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Go on more walks. Walk for no reason. Walk to solve a problem. Walk to blow off steam. Walk to get outside. Walk to listen, read, and learn. Walk to escape distractions. Walk to improve your health. Walk to think. A simple walking habit can change absolutely everything.

Normalize not having an opinion on things you don’t understand.

How to do a hard reset on your life (in 30 minutes):

be harder on yourself

Normalize disappearing for an extended period of time to do a factory reset on your focus and creativity.

how to unf*ck your life

At some point, usually in your 20s, you'll notice that the people around you stop believing in themselves. And no matter how hard you try, you can't save them. By all means, do not let it infect your mind. Stay on your path.

Nobody is coming to save you. Not your friends. Not your family. Not the government They can offer advice and tools. But at the end of the day, it's up to you to change your mind and act regardless of how you feel. A thread of advice you need to hear:

If you want a rare life, you have to be delusional. Doubt can enter your mind, and it can sound reasonable, but if you entertain it too much it will slowly drag you down into stagnation. I'd rather reap the lesson from massive failure than do nothing because it's not "realistic."

You can learn anything in 2 weeks. You can't master it, obviously, but if you obsess over it, you can become better at it than most people ever will. You'd be surprised how fast your life can change when you understand this.

Wake up. Hit snooze 4 times. Stare at your phone. Roll out of bed. Make coffee. Sit in traffic. 8 hours of unfulfilling work. Sit in traffic... again. Argue with your "significant" other. Walk the pet. Watch TV. Pass out. Repeat. This should scare the shit out of you.

Self-discipline is when the desire to become the highest version of yourself outweighs the desire for cheap pleasures. A thread on reaching your potential:

$1 million dollar prizes aside, I think there's been a quiet hunger for articles. The pendulum swung too far in the direction of TikTok and endless scrolling and the internet has a chance to self-correct. I don't think the human brain was meant to be ripped in a thousand different directions as soon as you get on your phone. Too much chaos that has downstream affects on the quality of everyday life. Long form content allows you to focus on set of ideas. It brings order to the mind. You learn more, you feel better, and usually you're left with something you can actually apply to your life, even if it's just a better way of thinking. Especially with AI, we've gotten to the point where we think we want things as short as possible. We have this deranged desire to "get to the point" when the point is to sit with it. You can collect all of the tips and tricks you want but you're completely missing the context that allows you to turn those tips into results. A bullet list of actionable steps will do absolutely nothing for you. Pre-2015 books are the best option, but articles are a great step in what I think is the right direction.

I’m fortunate to have many creators following me. And, networking is crucial but intimidating. If you’re building a brand on social media, comment on this post with what you do and what you talk about. Meet people in the comments and make friends in the DMs:

Normalize disappearing for an extended period of time to do a factory reset on your focus and creativity.

Focus is becoming the rarest skill on the planet. Talent, intelligence, marketing, prompting, vibe coding, and whatever else doesn't matter as much as being able to channel your attention for an extended period of time into one useful thing that you want to see in the world.

The ultimate goal is getting paid to be yourself. To solve problems you can't help but solve. To study what you can't pull yourself away from. To eliminate any work that does not challenge you creatively.

The best thing you can do in today's world is practice thinking. Very few people, especially smart people, do this. Snap yourself out of your automatic patterns and stretch your mind for once. This will only become more important as AI and social media distort reality.

Your brain works against you until you give it a meaningful goal to wire itself around.

The easiest way to get ahead is to commit to a period of skill development. 6-12 months. Pure focus for 2-4 hours a day. Learning and building. Not just binge watching tutorials, but creating quality projects that you, others, or businesses could actually benefit from. But don't just let those projects sit around. Tell the world about them. See if people care enough to pay you. Fix what doesn't work until they do. That's it. That's what most people need to completely turn their life around.

Wake up. Hit snooze 4 times. Stare at your phone. Roll out of bed. Make coffee. Sit in traffic. 8 hours of unfulfilling work. Sit in traffic... again. Argue with your "significant" other. Walk the pet. Watch TV. Pass out. Repeat. This should scare the shit out of you.

You need to write more. Without AI. Without templates. Without knowing what you're writing about. Just you, an idea, and enough time to do the difficult cognitive work necessary to reach true understanding. If you don't, your ability to think will drastically decline.

You can learn anything in 2 weeks. You can't master it, obviously, but if you obsess over it, you can become better at it than most people ever will. You'd be surprised how fast your life can change when you understand this.