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Professional baseball player turned writer | Writing, Philosophy, and Business

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Life has a way of showing you what you need before you even realize it. In 2017, I spent the summer before my freshman year of college working at an Amazon warehouse from 5:30am to 1:30pm. After that, I spent a few hours lifting weights & training at a local Little League field.

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@catsuka I think a question that no one is asking about the situation is: Should everyone have a successor? I don't think so.

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@nathanbaugh27 His enthusiasm to teach is one of my favorite things about him. Reminds me of the 8 rules for writing short fiction (and almost all of the points apply to all writing)

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@FoundersPodcast I’ve been doing a ton of reading on this, I’m so pumped for this episode. My favorite Catmull quote: "If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with

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"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time, I owe him my best." — Joe Dimaggio When speaking to Zach Bryan, Joe Rogan recalled this quote & Zach described his own version of this principle: “I look out at the audience and I pick out one kid.

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Your ego is KILLING your potential. In Dejounte Murray’s first few seasons in the NBA, what stuck out about Kawhi Leonard was his mindset at practice. By this point, Leonard was a Finals MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, and perennial all-star. Yet he approached the practices

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@nathanbaugh27 Love this series. Here’s one I love from Fitzgerald

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@ATRightMovies The only correct answer

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@nathanbaugh27 Neil Gaiman’s podcast with Tim Ferris changed the way I write in many ways. A rule that I stole from him: “You can sit down and write, or you can do nothing at all, but you can’t do anything else.” Writing something, no matter how bad, is a lot better than sitting in boredom

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@bpoppenheimer "Treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl is my new motto"

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"It isn't shameful to be illiterate, Hudson. It is only shameful to stay that way." Who said that? Shakespeare? Hemingway? No. The 90s Disney cartoon "Gargoyles". I don't limit myself to any particular medium when it comes to consuming content; there are gems everywhere.

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@ATRightMovies Anything from Christopher Nolan, Tenet specifically. You NEED to watch it multiple times to understand it

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When I played baseball, people tried to say I should've played basketball. When I chose to drop out after my junior year of college to train, people said I should finish my education All these opinions about me and people always fail to realize: I literally do not care

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When I was 16, someone changed my life & I’ll never find out who. I was at the local park and found The 48 Laws of Power at a Little Free Library. “This is fucking crazy,” I thought to myself as I flipped through it. I took it back home and was hooked. I’d never read anything

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Rethink each simple decision you make. You'll be surprised at how many things you go along with just because "that's the way things are done."

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@zachlanebryan War and Treaty and Lumineers 👀

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This is what heaven looks like

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If your work didn’t have your name on it, would people still know it’s yours? In the early 90s, Matt Stone and Trey Parker created “South Park: The Spirit of Christmas”, a 5 minute animated short on VHS. The VHS was shared thousands of times & went viral without the help of the

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Attention spans are getting shorter, but @Zachpogrob is convinced that the content that will win is long-form, “raw”, and ultra-authentic. “Everyone can be best friends with Emma Chamberlain,” he said as an example. Authenticity and volume invite familiarity. @Zachlanebryan is

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“I used to be mystified by kids who didn’t want to be in entertainment,” John Mulaney says. When I heard that, I understood exactly what he meant. To some people, cracking jokes in front of others is terrifying. To him, it's play. For most of my life, I felt the same way about

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2 months in and finally feel a bit more comfortable here. Only logical thing to do now is to turn it up a notch, right?

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During the production of "The Dark Knight", Heath Ledger once insisted on trying to apply his own makeup. "Maybe we'll learn something," he told director Chris Nolan. Ledger ended up with makeup all over his hands. The result made intuitive sense — applying clown makeup across

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So thankful for hitting 50 newsletter subscribers. It's my favorite and therefore the best writing I do. If you like my posts here, it would mean the world if you took a look at some of my previous emails and subscribed!

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Vanguard Weekly

Using writing and philosophy to see the world differently

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Guess who decided to make me run after him around the neighborhood?

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@FoundersPodcast “You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it's one thing and you want it far more than anything else.” - Naval Ravikant. Obsession always wins

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@bpoppenheimer When criticized about his phrase“follow your bliss”, Joseph campbell later joked: “Maybe I should have said, ‘Follow your blisters,’ because anything worth doing takes work.” What things do you return to that “beat you up”? That’s probably what you should keep doing

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@NolanAnalyst Flip phone, computer without internet, etc. Nolan’s constraints are the reason why he can make these complex films. He doesn’t like anyone or anything to do his thinking for him

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@FoundersPodcast Was cool to read about all the people WB used as standards for his life. Mrs B for endurance, Tom Murphy for composure, his father’s inner scorecard, etc. You need these models because it’s easier to conceptualize things like “honesty” when you see those qualities in people

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@TrevRosenthal The rate of the surgery doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon either unfortunately

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No Experience = No Substance On a trip to China, Warren Buffett marveled at a group of young men pulling his boat upstream a river. After a moment, he had an epiphany: “There could have been another Bill Gates among these men pulling our boat. They were born here, and they

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Your best work is what you feel passionately about + the opportunities no one seems to notice. @paulg talks about finding anomalies and digging into them. Similarly, Bob Dylan noticed the sense of paranoia at the time and it drove him crazy that no music seemed to embody that —

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How many of your ideas make it to the page? Einstein, Christopher Nolan, and George Washington are 3 geniuses who were able to turn complex ideas into simple plans. Here are a few of the tricks they used to turn their ideas into accomplishments:

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When I grow up, I want to be as photogenic as my dog is

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@bpoppenheimer #4 is my favorite saying of his. John is a philosopher disguised as a musician. My favorite story is how he played on Mac Miller’s “Small Worlds” for free. He said: “I don’t want people talking about me. I want people talking about your record.” It reminds me of Terri

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone got paid $935 million in 2021 to make South Park, the most infamous cartoon on TV. Here are 10 simple principles they follow that helped create their empire:

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Today’s office 🫡

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@ghiblipicture The GOAT is back for (supposedly) one last ride and it looks beautiful

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You are Hercules at the Crossroads, you just don't know it yet. Here's a quick recap of the story: Hercules is choosing between Virtue & Vice who appear to him as 2 beautiful women. Vice offers a life of pleasure - Hercules would only know comfort forever. Virtue offers honor

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Learn to do things for their own sake. Learn to write because you like writing. Exercise because you like challenging yourself. The actual benefits are awesome, but they won’t sustain you if you genuinely hate doing them. You have to develop a love for the action itself

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I wish more writers realized that songwriters are some of the best storytellers ever. Listening to great music is such an underrated way to learn good storytelling.

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A good story can change your life. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is driven by his love for the idea of someone. The woman he was in love with remarried and moved on. Yet years later he kept the same girl he met years ago in his mind. In other words, Gatsby was compelled by

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I'm not anti-school, I'm pro self-education. School can give you a certain floor of knowledge, but if you want to do great things it is nowhere near enough. Learning is a lifelong pursuit.

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@iamjasonlevin 's new book "Memes Make Millions" is a self-improvement book disguised as a meme-focused marketing book. Here are my favorite quotes, insights, and memes from it:

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Made a new rule that I can’t drive anywhere that’s around a mile away or closer; I have to walk there. Groceries, post office, etc., doesn’t matter. Gotta walk there. One of my favorite changes lately, a lot more time to think

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Working on a new project, so cranked out the lyrics to Zach Bryan’s “Quiet, Heavy Dreams” on my typewriter. Typewriting helps me meditate on words more deeply than a computer. What a damn poet, man.

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@bpoppenheimer Love this. This also brings to mind the idea that constraints can help us breakthrough creatively. “Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world. Are the colors in the palette, anything you want — that just kills creativity.” -Jack White

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Coffee shop, timer, phone on DND. This is the way.

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If you’re looking for inspiration, narrow your gaze. In 1942, Norman Rockwell was inspired by FDR’s Four Freedoms speech and wanted to help the war effort by illustrating them. After a few months of struggle, Rockwell stumbled upon the perfect inspiration. One of his Vermont

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“Had Newton or Leibniz never lived, the world would have calculus, but if Beethoven hadn’t lived, we would never have had the C-minor Symphony.” —Albert Einstein It’s funny though — Newton and Leibniz “invented” calculus independently in completely different ways. It seems that

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If you're tired all the time, read this: 🧵

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You don’t need more money, time, or resources to do good work. “We are forced to create our work with insufficient resources and that weakness becomes our very strength.” -Hayao Miyazaki If you find yourself in a creative rut, try giving yourself less… •Time: create

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Going through my notes for this book and Rafa Nadal is the perfect combination of winning, humility, and tenacity. Guy mastered the art of being relentless

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I want my followers and newsletter subscribers to be like “Fuck, this guy is always posting and he just doesn’t miss” It’s a target I’ll never reach, of course. I’m not perfect. But that doesn’t stop me from trying…

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Another day, another 🔥 coffee shop setup

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@TrevRosenthal Reminds me of a Kobe story: He noticed players who pump-fake pull back their dominant leg—an impossible position to shoot from Everyone wondered how he was so good on defense. Did he just have that 6th sense? Nope, he just tried to win every little part of the game. Love this!

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Build up everyone in your orbit. Always be encouraging, and be the person people turn to when things go wrong. There’s both a satisfaction and a utility that comes from that

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Hope everyone’s office looks as nice as this one today

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Christopher Nolan once had an English teacher tell him: “You have to be about books the way you are about movies.” The teacher’s advice fell on deaf ears. “Great advice, but I knew in my heart, I never would be,” Nolan said. Anything he did or learned was simply fuel for his

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Imagine you had an old painting in your house and it turned out to be a Picasso painting. That’s what finding hidden talents is like Go through your past like an art inspector looking for hidden masterpieces. Look at childhood photos, scrapbooks, etc. That’s where the gold is

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Don’t underestimate the power of a 10 minute phone call with an old friend

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You are… -Unknown -Getting no respect -Yearning for someone to recognize your work GOOD! This is your only chance to work with that mindset. Austin Kleon says that the benefit of obscurity is the freedom to experiment and focus solely on getting better: “You'll never get

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Note to anyone who is anything like I was just 6 months ago: EDIT MORE. The amount of times I was satisfied with writing that was mediocre is disgusting. Now, I edit like a maniac. I won't publish any longer work if I don't edit it at least 5-10 times. The standard is set

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Start before you have everything figured out. During The Dark Knight's production, Heath Ledger insisted on trying to apply his own makeup. "Maybe we'll learn something," he said. Ledger ended up with makeup all over his hands. That little detail was added to the film's

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Haven’t been as active on here lately, and I was kind of upset about it for a bit. But I don’t have unlimited time, and creativity is so amorphous and I’m still figuring out where I want to direct most of my energy Think I’m gonna just ride w/ less short tweets & more long form

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Steve Irwin: "Crocodile Hunter" and... Master Strategist?! Irwin's charisma and passion made him the subject of adoration for many, but how was he able to capitalize on the attention? As spontaneous as he may have been, Irwin was more calculating than he seemed... "You know, I

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If you want to be the best at something, you have to become a professional. Luckily, being a professional is nothing more than a choice. Steven Pressfield says all that "turning pro" requires is a change in mindset. Similarly, Bryan Johnson ( @bryan_johnson ) attributes his

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“WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK?” This was one of Richard Feynman’s favorite sayings, and lucky for him, his first wife Arlene repeated them often. When he was away at Princeton, she sent him a box of pencils, each engraved in gold: “RICHARD DARLING, I LOVE YOU!

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Some biographies I'm looking forward to reading soon: -Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) -The founding of Warner Bros -Satoru Iwata (Nintendo CEO) -Walt Disney Very clear thread here I'm excited to explore

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Unlike many, I love having a ton of unread books around me. I'm not psychic - I can't predict what I will need/want in the future. I would rather have the answers to potential future questions nearby than to have to go searching for them. Make serendipity a feature

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I don’t know what I’ll be doing 5,10, or 20 years from now, but i do know that I’ll be doing it well.

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On the @heydannymiranda episode w/ @ItsKieranDrew , Kieran shared a quote he asked himself at a time when he wasn't satisfied with his content: "I don't think I'd be a raving fan of what I'm saying." Raving fan or bust; that's the standard. Being good enough is not good enough.

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Who you hang out with really is so critical. I spent some of the weekend helping a friend I hadn’t seen in a while move. He’s very meticulous and the topic of budgets came up. He knew with precision what his cost of living was I don’t. So, I started working on that immediately

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Actually, this is a picture of me in my home library 40 years from now

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A man browses for books in the old Public Library of Cincinnati. The building was demolished in 1955. Today, an office building and a parking lot stand where it used to be. The Old Cincinnati Library was built in 1874 on the site reserved for an opera house. With five levels of

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The funniest thing about making notes in books is reading them years later and saying to myself “wow, I don’t believe that AT ALL anymore”. Uncomfortable reminders to always question assumptions and beliefs.

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To anyone else obsessed with something: know that it is a double-edged sword It allows for big gains but does so by neglecting relationships & other parts of your life You must consciously plan family time, exercise, etc. so that you don't become another regretful millionaire

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I love watching people change over the years. It’s weird that people see that as bad. Change is natural, and the more agency you have over the changes, the more you are the one shaping your life.

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When making the first MCU film, Iron Man, Marvel assembled the perfect cast and had a release date set. But there was one big problem: they had no clue how to build the Iron Man suit! That may seem like an oversight, but in reality, it was a strategy. Pre-production is useful

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You can get great ideas on a walk or in the middle of some activity, but it will never be complete until you make it real. Write it down Draw a diagram Create a step by step explanation Unless you eventually do this, your ideas remain half-baked

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“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” That's the question Steve Jobs asked himself every day for 33 years. "Whenever the answer is no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something," he continued. That advice

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When you start to eliminate things you don’t need, at first it feels like you’re missing out. But stick with it long enough and you’ll find a new gear. You begin to feel an intensity when you are doing the few things that really matter. That’s how you become great

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I don’t bother reading book reviews anymore. If the book seems interesting, I buy it. I’m ok buying 10 books and quitting 9 just to get to 1 great one.

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In case anyone thought I was joking, here I was earlier walk to fill up 5 gallons of water 3/4 of a mile and back. No exceptions to the rule lol

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You could not pay me enough to neglect my sleep. A few late nights every now and then won't kill you, but if you are pulling daily all-nighters, it may be a sign that your systems are broken

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@TarantinoWorld This is so cool. From betting on his when his career was on the downturn to having him on the film to close it out. Love it!

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The worst thing you can do is ignore your weaknesses. Your dark side will take over if you trick yourself into thinking it's not there. If you want to be in control, learn every negative quality you possess so that you know what the enemy is.

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Knowing when to share things and when to keep them secret is an underrated skill. Cheap dopamine from announcing something you haven't even begun is terrible. When in doubt, keep things secret a little longer than you're comfortable with. You can't unreveal something

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I’m a big fan of “just start” as advice for undergoing a venture… Yet I put off my newsletter for months. 3 weeks ago I decided to just start it and I’m upset I didn’t do it sooner. It’s been my most fun project and I’ve gotten awesome feedback so far. JUST START!

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Journaling can literally save your life. Here are 12 Lessons & Quotes that stuck out from a Year of Daily Journaling:

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In my baseball career, the main difference between good coaches and bad coaches was communication. Bad coaches demand that you understand them. Good coaches meet you where you’re at, and find ways to make their teaching personal to you. But this applies to all leaders

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“I hate writing, but I love having written” That rings true for many, but why? Simply put, writing is hard! First drafts are always terrible, and finding the right ideas to fill those drafts with sometimes feels impossible. To do good creative work, you can’t wait for

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@nathanbaugh27 I was obsessed with this for a while; thankful I was reading Robert Greene’s Mastery at the time. Robert talks about thinking inside an idea by visualizing it. Einstein used analogies & diagrams Nolan’s doing the same; outlines are great, but you can’t picture 100 words at once

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“Would you rather be the world’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the world’s worst lover? Or would you rather be the world’s worst lover but have everyone think you’re the world’s greatest lover?” —Warren Buffet

Lessons from Warren Buffet, "The Snowball"

Using writing and philosophy to see the world differently

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More than anything, I'm obsessed with stories. I've always been a great listener because I can lose myself in anyone's story.

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@zachpogrob When I was 10, I was obsessed with exercise(sports) and stories(cartoons, anime, movies, books). As I’m leaning into the things I do well and enjoy, I find that those obsessions are almost identical, down to the mediums. Go figure.

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When you aim bigger, you fear small obstacles less. For example, when newsletter articles and X posts become tangential to a bigger goal, you don’t fear hitting publish as much. Big goals make the day to day things easy

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Do you want to consistently channel your creativity and focus? Here are 4 ways to get & stay focused so you can get 2x the work done in half the time:

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Jamil Vanheyningen

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If you talk more about money than you do about purpose, more power to you, but we probably won’t get along very well.

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Jamil Vanheyningen

1 year

@hollywood_nerds Gratitude is such an important part of doing work you love. The best of the best are constantly talking about how lucky and excited they are about their work in year 10,20,30,etc

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Jamil Vanheyningen

1 year

I genuinely can’t think of a bigger waste of time than reading a book from the “Current Affairs” section. Tabloids in book form.

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