“It is emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or indifferent.” — Antonio Damasio

If you’re overweight, a smoker, or an addict, you’ve been told your entire life that it is because you lack self control — maybe even that you’re a bad person. The idea that a little bit of discipline would solve all our problems is deeply embedded in our culture.

In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. — @JamesClear

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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. — @JamesClear

trust the process,

RT @orangebook: In retrospect, it's clear that most frictions in life were actually a test to see whether you truly wanted what you claimed…

RT @orangebook: Sacrificing your relationships with family and friends who care about you, in order to be more "successful" and get more va…

The heaviest tax you pay for being competent is having to watch other people do your job poorly.

RT @orangebook: Once you experience, at least once in your life, being very right when the rest of the world was telling you that you were…

RT @orangebook: People don't struggle to invest well, marry well, stay mentally well; they struggle to develop and maintain their good judg…

Stop asking who you are. Start deciding who you’re becoming. You don’t “find yourself.” You build yourself.

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Smart enough to understand how to invest in yourself and get what you want in life, not smart enough to understand that relationships with insecure people are bound to fail, that's the most common sequence of smart people who never figure out happiness:

Somebody just asked me “is crypto risky?” 🥹😂

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. - Lao Tzu

A lot of success boils down to whether you can figure out how to build and stay in an environment where you will consistently retain enough quiet time alone to reflect on who you truly want to be when untainted by groupthink and peer pressure, then invest in yourself accordingly.

Anxiety signals that you are competing where you shouldn’t. When you are smart, you focus on what you do best, you don’t mindlessly work hard out of pride. The best path you could walk makes you feel free: you are playful, relaxed, confident; you are where you are meant to be.

onchain ai agents will get crypto above $10 trillion. if you're bullish OpenClaw you're bullish crypto. two things to realize: 1) crypto adoption has stalled because bad UX 2) but "bad ux" for humans is good ux for AI agents Look at this metamask transaction, it's complicated. imagine a normie trying to make sense of what he's signing. Bad human UX. But an AI agents sees this msg and think "damn this is good UX" - it's precise, detailed - it's a software command. AI agents see smart contract code and transaction payload and know exactly what's going on. They love this shit. what financial system will the moltbots prefer? (it's obvious) One more thing to realize: 3) in a year or two there'll be billions of agents, many with wallets (then a year later they'll be trillions) the "AiFi narrative" is underground like defi was in 2019. The dry tinder is quietly collecting but at some point it will ignite no one is paying attention to crypto now because price is down...but i believe AI agents will scale to trillions of crypto wallets AiFi is the next frontier of DeFi. exciting times.

the realization that you will achieve everything you want in life,