To go with the flow, to give up a little here and there, just to make everyone else happy.

Conflict makes us all uncomfortable. But conflict is necessary to stand up for what we need.

Sometimes it's loving to tell someone "no."
Jun 9, 2021 8 tweets 1 min read
1/ I crowdsourced some definitions of success from readers. You're welcome. 2/ "Success is being able to define success for yourself."
May 31, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
1/ Three major problems with basing your worldview solely on your feelings. A short thread. 2/ Your feelings are self-contained. They are solely experienced only by you, not by the world or the universe or that hot guy you saw at the gas station.