Talent comes from desire to get better, and desire to get better comes from pain for not being enough.
#orangebook #Talent #Growth #Motivation
A lot of people are setting low expectations for themselves because they can't handle the pressure, but life becomes so much more fun once you decide instead to grow more mental strength and "talent," by investing in yourself until you can fearlessly tackle the challenging problems that the confident version of yourself would choose to tackle without hesitation.
#orangebook #MentalStrength #SelfInvestment #ChallengeYourself
The smarter you are, the more you need to grow the courage to be wrong, or you're gonna spend your whole life overthinking every decision instead of acting or speaking up when it matters, and end up missing out on life itself.
#orangebook #Courage #Growth #DecisionMaking
One of the saddest things in life is people who grew up without experiencing what it was like to have a loving family or a real friend, and who ended up living their adult years in very dysfunctional relationships that they deemed "normal."
#orangebook #FamilyRelationships #Friendship #MentalHealth
Most people who tell you what you can't do are actually saying what they can't do; that's why talented people are so much more fun to be around, they don't see limits, they see potential, in themselves, in others.
#orangebook #Potential #Limits #Talent
Foolish decisions often come from having too much free time, that's when you overthink the details that don't matter, that's when you seek unnecessary stimulation to escape your boring daily life, that's when you destroy what you've built without noticing it until it's too late.
#orangebook #FreeTime #Overthinking #SelfDestruction
People often act shocked and disillusioned by how little their ex-business partners or ex-coworkers care about them once they are no longer working together; but that's simply the limits of the aligned financial incentives, and the older you get, the more obvious it is that genuine friendships are so much more rare than professional and financial opportunities.
#orangebook #Friendships #Business #Incentives
If your work environment is transforming you into someone you don't like, and yet you choose to stay, you don't get to complain about the family and friends you won't have many years from now; life is quite simple, you choose who you want to be, you pay the price to get there, and you attract the people you deserve.
#orangebook #WorkEnvironment #PersonalGrowth #LifeChoices
It's actually not surprising that a lot of smart people who are successful in their career are struggling with their relationships;
genuine bonds often require the very opposite of what you need to succeed professionally,
it's not about efficiency,
it's not about making calculated long-term moves,
it's not about being transactional and capturing value,
it's about being emotionally present in a world that teaches you to be emotionally detached,
it's about giving without worrying about what's in it for you,
it's about not having an agenda and genuinely loving and caring about the other person.
#orangebook #Relationships #Career #EmotionalIntelligence
Lack of success is lack of focus and wrong priorities.
No one ever got talented by spending their time admiring talented people.
No one ever got healthy without sticking to some "boring" eating, training, sleeping habits.
No one ever got wealthy by constantly spending their money on their mimetic desires.
No one ever got loved without commitment and efforts to become a person worthy of love.
No one ever built long-lasting meaningful friendships without getting their personal life in order first.
No one ever got clear-minded without spending extended amounts of time alone.
No one ever got the life they wanted without overcoming their fears and making painful choices.
No one ever got things done without occasionally temporarily ignoring the rest of the world.
#orangebook #Focus #Discipline #Self-improvement
