Anxiety happens when you know deep down that you should be doing better. It's the voice that screams when you've betrayed yourself and lowered your standards. #orangebook #Anxiety #Self-betrayal #Standards

The only test of intelligence that matters is whether you navigate your own life on your own terms. #orangebook #Intelligence #Life #Autonomy

The less you take yourself seriously, the faster you grow as a person. #orangebook #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Mindset

Every new year is the opportunity to trim down what has been a mental burden on you for too long already: underwater investments that you kept out of wishful thinking, side projects that distracted you from what you do best, relationships with people who never cared like you did. #orangebook #NewYear #Declutter #Priorities

Anxiety is when you are smart enough to know the life you need, but not brave enough to build it: your lack of courage makes you overthink every step along the way, you make no progress, you resent your own inaction, and mental peace never comes to you. #orangebook #Anxiety #Courage #MentalPeace

Growth begins once you have the honesty to admit that you are not satisfied with the current version of yourself. #orangebook #Growth #Honesty #Self-improvement

A lot of "talent" boils down to assuming that you have no talent, no particular good luck, that no one will help you for no reason, and that miracles don't happen. That's when you will shift to the right mindset of taking responsibility for who you are and where you are in life. That's when you will start clarifying and cultivating the right long-term habits and efforts. That's also when "good luck" and miracles may start happening. #orangebook #Mindset #Responsibility #Habits

Reality doesn’t care that you don’t have time to catch up with the knowledge that you should be up-to-date with if you want to intelligently navigate a fast-changing society. Ironically, the busier you are, the busier you will get. Make time to regularly relearn your assumptions. #orangebook #LifelongLearning #Adaptability #TimeManagement

Good parents are rare because so many adults are still children who still refuse to take responsibility for where they are in life, let alone another living being. #orangebook #Parenting #Responsibility #Maturity

The first step to raise mentally healthy children is to be a mentally healthy parent. #orangebook #MentalHealth #Parenting #Children

Acting like a victim is a mental disease. #orangebook #VictimMentality #MentalHealth #SelfAwareness

When you don't take proper care of your own health, you are actually sending the message that you also don't care about your kids being able to grow up with parents who are high-energy, mentally stable, emotionally present; and as they are modeling their behavior on yours, you are actually actively failing their education. #orangebook #Health #Parenting #Education

Relationships get better once you no longer have to worry about money because you can finally have genuine conversations with no agenda, no time limit, no obsession around how to turn every idea into a business. #orangebook #Relationships #Money #Conversations

The end of life is when you start thinking that you are already too old to start anything new, take foolish risks, or invest unapologetically in yourself: the world is full of people who are alive without ever truly living, but it doesn’t have to be that way for you. #orangebook #Life #Living #SelfInvestment

Marrying someone you love and having plenty of time to raise your kids together, that’s wealth. #orangebook #Family #Love #Wealth

A lot of success in life boils down to how good you are at unapologetically ignoring all the things that won’t improve your life. #orangebook #Success #Priorities #Focus

It's obvious when you compare "old people" from very different environments with very different standards of efforts, that people with active lives, who keep learning, who keep pushing themselves physically and mentally regardless of their age, tend to remain young much longer. #orangebook #AgingWell #LifelongLearning #ActiveLifestyle

It’s scary how the attitude of some people suddenly change when they know you have money or connections, and actually quite sad when you just wanted a genuine, non-codependent friendship, but they suddenly “disappeared” when they couldn’t get what they wanted from you. #orangebook #Friendship #Money #Connections

When you grow up with immigrant parents who never got the chance to get a good education, who earned the minimum salary working with their hands, whilst never going on vacation or buying anything for themselves, and who never complained about it because they were happy to be able to feed their kids, you naturally have less empathy for people who grew up in a country full of opportunities and who were fluent in the local language, and yet, who somehow put themselves in a terrible financial situation just because they didn't feel like working most jobs that were "below them" or because they couldn't handle the "humiliation" of downgrading their lifestyle after learning about what "success" looks like on social media. #orangebook #ImmigrantParents #WorkEthic #Privilege

One of the most common signs of arrogance and entitlement is to move to another country and expect that country to change for you. #orangebook #Arrogance #Entitlement #Immigration