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“Still moving with love, just practicing more discernment.” #y…28all. Eya. The Warm-Up: “Social media is like an all-you-can-eat buffet of validation, but the food is mostly empty calories. Every like, share, and comment provides a little dopamine hit, a momentary feeling of being seen and appreciated. But it’s fleeting, and it leaves you hungrier than before.” ~Kpaxs The Core: “May impatience not cause you to run to crumbs before your feast arrives.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “Everyone nodded, nobody agreed.” ~Ian McEwan, on the challenge of being yourself (James Clear, 3-2-1) | Source: Amsterdam “Your spouse marries two people. The person you are and the person you want to become. Make sure they love both.” ~Alex Hormozi “Every time you level up, you lose something: A habit, a friendship, a version of yourself. That’s not loss. That’s proof you’re evolving.” ~Nithya Shri “You spend an hour consuming politics, and that hour ages like milk; you spend an hour consuming art, and that hour ages like wine.” ~Dylan O’Sullivan “Lack of talent is lack of discipline. Lack of wealth is lack of vision. Lack of love is lack of trust. Lack of growth is lack of courage. Lack of happiness is lack of gratitude.” ~Orange Book “The best career advice I ever got in my 20s: ‘build a thick skin’. Without that, a lot your instincts (hard work, ambition, intelligence) will come to naught in the long run.” ~Hemant Mohapatra “Your ultimate success is governed by your ability to tolerate the uncertainty on the path to get there. The one who can tolerate the most uncertainty is the one who will eventually win.” ~Sahil Bloom “Get back into it. Whatever it is; the gym, your art, your studies, that book you haven’t finished, that project you shelved. Whatever you weren’t ready for then; you’re ready for now.” ~@bluewmist “If you strive to be ‘good,’ rather than honest, thoughtful, discerning, and principled, you’ll forever be controlled by social approval and relentlessly alienated from your real voice.” ~Ayishat Akanbi “Your skin tells the story of your live. Your eyes, the truth of your spirit. Your posture., the weight of your burdens. Beauty is the language of the body, that’s why holiness radiates, while turmoil decays.” ~@tenomnft “Maturity is discovering that most of your life is spent in a plateau, and if you don’t fall in love with practice, mastery, and moving the needle forward you’ll constantly try to escape the plateau with cheap stimulation and busy work that only keeps you there longer.” ~Dan Koe “You can become very successful by learning to taking criticism from others without buying their insults. Criticism: the observable different between desired and actual. Insult: judgement on that difference. Ex: You were late 2x this week (criticism)…so you’re lazy (insult).” ~Alex Hormozi “Had dinner with a friend tonight & we landed on this: the idea that you’ll meet someone on a dating app who genuinely shares your value structure is now basically very unlikely. Real alignment happens in shared environments where people do things together—not in a context explicitly designed for transactional selection. Dating apps are now more than ever before just high efficiency marketplaces for attention & short term validation. If you want real value alignment, you’re better off meeting people through work, hobbies, or communities where shared action reveals underlying principles.” ~@signulll Last Set: RIP JB… “If I can help somebody as I travel along / If I can help somebody in a word or a song / If I can help somebody from doing wrong / No, my living shall not be in vain… No, my living shall not be in vain / No, my living shall not be in vain / If I can help somebody while I’m singing this song / You know my living shall not be in vain.” ~Mahalia Jackson, If I Can Help Somebody Food For Thought: “It’s difficult as a parent to, on one hand, want to shower your kids with protection and help while, on the other, know how important it is to teach them independence. ‘Teach’ is probably the wrong word, because you know they’ll figure it out on their own. Sometimes you provide the most help with the assistance you withhold…My son walked off. I had no idea what he was going to do…If I had gone with him and held his hand through the process, the ice cream would have given him a small happiness boost. When he did it on his own terms, with a sense of independence, the psychological rewards were off the charts. I’ll tell you the takeaway: If you’re used to being assisted, supervised, mandated, or dictated, and then suddenly you experience the glory of independence, the feeling is sensational.” ~Morgan Housel, Pure Independence
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