You’ll only see your parents a few more times. Remember: It’s later than you think.

Most people don’t care about you. This is liberating.

Most of your friends are not your friends. They’re just along for the ride when it’s profitable, fun, or convenient. Focus on family, and depth within a closed-knit circle rather than a scattershot approach to relationships. 

You don’t need to have an opinion on everything. It’s perfectly reasonable to have no opinion on something that you haven’t researched or don’t understand.

You likely won’t be remembered or have a legacy. In a few thousand years, chances are we will all be forgotten.

Observe how someone treats service workers. It reveals more about them than any conversation could. 

Most of us need fewer friends and more intellectual sparring partners. Friends are easy to come by, but intellectual sparring partners question our assumptions and force us to have better mental models. 

Being kind to people is the only real-life hack. Kindness remains severely underrated.

Stop reading so many books without applying the knowledge within them. If you can’t apply the knowledge or if there is none to apply, then you are just reading to procrastinate. 

Whenever you feel the unwillingness to ask questions and look dumb, you should ask questions and look dumb. 

Failure doesn’t always lead to growth. Sometimes it just leads to pain. The growth does not come from failure, the growth comes from outlasting the darkness.

I’ve rarely encountered an early riser that isn’t winning.

Hard work is not overrated. Everyone I know who has earned some degree of financial success works very hard. 

Showing up early costs very little while being late can cost a lot. 

Most breakthroughs in performance (and appearance) enhancement start with animals and go through the following adoption curve: Racehorses → AIDS patients (because of muscle wasting) and bodybuilders → elite athletes → rich people → the rest of us. The last jump from the rich to the general public can take 10–20 years, if it happens at all. It often doesn’t.

When it comes to the successful consultants I know, only those with two skills stand out from the crowd. Those that are good at lying and/or self-promotion. Success in consulting appears to be reducible to these 2 things without exception. 

Man VS Nature is the dumbest false dichotomy environmentalists could pander at. Never mention the sunken continents, eruption volcanoes, advancing and retreating ice caps, peaks and valleys across the earth’s climate over billions of years, and the uncountable species that have been birthed and died. Why do we hold up this one moment as “natural”, to be prized above all others? At the end of the day, environmentalists merely seek to slow down the change.