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Recent content by Thurlam

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    In search of motivated people (develop skills together)

    MEETUPS 
    All right, I'll definitely do that then. Admittedly I've hardly worked out a day in my life, so this seems like very helpful advice. Thank you.
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    In search of motivated people (develop skills together)

    MEETUPS 
    Yeah, it's called learned helplessness. I've been trying my best (with as much of an optimistic mindset as I can muster) for the past 2 years now and have made roughly 0 progress. Negative progress, even, since now I have less money and less time. I think it's reasonable to come to the...
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    In search of motivated people (develop skills together)

    MEETUPS 
    but...how though? I literally cannot figure out how to find progress-oriented people outside of this forum. And that's not exactly surrounding myself with them either, I think I need real people IRL. And mastering the skill of self-motivation is a whole lot easier said than done, it's like...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    I have been struggling with this concept myself. I have a CS degree and am currently reading CA$HVERTISING while trying to figure out how to proceed. Both skills are clearly quite valuable. But I agree with the assessment that to actually be competent enough at coding you really need to have...
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    Newsflash: Fastlane is your only hope. Not stocks. Not Crypto. Not jobs.

    GOLD! HOT! MINDSET 
    Kind of sounds like action-faking to me...you might just keep waiting forever with that attitude. At some point you gotta make your own opportunities.
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    Newsflash: Fastlane is your only hope. Not stocks. Not Crypto. Not jobs.

    GOLD! HOT! MINDSET 
    'only true method' and 'your best bet' are kind of different statements to be making. I agree with the latter, but not the former. the fact remains that there are other ways to amass vast quantities of wealth. stocks & options? it's possible, given a good chunk of starting capital. just look at...
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    The Internet is broken ... can we still win?

    HOT! MINDSET SOCIAL MEDIA 
    This. 'The rich get richer' is nothing new. but nearly all the big content distribution/social media platforms actually have an incentive to help out smaller creators, since their engine of growth relies on ensuring their platform is as engaging as possible to their users; turns out that while...
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    Dead-End Sh*t Jobs ... Yours?

    NOTABLE! 
    this is prolly a big part of my problem honestly, I haven't had much in the way of shit jobs since I haven't worked much at all. seems like I missed out on building a lot of character. the only jobs I ever actually had to work at (I don't count my college 'work-study' things since they were...
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    Creating a Thriving Personal Brand w/ YouTube - A Journal & A Personal Guide.

    GOLD! HOT! 
    hot damn, wasn't expecting this thread to be by the guy who got me into MJ's books in the first place, and whose content I've already consumed all of. fascinating read, and very impressive work. I still have to give you a lot of the credit for the relatively recent radical shift in my mentality...
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    The Great Rat-Race Escape by MJ DeMarco, Now Available (All formats!)

    HOT! 
    oh baby, a triple! if I'm being perfectly honest I probably shouldn't read this book since I've already read MJ's other two and I strongly doubt there's going to be a ton of new actionable info, meaning reading this would for me basically just be another form of action-faking and...
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    "My life became richer the day I stopped chasing passive income"

    yeah that line in particular stuck me as asinine. like uhhhhhh maybe because you need money to do that? my version of 'do whatever I want' does not include actively trying to make money. that's work. it's possible after achieving financial freedom I might still want to pursue a profitable...
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    "My life became richer the day I stopped chasing passive income"

    yeah, this doesn't dissuade me at all. the problems described in this article are all problems I would be thrilled to have.
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    HOW DO I SERIOUSLY GIVE UP GAMING

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    yeah, I lost a decade to video games, if not more. 28 now, spent basically all my adult life engaged in hedonistic dopamine-chasing at any chance I could, which meant (among a few other things) a whole lot of video games. worth noting that these days the most profitable games are the...
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    Launched SaaS, $5K MRR, on the road to FASTLANE, at 22 y.o.

    EXECUTION SAAS / APPS 
    wow, this puts into perspective how much I gotta get my shit together. I secured a degree in computer science half a decade ago (and I considered myself reasonably talented at it), but due to reasons I basically stopped doing any coding since then, and as a result I definitely couldn't pull off...
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    I've Read UNSCRIPTED!

    GOLD! HOT! 
    confirmed read
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