## Notes [[Caring about what other people think]] [[Conformity]] [[Complacency]] ### Decision-Making based on regret instead of choosing what decision to make based on which one you want to do, they said on which regret you don't want to have: quit your job feels regret of having to leave them, or look back 10 years from there and realize you should have quit 10 years ago ^cjrqru ## Highlights don't worry about what other people think because everything will be gone three generations from now if you do wha ^hhrycvt everyone else is doing you'll get what everyone else has people who live in complacent positions are honestly worse off because they dont have a reason to get out but its not like im not progressing? im just focusing on a different area? you havent fully executed a decision and committed to something until you kill off all alternatives - you cant just half-ass it anxiety cost, precursor to opportunity cost dark energy by proving people wrong to be faster than 7x of people, make a decision today that would take a week death is the greatest motivator - [ ] alex tweets to remind himself, doesnt care everyone has advantages and disadvantages, work on your own you need desire and fear Alex and Rosie's biggest fear is at the end of his life not believing that he did good enough, that he could have done more do not have regrets, keep iterating until you think there's nothing better you could have done to improve your product he rewrote his book four times and had 19 drafts but then at what point are you falling into unhealthy perfectionism? I think you just goes to show how important our beliefs and standards are in what we produce alex hormozi slows down and feels gratitude by imagining his 85 year old and seeing how much i will take for granted just wake up and realize just get 5 moments of mindfulness a day, then string them together people will wish you well until you make it and are better than them thus, hate is a sign of progress, "youre too cool now" is the leading indicator, but it sucks since you feel lonely it is projection though once you learn how to improve your life, if you dont do it then its on you self love is holding yourself to a higher standard than everyone else alex accepts circumstances, but not complacency, he sees complacency as failure you cant recognize signs when you first start people dont have personal brands because they conform Chris makes a lot of podcasts but only the important thing stick, the things that he shares with other people and it goes to bed thinking about sadness can be perceived as ignorance and ignorance can be fixed patience is doing things in the meantime the value isn't in the buying or the selling, it's in the waiting, having an okay plan that you stick to is better than having a perfect plan that you don't finish take for example my tqqq feelings passed but you remain adaptability or die, antifragile, related to overtraining or overworking is POSSIBLE, but it might not always be your ideal having traits is not black or white. its a spectrum which is progressable. each time you add incremental change you may not like it and it may not be natural, but eventually the evidence will prove you otherwise. thoughts feelings behavior "must be easy" is so ignorant, proof of victim mindset if life is passed