Quotes

Here you will find some of the greatest quotes from I Grow Younger.

Quotes about Productivity

You and the world. Game of Self and Game of Life. Divide it to unite it.

Productivity and Happiness are a byproduct. Flows are in the beginning.

If you lack the Creative phase or the Implementation phase, your work will be replaced by AI. Humans outperform AI only in the combination of both.

Capitalism, AI and no-one-being-left-behind policy are impossible all at the same time.

If everyone raises their Productivity, we will be able to transition our economy so no one is left behind.

Production is a Left brain Structure (Box). Creativity is a Right brain Flow.

Boxes and Flows are like fire and ice and destroy each other – reflecting the struggle for dominance between the left and right brain. So Production and Creativity are in fight within you. And that’s actually great! We need both!

Your creative part is intact, but mothballed!

Remove enough Boxes and open the space for Flows, but be careful not to fill the space with other Boxes as the overstimulated dopamine system of the brain will urge you to do!

Removing brain fragmenting distractions like Phone notifications, Social media, Scrolling and Chatting is the best possible start for Flows and Creativity.

Introduce empty time slots in your schedule – Boxes with no other Boxes inside can create the space for Flows!

Quotes about Ideas

Your ideas are valuable.

As many people have their creativity mothballed and just take part in the execution process, your ideas become more valuable in the free market of skill supply and demand.

Generation of ideas is unpredictable. Open time and space for them. Let go. Plant some seeds. Be patient.

Performance is now. Ideas are forever.

People have great ideas while in the shower but rarely while they watch TikTok.

Your best creative ideas are yet to come.

Lay the seeds and ideas will come intuitively out of the blue. It’s the only way they ever do!

“How many truly world-changing ideas do I generate per year?” is the only meaningful intellectual metric in life.

A truly great idea, if you don’t ruin it with boxes later, will steamroll whatever is in your way.

A truly great idea reduces the Boxes in your life as it opens the gates for Intrinsic motivation.

A truly great idea is an explosion that carries its own intuitive oxygen and selectively burns out everything harmful in your life.

The reason you are not Einstein is because you are doing things Einstein never would even think of. Such as tracking Productivity.

Most people in Western society need way less planning in life, not more.

Incremental progress slowly brings us down, rather than up.

The best is yet to come!

If whatever you have achieved in life was mostly done using not only half of your brain but by far the less evolved and less powerful left half… imagine what you can do with your full biological ability unlocked!

We need a creative, not a productive mindset!

The volcano will erupt if the magma moves around and the crust is thin. So live dynamically, talk to smart and creative people, connect, engage, share.

Try as many different things as possible and don’t feel compelled to finish anything that no longer feels like a challenge. You will have more data points for your Intuition.

Unfinished projects are a loss in the Game of Life but wins in the Game of Self as we prioritize the invisible – Intuition, creativity, curiosity, Meaning.

Celebrating small wins is the stupiest way to abandon your Flows and Hunter mode. You don’t have many battles in life, you have one and it’s an infinite game, it’s never won or lost so there’s nothing to celebrate.

Feeling good and joyful and having fun are great Flows. A targeted celebration is a Box.

We need Stillness. Absence of thinking. Mental peace.

Just like sadness can be a healthy processing state on an emotional level, Stillness is a very healthy processing state on an intellectual level.

Doing nothing and thinking about nothing is great. It’s a Flow.

Doing everything at maximum Speed with Hunter mode hormones in the body is great!

Extremes are good and the middle is bad.

Phones are built for distraction and addiction.

Learning French is not worth sacrificing your chances for Flows, even if they are small.

All of your motivation happens due to dopamine!

Extrinsic motivation is about avoiding pain and seeking pleasure.

If you don’t know why you do it, but you do it, and it is some joyful Flow experience… it comes from Intrinsic motivation.

Intrinsic motivation is the sum of your Core Flows – Self-love, Unconditional love, Meaning, Responsibility and Growth.

Quotes about Creativity

Creativity is a Flow.

Extrinsic motivation depletes all of the dopamine makes Intrinsic motivation impossible!

One solution to everything, isn’t that nice and… rare? Core Flows fix all problems with dopamine depletion and extrinsic motivation.

Productivity requires zero effort.

Pressure is counterproductive.

Self-discipline is a sham concept.

Measuring and structuring your life breaks the only pathway, that really, really matters. The Flow based one.

Intuition needs data points. Which come from Diversity of Experience. Which comes from Chaos and Creativity, not repetitive Execution …

If you’re not creative, you’re not productive.

The discomfort you may be feeling right now is one of the core components of being creative!

Education and cultural Bullshit suppress your creativity by stimulating the non-creative parts of your brain.

Don’t be afraid of the chaotic, uncertain, invisible nature of creativity. It’s how evolution made it to be so it saves on brain resources while feeling magical.

In order to make space, first you need to let go.

Quotes about Truth

Knowing the Truth doesn’t have any benefits by itself. Biologically actions are more valuable than Truth (knowing). Because passing your genes does not require knowing it, but it surely requires… doing it.

The sad reality is that most people are wrong about most things.

Believing the actual Truth was not a significant evolutionary advantage.

Evolutionary any potential Truth was somewhat of an advantage – not being totally confused and acting with a plan, even a bad one, resulted in gathering experience and improving over a lifetime.

You would never want to live with a different Truth from your tribe.

Conformism is built into our biology.

The strongest evolutionary advantage was not to know the actual Truth. It was to have one Perceived Truth with those around you.

The objective Truth was almost nowhere to be found in the Stone Age.

Even in the time of Aristotle people were wrong about almost everything.

Evolution did not prepare us for the concept of scientific Truth at all.

People were happy with the gods and spirits, society worked, and all of the improvements that could happen with science were unthinkable because people had never seen anything better and could not imagine it differently. This is why human scientific progress was so incredibly slow at first.

We need to believe that Progress is possible in order to make it happen.

Believing the Earth is flat is biologically useful and fine for the people who believe this. It may not be objectively true, but who cares? Biology certainly doesn’t.

In a messy atomized world where people no longer live in tribes, desperate times require desperate measures. So we make new tribes based on whatever fiction we stumble upon first – it only matters that we are valued, have status and find a mate.

People in many conspiracy theory movements derive their status mostly because of the onslaught against them.

The gap we need to bridge can only be bridged with Love and understanding.

While it’s our social responsibility to help more people get closer to the objective Truth, this will not happen with arguments. Biology is prepared for arguments and has defensive mechanisms. It’s Love, compassion, and understanding that melts the ice.

The Flat Earther just desperately wanted to be special and find some real human connection.

Biology makes usefulness always dominate objectivity.

The uniting story of the tribe has to be emotional and beautiful in order to be sticky enough to work. There is no incentive for Truth in it.

Tobacco and gambling companies, Coca-Cola and McDonalds are all about Bullshit – they don’t outright lie that they are healthy – they just turn your attention away from the fact of how unhealthy they are by endless advertising playing on your emotional strings.

Bullshit is everywhere on every level.

The bigger a system is, the more Bullshit it produces.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair.

People in large organizations resist Change and equate their salary with survival.

Public perception of Success is a huge generator of Bullshit.

The hope is in you.

You have the potential to rise above the Bullshit and dare to fight for the Truth.

Truth is an ideal – it will be there even if no one believes in it.

The Truth cannot fight for itself. We have to fight for it.

The nemesis of any Bullshit group is another group with even stronger Bullshit! This does not mean closer or further from the Truth, but rather more uniting, more sticky, and more beautiful.

For the people trapped in a strong Bullshit story, objective Truth on the matter is out of reach, making it irrelevant.

It’s not that you win that much by being in the team Truth. It’s more about how much we can lose ending up somewhere in the Bullshit coalition.

There is no middle path. You either love the ideal of Truth and fight for it or you leave yourself to the evolutionary forces, which will lead you into one of the many Bullshit camps.

False beliefs generate a ton of secondary false beliefs. Useful beliefs do not generate secondary useful beliefs.

Flows go everywhere they need to by nature. Unlike logical structures, they don’t need to be developed. They just are, and it’s enough.

The fact that something false was useful will make other false beliefs more attractive in the future. This one is a slippery slope.

They didn’t give you a story useful to you! They only pretended to. In reality, they gave you a story, politically useful to them, so they can get your vote and increase the power of their group. And make no mistake, they did this in full, cold-blooded conscience.

The worse the intentions around you, the more Truth you need inside to survive and thrive.

Most governments, political actors and corporations are typical Bullshit actors and have the main intention to build and keep control over you.

Bullshit is the main tool of control over the masses. So we have to constantly resist.

In a Vibe system, everything truly great creates endless positive ripples.

Most people somehow assume they are attracted biologically to the Truth while in fact, they are not.

Emotional trust you can feel for your grandma and hug her. Intellectual trust you can feel for your sysadmin to fix your operating system. Now imagine letting your grandma fix your OS and hugging your sysadmin! Now you see why the way we talk about trust is always wrong. We never differentiate. Those two types have literally nothing in common!

The two (totally different) types of trust are fundamental human expressions of life’s core forces (Love – Fear and Chaos – Structure), and we thought it’s a great idea to merge them in the same word? Of all the Trap-words of modern language, I feel this one is having the worst consequences.

Once you believe in something, you are subconsciously attracted to sources that confirm it and subconsciously avoid ones that reject it.

Bullshit plays a central role in sales and advertising, especially of addictive and harmful products.

We will never be able to stop political and corporate manipulation from existing. Our job is to see right through it and not be influenced one bit.

Stories, told in private by people whom we emotionally trust, are the ultimate influence. This is where you can make a difference in building your shield of Truth.

Emotional trust is biological and will always be more powerful than Intellectual trust.

You have to consciously remind yourself that Truth and emotions belong to different categories, require different approaches, and mixing them up is very counterproductive, both internally and in relationships.

The Truth-searcher tunes down their emotions. Except one. The Love for Truth.

People with high level of Meaning feel the value of Truth for everyone, and thus, fighting for the Truth becomes their form of love for the world.

Some people have a crazy Love for Truth, but only work with emotional trust. Which means they will likely end up in random places of the Bullshit coalition, despite their noble intentions.

People cope with all of their problems using various Boxes. And people are the most rewarding Boxes. In this common situation, we explode with emotional trust since we basically surrender our Freedom to some person. Whatever Intellectual trust we have to spread around is sadly gone.

If we have strong Flows, we feel no need to over-attach ourselves to a single person. This reduces emotional trust to normal levels and leaves space for Intellectual trust.

You don’t have many battles in life. You have one. Everything is connected to everything.

In general, science is to be trusted, just no system and no group of humans is perfect.

If you bring one person closer to the Truth, you change a life.

We want to live in a world with more Truth and less Bullshit.

The answer to any hard problem in life always comes from Flow.

Letting go of any structure is psychologically hard.

Never do anything that might instill Guilt or Shame.

The only way to really help someone get closer to the Truth takes Unconditional love.

Most people expect you to push back on their pushback. Surprise them and show your Unconditional love instead. These asymmetrical actions are what melts the ice.

People started believing in Bullshit due to emotional reasons. Only via emotional power will you be able to change their mind.

Quotes about Intuition

The defining characteristic of the modern world is its unimaginable width.

Logic only handles Boxes, Intuition also handles Flows.

Intuition is a global tool.

Intuition is evolutionary old, developed over millions of years into an almost perfect decision-making tool.

Comparing logic and Intuition in evolutionary terms is like comparing a baby’s science skills to those of a university professor.

Intuition is a private, individual tool.

With Intuition, you may not be able to explain or provide reasoning. But you have an answer. Intuition is a shortcut.

Intuition is strongest when facing binary choices. Intuition improves and eventually develops comparison hacks that can compare millions of options without considering them one by one!

Intuition is just nature at its best decision-making efficiency.

The world’s best logical chess brain loses by a mile to a phone running any off-the-shelf software. Meanwhile, your average intuitive brain beats by a mile the world’s billion-dollar best proprietary intuitive AI. This clearly shows that your Intuition is millions of times more powerful than logic!

Evolution prepared us to survive in a complex environment, not to ask “Why?”

When not trained or trusted, Intuition fades, and its whispering voice becomes ever harder to hear.

You surely need Intuition in order to live a rich life, full of possibilities.

Every time you make the leap of faith to replace logic with Intuition, amazing things happen.

While your fear screams, your Intuition whispers.

Fear is an unwanted giant wave that splashes onto everything, giving you zero credible information. Intuition is the gentle ripple pattern in the sea that subtly but consistently tells you all you need to know.

The more you have lived through, the more helpful data points there will be for your Intuition.

If we have to describe the world in one word, it would have to be this one. Structure. Everything is a structure.

Positive or negative feedback loops are key to understanding dynamic structures.

Quantity changes lead to quality (structural) changes when a certain threshold is passed.

To feel what the threshold is in a certain system is an extremely valuable skill. And nowhere does it help as much as when dealing with other humans.

If you don’t feel people’s thresholds, it’s impossible to navigate complex relationships and situations.

You cannot measure a Flow, but you can compare it to the same Flow in the past.

We are biologically not well suited to feel longer periods of time and have massive problems with Gratification delay.

Human beings are extremely interconnected. Everything influences everything else.

In vibe systems, the low-level structures and quantities entangle so much that they lose meaning on their own. The only questions that matter are about the positive feedback loops triggered.

Self-understanding simply means having a Vibe intuition.

I Grow Younger is all about building an intuitive framework about you and your life.

The direction you’re heading in is potentially more important than your current state.

Positive feedback loops almost always involve actions, and actions tend to cause positive feedback loops.

Although I Grow Younger ignores a lot to reduce complexity to a manageable level, it never miss any of the up / down spirals that make you who you are.

I Grow Younger doesn’t tell you what to think or how to feel. We just help you understand what the driving forces are and how to influence them. We teach you to feel which actions trigger upward spirals and which trigger downward spirals.

Vibe intuition is the best tool for self-improvement.

If you can feel your vibes very well, then you can also feel the vibes of other people to a degree. We are more similar than we are different.

Group behavior and the psychology of the crowd are all about vibes. Society is a vibe system.

Geopolitics is the ultimate (most complex) vibe system, because it’s a vibe system made of vibe systems (countries), which are in turn also made of vibe systems (people). This is why it’s so chaotic and unpredictable.

If you don’t understand yourself, you cannot understand society and the world – they are made of people much like you!

It’s not that hard to understand yourself. You just need to dial down the noise coming from the world’s craziness. Unlearn myths. See through the fog. Use your Intuition.

Ignore everything but feedback loops!

The world is very complex. You – not nearly as much.

You can understand, handle, and improve yourself. While enjoying it.

If you start believing an action changes your identity, it starts to change even before the action.

What you really want is part of your identity.

If you believe you change fast, you change fast. If you believe you change easily, you change easily.

The Game of Self is one big self-fulfilling prophecy.

You need more Flows, fewer Boxes; more Love, less fear; more Self-love and Self-worth; more Unconditional love, less attraction; more Hunter moves, fewer Sheep moves; more Long-term Freedom; more Chaos, less discipline; more Meaning and more Intuition, less logic.

The shortest, easiest to remember, and most important fact about life: “Things are always different.”

Most people don’t aim high enough in life. They don’t know what they are missing and settle for less.

Scaling a business idea does require depth, but once you have the right business idea, it will be easy and fun.

It has never been easier to start a business, thanks to unprecedented access to free / cheap education and information combined with the low ambition of most other people, who are struggling under the weight of the Boxes and distractions of modern life.

Your critical advantage is the unlimited power of your Intuition.

Accept that you may do things without knowing why.

The more and more Diversity of Experience you gather, the better.

“I only know what I know I know” thinking created no individual greatness ever. Leaps of faith are not optional.

Without Intuition, you only hear the advice of the least capable part of your brain.

Quotes about Scaling

Quantity has a quality of its own.

Long-term Freedom is always a good thing. There is no counterexample. It has the highest correlation with the other good things in life from any metric you can possibly choose.

You’re just so unimaginably far away from the maximum Freedom you can theoretically have that you cannot even imagine it.

If you visit a poor country, you’d be astonished by the creativity of the local people. They have no other choice.

A strong Game of Self gives you considerable leverage over your circumstances.

If you’re not happy because of internal Barriers, you’re not truly free.

A comfortable life, combined with easy dopamine hits from social media and other sources, is a direct path to inertia and Sheep mode in your life.

There are billions of people in the world who have way less Freedom by no fault of their own, just due to the places they were born in and / or tough luck. While it’s not your fault for being lucky or privileged, personally, I take it as a responsibility to fight for their Freedom too.

Helping others brings Joy and Meaning to life, and the feeling of development and growth is great for mental health.

Where to grow except in the ability to help others?

Go volunteer in Sub-Saharan Africa and talk to people in extreme poverty for a few weeks, and you’ll get motivated for life.

Just do something, make a first step!

There are two clear improvement scales in life – Morality and Freedom. The net contribution of every person to society is roughly proportional to the multiple of those.

The morality scale is about how much you value others and about not putting your needs, ego, or beliefs above their needs and their humanity.

People mostly do what other people in their social tribe do.

Morality was a beneficial evolutionary trait.

Around 30% of people are actually so highly moral that it becomes an obstacle for their personal growth journey and reduces their Long-term Freedom a lot.

The world has recently come to the point where it’s easier to create than to destroy.

Ideas are what will save us from hate, division, misinformation, and populism.

Most people are ultimately well-meaning. The populists’ followers are usually decent people who have been heavily manipulated into believing a story of twisted truths.

Most people want to contribute ideas for the common good.

The contribution of most people is a net positive for society at large.

Do you think it’s easier to make a politician more moral or to make yourself more powerful and free?

Both you and the world need you to scale your Long-term Freedom as far as possible.

The sweet spot, if you don’t have any special talents, is Entrepreneurship.

Money can be converted into many Freedom-improving activities for you and others.

Business starts and ends with hiring. Nothing is as valuable as the efforts of smart, motivated people.

For everyday chores, you can outsource. But for your core activities in life, you hire.

Freedom comes with covering basic requirements in the Game of Self and then scaling in the Game of Life.

Freedom a quantity, not a quality!

Make sure your fails are fast and small.

You need a lot of Hunter mode and a healthy amount of Chaos.

Hire for your very first employee a person you genuinely care for. The closer the person, the better. You just mixed work and love. The world didn’t explode.

I founded an 8-figure company without me or anyone from the team making a single cold call, ever. Because the industry choice was great.

Money is not everything. It’s important to have fun and remember basic ethics.

People matter more than money and raw performance numbers.

Every time humanity and compassion triumph over distance and indifference, you will see a massive increase in Happiness and performance.

Nokia started out as a paper mill. It’s not the industry and business model that define a company; it’s the people and culture.

Shared responsibility is a recipe for disaster.

The world is full of both business partners who abandoned ship early and early employees loyal for decades.

Most people’s main drivers are not money and net worth but rather appreciation, Freedom, growth, and fun.

Success is largely a self-fulfilling prophecy. You just have to believe.

Doing it is usually way faster than thinking about it, and then doing it.

The more you are in Hunter mode, the more you do. The more you do, the more you enter and stay in Hunter mode.

Most people never start.

Treating your ideas like precious children is stupid. Let them out in the open; you need feedback.

No one will steal your idea – people lack motivation to get their own ideas going, let alone foreign ones.

Spam is simply a direct, non-bullshit path to information, attention, and money.

If you’re brief and direct, people will appreciate you valuing their time. If you’re cute and funny, they will value you trying to brighten up their day.

The spark for a business start is the Love strategy, which aligns your Game of Self with the business. The fuel for a business start is the Spam strategy, which aligns your Game of Life with the business.

You didn’t need your logical brain; in fact, you had to turn it off. Your IQ is mostly irrelevant.

Let’s scale your Freedom for the many that can’t fight for theirs.

Quotes about Chaos

We didn’t evolve for such a huge choice, and it’s often paralyzing.

You will be able to change most of the future if you accept all of the past, plus the present, you cannot change.

You need to accept yourself as who you are, also known as Self-love.

Logical thinking is overrated.

If you can practice Acceptance and Mindfulness while Directing your actions as a Hunter, you’ll never have emotional Barriers holding you back.

If you develop an Intuition about structures and an Intuition about quantities, you’ll never have intellectual barriers holding you back.

The actual forces whose dance creates the future are chaos and structure.

You need Chaos to learn to feel structures.

Structure can only preserve, Chaos is the Force of creation.

The current economy rewards new ideas and dynamic action. It rewards Chaos.

Entrepreneurship needs Chaos, and it’s currently the best path to money and Long-term Freedom.

Don’t load yourself with Expectations or you’ll ruin it all.

Organized Chaos is simply good for mental health as it guarantees that you go out of your comfort zone and face your fears on a regular basis.

The Ultimate skills don’t just help you succeed. They also make you happier and a better person to be around.

Humans need a supporting framework of consistency in their lives.

Quotes about Flows

Change the environment to change yourself. It’s the most strategic path to Progress.

The environment of today will shape our stories and identity of tomorrow.

Everything we can do to change our future is all about what we surround ourselves with and how we react to it.

You cannot improve your Game of Self by force, and trying to do that can be counterproductive.