People always accuse others of what they are doing themselves, you are not being a good person for the sake of others, you are doing it for the sake of your own peace of mind. #orangebook #Projection #Self-interest #PeaceOf

Most people who struggle to understand where all the kind, thoughtful, good people are, are actually struggling to look at themselves in a mirror objectively. Your relationships with others are merely a reflection of your own energy. If you never attract who you want to have in your life, that's life telling you that you need to change as a person. #orangebook #SelfReflection #PersonalGrowth #Relationships

A lot of relationships fail not because people don't love each other enough, but precisely because they naively assumed that "love" would allow them to be blind to everything else. In doubt, stay pragmatic. Financial responsibility, a healthy lifestyle, a fulfilling job, time alone, you can't compromise on them if you want to increase the chances that the person you love stay that way. Or better, if you truly love them, to give them an opportunity to grow into an even better person. #orangebook #Relationships #Love #Pragmatism

Don't get involved with people who have no drive to become a better person and who refuse to take responsibility for where they are in life, you will suddenly save so much time and energy, and you will suddenly get "luckier" in many ways as you focus your energy on what matters. #orangebook #PersonalGrowth #Responsibility #Energy

In both your professional and private life, you never need to manage anyone if you choose your people well. #orangebook #Management #People #Choice

When you have no talent of your own to nurture, you end up judging the talents of others; the most talented people are all minding their own business, and as much as they might occasionally make other people feel slightly uncomfortable due to their higher standards, they barely think about others at all, let alone judging them. #orangebook #Talent #Judging #Standards

People always regret marrying someone for their "potential." #orangebook #Relationships #Regret #Potential

You don't need to pretend to be stupid just because people might dislike or be afraid of you if you think with too much clarity. Have the courage to speak your mind unapologetically. In the long run, it's the only way to attract and build the kind of relationships that will make you feel grateful to be alive. #orangebook #SpeakYour #Authenticity #Courage

Too many people who never learned to love themselves or who never experienced what life feels like in the healthiest version of themselves somehow think that "enjoying life" means destroying your health with short-term pleasure. #orangebook #SelfLove #Health #Pleasure

You offend a lot of people when you refuse to lower your standards to accommodate their feelings. #orangebook #Standards #Feelings #Boundaries

Notice how it's always the people who have achieved little in life who always find many ways to criticize the success of others, because you can't truly understand and respect the price to pay to get somewhere until you've been there yourself. #orangebook #Success #Criticism #Perspective

Social media is most fun when you are not doing it for money or connections. #orangebook #SocialMedia #Authenticity #Passion

The worst investments are not about losing it all at once; that saves you so much time and energy, that allows you to move on; the worst investments are about losing it steadily over the course of many years or decades, whilst secretly hoping that you could recover one day. #orangebook #Investments #Losses #Patience

Lack of growth is love of comfort. Lack of talent is misunderstood self. Lack of love is indifference for others. Lack of confidence is sophisticated cowardice. Lack of wealth is unnoticed conventional thinking. Lack of health is wrongly tolerated chronic stress. Lack of luck is laziness to put yourself out there with educated guesses and humility. #orangebook #Growth #SelfAwareness #Mindset

Mentally strong people are just people who didn't mind the weight of responsibilities and found reasons to embrace them and be worthy of them instead. Your identity is rooted in how you act when you are forced to face unexpected issues and challenges; if you keep finding reasons to shy away from spirited comebacks, you will naturally grow mentally weaker as you will know deep down that you are spineless. #orangebook #MentalStrength #Resilience #Identity

Too many people see the world in false binaries. You don't have to choose between money or a creative job, there are paths that lead to both. You don't have to choose between a family or a fulfilling career, there are paths that lead to both. You don't have to choose between your health or extraordinary results, there are paths that lead to both. The sacrifices and the price you need to pay to get what you want are often not what the rest of society will claim to be. Don't listen to people who only find satisfaction in suffering for the sake of suffering, it's a skill issue, or a self-love issue; the most talented people build a wealthy and happy life whilst enjoying the journey itself. #orangebook #FalseBinaries #Fulfillment #BalancedLife

You can't compound intelligent decisions and attract luck into your life unless you understand how to maintain a clear mind in a high-energy body: being physically exhausted and mentally overstimulated is how you compound silly mistakes despite "working hard and doing your best." #orangebook #DecisionMaking #MindBody #LuckAttraction

Success boils down to building the right type of wealth, the one that involves freedom: to become who you want to be, to nurture your unique talents, to enjoy laughters and deep conversations with your family and friends, to watch your children grow up and patiently guide them, to take calculated risks without feeling anxious, to read timeless novels slowly, to build your ambitious vision on your own terms. There is nothing more common than rich people who are very far from being wealthy. #orangebook #FinancialFreedom #PersonalGrowth #LifeWealth

The best things in life actually don’t cost that much money, but only after you invested enough in a mind capable of appreciating depth. Money is just a tool to be free from the anxiety of whether you’ll be able to pay your bills, feed your family, never betray your core values. #orangebook #Mindset #Values #FinancialFreedom

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