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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being proud of being busy all the time is effectively the same as being proud of working very inefficiently. #orangebook #Busyness #Efficiency #WorkCulture