10 Life Lessons Taught Through Visuals
(illustrated by me)

10 Visuals that will change the way you think:

1. Write between the lines "Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps you going."
-Jim Rohn

10 Visuals that will improve your mindset

/ True definition of failure. / How will you adjust your aim?

4 Sobering reminders from real data about how we actually spend our time 👇

🔘 Total Time You Have With Your Children

Important Reminder:
• Be present, even and especially during the most challenging times.

🔘 Total Time You Have With Your Parents

Important Reminder:
• Honor the limited time you have with your family.

We must all suffer from one of two pains:
the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
-Jim Rohn In high school, I had this T-shirt I loved from a brand called "No Fear."

On the back said:
"There's nothing in life more painful than regret."

I think about that a lot.

Especially when it comes to creating online -- something I wanted to start 10 years ago.

If you want to excel under pressure, remember this critical principle:

The Yerkes-Dodson Law 🧵 What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?

A psychological study that concludes:
• no stress = no motivation
• intense stress = blinding anxiety
• moderate stress = optimal focus

Let's take an example we're all familiar with--
Studying for an Exam.

I spent 20 hours distilling Mental Models into easy-to-understand illustrations.

Here're 10 of them to help you make better decisions 🧵 :

1. Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule):

Simplified: the larger chunk of your results come from a small portion of what you're doing 2. Parkinson's Law:

Work expands to fill the time available to complete it.
• If you have an hour, it takes an hour
• If you have a week, it takes a week

Beware the path of least resistance. Most people wait to make tough decisions because:

• Too many options (paradox of choice)
• Facing a dilemma (both options are unpleasant)
• Assuming there's a "right" choice (analysis paralysis)

So the urgent tasks always overshadow the important ones.

The most powerful skill in the world?

Storytelling.

But it takes years to master and 99% of storytelling advice is overly complicated.

I've spent 10000 hours studying storytelling over the last 20 years.

Here're the 3 most common mistakes in under 3 min(and how to fix them): Mistake 1: Writing in PAST tense.

Why it's wrong:
• Past tense--reports what happened
• Present tense--experiences what's happening

Nicolas Cole wrote over 200 threads since 2019 generating over 50,000,000 views.

Dickie Bush went from 900 followers to 300,000 in 24 months.

How?

The two created Ship30for30 to teach exactly that.

Here're their top 3 writing frameworks (so you can start using them today): 1) Lean Writing Framework

Traditional Writing:
• slow--takes years to complete
• uncertain--guessing what audience wants
• alone--no audience till finished

Lean Writing:
• fast--complete at the speed of tweet
• precise--immediate feedback
• social--done WITH audience

10 Rules for Life I wish I learned in my 20s

1. Be intentional with your energy. Build as you go.

I've drawn over 150 illustrations this year and grew to:

• 9K on Twitter
• 60K on IG Here're my top 22 of the year:

1) Passion brings immediate joy. Values provide lasting meaning. -Adam Grant 2) While humility is a permeable filter that absorbs life experience and converts it into knowledge and wisdom--

Arrogance is a rubber shield that life experience simply bounces off of.
-Tim Urban

10 Visuals about life + creativity that will inspire your growth.

1. Holding your ideas in your head vs. writing them down. 2. Make music, not noise.

10 Visuals That Will Make You Think =>

1: The difference between trying to hold onto your thoughts and writing them down. 2: The difference between managing and leadership.

3 Steps to Think Outside the Box Like Bruce Lee
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