THREAD: a collection of smart and time-tested ideas I've collected over the years and keep coming back to

1) "You may be smart but you’re not self-made. And at work, most important achievements require a team of people working together."
@farnamstreet

2) “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”

- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

3) "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

- Steve Jobs

4) “He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation."

@VossNegotiation

"The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer"

5) "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
@WarrenBuffett

"As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success."

@VossNegotiation

6) If getting wealthy is your goal, you will have to work as hard as you can.

However, figure out what to work on and who to work with before you start grinding.

Look for people with high intelligence, energy, and integrity.
@naval

7)

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”

― Confucius

8) https://twitter.com/iam_saulve/status/1207322292411346946?s=19

9) Every person has fundamental needs and those are not luxury, but more often:

1 Freedom to live your own way
2 Health
3 Close connection with people you care about
4 Feeling capable and competent in what you do
5 Strong sense of self-respect

10) "Extreme people get extreme results"

--- @sama

11) "He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow"

--- Epicurus

#MICDrop

"How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen."

--- Marcus Aurelius

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."

- Epictetus

I lacked intellectual humbleness for many years. Eventually I realised what a huge blocker it was to my growth. It made it hard to listen to others. It’s something I will never stop working on.

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

-- Seneca