"ugh, i'm getting old" —someone who doesn't know they're ten years younger than me
i hear this self-fulfilling self talk from people almost weekly, and wouldn't you know:
they're all mildly miserable and out of shape and a current victim of something or other
ever notice how graphic designers identify as being super creative but when it comes time to start a business and sell something it's almost always t-shirts?
Naval has a lot of gems, ngl
"If you hurt other people because they have expectations of you, that’s their problem. If they have an agreement with you, it’s your problem. But, if they have an expectation of you, that’s completely their problem. It has nothing to do with you. They’re going to have lots of expectations out of life. The sooner you can dash their expectations, the better."
"To me, the real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely, who don’t even play the game, who rise above it. Those are the people who have such internal mental and self-control and self-awareness, they need nothing from anybody else."
"When I took a class on how to train our dog, one of the first things we learned is that the quality of the dog treats made a big difference in how cooperative the dog would be. The trainer had the good stuff, and I believe she could make those dogs play the piano if she wanted. Our medium-quality treats were just barely good enough to keep the dogs from turning on us. The trainer admitted that the key to her superior results with dogs was partly snack quality.
A thank-you is like a treat for a human. When you do something generous or nice, you like to know it’s appreciated. The quality of the thank-you matters as much with humans as the quality of the treats matters to dogs.
If you want people to like you, for business or for your personal life, pay special attention to the quality of your thanks."
—Scott Adams
pv fam 🤙
friendly reminder that Saif interviewed Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, back in 2021. Moore has since renounced the organization as being completely captured by hysterics who lost the plot. He's also the author of the book "Fake Invisible Catastrophes"
Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.
—George Soros