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17—300lbs; health collapsed chasing med school Treated what top docs couldn't, journaled millions of words & realized I was playing too small a game 20—down 140lbs; building leverage through tech & media Highlights = long-form goldmine 🧵 Follow for peak performance—unfiltered

17—300lbs; health collapsed chasing med school. Treated what top docs couldn't, journaled millions of words & realized I was playing too small a game. 20—down 140lbs; building leverage through tech & media. My guiding principles 👇

17—300lbs; health collapsed chasing med school. Treated what top docs couldn't, journaled millions of words & realized I was playing too small a game. 20—down 140lbs; building leverage through tech & media.

If you take care of your health, your health will take care of you.

People connect with people, not ideas in a vacuum: the more of you they see, the more they see you.

Never enough means feeling lightest as you lose yourself in the flow of pursuit.

Time-restricted eating is about not weight loss, but circadian entrainment and sleep optimization. Following a strict TRE schedule timed such that I have my last meal 8 hours before bedtime has given me the most restorative sleep of my life.

Shame: not living up to the standard you know you can.

There’s a fine line between burning bright, and burning out—flirt with it, never cross it.

If intelligence is rate of learning, trauma is the ultimate form of intelligence. Where would you be if you accepted nothing short of one-trial learning?

The worst time to debate the benefits of cold showers is right before taking one.

Curiosity builds judgment through the humility and openness to run so many experiments, collect so much data, and iterate so aggressively, that it’d be unreasonable for you not to build better judgement.

Assume happiness is tied to circumstance, realize how easily falsifiable that is, then accept you're choosing to suffer imagined troubles: there's a depressed billionaire in 432 Park Avenue looking down at a smiling cancer patient in Central Park.

Opportunity lies in the space between what’s obvious to you and what’s not remotely obvious to anyone else.

The problem with being paid for your time is simple: there's only so many hours in a day, and chances are you won't get any more of them. The solution? Building leverage: generating assets that grant you infinitely scalable output beyond your initial input investment. Here are three forms of leverage you can start building today: code, content and brand.

"Never enough" is the key to both greatness and misery. You embody it either through intense purpose, or through uncontrolled perfectionism.

Shame: not living up to the standard you know you can.

People connect with people, not ideas in a vacuum: the more of you they see, the more they see you.

The goal isn’t achievement—it’s becoming the man who achieves by default.

Choose your response, or your reaction will choose you.

If you take care of your health, your health will take care of you.

Stop prioritizing your schedule. Start scheduling your priorities.

Level 1: Learn from your mistakes. Level 2: Learn from the mistakes of others. You don’t have to touch fire to know it burns.

Systems, time blocking, planning… they only work if you do what you said you were going to do.

Never enough means feeling lightest as you lose yourself in the flow of pursuit.

Stop expecting people to change—they won’t. People change when they decide to do so, not when you want them to. If someone doesn't have a growth mindset, let them go.

The problem with being paid for your time is simple: there's only so many hours in a day, and chances are you won't get any more of them. The solution? Building leverage: generating assets that grant you infinitely scalable output beyond your initial input investment. Here are three forms of leverage you can start building today: code, content and brand.

Outgrowing people isn't bad—letting that rot you is. If your friends make it less likely that you'll achieve your goals, are they really your friends? You may have all the willpower in the world, but why waste an ounce of it constantly rescuing yourself from people who pull you down?

"What if it doesn't work out?" << "What if it does?"

To get things you've never gotten, you do things you've never done, becoming someone you've never been. But: always thank the person who started the journey; you wouldn't be here without them.

Persistence takes care of itself when your why gets fused into your identity. That's when quitting doesn't feel like an option. Why? Because: it'd mean losing a part of yourself.

Time-restricted eating is about not weight loss, but circadian entrainment and sleep optimization. Following a strict TRE schedule timed such that I have my last meal 8 hours before bedtime has given me the most restorative sleep of my life.