Go to bed early and get up early. Staying awake while tired will make you feel more tired and irritable the next day. It’s almost never worth it to stay up late watching t.v. or getting extra work done. You’ll be more efficient if you start your day earlier and…

What “everyone else” is doing is not relevant. Unless they’re all doing the right thing. The fact that everyone is doing it is not evidence that it’s the right thing, because people often mimic one another without thinking things through. If you do what average people are doing, you’ll get…

Don’t be afraid of what other people think of you. It doesn’t mean they are right. Life will continue for you, regardless of what others think of you. There will always be someone who doesn’t like you or doesn’t agree with you. If you change because of one person’s opinion…

Below are my notes from a book called, Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data To Get What You Really Want In Life. It’s not a comprehensive summary of the book, just some things that stood out to me and that I wanted to remember. …

Life can’t always be about getting somewhere. At some point it has to be about now. At some point now has to be okay. …

It’s easy to forget who you really are and what’s truly important to you if you’re spending all your time with other people. We’re not only influenced by the opinions and actions of others, we also pretend to be something we’re not in order to fit in or to dominate. …

-Investing doesn’t need to be a full-time job. If you’re doing it right, it doesn’t require daily attention. A lot of work is needed in the beginning to educate yourself. After that it’s largely a waiting game, which involves checking in once in awhile to see how things are going…

We grow up in a system that trains us to be cogs in an industrial wheel. There are many positives to this, but there are also drawbacks. And those who don’t want to be part of the wheel either become rebellious in a positive way or rebellious in a negative…

A sure way to waste you life away is to live a lifestyle that requires you to enter a profession you hate. We get into professions we hate in order to buy things we don’t need, so we can impress people who don’t really give a crap about us. …