If someone brags about their success or happiness, assume it’s half what they claimIf someone downplays their success or happiness, assume it’s double what they claim

Bragging Razor

If unsure who to work with, pick the person that has the best chances of breaking you out of a 3rd world prison.

High Agency Razor

If it's a talking point on Reddit, you might be early. If it's a talking point on LinkedIn, you're definitely late.

The Early-Late Razor

If stuck with 2 equal options, pick the one that feels like it will produce the most luck later down the line.for eg- I used this razor to study Masters rejecting a lucrative job offer. In hindsight, it was the highest ROI decision I've ever made.

Luck Razor

"The value of every business is 100% subject to government interest rates" - Warren Buffett

Buffett's Law

If someone brags about "6 figures" -- assume it's closer to $100K than $900K.

The 6-Figure Razor

Break down the investments your parents made in you: Time, Love, Energy, and Money.If they are still alive, aim to hit a positive ROI (or at least break even.)

Parent Rule

When you see a photo of an influencer looking attractive on Instagram -- assume there are 99 worse variations of that photo you haven't seen.They just picked the best one.

Instagram Razor

If worried about people's opinions, remember they are too busy worrying about other people's opinions of them. 99% of the time you're an extra in someone else's movie

Narcissism Razor

If you go from doing a task weekly to daily, you achieve 7 years of output in 1 year. If you apply a 1% compound interest each time, you achieve 54 years of output in 1 year.

Everyday Razor

If unsure what action to pick, let your 90-year-old self on death bed choose it.

Bezos Razor

If struggling to think creatively about a subject, transform it:• Turn a thought into a written idea.• A written idea into a drawing.• A drawing into an equation.• An equation into a conversation.In the process of transforming it, you begin to spot new creative connections.

Creativity Razor

Historians now recognize the Roman Empire fell in 476 - but it wasn't acknowledged by Roman society until many generations later.If you wait for the media to inform you, you'll either be wrong or too late.

The Roman Empire Rule

If it doesn't deny the law of physics, then assume it's possible. Do not confuse society's current lack of knowledge -- with this knowledge being impossible to attain.E.g. The smartphone seems impossible to someone from the 1800s -- but it was possible, they just had a lack of knowledge.

Physics Razor

If procrastinating, you have 2 ways to solve it:• Make the pain of inaction > Pain of action• Make the pleasure of action > Pleasure of inaction

Skinner's Law

If you have 2 quality people that would benefit from an intro to one another, always do it.Networks don't divide as you share them, they multiply.

Network Razor

Assume every media article contains a % of false information.Sandbox the article from your worldview until you've:• Seen primary sources• Spoken to 3 domain experts

Gell-Mann Razor

If presented with two equal candidates for a role, pick the one with the least amount of charisma.The uncharismatic one has got there despite their lack of charisma. The charismatic one has got there with the aid of their charisma.

Taleb's Surgeon

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"Fear no men if you breathe oxygen its a fair game."- Conner McGregor

"You got two legs and a heartbeat what's stopping you?"-Inuyasha

"I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for."- Rudy Francisco

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole life fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“in the end, we'll all become stories.”- Margaret Atwood

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”- Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams too.”- Oscar Wilde

“So I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”- Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

“My request is that please don't always expect me to come across as caring, kind and well-mannered, there are times when I am downright uncaring, incomprehensible and cold-hearted. I am”- Sylvia Plath

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👇 Below, you can find forty pieces of advice that I find helpful but don't always follow:

Tips on How to Live a Fulfilling Life

1. Appreciate happiness when it is there2. Sip, don’t gulp.3. Be gentle with yourself. Work less. Sleep more.

4. There is absolutely nothing in the past that you can change. That’s basic physics. 5. Beware of Tuesdays. And Octobers.

6. Kurt Vonnegut was right. “Reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.”7. Listen more than you talk.

8. Don’t feel guilty about being idle. More harm is probably done to the world through work than idleness. But perfect your idleness. Make it mindful.9. Be aware that you are breathing.

10. Wherever you are, at any moment, try to find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.11. Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.

12. Go for a run. Then do some yoga.13. Shower before noon.14. Look at the sky. Remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity, in order to see the smallness of yourself.

15. Be kind.16. Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

17. Do not watch TV aimlessly. Do not go on social media aimlessly. Always be aware of what you are doing and why you are doing it. Don’t value TV less. Value it more. Then you will watch it less. Unchecked distractions will lead you to distraction.

18. Sit down. Lie down. Be still. Do nothing. Observe. Listen to your mind. Let it do what it does without judging it. Let it go, like Snow Queen in Frozen. 19. Don’t’ worry about things that probably won’t happen.

20. Look at trees. Be near trees. Plant trees. (Trees are great.)21. Listen to that yoga instructor on YouTube, and “walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet”.22. Live. Love. Let go. The three Ls.

23. Alcohol maths. Wine multiplies itself by itself. The more you have, the more you are likely to have. And if it is hard to stop at one glass, it will be impossible at three. Addition is multiplication.

24. Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through. 25. Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don’t wish for it to end, or for it to never end.

26. No drug in the universe will make you feel better, at the deepest level, than being kind to other people.

27. Listen to what Hamlet – literature’s most famous depressive – told Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

28. If someone loves you, let them. Believe in that love. Live for them, even when you feel there is no point.29. You don’t need the world to understand you. It’s fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven’t experienced. Some will. Be grateful.

30. Jules Verne wrote of the “Living Infinite”. This is the world of love and emotion that is like a “sea”. If we can submerge ourselves in it, we find infinity in ourselves, and the space we need to survive.31. Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.

32. Remember that there is nothing weird about you. You are just a human, and everything you do and feel is a natural thing, because we are natural animals. You are nature. You are a hominid ape. You are in the world and the world is in you. Everything connects.

33. Don’t believe in good or bad, or winning and losing, or victory and defeat, or ups and down. At your lowest and your highest, whether you are happy or despairing or calm or angry, there is a kernel of you that stays the same. That is the you that matters.

34. Don’t worry about the time you lose to despair. The time you will have afterwards has just doubled its value.35. Be transparent to yourself. Make a greenhouse for your mind. Observe.

36. Read Emily Dickinson. Read Graham Green. Read Italo Calvino. Read Maya Angelou. Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are escape routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.

37. If the sun is shining, and you can be outside, be outside.38. Remember that the key thing about life on earth is change. Cars rust. Paper yellows. Technology dates. Caterpillars become butterflies. Nights morph into days. Depression lifts.

39. Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.40. Be brave. Be strong. Breathe, and keep going. You will thank yourself later.

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Don't ever be afraid to shine. Remember, the sun doesn't give a fuck if it blinds you.- Unknown

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.- Marilyn Monroe

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.- Neil Gaiman

“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”- Rob Siltanen

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.-Oscar Wilde

You are a world champion only the day you won it. The following day all you have is an achievement.- Andrey Sholokhov

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth.- William W. Purkey

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.- Barack Obama

The oldest, shortest words -"yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.-PYTHAGORAS (Philosopher)

"Choose the one who chooses you in a room full of people, and not the one who wants you only when the room is empty." - Sonia Sabnis

I was born with something inside me that refuses to settle for average. I don't know what it is but I'm grateful to have it.- Unknown

I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. But I'm consumed with regret for the things I didn't do, the choices I didn't make, the things I didn't say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. "What if..." "If only..." "I wonder what would have..." You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.- Trever Noah

"That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look."-Jordan Peterson, Beyond Order

"The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us."-Phil knight

@elonmusk once said,"If you give yourself 30 days to clean your home, it will take you 30 days. But if you give yourself 3 hours, it will take 3 hours. The same applies to your goals, ambitions, and potential."

This are some of the quotes i go back to everytime i need some inspiration. Hope you guys like them! I'll keep adding to them!

Inspirational quotes

1. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle

2. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle

3. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” - Aristotle

4. “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” - Aristotle

5. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” - Aristotle

6. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” - Aristotle

7. “Patience is bitter, but it’s fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle

8. “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” - Aristotle

9. “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” - Aristotle

10. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” - Aristotle

11. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”- Aristotle

12. “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” - Aristotle

13. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” - Aristotle

14. “The more you know, the more you know you don't know.” - Aristotle

15. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” - Aristotle

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Humans have a tendency to believe things that aren't true.Especially upon repeated exposure.It's called the "Illusory Truth Effect"

Illusory Truth Effect

First, some background...In 1977, researchers from Villanova and Temple were the first to coin the term.Over a five-week period, separated into 3 sessions, participants were given a list of 60 statements.Their task? Determine what was true & what was false.

In each session, 40 statements were unique, while the remaining 20 were repeated from the previous rounds.Over the course of the three meetings, researchers noticed an interesting trend.Participants' belief in the validity of the 40 unique questions remained relatively static.However, when it came to the 20 repeated questions, things changed.Plausibility rankings increased with each subsequent round.But why?

Let's think about how we assess truth.In general, humans determine info to be true based on 1 of 2 factors:• Does this statement align with my previously held belief or understanding? (Rationale)OR• Have I come in contact with this information before?(Familiarity)

What researchers determined may surprise you.Familiarity > Rationale when it comes to determining truth.The more times you're exposed to data –regardless of its validity– the more likely you are to believe it. What's even more interesting?

It doesn't matter what you believed before.Researchers found that even in instances where people initially believed the information to be false –– repeated exposure caused them to change their mind. Now that we understand the problem, how do we solve it?

First: Avoiding the "Illusory Truth Effect" is hard. Most of the time we're not even aware it's happening.This is especially true when information is outside our circle of competence.Thus, in order to overcome it, we must be proactive.Time to train our brains...

You've got to start thinking critically. Although it might seem like an obvious answer, "Critical Thinking" is a skill that takes practice and effort to do well.We're going to break it down into 4 components to make it easier.

#1 TruthRemember, the goal here is to determine what is true, but let's invert the question.When given new information ask:•What sounds false?•What sounds incomplete?•What sounds slanted based on an opinion?"Everyone says so" ≠ Truth

#2 SourceWe must take time to pause and consider the source of information.•Are they credible?•What do they have to gain?•Considered a subject matter expert?•Have they been historically accurate? The source matters.

#3 AssumptionsCentral to critical thinking is the consideration of assumptions.Why?Assumptions are generally believed to be implied and are often not stated outright.In fact, without critical thinking, we may not even be aware that they exist.Often viewed as familiar or obvious, assumptions tend to make people more comfortable with their current line of thinking.Comfort leads to complacency.When we become complacent, we become unable to objectively consider alternatives.Ask: What am I assuming?

#4 AlternativesThe ability to consider alternative schools of thought is a forcing function for determining the truth.As the saying goes, "before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes."This idiom can also be applied to our judgment of truth.Consider the thought process, experiences, and point of view of the information source.Unlock the ability to "see through someone else's eyes." Considering alternatives often leads to the truth being different than what you originally expected.

Last...While researching this thread, I came across two quotes I'd like to share in closing:"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau.

Isa Blagden (East Indian Poet born in the 1800's)"If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, & if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it."

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