Quotes

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

Quotes about Productivity

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!

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.

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.

You can change your environment and it will do the magic.

Don’t aim for full control – it’s impossible.

Self-knowledge is never complete.

There is only one universally good direction in mental health – outwards.

The good things in life: Love, Freedom, Empathy, Meaning, Hunter mode are all about opening up to the world and its people.

Open up and you invite the good, close up and you’re stuck with your worst.

We need one thing from our environment – Structures that help us open up.

There is no way to compare your Flows with someone else’s. This is why comparing yourself to others is useless and counterproductive.

The flows we care about are not in the real world. They are your states of being.

The real world has one true Flow – nature.

The Boxes are in you. The Flows are you.

If you feel motivated for something, you feel motivated for everything.

If you feel creative in something, you feel creative in everything.

Boxes cannot bring true long-term happiness.

Love is transcendental and knows no Barriers.

Fears need at least one big barrier – the one between yourself and the world, the “Wall of Mirrors” or simply the Wall.

Focus and general intuitive awareness have to coexist.

We need to gather all our Self-love and desire for Freedom and start with a leap of Faith. Baby steps won’t do.

The real problem is not the lousy boss. The real problem is the Boxes that represent him within you.

Embracing Flows and ditch all possible Boxes.

The relatively safe and comfortable life of the modern human needs Flows and Meaning, not Boxes and thinking.

Resist. Every time you feel the urge to put something in a Box, Resist. Every time other people and the world impose their Box-based thinking upon you, Resist.

Every wise advice you have ever heard is just an extension of living without Boxes.

And you have to do just one thing, although very scary…

The Boxes make you weak and unhappy. You need Flows, even if they bring Chaos to your life.

Live outside the Box!

Flows like Love do not come with rules, and you cannot win; you just have to keep playing (loving). So Love is an infinite game.

All the true value in life is carried by the Flows.

Intuition is a Flow process. This is why it’s powerful, yet harmless.

Logical thinking is a Box process. This is why it’s exhausting, prone to errors, and potentially harmful.

Entrepreneurship is a Flow structure – good for your mental health.

Most day jobs are Box structures – bad for your mental health.

Any speech that changed history is full of Flow language. This is how you inspire people and bring change!

Identity politics is based on Boxes and this can screw up even the best intentions.

Us vs. Them is always based on a Box.

It’s so much easier to just respect everyone for being human, no matter how different.

I don’t have a single label I identify with.

The fewer Boxes, the better.

Stories are so powerful because they connect Box structures into a Flow.

Unconditional love is so powerful and magical because it turns a Box (another person) into a Flow (the feeling of the other person being a part of you).

The concept of Money is a Flow structure improving a box-dominated ecosystem.

Constructing the best environment is much easier than you think. You just need to be able to tell a Box from a Flow.

Your Love, Meaning, friends, fun, and work can all be one beautiful intertwined mess. Trust me, the small inconveniences will be far outmatched by the huge energy and Motivation resulting from not mentally dividing yourself into pieces.

If you don’t care if you’re right or wrong, you have successfully embraced Flows.

People are wrong so much of the time that obsessing over being right separates them from reality.

If everything you care about is being right, more than being free or happy, your life is crushed by the Boxes.

If your heart doesn’t care if you’re right, you’re in Hunter mode.

Humans are easily influenced by their peers, so surround yourself with the best people you can find.

No human relation should be taken for granted.

If you can be yourself around someone and are happy in silence with them, it’s a worthy friendship.

The quality of your closest human relationships is the most important indicator of health and happiness.

Unconditional love will improve every single aspect of your life. It rewires your brain and changes you, and you participate in your life all the time.

Love is not enough. For most of the time, you need people who haven’t lost their touch with reality.

No one has a duty to listen to Bullshit.

Value your energy and time.

Only you know you.

If all of your days are the same, you will not really develop broad self-knowledge.

You need to see your reactions in different situations, and some of them need to be out of your comfort zone.

The Forest model is the only magical one that can strategically create a Flow out of a Box.

You’ll find the Flows. As you have no choice.

Today, the Boxes have already played their important role to make life safe and comfortable, but they have overkilled it and usurped most of our entire lives.

Most modern people have a phone addiction.

Getting lost nearly guarantees the feeling of success.

Success (Game of Life) and the feeling of success (Game of Self) are very different things.

If you constantly feel cold, you don’t change your thermostat by 2 degrees; you do cold plunges. Extremes can help as a tool, even if not desirable themselves.

Feel time as a Flow and stop feeling anxiety about deadlines and potential small losses!

If you genuinely feel your coworkers are decent people, show it to them. Be just as warm as you would be to lifelong friends. Too much distance is of no use between well-meaning people.

If people in arranged marriages can manage to build a relationship from scratch with a random person, you can manage some shared files and tasks!

Every relationship with every person, random or not, will be one of a kind in your life. Make it count!

This is the greatest thing about Flows – you cannot overdo them! You cannot be too loving, too compassionate, too respectful, too motivated, too creative, or too responsible. The more the better! And mixing them only makes it better.

Never let people down for no good reason! But don’t be afraid of letting down systems and expectations!

Every significant delay in important communication is letting the other side down – this is the worst kind of Procrastination, don’t do that.

Procrastination is just a signal that there is no Meaning for you here, and you want to search for it elsewhere.

Do not cave to external Pressure and never let others induce Guilt and Shame in you. You’re morally allowed to aggressively repel such attempts.

Our excuses are usually a major obstacle to any progress. We don’t do what is good for us and always, always find an excuse why.

Procrastination is the danger alert, and excuses become new paths in life, better ones.

Procrastination is part of you. Have Faith in it. It’s just telling you that you either need a more fun way of achieving your goal… or that your goal is not worth it in the first place. Most likely because it’s a Box while you need Flows.

You just have to believe and act as if the success of tomorrow happens today. Because it does happen today! It’s today’s actions that form it. And part of it is to act like you’re already there.

Give yourself the signal that failure is not an option!

The people who burnt the bridges gave their faith and conviction a boost. The people who left the bridges there just in case gave their doubts a boost.

Never ever, never, never, never allow yourself to be afraid of success.

Wisely invest today the money you’ll make tomorrow – exchange them for time and energy, for removing distractions and educating yourself.

The success of tomorrow is born today by creating the identity that supports this success.

Spending the money you are earning in real time is a Flow way of living.

Savings are only a good idea if you cannot invest the money into yourself productively.

Value your time highly before its value is actually high.

The time you invest productively today will bring the growth of tomorrow.

Always trade your time for good money, good education, good impact, or good fun. Do not compromise with the quality of any of these!

Tough times are when you rip apart your Game of Self Barriers and truly grow.

Never let a crisis go to waste!

You have to believe you deserve more and constantly fight for it.

Changing value over time is a Flow.

Price your products and services high even before the quality reflects the price.

I’ve seen countless cases of businesses which fail because the prices are too low. On the other hand, I’ve never seen a business fail because the prices are too high.

What should go into Pricing a product or service? Only the market! Your costs don’t matter. Your experience and knowledge don’t matter. Nothing matters except how many people would pay the price. Detach pricing from your Self-worth and emotions.

If you sell something expensive, buyers will assume it’s good. Step two – actually make it good!

Pricing only according to the market is a Flow process as the market evolves constantly, making Intuition the decision maker.

It’s impossible to find a mentor. The mentor finds you. You just need to be there and show potential, intellectual interest, commitment, and gratitude.

True mentoring is about Love, trust, and giving up control.

Mentoring is an unpopular forest – you start and then anything can happen.

A gift is meant to be from the heart, so mandatory birthday and Christmas gifts ruin a lot of their value – you should give one only if you feel like it and are happy with your choice.

Experiences are usually better than objects.

A targeted gift is a wonderful opportunity to send a strong message.

Gifts that help your loved ones overcome barriers and live out of the Box are the very best!

Just like the letters from before digital times, emails are more of a Flow than a Box. They can be short or long, read now or later, and answered now or later, or even never.

There is true joy in slow, asynchronous communication. There is true Freedom to write when you feel like it.

Open letters are powerful. If the facts tell that you’re a victim, be the victim at the start. But then make a glorious comeback. Commit to fighting injustice. Be emotional. Speak for the whole world against the perpetrators. And most important of all, end by offering a concrete solution.

You can use creative language like “a shark is just a big fish, but unlike other fish, it would happily eat you – and this is why big corporations and institutions are aggressive and mean, it’s just evolution”. Who are they gonna sue, Charles Darwin?

Politics is an ugly fight in the mud where no one wins.

In the David vs Goliath battles, everyone roots for David. Whenever a Goliath system really messes up your life, use this advantage to hit back.

You are powerful when you feel and wield Flows in life.

It’s no wonder that most people today still don’t have a good understanding of both left and right-wing political ideas – it’s just against our biology to keep opposing ideas simultaneously in the mind. This comes from tribal times and makes us tribal in the present age, too.

Quality education is impossible without having periods when you don’t know what is going on. If you give up on uncertainty, you just think you’re always right while usually being wrong – this doesn’t lead to progress.

You can afford uncertainty, even though it’s uncomfortable.

We need a healthy amount of emotional uncertainty so our identity is flexible and can evolve over time. In the dynamic world of today, you cannot afford to have a static identity; it will only hold you back.

Over time Love varies in strength and direction, just like all natural Flows do.

Just love the people worth loving and leave yourself to the Flow. It’s an endless source of Energy and Happiness.

Self-love is an unconditional Flow. It’s never deserved or undeserved. It just is.

Emotional uncertainty will help you stay closer to reality over time.

Just stop trying so hard to be certain! Sometimes it’s fine not to know what is going on.

Time is needed to connect some dots. Give yourself the time.

Once you are comfortable with internal intellectual and emotional uncertainty, the final win against the Boxes is to stop expecting anything from the world around you.

The core human superpower is prediction. Prediction is just a Flow of data, Diversity of Experience, and Intuition giving us the odds of potential future scenarios. It’s opening your mind to the richness of the world and its possibilities. Expecting is collapsing all of this rich nuance into a single Box. It destroys all the advantages of prediction and much more.

Expectations narrow your worldview.

Happiness is reality minus expectations.w

Expectations waste time and energy, analyzing the same situation twice (first in your thoughts and then after it happens).

Thinking about scenarios that end up not happening is a waste of time and energy.

So, when do expectations help you? Never! They are just a Box, a cunning trap where you catch and butcher the beautiful, nuanced Flow of prediction, just because of your desire for certainty.

The world and its systems and people are inherently imperfect, and usually deeply flawed inside, even though they desperately hide it. Everything and everyone is a work in progress, just like you.

Just like you can love yourself despite all your shortcomings, it’s healthy to have a general love for the world and everything in it, despite understanding the reality of how imperfect everything is.

We’re taught to chase perfection. But the messy, the flawed are just as worthy of love.

If you want to help people feel and act better, you have to first accept them for who they are. If you want to improve flawed systems, you have to understand the driving forces that made them this way.

Expectations that people will act in a certain way will lead to disappointments, failed friendships, and relationships. You can do your best and choose the people around you for the beauty of their hearts, but even the best ones will fail you from time to time. No one is perfect. Don’t expect it from anyone.

Systems are inherently indifferent. Evolutionary forces make them fight for its own preservation at all costs.

The moment you try to change a system, all its ugly self-preservation mechanisms will try to crush you in response. This makes actually changing the world for the better a highly creative endeavor, while grinding along old paths will just trigger stronger opposing forces from the powers that be.

Don’t consciously think about the future, let alone plan. Your Intuition and mind are already there, thanks to the power of prediction. Your heart’s place is in the current moment. The future will come to it with zero effort. In a Flow, if you allow it.

Say goodbye to the center of your comfort zone for good. Its edge is where the magic happens.

Logical thinking is just a justification while you have already chosen emotionally, even if the process was not conscious.

The world has way too many Boxes. Destroy their projections in you, and embrace the Flows instead. Don’t think, just be. All the time, on every level, everywhere.

Quotes about Sleep

Never wake up using an alarm!

No one ever benefits from consistently not getting enough sleep and no one ever benefits from preventing anyone else to consistently get enough either.

You’ll be doing better work if you work fewer hours well rested.

I am the biggest fan of quantity-over-quality out there as quantity is often underrated and quality is often subjective. But if you don’t sleep enough to work more you’re not maximizing quantity, you’re maximizing stupidity.

Quotes about Self-love

Many highly moral people have a lack of Self-love.

The key to Self-love is to completely detach it from what you think you deserve.

Life is too random and will throw both bad and good undeserved things in your face all the time.

Your relationship with yourself is a lifelong marriage with zero secrets, zero space, zero breaks, and zero alternatives. It’s the most important relationship in your life.

You can Fake-till-you-make-it everything else in life, but not Love.

Тrue Love does not have a source. It’s just there or not.

In any relationship, goodwill first steps are very important. You have to give what is not yet earned. You have to reverse-cheat.

There are two ways to damage your Self-love: emotions and thoughts.

Shame and guilt have evolved to keep our tribe together and have no purpose other than that.

Without Vulnerability, there is no Unconditional love.

While fighting for justice in a truly unjust world is noble, just thinking about the injustice is not helping anyone.

You need Self-love and acceptance to grow and develop. It’s the foundation.

Disregard social rules and bravely reverse-cheat.

Quotes about Trap-words

People are different, but live by the same principles. We focus on what unites – the building blocks of life. And one of them is that we all use language.

Some words represent more than a word is biologically capable of representing. Having an object with very few association links would not give a deep understanding of it. But even worse would be to have an object associated with everything. It is harmful to our thought process.

A cornerstone can only be one if it brings clarity and simplicity.

You know what your brain hates the most? Being confused. Every time we hear a Trap-word, the brain blocks to protect itself. It doesn’t want to go through the risk of analyzing overcomplicated concepts in depth.

Almost everyone is wrong about almost everything.

Popular culture is wrong, because we create it and we’re wrong.

Many universities should not exist in their current form, and the only reason they do is that the students don’t understand the concepts of Education and Career well.

Capitalism is always there to take their money.

There is no “Relationship” object in reality and no responsibility to such an object. There are only the people in it and their thoughts, feelings, and actions. And their responsibilities to each other.

The black hole of every Trap-word has its own separate strong resistance.

We need better cornerstone words. Then we’ll be able to deconstruct all Trap-words using our new fundamental structure and actually understand the concepts behind them.

Quotes about Self-help

Humans evolved solving mostly simple problems, and not having to delve into abstract thought was an advantage. But the world has changed, and there are cases when it’s better to resist nature.

It doesn’t help when we try to make a complicated problem simple by just ignoring parts of it.

It’s only when we understand the full picture, when we immerse ourselves in the full richness of complexity, then we can deeply understand it.

When we change perspective and see the actual patterns, simplicity follows.

Doubting yourself will not lead to any progress.

It’s not enough to read words or hear the voice. For a concept to truly resonate, it needs to go deeper. It must touch our identity and core values to become part of our Intuition.

When a word means different things to different people, it becomes useless for bringing clarity to any concept that it is part of.

Getting rid of the many wrong and/or useless micromodels copied from family, friends, and society is essential.

Reality is a Flow in time.

When is self-initiated Change possible? Only when we have the Freedom to consider it, the environment to stimulate it, and the drive to relentlessly pursue it against our inertial nature.

We shape our environment with our choices.

It’s better when things happen naturally.

Share with others and help them too. Change lives!

Quotes about Freedom

From the very important things in life, Freedom is the most invisible one.

You have nearly infinite different paths of future choices.

When Inertia and Sheep mode prevail, you forget how to dream.

Intuition comes from basic ideas and data points.

We use Freedom as the metric for success.

Many people cannot grasp the concept of Self-love.

Freedom is the number of different things you can do.

The Freedom spectrum is nearly infinite. There is a lot to fix in our world.

Only people with a certain level of Freedom can participate in making the world better at scale – the more people with the higher Freedom, the better.

Freedom is everywhere, which makes it all-important.

When you don’t mind where you go with your Love… you have found true Love. When you don’t worry if you catch the flight… you have found true wisdom. When you smile after you miss the flight… you have found true happiness. When you don’t care how much it costs… you have found true Freedom.

By inventing new stuff, we can increase Long-term Freedom for ourselves and others.

Your potential is and will always be limitless. But the journey of fulfilling more of it sooner goes via increasing your Long-term Freedom at every possible step.

Increasing your Long-term Freedom means more chances to find Self-love and Unconditional love.

Having an identity is simply being myself, being one of a kind.

The more you experience, the more uniquely you can remix and the more diverse value you can add to the world.

This is the true Meaning of diversity – a diversity of ideas.

Sometimes it’s faster and more creative to go around a small challenge.

If you limit yourself to what your broad group usually does, you will not end up in special places, have interesting ideas, or earn more money.

You have too few lives to make them boring and predictable.

Humans cannot survive alone and are a highly cooperative species. Trust is of extreme importance for this.

When we don’t feel we belong to a group, we feel anxiety, feel overloaded with responsibility and lost. We may also feel like we haven’t found our purpose in life. But after a few years you’ll stop noticing it, becoming more resilient, confident and wiser.

Having a changing identity is not a bug. It’s a feature.

Living with no defining life story is a serious psychological challenge. But you will inevitably write down your own.

The story of writing down your life story will become your life story.

The danger of identities, stories, and Boxes. is that it is not so easy to leave them behind. They limit our Long-term Freedom much more than we realize.

If your ancestors were treated cruelly and unfairly, it’s a story we must remember and that must never ever repeat. But it’s not yours. It’s in the past. You still have the ocean.

When you fight for your Long-term Freedom, being a victim-as-part-of-a-group is no longer an option, even if this is a popular narrative in your group.

When you fight for the Long-term Freedom of others, you’re a hero by definition.

Fighting for the Long-term Freedom of others is the most noble identity. I wish it becomes yours.

The simple Truth is that everyone is an Entrepreneur in a way.

There are companies and companies, but neither can provide security in a Job.

Companies don’t care about you, they are just systems.

You’re responsible for your own future.

The world is changing fast, and you need speed and adaptability, not a supporting structure that might be gone next year.

Whether you like it or not, even if you’re working a day job, you will eventually have the same challenges as an Entrepreneur. The quicker you stop running away from them, the better. The best is just to admit you’re an Entrepreneur already.

Consider more options more often. This is what Freedom actually is – options.

Living at a faster pace without losing it is a skill much more forgotten than impossible. It’s definitely one anyone can master.

A stone age human who almost gets eaten by a sabretooth tiger handles the stress of fast-changing events better than a modern human who has a panic attack for having no rest between two Zoom calls.

Entrepreneurs do not suffer from mental health problems because of speed. Speed is what is holding them together when everything else is uncertain.

Too much is not always bad – you probably just had too much of the wrong things.

Quotes about Time understanding

People who never have enough time are fed the delusion that the solution is time management skills.

What is Time management skills? When a toddler learns to walk, do we call this… space management skills!?

To manage time is to try to manage a huge river you’re swimming in. It not only doesn’t work, it’s conceptually impossible.

Time management is a way to say Life management. And Life management is hard, unnatural, exhausting, impossible to fully achieve, creates expectations, and decreases happiness.

Things just happen, and happen mostly great when you give up control, when you stop managing your life.

With time management we pursue something we don’t need… but also structurally in the wrong way… and we call it by the wrong name.

Never expect a direct effort to control to have a high Success rate – people will resist… because we all feel the importance of adaptability for survival and prefer to keep our options open.

When I see how much time most people spend having fake fun on screens, compared to innovating in the golden age of innovation, travelling our beautiful world, or meeting people, I don’t think we’re having much progress on priorities…

A productive state of Flow can only happen while you’re in Hunter mode. And for this to happen, you have to minimize Self-pressure. This means the least possible to-do lists, reminders, apps, phone, and distractions in general.

Management in general does not increase productivity, the opposite, autonomy, does – including from yourself.

You’re not in a race against time. Time is and will always be your ally.

If you were a factory, you would need time management. But you’re not.

You’re in a constant fight with inertia, and the only way to sometimes win is to be unpredictable, including to yourself.

A factory has limited potential, and it maximizes it through Goals. But you have unlimited potential, and goals just get in the way of accomplishing it.

When the tides are turning, if you have Intuition, you’re Apple, and if you have the spreadsheets, you’re Nokia.

Intuition is just so much more evolutionary mature and powerful than logic that every complex task that can be handled intuitively, should be.

On a personal level, logic will fail most people most of the time.

We need more investors who feel when to say no.

If I say “7 minutes”, you should have an intuitive answer about what you can do that takes exactly 7 minutes. No one even bothered to tell us this skill exists, so we can work on it.

If you go to University, in most majors you sacrifice real-life experience to attend a game-like life simulation. So this is usually a bad time investment, compared to Entrepreneurship.

Only among Entrepreneurs and freelancers have I ever found people with developed time Intuition.

The 9-to-5 workweek is very detrimental to feeling time. It makes this skill seem unimportant to your brain. On the other hand, if you manage your time alone with no support structure, you gradually start to feel it.

Spending an hour watching 120 videos, about 30 seconds each, has no evolutionary parallel.

The brain is very adaptive, but the idea of adaptation is to stick at least for a while.

The more Time understanding you have, the harder it is to be ok with clueless systems wasting time and disregarding natural rhythm.

We deserve a smoother experience, and we should fight for it when possible.

Time understanding will help you feel how your life develops in time. Life will no longer be a static picture of the present, the memories of the past and the thoughts about the future. It will feel a bit more like a continuum and more wholesome.

With Time understanding you will feel when something is too fast, too slow, or too repetitive. It’s like a whole new level of consciousness that keeps you time-healthy.

Religions are a narrow, desperate path to Spirituality, where you give up and outsource it to another entity, one that imposes rules on you, something which hurts your spiritual Intuition.

Time Management is a narrow, desperate path to Time Understanding, when you give up and outsource it to another entity, one that imposes rules on you, something which hurts your time Intuition.

Your logical brain does not trust your intuitive brain, and they cannot work together on any mission. So the moment you start relying on rules, your Intuition goes to sleep.

Build concepts rather than rules!

Constantly learn and adapt.

It’s of paramount importance to ask others the “Time question”: “What do you do all day?” until you have developed your Time Intuition.

Some of your time is so beautiful that it’s no longer quantifiable. The moments that take your breath away, the moments you’ll never forget.

Short-term money is one of the hardest things to earn in life. If I tell you to just make $1000 over the next hour, it’s borderline impossible. But if I ask you to learn something in this hour that will likely bring you +$1000 over the rest of your life, you have thousands of good options. So it’s very easy to earn future money.

The dance in time between hard money today and easy future money is what you need to develop an Intuition about.

Aim very high and not just in monetary terms, but for everything! The higher you aim, the more only the best ideas stay in your option pool.

When you find a good option, the stars will align in your favor – otherwise, it’s not actually good.

Don’t buy the myth that the economy is perfectly balanced and every opportunity is saturated proportionally to its potential.

When possible, simplify things.

Value your time highly in cash, but also be ready and happy to completely donate it when educating yourself, giving back, or finding Meaning.

If you always quit everything boring immediately, you’ll never do boring stuff. Which means you’ll always do different and interesting stuff and build an Intuition … while your peers are still in higher education, cramming.

Quitting is connected to the main defensive skill you need in your life: to say “no” to opportunities or people.

Don’t judge the time value of the past – never obsess about having wasted any single period of time. No pressure on single periods – it’s the repeating stuff that makes up the big picture.

Priceless time always has complete priority.

When something no longer feels a worthy time investment, quit immediately. Learn to say “no” and don’t dwell on the past.

The brain never turns off. If you have to write an email you have already composed in your head, the brain will float elsewhere to search for something more interesting to think about.

In time, Freedom helps you find more Freedom, and money helps you earn more money.

Never be afraid to start from scratch – if the path feels right, progress starts slow but speeds up more than you can imagine.

Quotes about Social Justice

I’m afraid having a good core concept is not enough in a complicated world.

Social justice is not entirely achievable.

The world is inherently unfair.

People will never have the same opportunities.

Wealth is naturally unequal. If we try to give everyone exactly the same wealth, the only way is to make everyone poor (communism).

Opportunity is naturally unequal.

Of course, diversity has a lot of benefits and must be encouraged and invested in. Just maybe not… enforced?

When we strive for something good and unachievable, the attempt is still largely beneficial. It improves the way things are.

If our goal is to bring the number of nuclear weapons on earth down a hundred times and we achieve half our goal, it’s still a great success.

And while the world does need some radical ideas, others just lose touch with the reality of their real-life consequences.

I do believe oppressed people have the absolute right to be angry and should be, otherwise change won’t happen. No one is to blame but it’s our collective responsibility to fix it.

The language used and cancel culture are counterproductive to making actual progress.

In a classic filter bubble example, the social justice movement is somewhat unaware of how some of its loud statements and well-meant but still freedom-reducing actions look to people outside the movement.

Wealth is largely generational.

To talk about modern white people being guilty of slavery is insane.

Guilt is not a helpful emotion and should never be invoked.

If you want something to happen, give it the best possible name. Not one that will divide people, provide it with one that would unite them.

The social justice movement is just terrible at branding and thus also terrible at uniting people, leading instead to division and more right-wing extremism.

No one except dictators ever had the rare luxury of not having to be diplomatic.

Ideas are only as good for actual change as our expression of these ideas.

If we ask about Money, the proper way is to phrase the problem and then ask “would you consider helping”… Anything more aggressive and guilt-inducing becomes counter productive. People really don’t like when we encroach on their Freedom.

Be persistent but not aggressive.

There is a line you better not cross, or you lose your listener.

We’re not judging a person here or even a group of people. We’re judging a system of people, beliefs and actions.

We have clearly lost common ground and language. And Social Justice is one of the major driving factors for this.

The uncompromising nature of the Social Justice movement comes from its obsession with equality. It reminds me of the just as unhealthy obsession of right-wing / religious / morality extremists with purity. Striving for full equality is in a way striving for purity. And purity in a messy world just doesn’t exist.

Entitlement will not find you allies. It breeds enemies.

The canceled person is… well, canceled. They will not change their views just because the world tells them to. Probably the opposite.

The canceled people form weird support communities where radicalization is inevitable.

Canceling is not dialogue. It’s merciless destruction.

Today, on this very day, scientists will find but not share actual findings because they are not culturally acceptable. It’s no longer science if you’re not allowed to share any logical conclusion of your research.

The last thing we need is identity politics pressure on the process of finding the Truth.

Just let science be Science and get out of its way.

So cancelling people is bad… but do you know what is a very similar and actually great idea? Canceling companies.

Companies are not people and can be hurt without it being immoral; If they fail, others will take their place.

Unethical companies or ones with very bad products / services should not exist. Destroy them!

Polarization is directly hurting society, but is also damaging the mental health of the radicalized so we can be sure that they will suffer, make others suffer too and become more polarized in time.

The information war in a divided world can no longer be won for any side, just lost for all of humanity. The only path forward is searching for and finding common ground.

The thoughts and words we use seep into our culture and have a power of their own.

People are not one-dimensional, and their character is not set in stone. Even if I think that Jeff Bezos is not nice and would probably never be, why take away the small chance for a positive change in a human?

Fair critique for acting like a dick is well deserved, but there is never any practical upside to the emotion of hating a human being. Big companies, however, are nothing to feel sorry for, especially monopolies with a proven track record of ruining lives.

If they deserve it, hit them hard. And due to their responsibility to their shareholders, companies can actually change rules and practices quite fast if downfall is on the wall.

People don’t develop empathy under hate. But companies develop better rules and practices under scrutiny.

Some industries are evil by nature and structure.

So if you want to contribute to wealth inequality, the best way is to… become part of the problem. If you’re wealthy, you have the means (time, resources, money to divest) to fight wealth inequality.

If you really mean well, it’s moral to become rich, as long as you’re committed to spending your wealth in ways beneficial to others.

I self-identify as a feminist and have learned to see past my male privilege how society pressures women in profoundly unfair ways.

Women have less self-esteem in a trust-based, Bullshit-tolerant world where the ignorant person who boldly claims to be able to handle a project is chosen over the quiet person who actually can handle it… but doesn’t apply due to self-doubts.

Women are disproportionately affected by the huge but hidden fear of being a bad person.

Every man and woman has unlimited potential.

We all achieve a tiny part of what we could achieve if we could make the right choices regarding what brings and keeps Hunter mode.

If we could change and improve and learn every day, we have such a huge unfair advantage over other people who are stuck 99% of the time that becoming wealthy and successful would be a zero-effort side effect of our life.

Life is never fair. What we choose to do with unfair situations and how we react to them is the most important thing.

I am thankful for some cases when I have been treated unfairly because it opened my eyes about what I want and how the world works.

Life always has options. Complaining (even when completely justified) distracts you from searching for options.

I’ll say the political, cultural and religious systems built by men are at fault for history.

Women are more empathetic in general and can be great leaders.

Blaming modern men for all past wrongs is not a good path forward.

Blame is not constructive, even when deserved.

Men are quite ignorant about many of the challenges women face and need to hear about them from their loved ones in an emotional and personal way. Then they will understand.

Let’s fully accept our responsibilities of the present but try not to assign blame for a past not built by us.

Extreme public messaging only makes the problems worse.

The upbringing teaches girls to be more moral than experimental and more cautious rather than brave. It’s a problem of clueless parents passing their Fears and Sheep mode mentality to their kids and more to the girls than the boys.

We need a much better Education system that stimulates Freedom, not conformity.

This is not a fair mix of solutions. But we’re not the Social Justice Movement here. We’re the Make it Better Movement.

Gender equality is seriously flawed (mainly by men) and we can’t have justice and Progress at the same time. And I choose progress, because women are amazing and they deserve it.

Humans biologically have higher Trust in individuals that look and behave like them.

Almost all white people have at least some implicit bias, so even well-meaning people can make racially motivated decisions.

Wealth and opportunity are not equal for white vs other people. Although the world is naturally unequal, the color of someone’s skin should definitely not be the deciding factor.

If you have free time and want to mentor someone young, why not choose a person disadvantaged by race? This makes also sure your implicit bias is overridden.

Creating any rule based on affirmative action is a powder keg. You may expect people to understand but being on the losing side of even a small injustice (or a perceived one) reveals a very dark, primitive side in almost all human beings. Anger, when treated unfairly, is built into us at such a deep biological level that even monkeys show the same behavior in experiments. You cannot change biology. You can only listen to it.

You cannot solve a millennia-old cultural problem with a simple rule like a quota and not expect any collateral damage. This is not how the world works.

Any affirmative action that goes beyond racial discrimination prevention makes white people very angry.

Reality doesn’t care about moral high grounds. It always returns to slap purists in the face.

Angry people benefit no one and certainly not the group their anger is focused on. I’m sure we can do better.

We just lose too much of our collective social capital for a small potential gain. So let’s stop doing it.

The place for brave affirmative action is in our private decisions, not public policy.

Total fairness does not exist.

Color-blindness is a slow approach which means more injustice will be experienced in time. But I prefer to get there in the end and not risk making everything worse.

Tens of millions of human beings had to live in Fear and hide their true feelings and identity just because they were different in just one of the many regards of human life. A personal regard which shouldn’t really concern others at all.

Love is a good bridge for empathy between people.

Learning that gay people exist won’t make a single straight kid gay. This is not how it works.

When did you choose to be straight? Exactly.

And who would choose to be gay if it was a choice? Harder life, discrimination, hate and reducing the pool of your potential partners 20 times… for what upside? People are irrational, but not that much.

Just bring all the empathy you have to the table and get to know individual people. You’ll find out they are just people like you and me.

Having to walk on eggshells in everyday conversations contributes to everyone’s anxiety in an already anxious world.

If you force 99% of the population to make any effort so 1% of the population don’t accidentally get their feelings hurt by a word that is not offensive or intentional, trust me, you’re playing with social fire.

Let’s have perspective and use our energy and resources where they are most desperately needed.

Let creators create art. Art cannot be planned and any type of pressure on it is extremely damaging.

We should strive to relieve art from political pressure.

Massive social unrest is one of the most serious threats to humanity.

A growing number of people are so angry in their filter bubble that they want to see the world burn.

In terms of ideas, rights and the fight for spreading information and getting attention, Social Justice is making a lot of progress. But this comes at the price of radicalization of the ones we blame or leave behind.

Many white men have the dangerous feeling of being cornered and attacked from all directions.

Reality has to be more important than equality in its impossibly pure form.

Let reality guide us.

Twitter and other short-form environments are structurally divisive and attract many trolls of the worst kind.

Every time before you post, ask yourself three questions: Am I at least 99% certain my post is objectively true? Does this post add valuable ideas or insights? Will this post have a uniting effect on society?

Society cannot handle more division. If you want to be a trailblazer, be a uniting one. We need them. We need you!

Quotes about University

We need some form of schools, even if the current form is so bad that it has to be destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up.

Inertia drives every one of us into a trajectory towards default choices we know are wrong.

Grotesque experiences in life have their value.

University is just another old system that looks to preserve itself more than anything.

University is old both as a concept and as an individual institution. The world today changes much faster than it can follow.

School is more like a game to get good grades and be popular, it’s nothing like life.

If you have a great idea, it’s best to have it in a small group of trusted people.

Sometimes in life, you have to take a step back in order to thrust forward at maximum speed.

The things that attract money the most are not ideas but existing money (capital) and the experience of actually making money in the free market.

Just ask a million questions, enough before you waste 4 years of your professional life and a ton of money at a parody university like I wasted 2 of mine.

Every university has a nice building and website and boasts about being amazing. But most are just hollow shells full of Bullshit.

It’s people and culture that make the difference!

In the end, it turns out that the university choice will be a disaster in most cases.

If you’re planning to study medicine, you have my full support. Questions about Freedom, money, and return on investment are irrelevant if you want to save lives. I can only give you my total respect. And we should make sure, as a society, you’re well rewarded for being a hero.

Money is a Religion for most people. They spend more than half their lives securing it. In these 4 years after high school, most of them collectively go financially crazy.

It’s not the best system, but it works more or less, and if it works, don’t touch it, as too many things are much more broken.

When I quit university, I took full responsibility and felt like a grown-up for the first time.

Responsibility is extremely important for us and our participation in society. The more of it, the better.

You can start helping at 20. Hell, if you’re Greta, you can start at 15.

The best time to do something of value is always now.

In most cases, the best teacher is looking at you in the mirror.

Let Love and Chaos lead the way.

You’re already free, you just may not know it yet.

Quotes about Numbers

Numbers govern the modern world.

We never had the time and possibilities to develop an Intuition about numbers.

All of mathematics is based on abstraction. It’s simple – the abstract object represents a real object.

The goal of the education system is to prepare you to be an academic, not to understand life or be happy.

It’s never too late to learn, even from scratch.

Life is full of situations when numbers are all around, but the real challenge is not to count or do mathematical operations with them. It’s to understand the abstraction, to understand what they represent and what the context is.

Numbers don’t bring sustainable long-term Happiness.

Numbers can cause positive emotions, but not sustain them.

Numbers can bring you long-term unhappiness.

Numbers can cause negative emotions and sustain them.

Humans are preprogrammed to always want more, including, unfortunately, from the past.

A big danger about numbers is that they are easy to compare and lead to one of the most toxic human emotions, one that can destroy whole societies, envy.

The amount of rich people who manage to fuck up their life is very significant.

We’re not robots; everything affects us.

Over the long run, numbers seem to be detrimental to our emotional state significantly more than helping it.

The more emotional you are, the more you load up your future with Expectations. And those expectations will lower your happiness when you crash with reality.

Systems control and ask for Money, reducing your Freedom.

Avoid number-related emotions, don’t give them space, don’t give them time, don’t give them reasons.

Often, it’s not possible not to know. Then you move to plan B: not care!

The more you care about numbers, the less attention will be left to give about the really important stuff in life.

You have to love numbers as a concept, explore them, just not care about… your numbers? This is extremely counterintuitive and is the reason why almost everyone gets this delicate balance wrong.

Truth deserves Love by itself. And numbers are part of the Truth. So dig in.

If the number represents another number(s), then it’s Game of Life stuff, and you can dive in as your emotions are not in danger.

Pricing your product or service is an inflection point between demand and supply (both numbers) and your confidence and self-worth.

Never be afraid to price high. Or even crazy high. Or having vastly different prices for different clients.

Humans are extraordinarily bad at consciously developing their Intuition about numbers.

Use numbers when talking about probabilities! Do this for a year, see when you’re consistently very wrong, adapt your guesses, and your brain will develop a probability Intuition.

A key characteristic of financially successful people and entrepreneurs is they love being specific about numbers. They like to ask the key number question: How much?

Everyone who talks straight facts is instantly respected (at least in the environment you would want to be in).

Numbers belong in the mind. Feelings belong in the heart. Don’t mix them.

Love your Freedom. Let the heart help the mind earn the money to make it happen.

Quotes about Discipline

The hardest thing in your life is Change.

If you could achieve Growth every day, nothing would be impossible.

The only way to win against Inertia is to have Creativity and heart.

Discipline can only help you achieve the possible. Creativity can help you achieve the impossible.

Your inner wiring is always calling for Inertia.

Discipline can be the result, but never the reason for creating anything of true value. Rules cannot create. They can only govern what is already in existence.

Love and Freedom and their forms are the only creative forces in humans. Rules don’t add Love and decrease Freedom.

Discipline can’t really create new Motivation. You can only use it to try to hold on to the one you already have. But then you virtually give up creativity because you commit to rules instead. And creativity is what creates new motivation.

If you don’t really enjoy it, it won’t stick. And if you enjoy it, it’s not a matter of discipline. It’s a matter of Freedom to do what you already enjoy.

Discipline is admitting your losing trajectory but delaying the loss itself. It’s guaranteed anti-growth.

In the battle for Personal growth, you’ll always be the underdog. But you’re also the commander. Make sure in the rare chances you get to actually Change, press the temporary advantage home to an actual win, as big as possible. Commit everything and command like a winner.

Discipline is useless unless dealing with potential critical failures.

We don’t need discipline for anything that has the potential to be fun or rewarding.

While building my company I was just having creative fun much of the time and the inevitable boring parts had the comforting feeling of making Money in real time. I know money equals progress and Freedom, so that’s an OK deal.

So where do you really maybe need discipline? I can only think of one area: Caring for your health.

The really good leader takes even half a chance.

Quotes about Education

The education system is a relic, it has to be destroyed and completely rebuilt.

I was a near-excellent student. I had decent teachers. I have a good memory. Then why do I remember next to nothing from School?

Nothing really important about life is taught in school.

We learn many more facts than we need. Facts are learned and forgotten.

No one teaches us how to deal with feelings, emotions, and our internal world.

The number one priority for any educational system should be fostering a supportive atmosphere where children care for each other until they grow up and enter free-of-oversight life with an open heart, honest thoughts, and an emotionally intelligent mind.

Feelings can not be excluded from school. Kids and teenagers still carry them. A system ignoring and suppressing feelings is psychologically damaging.

Love and Freedom are the building blocks for the good in life.

The aspiration for Truth, which is the basis for Science and education, cannot even be understood if you lack Love or understanding of why Freedom is important.

Freedom means only the rules the students agree with, period. Give them a blank rulebook and let them write. There is no other way if you want decent engagement later.

No smartphones in school under 16. Thus no support for social media. We have to destroy the current addiction model.

School should not begin before 9:00, period.

No religious or political subjects. Most kids and adolescents don’t have critical thinking developed yet, so this principle is needed to protect against their manipulation and indoctrination in questionable belief systems.

Schools make one very wrong wishful thinking assumption about students: That they are all already motivated to learn. While in fact, creating the conditions for this Motivation is their main Job.

Simplicity is underrated.

Humans are wrong most of the time whether they admit it or not.

When we accept mediocre educational systems, we accept mediocrity for the whole world, for life. And this is absolutely unacceptable.

Quotes about Inertia

Every inaction is an action, in favor of Inertia.

We need inspiration and Motivation to overcome resistance and start making changes.

The natural enemies of inertia are Love and Chaos.

Inertia is driven by fears.

Self-love is key because it makes you feel you deserve the best for yourself.

Without Self-love, everything has a shaky foundation.

I think that it’s inevitable that you hurt some people’s feelings sometimes.

What keeps people feeling stuck in life is the question of merit – whether they’re good enough and worthy enough of a reward.

The world is mostly random.

Some people work hard and get nothing, others get good stuff because of their genes, place of birth, or pure luck.

Fairness is a human concept the universe simply does not support.

Our upbringing, the Education system, and popular cliches feed faulty beliefs that sadly make us miss the amazing, random opportunities of life.

If you want the world to be more fair (which it needs to be), just share most or all of the good stuff. And you’re a hero.

Expectation almost always fail due to simple math.

If you focus on the Game of Self too much you lose touch with Reality.

The more stuff that happens in the Game of Life, the more your Game of Self has dynamics and material for positive Change. This also reduces the pressure and anxiety that may come from focusing solely on your Game of Self and not progressing in it, triggering downward spirals.

Falling in Love has the power to replace your regular brain with a superpower mind that sees itself capable of any Change.

The addictions that create the possibility for positive Change, contrary to harmful addictions (drugs, alcohol, food, etc), are mental drugs.

Inertia is part of every single life.

Quotes about Life

Mixing up the self and reality parts together is often paralyzing and can be the main reason people get stuck in life.

No matter how good we think we are at predicting, reality always manages to surprise us.

Everyone else is just the same mess, don’t worry!

Any analysis of yourself is drawing a picture of a picture.

Expectations are like drawing a picture of something you’ve never seen.

Ditch your expectations, especially about other people!

If you do manage to fulfill your expectations often, there is a risk that you’ve become narrow-minded.

Analysis of others’ past thoughts is a picture of a picture of a picture.

People’s feelings, thoughts, and motivations are changing, fluid, and impossible for us to know for sure.

Thinking about what others think about you is painting a picture of a picture. It’s the hell.

Our genes evolved to blend in at all costs so we’re not kicked out of the group. This is why it takes so much effort to be a nonconformist.

It’s always a good idea to be braver and care less about other people’s opinions of you.

The disconnection from reality means failing in the Game of Life.

Truth is not a priority for your emotions and  science has long found there is no defense mechanism in your brain against believing in any amount of Bullshit for the rest of your life!

A crash strengthens the Game of Self and lets it Change.

Failure shows Progress just as much as Success does, because outside these two, there is only inertia.

Sharing your time or money with others is a powerful tool that enhances both your internal and external world.

Dedicate your efforts in the Game of Life to serving others.

If you’re always looking for concrete results, you will often end up disappointed.

Let Change be the new normal.

Quotes about Morality

In I Grow Younger, we value Love and Freedom above all else.

The point is never to get stuck on moral grounds.

Taking things out of context is a human “superpower”.

One of the I Grow Younger principles is expanding the possibilities as much as possible.

Long-term planning makes us miss the random opportunities in life. It also doesn’t really work because of our lack of control.

As making people happy makes us happy too, this is a win-win approach for everyone.

Scaling is impossible without small pockets of harm done, without feelings getting hurt.

The bell curve always dips into insanity at the fringes, given enough subjects.

Almost every famous person receives death threats.

It’s simply inevitable to scale and not hurt a single person’s feelings. The important thing is how many people did you make happy? How many did you inspire?

The more Freedom in life you have, the more of your choices will be about what to create and how to help. The less Freedom you have, the more the question will be about how to minimize the damage around.

Freedom is priceless. There is no morality without Freedom, because you lose your choices.

Freedom + resources + morality + luck, and you will certainly change the world for the better.

It all starts with Freedom.

Life is not predictable. In order to actually help, we need to try and constantly improve on those predictions.

Did your actions improve someone’s Freedom? You helped long-term; in fact, you changed a life.

You’re just one person. You can only generate so much happiness. The real deal is when you empower others to do the same.

Tyrants are not evil because they are free. They are evil because they had sacrificed Freedom of choice.

Freedom is not a result. It’s a requirement for not self-destructing. It’s the most basic human right.

Freedoms internal enemy number one is the completely artificial concept of purity (being always moral).

The burden of being “moral” has always been used by the political and religious establishment to judge and suppress the poor and marginalized.

Morality was often an excuse to use violence.

Moral people are born with the empathy and honesty to lead nations, only to end up as bystanders most of the time. They can’t realize their huge leadership potential, leaving control of the world’s political and financial systems to bad guys.

In reality, the largest obstacles society faces are not the systems; it’s the Game of Self stuff. People have endless potential, but don’t fulfill it.

Intentions matter.

Bad things come in two forms simultaneously. The bad thing itself and the fear of it happening.

The more internal the fear is, the more it’s at its highest power when we have never experienced the fear’s source.

The constant striving for control gradually leads to Sheep mode.

Scaling involves other people and the non-zero chance of failing them.

There are no good fears.

if you want to get elected, you tell people what they want to hear and omit some unpleasant truths.

Trust your future self.

Real life is incredibly messy and often does not support purity at all! And when it’s achievable, it’s always at the cost of scale.

The largest unused resource for world Change is the quiet, well-meaning, moral people afraid of their own power and the Change it might bring in their lives.