Category: Personal Growth
When Work Feels Like Play, You've Found Your Edge
"Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others."
The Unstoppable Combination: Building and Selling
"Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."
Life's Returns Come from Compound Interest in Long-Term Games
"Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest."
Everything Takes Longer Than Expected
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take that into account."
Anger Makes Everything Worse
"Anger always makes stuff worse. I don't think I've ever lost my temper and then afterward thought, I'm so glad I...
External Success Won't Fix Internal Problems
"You can't fix internal issues with external accomplishments. Hitting number one in the New York Times, selling...
Nothing is as Important as You Think It Is
"You got to chill out. When I think about the things that in my 20s I was so intense about, I cared so intensely...
Learn How to Be Alone Because One Day You'll Have To
"You spend more and more time alone as you get older, rapidly increasing from age 30 until you die. As you grow up,...
Anger is Its Own Punishment
"Anger is its own punishment. An angry person trying to push your head below water is drowning at the same time."...
Anger is a Signal You're Capable of Violence
"What is anger? Anger is a way to signal as strongly as you can to the other party you're capable of violence. Anger...
The Paradox of Knowing It All
"It is impossible to learn that which you think you already know."
The Mind's Tendency to Invent Problems
"When we lack real problems in our lives, our mind quickly sets out to imagine some." Mark Manson