Tolstoy’s advice to achieve a long term goal:

Nietzsche describing the mindset of high performers

Your entire life can really change in a year. You just gotta love yourself enough to know you deserve more, be brave enough to demand more, and be disciplined enough to actually work for more. You can do it. You got this.

Addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion, you're just serving a false god.

Ten lazy years can disappear the moment you lock in. Six months of discipline can erase a decade of drifting. Momentum is magic. It turns yesterday's failures into tomorrow's fuel.

RT @ZherkaOfficial: Where your fear is, there your task is. —Jung

Enquanto você procrastina, seus pais envelhecem acreditando numa versão sua que ainda não existe. Sua mãe aposta em você. Seu pai disfarça o medo. E você aposta na zona de conforto. O amanhã é a mentira favorita de quem não quer pagar o preço hoje. Você não está cansado. Está acomodado. Procrastinar é escolher ser fraco com linguagem educada.

RT @ZherkaOfficial: Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. —Henry Ford

RT @ZherkaOfficial: You can easily enter into spiritual psychosis if you force it. Thats why I recommend you go on dates and do whatever…

You only need to get rich once. So you might as well work as hard as you can to get it done as fast as you can.

You can tell a lot about someone just by how their soul has shaped their face. You can see where their mind rests

until death, all defeat is psychological

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology. Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested. Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel. Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

a reminder that the person who has to torture themselves to get out of bed in the morning to start their work has no chance against the guy who wakes up jumping out of bed excited to attack his work because he enjoys it so much do what you do best, outsource the rest

Let me give you a million dollar advice (note it) Run really fast for 150-200 meters Walk slowly back to the starting place. Repeat 5 times. Do this 3-4 times a week. Congratulations! Soon you’ll be in the top 0.0001% of the fittest humans in the world.

I just saw a post where a woman said, I submitted an application for a job WAAAAAAY out of my league. Of course they rejected my application due to insufficient experience. So i followed up with a well articulated email expressing my interest in the company and requesting insight on how to grow into the position... the recruiter set up a meeting, which led to a job offer. I just wanted you guys to know that you really have to put yourself out there and establish connections. You will deadass miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

My favorite quote from Atomic Habits by James Clear: "It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

you need to be isaac newtonmaxxing. let me tell you about the most generational 18 month run in the history of human intelligence. newton's estimated iq is 190-200. einstein's was 160. the gap between newton and einstein is larger than the gap between einstein and you. he was born premature in 1642. so small his mother said he could fit inside a quart mug. his father died before he was born. his mother remarried when he was 3 and left him with his grandmother. trenches. he was a mediocre student at cambridge. nothing suggested what was coming. his professors hadn't even noticed him. then the plague hit london in 1665. cambridge shut down. newton, 23 years old, was sent home to his family farm in lincolnshire. what happened next is the most productive forced isolation in history. in 18 months - alone, on a farm, with no professors, no peers, no institution - he invented calculus. he developed his theory of optics and the composition of white light. he formulated the laws of motion. he discovered universal gravitation. four of the most significant scientific achievements in human history. one person. 18 months. before turning 25. the apple story is real by the way. he watched one fall and asked himself why it went down instead of sideways. then he asked whether that same force extended all the way to the moon. then he did the math to prove it. most people see an apple fall every day of their lives and feel nothing. newton saw it once and rewrote physics. he later said of that period: i was in the prime of my age for invention and minded mathematics and philosophy more than at any time since his genius hadn't even emerged before the plague hit. his professors hadn't noticed him. there was nothing in his early record that predicted any of it. the circumstances that looked like an obstacle; isolation, a pandemic, being sent home - were the conditions that produced everything. he went back to cambridge at 25. was immediately made a professor. spent the next 20 years turning his farm notes into the principia mathematica; considered the greatest scientific work ever written. the lesson isn't that newton was superhuman. the lesson is that the most productive period of his life happened when every external distraction was removed and he had nothing to do but think and do. you have the same 24 hours. the question is what are you doing with the quiet?

A moving man will one day meet his luck.The road favours a traveller.

“To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.” — Seneca