You somehow make a lot of people feel “uncomfortable” when you just mind your own business and chase an ambitious vision for your life. #orangebook #Ambition #Vision #Uncomfortable

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

If you actually understand the value of writing, “the algorithm” or “AI” are the least of your worries. #orangebook #Writing #Value #Algorithm

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

Anxiety is also what happens when you lack the courage to speak your mind when you know you should, and have been living your whole life that way. #orangebook #Anxiety #Courage #SpeakingUp

If you become more cynical as you get older, it actually means that you've been failing at life. #orangebook #Cynicism #Aging #LifeLessons

Not being able to maintain healthy habits as you get older is the sign that you are not serious about your goals and your relationships (or in so many cases, that you have no goal at all, or don't care about the people around you.) Leave alone the people who are so confused and directionless that they think that harming themselves with unnecessary substances and stimulations is a fun way to live life. There is no debate that the most high-energy and mentally clear version of yourself, who is capable of supporting a family or employees, requires a healthy lifestyle. #orangebook #HealthyLifestyle #GoalSetting #Self-improvement

Life actually keeps sending you the very exact wake-up calls you need to turn your life around, but most people fail to hear them because they are too busy listening to their rationalizing mind. #orangebook #WakeUp #SelfImprovement #Mindfulness

Bad habits are a sign of arrogance, you are explicitly stating that you don’t need to be the best version of yourself to reach your goals. #orangebook #BadHabits #Arrogance #SelfImprovement

Stagnation is a sign of cowardice. #orangebook #Stagnation #Cowardice #Growth

Refusing to leave an environment where you starve to have stimulating conversations with smart people who are serious about their goals slowly kill your ambitions and make you lose all self-confidence. A lot of "bad luck," anxiety, struggles are actually choices that people make. #orangebook #Ambitions #Choices #Self-confidence

People with no particular "talent," but who possess unwavering self-belief, and who keep putting in the work decade after decade, always outperform "smart" people who mostly use their intelligence to overthink everything or doubt themselves. #orangebook #SelfBelief #HardWork #Overthinking

People who didn't grow much as they got older are people who lacked the courage to build the habit of hitting their limits over and over again. Growth is the art of putting yourself in situations where you will still fail despite doing your best, then learning how to enjoy them. #orangebook #PersonalGrowth #HabitBuilding #Resilience

Most people who think they lack talent are actually vastly underestimating the amount of obsession and training that are required to become "talented." #orangebook

If you were not dealt great cards at birth, the first thing you need to discard is your pride, you are not going to achieve the same as people of equivalent talent and work ethic if you started ten steps behind: whenever you feel like something is "below your line," that's when you actually have an opportunity to beat the odds. #orangebook #Pride #Opportunity #Achievement