"Rose Kennedy once told me that good luck is something you make and bad luck is something you endure, a very wise observation indeed. People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility"
A lot of advantages can be gained simply by avoiding the standard paths to failure.
Inversion is not the way we are taught to think. We are taught to identify what we want and explore things that will move us closer to our objective. However, by identifying and avoiding things that will ensure we don’t get what we want, we dramatically increase our odds of success.
Often, we get so fixated on solving a problem in a particular way that we miss simpler, more elegant solutions. Inversion forces us to consider the opposite side of the equation. Instead of asking, “How do I solve this problem?” inversion asks, “What would guarantee failure?”
Instead of asking, “How can I achieve this goal?” it asks, “What is preventing me from achieving it?” By inverting the question, we can gain insights that our normal thought patterns might miss.
The next time you find yourself struggling, try inverting your thinking. Ask yourself how you could guarantee failure. The answers may surprise you and open up new avenues for possible solutions.
Being brilliant won't save you if no one can count on you.
It can be hard to appreciate just how much reliability impacts opportunity. It's fun to outperform people who are way smarter than you by being more reliable than they are.
Reliability isn't just a virtue - it's a competitive advantage that compounds over time.
Your mistakes aren’t the best teacher—just the most expensive.
You can start at the bottom of the mountain and make every mistake from scratch on the way to the top, or you can take a sherpa with you and master the best of what other people have already figured out.
The successful learn vicariously; the foolish insist on firsthand pain.
When I do not succeed. nostr:note18j5k3uw28nzk8thavq8v43trunnwtzm4ymch68cuv7cdwauxrk9sn24f9k
When you don’t follow your dreams
Does the universe conspires at all? nostr:note1x04cuxy68zcl9nnuw3ufg5435dh56dvkk5g92gh0m6p4jnzg45kqesm388
Dignity:
I can try to convince you of many things
But loving me will not be one of them
Lauren Eden
I am a collection of choices. nostr:note1chgjku4gmzxv8uuaddghqlj6tehc8w2u7ms3wg0pjdyvr3xnw3csncs0hy
Nobody tells you nostalgia feels like sadness. nostr:note1qsdu2lwfvq4rev3e452vere0mmkjx2fekw3extkgqr4l3f0ucymsdfukaj
US currency has long held the motto “E Pluribus Unum” (out of many, one).
Satoshi fixed the bitcoin supply at “21” as if to say “from many, t(w)o one”.
🤷🏻♂️
Spend some time on saving yourself and ironically you will grow. nostr:note19vh0gcajmm8f0fj6cve89zv8ue4wfc4pj0alp229mr7y7x3pfqeqv8d4l8
Gensler studied bitcoin. Who’s replacing him again? nostr:note1s4w0kucyqlnx8wg208jyke2gq64my4sm2yknl4syznwdu0ja55lqj8hpje
Need an Ai now to tell you what to trust.
So, spend time on scarcity and freedom?
Sufficient but not necessary.