I’m from Eastern Europe.

Recently, I’ve been to the US, visiting Los Angeles, Austin, and Hawaii.

What I’ve seen blew me away.

15 strange things about US I still can’t understand:
1) Tipping culture

In LA some places expect up to 25% for mid-service.

It’s ridiculous.

In Europe, tipping is optional and mostly for restaurants. In Bulgaria, a 10-15% tip suffices, with no service charges added.

Pavel Durov, Telegram's billionaire CEO, was arrested for refusing to let governments censor his platform.

He's well-known as a CEO of Telegram.

But nobody knows his insane story (and why they call him the Russian Zuckerberg): 🧵 Pavel Durov was born into a family of intellectuals in Leningrad on October 10, 1984.

His father is a respected Russian philologist, and his brother Nikolai is a math wizard.

While still in high school, Durov referred to himself as an online totem...

The man who hacked the mind:

Joe Dispenza.

This neuroscientist teaches people how to brainwash themselves for success and destroy negative thoughts.

Here are 10 of his insights that transformed my life (and will do the same for you): 1) Your thoughts can make you sick.

Because of our large brains, we are capable of turning on the cascade of stress chemicals just by thought alone.

We can knock our brain and body out of normal physiology just by thinking.

Joe explains:

Navy SEALs are the most elite warriors on Earth.

Here’s one thing they’re taught early on…

Front-Sight Focus (how to achieve your goal by not focusing on it): Navy SEALs have the most advanced tactics on Earth.

One of them is front-sight focus.

It’s a fundamental shooting tactic perfected in SEAL training.

The aim is to perfect this tactic.

And discover the essential metaphor that's hiding in there.

I’m 32.

At 27, I became a multi-millionaire, but I felt emptier than ever.

Then, I discovered Alan Watts’ lectures and he changed my life forever.

Here are his 5 most powerful lessons (that will change your life too): Before we dive in, understand this.

When I became financially free, I did it all.

• Travel the world
• Stay in nice hotels
• Buy expensive sh*t

But I felt depressed. And finding Watts completely changed my life.

The 5 lessons from him:

This is Jim Simons.

The maths teacher who cracked Wall Street.

He outperformed Warren Buffett for the last 36 years.

Here's the unheard story of the world’s smartest (and craziest) billionaire: Before we dive in, you must understand how good Jim was.

If you invested $10K into his Medallion Fund in 1988, you’d have $420M.

Let that sink in.

If you invested in S&P 500, you’d have $400,000.

If you invested in Warren Buffet’s fund, you’d have $1.5M.

The best treatments for mental disorders aren’t:

Meditation. Therapy. Breathwork.

It’s this one treatment which is fueling the mental health revolution.

Here it is (and why it’s the best): Psychedelic Drugs

Psychedelics are a type of hallucinogen.

They change how a person perceives reality, causing them to see or hear things that are not real or distorted.

Before we dive deeper, listen to the insights of the psychedelics expert:

This is Morgan Housel.

He's the author of "Psychology of Money."

His message? Getting money is one thing. Keeping it is another.

Here are 8 of his insights on how to get (and stay) rich: Stupid-Simple Investing Strategy

Everyone thinks having money equals complexity.

Sure, sometimes it does. But only if you make it complex.

Here Morgan explains his simple investing strategy:

This is Charlie Munger.

He was a self-made billionaire investor.

But it wasn't his intelligence that made him rich. It was his mental models to avoid terrible mistakes.

Here are those models: Invert!

Don't think about difficult problems one way.

Consider them from all angles.

Inversion exposes hidden beliefs about the problem you're solving.

As Charlie famously said: “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.”

I discovered a guy who travels around the US asking millionaires their advice on:

Finances. Money mindset. Building wealth.

Turns out, they all agree upon this one advice...

These are my top 7:

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