Thread - The most dangerous threat to a man's potential is his fried dopamine receptors:

I'll be talking about a problem that most of us deal with in the modern world.

Dopamine imbalance.

I'll be sharing insights and actionable advice that I personally used that have helped deal with this problem.

But first, let us dive into the problem itself.

"Why cook a healthy meal when I can just Uber Eats?"

"Why go meet girls and have real sex when I can just jerk it to porn?"

"Why do meaningful work when I can just hop on social media, create "content" and get validation in form of likes/retweets?"

"Why level up in life, when I can just hop on Runescape and get to level 99 in all skills?"

Now, logically speaking, these questions make no sense.

The reasons as to why you'd do the first instead of the second are obvious...

But, your brain works backward.

The only question your brain asks is "How can I satisfy this desire as quickly as possible with the least effort possible?"

THREAD - 10 lessons I learned the hard way over the past year

On entrepreneurship, relationships and personal transformation:

his past year has been wild for me

By this time last year, I was a Portuguese 9 to 5 wagie working in a cubicle 9 hours a day for €650 a month

These days I make +10x that on the Internet

There have been ups and downs

Wins and losses

But some very valuable lessons learned along the way

I’ll now share these with you in hopes you can make some practical use out of them

Enjoy

1 - It’s supposed to be “hard”

The first lesson that I learned on this journey that ironically made everything else easier

Look

Any fulfilling, meaningful venture you pursue will be intense

It’s supposed to be

It’s intense for everyone

It’s something that’s not exclusive to you

You’re not special

Nobody is

“Hard” or “intense” is what makes gives life to life

“Hard” is necessary for you to push through your own barriers and evolve as a human

Thread - When in doubt, just move

In this thread, I'll discuss one of the major issues I had a couple of years back.

The issue of staying still when there's no reason to.

The issue of not actively doing something and thinking I could think my way out of problems.

Let's get into it.

I've always been thinking too much for my own sake.

I like to break down complex ideas, look at them from a bird's eye standpoint.

This is cool, but only to a certain extent.

It starts being very problematic when it comes to practicality.

What would happen is, every time I came around a roadblock, I would try to think harder (thinking that it would lead me to a solution)

It doesn't.

All it happened was I was left feeling more overwhelmed and with no answers.

This is what I would call "Living life passively."

When I look at unhappy people, there's usually a common denominator in them.

They're letting life happen to them.

They've settled for the "comfy" job, for the "stable" relationship, or they just straight-up haven't achieved jack shit and yet they don't do anything about it.