A few years ago I read a quote from Bill Gates which I really liked (and I’ve heard several variations of it since then so it’s nothing new), about how you tend to overestimate what you can achieve in 1 year, and underestimate what you can achieve in 10 years. Now in my 30’s, many of my peers in college or in my first job have been in the workforce for about 10+ years, give or take....
One of the life principles that I believe is core to overall happiness and prevents mental/physical decline is to simply not allow yourself to peak. There shall be NO moment in life when you feel like you’ve reached the top. A daily mantra should be, “my best days are ahead”. Even if you’ve reached enormous success at a very young age, way better than the average person who’s 20 years ahead of you, you have to believe that the best days are ahead....
It’s been such a long time since I’d finished a book. This was definitely a great read, and gives so much insights and meaningful perspectives on how to approach health and longevity–how to increase both lifespan and healthspan. We should not resign to the fact that we will experience decline in old age, and that the last decade of our lives will be spent being in a frail physical and mental condition....
We all like to think of ourselves as special or extraordinary in some ways. Not fun to be an average Joe, or be like “everyone else”. But recently as I think of who I am as a husband and a father to two boys, I’m as typical as they get. I’m the financial breadwinner, I focus most of my weekdays on work, I find my kids too hard to handle to spend enough dedicated time with them, I push family away so I can focus on doing my own stuff....
Chance favours the prepared mind - Louis Pasteur Luck is often both underrated and overrated. It’s underrated because luck plays a HUGE difference between success and failure, and you almost always need a string of lucky events to be successful in life or achieve something great. It’s common to hear of multiple strokes of luck for the top 0.1% of people to get to where they are. Hard work, grit, and intelligence is not enough–you need luck....