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"Saturation", "hardness", "impossibility".

You probably heard that something is hard,
saturated or impossible.

All the people who say such things omit one crucial part:
"easy" or "handed to them".

It's "easy re investing" with OPM that might be hard.
Its "easy drop-shipping" that might be saturated.


Basically, people cut everything short because
if something is not handed on a silver platter
to them then its impossible.

Thanks to @DropshipGodx for sharing his journey
 

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Student: 2+2=4
Teacher: That's racist!
Student: 2+2=5
Teacher: Now you are starting to understand
 

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"Saturation", "hardness", "impossibility".

You probably heard that something is hard,
saturated or impossible.

All the people who say such things omit one crucial part:
"easy" or "handed to them".

It's "easy re investing" with OPM that might be hard.
Its "easy drop-shipping" that might be saturated.


Basically, people cut everything short because
if something is not handed on a silver platter
to them then its impossible.

Thanks to @DropshipGodx for sharing his journey
Yes sir I think road to success may not be easy and Happy for you but it will definitely be fulfilling :). Nothing comes easy you have to get out of your comfort zone and not be afraid of failing :)
 

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"Hey my vaxinated, mask-wearing friends, did you get that soy tofu I sent you?"

Unless you want me to actively moderate this thread (and this forum) to eliminate all the vegan propaganda you continue to post (and the others) I'm going to suggest you (and the rest) STOP.

I'm not going to read this crap on MY FORUM.

If I want pro-murder, anti-vegan propaganda, I don't have to go far to find it -- and I'm certainly not going to be assaulted with it on a forum that I spent ten years cultivating.

BTW, Bill Gates doesn't represent me or other vegans. Nice strawman.

For someone who NEVER stepped foot in a gym, his body looks exactly as I would expect it.

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See, I can post generalized nonsense too.

I supposed I could post photos of vegan bodybuilders, but what would be the point as I'm sure that would be dismissed.

I supposed I can reverse engineer "beef" from birth, to pasture, to slaughter truck, to slaughterhouse, but I have respect for what this forum represents. It appears asking my forum friends for that same respect is impossible to ask for. If that continues, I will simply start deleting the posts.

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I'm sure you don't want this forum filled with pro-vegan posts and memes (which I've diligently tried to keep quarantined to its own thread), so I'd appreciate the rest of you would follow the same decorum.

If not, Ill make it happen.

This will be my only post on this topic.
 

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Unless you want me to actively moderate this thread (and this forum) to eliminate all the vegan propaganda you continue to post (and the others) I'm going to suggest you (and the rest) STOP.

I'm not going to read this crap on MY FORUM.

If I want pro-murder, anti-vegan propaganda, I don't have to go far to find it -- and I'm certainly not going to be assaulted with it on a forum that I spent ten years cultivating.

BTW, Bill Gates doesn't represent me or other vegans. Nice strawman.

For someone who NEVER stepped foot in a gym, his body looks exactly as I would expect it.

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See, I can post generalized nonsense too.

I supposed I could post photos of vegan bodybuilders, but what would be the point as I'm sure that would be dismissed.

I supposed I can reverse engineer "beef" from birth, to pasture, to slaughter truck, to slaughterhouse, but I have respect for what this forum represents. It appears asking my forum friends for that same respect is impossible to ask for. If that continues, I will simply start deleting the posts.

View attachment 38122

I'm sure you don't want this forum filled with pro-vegan posts and memes (which I've diligently tried to keep quarantined to its own thread), so I'd appreciate the rest of you would follow the same decorum.

If not, Ill make it happen.

This will be my only post on this topic.
Apologies @MJ DeMarco , I was out of line posting that. That post and the previous on this thread have been edited. Won't happen again.
 

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Does anyone else get "creative exhaustion"?

I find if I have a highly productive day on something creative, like writing music, the next day I'm barely creative at all.

It's like my creativity takes a day to recharge.
 
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Does anyone else get "creative exhaustion"?

I find if I have a highly productive day on something creative, like writing music, the next day I'm barely creative at all.

It's like my creativity takes a day to recharge.

There's definitely a limit to how many hours you can consistently dedicate to creative work. I agree with Mark Manson in that the limit is probably around 3-4 hours a day but realistically, 1-2 hours is max unless you're a seasoned veteran (then maybe 4 hours or a little more is sustainable each day).

I spent most of the first year writing The Subtle Art with this mindset of “more = better.” As a result, looking back, I spent at least half of my working hours fixing the messes I created unnecessarily in the first place.


Eventually, after months of frustration, I began to notice that most days, everything I wrote in the first 1-2 hours was great. It needed little revision and usually fit quite well with the message I was trying to go for in the book.


Everything written between 3-4 hours was mixed. On good days, I’d produce some good content (although almost never as good as the first two hours). But on bad days, most of it wasn’t usable and I was creating more work for myself.


Pretty much everything beyond hour number four sucked. Past that, any writing I attempted had negative returns and I was strangely better off playing video games or something.
 

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Adding my two cents in this thread.



But to be sincerely honest in my humble opinion, without being sentimental, and of course, without offending anyone who thinks differently from my direction but rather looking into this serious matter with a perspective distinction and without condemning anyone's point of view, I honestly think and feel that I have nothing to say.
 

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Adding my two cents in this thread.



But to be sincerely honest in my humble opinion, without being sentimental, and of course, without offending anyone who thinks differently from my direction but rather looking into this serious matter with a perspective distinction and without condemning anyone's point of view, I honestly think and feel that I have nothing to say.
Not having anything to say is the same as saying the wrong thing!
 
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The socialist energy company of Mexico keeps expanding in Texas.

They're now buying a branch of Shell in Houston.

This is bad...
 
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I think the difference between the fastlane and the slowlane really comes down to the time period of your ROI.

Slowlane is all about yearly returns, usually in the single digits. Pretty shitty unless you are already a millionaire.

Fastlane is about fast returns.

They could be 1%, 10%, 50%, or 500%, but generally the goal is to make the return MUCH faster and more frequently than once per year.

Few people understand this. You almost have to "un-learn" everything you know about investing if you want to succeed in business and/or get rich.

Oh and it shouldn't be by gambling or "day trading." I mean returns like selling a product with high turnover and a nice margin.
 
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Does anyone else get "creative exhaustion"?

I find if I have a highly productive day on something creative, like writing music, the next day I'm barely creative at all.

It's like my creativity takes a day to recharge.
I'd say I'm a highly creative person (I have written books, movies, short movies, theater plays, bits, articles, songs, poems, etc)

In a good day, I can write an article during about 7-9 hours, being in a flow state for about 3-5 hours.

Things that influence creativity:

- Mood (extreme pain or extreme happiness both enable me to be creative)
- energy
- setting
- weather
- food: being in ketosis (fasting/eating zero carb) HUGELY helps
 
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Fastlane is about fast returns.

They could be 1%, 10%, 50%, or 500%, but generally the goal is to make the return MUCH faster and more frequently than once per year.

Few people understand this. You almost have to "un-learn" everything you know about investing if you want to succeed in business and/or get rich.

Oh and it shouldn't be by gambling or "day trading." I mean returns like selling a product with high turnover and a nice margin.

In The Great Rat-Race Escape, I call this asymmetric returns. And you see this transformation in our main characters, both in theory and practice. Their light bulb turns ON when they realize that the rich are rich because they enjoy 800% returns every year, not 8% for fifty years.
 

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There's definitely a limit to how many hours you can consistently dedicate to creative work. I agree with Mark Manson in that the limit is probably around 3-4 hours a day but realistically, 1-2 hours is max unless you're a seasoned veteran (then maybe 4 hours or a little more is sustainable each day).

I've found that to be about right. After about 2 hours I start to feel it. If I'm in flow I can hit 3-4 hours but I'll feel wrecked after wards.

That's an interesting note about letting himself take the time to relax after doing his creative work. I should probably give that a go.

I'd say I'm a highly creative person (I have written books, movies, short movies, theater plays, bits, articles, songs, poems, etc)

In a good day, I can write an article during about 7-9 hours, being in a flow state for about 3-5 hours.

Things that influence creativity:

- Mood (extreme pain or extreme happiness both enable me to be creative)
- energy
- setting
- weather
- food: being in ketosis (fasting/eating zero carb) HUGELY helps

I find it depends what I'm working on. If I'm writing music, I have a limited amount of creativity. If I'm writing exercises, articles or things like that; I can do it all day, I just have to fight boredom rather than exhaustion.

Maybe it's the total lack of sunlight over the last few days starting to take its toll :happy:
 
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