Not being able to maintain healthy habits as you get older is the sign that you are not serious about your goals and your relationships (or in so many cases, that you have no goal at all, or don't care about the people around you.) Leave alone the people who are so confused and directionless that they think that harming themselves with unnecessary substances and stimulations is a fun way to live life. There is no debate that the most high-energy and mentally clear version of yourself, who is capable of supporting a family or employees, requires a healthy lifestyle. #orangebook #HealthyLifestyle #GoalSetting #Self-improvement

Life actually keeps sending you the very exact wake-up calls you need to turn your life around, but most people fail to hear them because they are too busy listening to their rationalizing mind. #orangebook #WakeUp #SelfImprovement #Mindfulness

Bad habits are a sign of arrogance, you are explicitly stating that you don’t need to be the best version of yourself to reach your goals. #orangebook #BadHabits #Arrogance #SelfImprovement

Stagnation is a sign of cowardice. #orangebook #Stagnation #Cowardice #Growth

Refusing to leave an environment where you starve to have stimulating conversations with smart people who are serious about their goals slowly kill your ambitions and make you lose all self-confidence. A lot of "bad luck," anxiety, struggles are actually choices that people make. #orangebook #Ambitions #Choices #Self-confidence

People with no particular "talent," but who possess unwavering self-belief, and who keep putting in the work decade after decade, always outperform "smart" people who mostly use their intelligence to overthink everything or doubt themselves. #orangebook #SelfBelief #HardWork #Overthinking

People who didn't grow much as they got older are people who lacked the courage to build the habit of hitting their limits over and over again. Growth is the art of putting yourself in situations where you will still fail despite doing your best, then learning how to enjoy them. #orangebook #PersonalGrowth #HabitBuilding #Resilience

Most people who think they lack talent are actually vastly underestimating the amount of obsession and training that are required to become "talented." #orangebook

If you were not dealt great cards at birth, the first thing you need to discard is your pride, you are not going to achieve the same as people of equivalent talent and work ethic if you started ten steps behind: whenever you feel like something is "below your line," that's when you actually have an opportunity to beat the odds. #orangebook #Pride #Opportunity #Achievement

You want your kids to grow self-confident, you need to let them make the mistakes that you yourself had to make in order to grow, stop solving all their problems for them. If you grew up with parents who believed in your ability to fix your problems, you were very lucky already. #orangebook #SelfConfidence #ParentingAdvice #Mistakes

Being proud of being busy all the time is effectively the same as being proud of working very inefficiently. #orangebook #Busyness #Efficiency #WorkCulture

There are three types of people who suddenly "disappear": those who are ashamed of who they are, those who have everything they want and understand the value of being low profile and private, and those who have a newborn to attend to. #orangebook #People #Privacy #Newborn

Most "mental struggles" are just people addicted to living in their own mind instead of actually having the courage to improve who they are, act every day, get things done. #orangebook #MentalHealth #SelfImprovement #Mindset

If you are rich, no need to pretend to be poor in front of your kids; if they are smart, no need to send them in a rough neighborhood just to "teach them" about life; you don't need to manufacture "difficult challenges" for your kids; at any level, there are plenty of very challenging goals that not accessible unless you were already coming from a certain set of "privileged" circumstances; let them go after these goals instead, that's how their potential will meaningfully grow. #orangebook #Parenting #Privilege #Potential

A common mistake of people with a lot of financial resources: they think that parenting is something they can outsource. That’s how you end up with people who grew up with every possible advantage, but who lack the emotions and warmth of someone who grew up in a loving family. #orangebook #Parenting #FinancialResources #EmotionalDevelopment

True wealth starts with becoming who you want to be, because that's the only way to be truly mentally and spiritually at peace; and most people never get there, they just unawarely end up becoming who society wanted them to be; that's why traveling and living abroad in very different cultures is so important, it makes you notice and helps you differentiate your societal conditioning from who you actually want to be. #orangebook #SelfDiscovery #SocietalConditioning #Travel

Real friends will always point it out when you are about to make a mistake that they already made. #orangebook #Friendship #Advice #Mistakes

Figuring out the right direction in life isn't a big deal if you can clearly and accurately imagine the older version of yourself on your deathbed, with all the regrets that you can still avoid. #orangebook #LifeDirection #RegretAvoidance #FutureSelf

People who never nurtured their intuition and ability to think independently love recipes and methods that they can follow mindlessly, because they get the feeling that they are learning something effortlessly, when reality is that there is no such thing as effortless learning. Effortless learning is superficial learning, and life only rewards deep learners. #orangebook #Intuition #IndependentThinking #DeepLearning

The less you take yourself seriously, the "luckier" you will get in life. Get rid of your pride and fear of embarrassment. Put yourself in situations where you will grow regardless of whether you feel like it or not. No one is watching, no one cares. You're gonna live your life, die, and be vaguely remembered for one or two generations if you had a loving family, that's about it. #orangebook #SelfImprovement #Mindset #Growth