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🌳 How To Reinvent Yourself
You have to constantly reinvent yourself, reinvent and evolve and that reinvention is education. There is a common misconception that education as a whole finishes after College/University, meaning that once you graduate you are fully evolved with no need to learn anything more. This couldn't only not be further from the truth but it's the most dangerous mindset to have because this means you are contemptuous, you're comfortable.
🌳 Planning To Start Is Planning To Fail
“Im so fired up, I’m going to start this on Monday” This is something that you or others you know probably say a lot and it’s a sign of a lack of self-discipline. The problem is that people set out these goals for themselves in order to change themselves but still give themselves time to stay as they are before they feel the need to change.
🌳 The Stoic Anxiety Hack
Excessive worry about the past or future causes anxiety, this can be short-term or long-term and typically builds from something being out of your control. The Stoics have a trick to end this anxiety called Amor Fati. The phrase Amor Fati means ‘loving your fate’ and the principle behind it can be used as a superpower if you’re able to use it properly.
🌳 How To Develop Celebrity-Like Confidence
Many celebrities and athletes use this weird trick to help them have this seemingly impenetrable confidence when on the court or on stage and it’s super impressive how someone can stand up in front of millions of people at a Super Bowl halftime show and not feel some kind of self-consciousness or lack faith in themselves. It’s almost like they have a wall around them that protects them from any inside thought that may alter their performance and well, they do.
🌳 3 Mental Models to Develop Thick Skin
Using mental models to help reinforce something you’re trying to become better at is a fantastic method to do so. It essentially provides you with extra encouragement or reason to keep doing the thing you set out to do. This can be developing mental models to help yourself wake up early or doing exercise but in this case, let’s go over 3 mental models to develop thick skin.
🌳 How to Set Goals That You Can Accomplish
Top-level athletes, successful businesspeople and achievers in all fields all set goals. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses on your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the most of your life.
🌳 How to Consistently Grow Without Fail
The Idea of self-improvement can be overwhelming, we see people who have achieved utter greatness, have done incredible things and have lived many lives and it makes you feel small and incomplete and those achievements so far-fetched. In contrast, all you have to do is tweak the perspective. Those people didn't wake up one day and achieve those things, it was a compounded effect of trials & tribulations, failure after failure and most importantly small bits of consistent growth.
🌳 This Is Keeping You From Becoming Rich
If you have the ambition of ‘more’ in life, if you want to live that rich life full of freedom then you need to understand that working a Job or a ‘9-5’ won’t allow you to achieve that. It will keep you constrained in chains of time freedom, location freedom and pre-set rules that you have to play.