While You Were Away: Feb 20, 2022

Earn the chance to be lucky by showing up - @JamesClear

— GoLimitless (@GoLimitless)
3:30 PM • Feb 17, 2022

The world's most valuable skill:

Clarity of thought.

The problem? There's no school for this.

It takes time, patience and a lot of early career fumbling.

Here are 10 cognitive distortions I faced early in my career and an insight on how to break through each one:

— Romeen Sheth (@RomeenSheth)
1:33 AM • Feb 16, 2022

No one “builds a house.” They lay one brick again and again and again and the end result is a house. A remarkable, glorious achievement is just what a long series of unremarkable, unglorious tasks looks like from far away.

Procrastinators are bad at remembering this.

— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy)
7:20 PM • Feb 13, 2022

Our mental state is a filter on the truth.

When it's good, problems look solvable, challenges seem invigorating, creativity soars.

When it's bad, even simple tasks require a herculean effort.

Sleep, exercise, time with loved ones--they change the tint of the filter.

— Julie Zhuo (@joulee)
5:20 PM • Feb 17, 2022

You’re not looking for more success, stuff, or sex.

You’re searching for beauty.

Here’s how to find it: 🧵

— David Morris (@wdmorrisjr)
2:00 PM • Feb 13, 2022

I’ve served aboard a nuclear submarine, worked at a multi-billion-dollar private tech company, and helped people lead the world’s largest organizations.

Here are 20 of the most powerful, non-obvious ideas in professional life:

— Justin Mikolay 💻 (@jmikolay)
4:32 PM • Feb 13, 2022

How to Create More Luck:

— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom)
3:03 PM • Feb 19, 2022

Here's what the future of education looks like:

1. Teaching will become an extremely lucrative profession. Salaries will follow a power law. The best teachers will make millions of dollars per year and teach thousands of students every year. In fact, this is already happening.

— David Perell (@david_perell)
4:53 PM • Feb 16, 2022

What if we recovered ancient ways of teaching and learning?

5 Lindy ideas in education ⏳👇🏽

— Ana Lorena Fabrega (@anafabrega11)
3:45 PM • Feb 18, 2022

It’s time to share my story 📖

I went from growing up on welfare to becoming a millionaire by 28.

A thread on the power of education, kind people, and self-actualization.

— Jarrid Tingle (@jarridvtingle)
5:11 PM • Feb 16, 2022

Most people suck at storytelling.

Here’s an easy trick for telling better stories:

— Wes Kao 🏛 (@wes_kao)
4:00 PM • Feb 19, 2022

While no one was looking, Melanie Perkins (@MelanieCanva) built Canva, an online graphic design business valued at $40 billion.

Canva is one of the world's most valuable private companies & the most valuable female-founded & female-led company.

This is Melanie's story 👇 https://

— Polina (@polina_marinova)
5:15 PM • Feb 16, 2022

Jason Citron’s first startup flopped.

His second startup flopped.

His third startup almost flopped, before becoming the $15 billion giant called Discord.

This is the wild story👇👇

— Shreyans Singh (@shreyans512)
11:41 AM • Feb 16, 2022

How to build your first 2 income streams:

(without knowing how to code)

🧵

— Justin Welsh (@JustinSaaS)
5:34 PM • Feb 15, 2022

The Rock is building the fastest-growing tequila brand of all time.

It’s on pace to ship 1,000,000 cases this year.

But it launched in March 2020 and could have failed if not for one key decision.

Here’s a breakdown 🧵

— Nathan Baugh (@nathanbaugh27)
2:04 PM • Feb 14, 2022

1/ NFTs are the most socially optimal art platform we have found to date.

Art serves multiple private and public functions.

NFTs have solved the problem of how to serve these functions simultaneously, plus a few more things.

— 6529 (@punk6529)
3:41 PM • Feb 16, 2022

Billion dollar brands think differently. Here’s how. 🧵

— cantino.eth (@chriscantino)
5:28 PM • Feb 16, 2022

1/ There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact

Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so vividly, that today is the day.

— 6529 (@punk6529)
10:52 PM • Feb 17, 2022

Elizabeth Holmes...the Tinder Swindler...Heather Morgan.

We've heard of lots of scam artists lately, but I don't think the world has EVER seen a scammer as twisted, delusional, and...stubborn as James Reavis.

Strap in tight for the story on the "Second Baron of Arizona":

— David Zabinsky (@DavidZabinsky)
3:55 PM • Feb 17, 2022

In 1973, George Lucas pitched Fox a “space western” and the studio offered $500k. Lucas took a lower $150k fee in exchange for certain rights.

The film was Star Wars and that negotiation has netted him $10B. It's considered the best Hollywood film deal ever.

Here’s the story🧵

— Trung Phan 🇨🇦 (@TrungTPhan)
4:47 PM • Feb 16, 2022