Most people need more faith than intelligence, that’s why you see so many “smart” people ending up alone, achieving far less than everyone else around them thought they would: they were always too afraid to commit to anyone, and they never truly believed in anything either. #orangebook #Faith #Intelligence #Relationships

People waste so much time chasing the wrong people. When you meet someone who is meant to stay in your life, you know it. You neither judge them nor feel judged by them. There is no taboo but you respect each other’s boundaries. The conversations feel effortlessly stimulating. #orangebook #Relationships #Connection #Respect

It’s not anxiety, it’s opportunities that you have yet to convert into actions. #orangebook #Anxiety #Opportunities #Action

People move to big cities for financial opportunities and serendipitous encounters, but it’s clear when you finally get to spend a lot of time in nature that your mind was overstimulated by unnecessary noise and disconnected from what you actually needed to feel mentally clear. #orangebook #BigCities #Nature #MentalClarity

It’s easy to test your mental strength and ability to unlearn and relearn who you are: as an adult, go live abroad in a country where you initially don’t speak the language, don’t understand the culture, don’t know anybody, don’t have any resource; give yourself five years, and see the life you’ve built for yourself. #orangebook

No one has stronger opinions than someone who knows a little bit about something, that’s why tourists always have ideas to “fix” the countries they visit, that’s why amateurs love to criticize professionals, that’s why young people love to judge older people: the more you know, the more humble and nuanced you actually become. #orangebook

There are a lot of relatively smart people who are doing very well professionally because they are planning and executing their vision with discipline and diligence; but somehow, the same people struggle to make genuine friends, feel deeply connected to their family, or be a good parent to their kids, precisely because they think that other people are something they should have under their control. #orangebook

Just like it's really hard to downgrade your lifestyle after you got used to a certain level of comfort, it's really hard to compromise on your relationships once you realize that there are actually a lot of thoughtful, smart, generous people out there, people who will never bring any drama and anxiety into your life, only joy and gratitude for the opportunity to connect with such kindred spirits. #orangebook

The wealthiest life you could live always involves a healthy lifestyle, because there is no way to build great long-term relationships with others unless you have your physical and mental health in order first. #orangebook #HealthyLifestyle #Relationships #MentalHealth

Own assets that give you more freedom and peace of mind, not "assets" that burden your schedule and mental health. You don't want to be owned by what you own, and you don't want to upgrade your lifestyle just to realize, too late, that you actually downgraded the quality of your life. #orangebook #FinancialFreedom #MindfulOwnership #QualityOf

Create an environment where you can afford to ignore the whole world for a few hours every day, use that time to unapologetically invest in yourself and in what you do best, you will naturally attract more “luck” into your life. #orangebook #SelfImprovement #Productivity #Mindset

Relationships are actually very simple once you stay away from people who have main character syndrome. #orangebook

Nothing builds up resentment and envy like not having a clear goal to work on every day. #orangebook #Goals #Resentment #Envy

The fastest way to figure what you actually want from life is to get what you think you want. Your dream neighborhood, your dream job, your dream marriage, your dream family, your dream life, it’s never quite like how you imagined it, and that’s precisely what makes life so fun. #orangebook #LifeGoals #ExpectationsVs #PersonalGrowth

Life gets better once you focus on who you want to become instead of what you want to achieve. The latter should merely be a direct consequence of the former. If you reach your goals, but sacrificed your well-being and all your relationships in the process, you've lost the plot. #orangebook #PersonalGrowth #GoalSetting #WellBeing

You can have a healthy lifestyle and still feel low-energy if you constantly let yourself consumed by unnecessary thoughts or drained by one-way relationships. Being constantly high-energy usually means that you are very good at filtering out what you don’t need in your life. #orangebook #MentalHealth #EnergyLevels #SelfCare

When you face painful failure, you can either play the victim, or you can tell yourself that someone who had ten times worse circumstances than you achieved ten times more, precisely because they hated playing the victim and chose to take responsibility for their position in life #orangebook #Failure #Responsibility #Mindset

The quality of your time alone is the quality of your mind, and the quality of your mind is the quality of the people you attract. #orangebook #TimeAlone #MindQuality #Attraction

Being incapable of original thoughts is the symptom that you don't spend enough time alone. You consume too much information, and you don't train your creative muscles enough. You need to write, you need to think about problems with non-obvious solutions, you need to be bolder with the kind of conversations with yourself that you are ready to have. #orangebook #OriginalThoughts #CreativeMuscles #SelfReflection

Nothing good ever arises from chasing other people, you should only work on becoming the best version of yourself, then be ready to take the jump and commit to the opportunities that you will now increasingly attract. #orangebook #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Attraction