Ernest Hemingway was a real son of a b*tch.

He p*ssed off intellectuals when he said:

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Here are 16 bizarre things I learned from him: Hemingway led one hell of a life.

• 1953 Pulitzer for “The Old Man and the Sea"
• Two plane crashes (he survived both)
• He was a badass boxer
• He had a weird obsession with bullfighting
• Got into a d*ck measuring contest with F. Scott Fitzgerald

He took his own life in 1961.

I'm 38.

When I was 28 I worshipped identity politics, went woke & believed in the fantasy of equality.

Then I discovered Albert Camus, and he changed my life forever.

11 lessons from France's most controversial & unknown philosopher: Albert Camus won a Nobel Prize

He pissed people off by not supporting Algeria's independence from France. His decision didn't age well. Algeria won.

He wrote 2 novels that changed history & made him famous, then was murdered at 46 in a car crash caused by soviet spies.

I became a millionaire at age 34.

I could have become a millionaire by age 24 if I had started these 9 habits earlier: 1. Don’t work a cubicle job forever

Level 1 = Job

Level 2 = freelancing, consulting, or one-person business

Level 3 = starting a business

Level 4 = running a business with lots of employees

Staying at level 1 is living your whole life in daycare.

Action: build an online business.

Charles Bukowski shocked the world in 1987.

He finally became famous for writing about modern American life that included extreme violence & s*x acts.

I spent the last 5 years digesting it all...

And these are the 14 things I can't stop thinking about: "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.”

Politics is the most trivial of all. It solves nothing for the average person.

But they pray it will like the president is Jesus.

Mind your own business & tell politicians to f*ck off

JK Molina's work will change how you make money forever.

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

12 ideas. 12 opportunities to get wealthier. Some people dismiss JK as a make money online guru with a 6-pack.

They're f*cking morons.

He grew up in Guatemala (3rd world country) & built an online business there.

He also co-foundered Tweethunter & sold it for 7-figures.

I used to be depressed, broke, and work in a call center.

Now I work a relaxed work day in a flow state, chase my obsession, write online and make $1M+ a year.

12 habits that transformed my life: Flow states

9-5 work is boring. It lacks creativity so it feels like work.

When you choose work that feels effortless & escape the hell of the corporate world, you look forward to work.

Deep work done in a flow state makes 8 hours of work feel like 1.

If you can't get in flow, quit your current work.

I retired from my 9-5 cubicle job forever at 34.

• No savings/trust fund
• No selling drugs
• No mentors

Here are the basic ideas I used to retire early: 1. "Retirement is one of the biggest lies in society.

Sitting around with no goals or something to work on will age and kill you faster than cancer." – Alex Becker

You'll also die of boredom. Instead, chase an obsession.

It took me 10 years to realize, and I will tell you in 2 minutes.

1. A 9-5 job is blocking you from reaching your potential. 2. Boycotting and activism are for losers. Change the world through your example.

This man destroyed wokeism:

Balaji Srinivasan.

He was the CTO of Coinbase, partner at a16z, friend of Naval & is worth $150M+

He's been on fire lately on X.

Here is Balaji's updated philosophy: The world is sick of division caused by wokeism.

There's one race & it's human.

I'm 38.

When I was 32 I worked in banking, went woke (then broke) & suffered anxiety

Then I discovered Balaji Srinivasan
on X & made several million dollars by 38

14 of his insights that transformed my life (and will do the same for you): 1. "Many founders aren’t hiring from Harvard. They’re hiring from Tw!tter."

• Resumes are dead.

• Offering a bunch of biased references is dead.

• Asking for permission to climb the corporate ladder is dead.

Join the permissionless economy online.

5 years ago I quit:

• TV
• News
• Politics
• Facebook
• My corporate 9-5 job

I did the opposite of what society told me to do & focused on more important things:

• Gym
• Family
• Writing
• Freedom
• Free time
• Obsession
• Wealth generation
• Starting an online business

Here are the results: 1. Stopped getting programmed by mainstream media

The traditional media wants to dived us to become relevant again.

But all their misinformation has meant their trust is at an all-time low.

They hate social media apps like X because it's replaced them. I used X to build a movement.

Turn off the news

This is Naval Ravikant.

Co-Founder of AngelList and one of the most unique thinkers of our time.

He recently went on Scott Adams' podcast and shared some mind-blowing theories and ideas.

Here are 9 key takeaways:
(No. 6 is fascinating) 1. Credentials and career history are a form of identity politics.

Forget about labels.

You are who you are. You got nothing to prove to no one.

In 1972, Steve Jobs walked in on his girlfriend sleeping with a guy.

Steve became friends with him.

He taught him a philosophy that allowed him to convince anybody of anything. It's why they both became billionaires.

Here’s the philosophy: 🧵 Steve Jobs and Bob Friedland met after Steve came over to sell him a typewriter.

Bob had spent 2 years in jail for trafficking the drug LSD. They bonded over eastern mysticism.

• Jobs was introverted & shy
• Bob was insanely charismatic (red shirt)

I'm a writer.

When I was young, I suffered severe mental illness.

Then I found Carl Jung's work and began to heal my own mind.

Here are 9 powerful philosophies he taught me: 1. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life, and you will call it fate.”

There's a layer beneath reality that controls us.

Unless you interrogate your own mind your inner child will run your life.

You'll think you know everything & believe you're superior.

Then the desire for luck & hope will destroy you

Everyone talks about legendary Naval Ravikant.

But nobody talks about his brother Kamal who redefined entrepreneurship forever

He taught James Altucher a philosophy that made him stop giving a f*ck.

Here's the philosophy: Kamal found himself in a dark place

He lost everything when his startup failed. He had a famous brother & felt stupid

He locked himself in his bedroom. He became sick. Then he said "I love myself" repeatedly every day. It healed him.

He wrote a viral book about it.

The guy is bizarre which is why you'll love him.

This man destroyed wokeism:

Naval Ravikant.

He was an early investor in Notion, Twitter & Uber & is worth $600M+

He's been on fire lately on X.

Here is Naval's updated philosophy: 1. "If you aren’t volunteering to fight in a particular war, you shouldn’t be advocating for it."

Rip off the Ukra!ne badges.

Pretending to care should be illegal. Virtue signaling for status points is horrific.

We need to call these people out.

My daughter is about to turn 2 years old.

Here are cheat codes to life she taught me that I wish I knew in my 20's: 1. If you're too busy to spend time with someone, you don't really give a f*ck about them.

Work will always be there, but those you love will not.

The path to $1M a year starts with building a digital business.

Most never do it because they waste their lives climbing the corporate ladder.

Here's the playbook that took me from a $50K/year banking job to a $1M+ a year digital business:🧵 1. Don't quit the terrible 9-5 job

Wait, what?

Without an income you become a desperate, needy, little b*tch. It's the worst.

I stayed in my banking job for as long as possible. I used the time to learn from my business banking customers.

Keep the job. Build on the side after hours.

After years of struggling with my online business, I finally cracked the code.

Over $5M, 30,000 hours, and 10 years later, here are the 15 systems that transformed my business (and will do the same for you): 1. Write on social media in a black t-shirt

The hardest part of business is leads

• The leads that come from ads are transactional.

• That leads that come from writing & sharing ideas are invested in what you do.

My cheat code is I've leaned more into who I am. So I attract the right type of customer.

Tony Robbins' net worth is $600M

He's coached Bill Clinton, Andre Agassi, Oprah, and Marc Benioff.

He teaches his wealthy clients (and credits his success to) these 7 simple concepts: 1. Hard times create incredible opportunities if you can be unreasonable enough to believe anything is possible.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" ― George Bernard Shaw

This is Lex Fridman.

A close friend of Joe Rogan and Elon Musk.

He taught them the power of silence & AI, and to chill the f*ck out.

Here's his philosophy: Lex's podcast has 100M+ downloads.

It's one of the most bizarre podcasts in the world.

• He gets guests nobody else can
• There are long pauses & loads of silence
• He adds a deeply philosophical angle to every episode
• He wears a black suit

You may not like his friends but he's a genius & world expert on AI. This is his philosophy: