Principles

things i live by.

1. bite off more than you can chew and then figure out how to chew it.
2. All real problems in your life can be solved with hustle. company running out of money? email 100 investors and raise more or make 1000 sales calls and sell more. can’t find a job? DM 100 founders, offer to work for free for 2 weeks and without a doubt you’ll have a job in literally 2 weeks. can’t find a girlfriend? ask all your friends to introduce you to every single-girl across all their circles - friends, work, gym, classes, clubs, etc. meet them all, and whoever comes off as the most interesting, ask her out. No food on the table? work an exchange shift at the bar for 2 nights and you’ll have enough money for food for the rest of the week. There is always a solution to every single problem if you’re willing to hustle. nothing changes unless you do something about it. fear is the disease, hustle is the antidote.
3. if you’re not overtly aggressive about representing yourself at what you do, nobody will take you seriously and people will just assume its not real. being vocal as hell about whatever you’re doing, no matter how cringe, is always a good thing, no matter what people say.
4. all you need is courage (balls) and urgency to act (agency), and you can move mountains.
5. “action produces information” is the single greatest piece of truth ever - no amount of thinking/planning/strategizing will ever make up for even a fraction of what action/doing-the-thing produces. all of stress/anxiety/overthinking/depression comes from spending more time thinking vs taking action.
6. its better to be a person people think ill or well of than someone nobody thinks of at all.
7. if you’re gonna do something, go all-out and all-the-way and ignore all noise until you achieve what you set out to do. have zero tolerance for excuses and bullshit, and expect nothing less than extraordinary outcomes. whatever it takes, get it done. there is no point in doing stuff half heartedly. value your time above everything else.
8. saying no more than yes is actually bad advice. when you’re young in your 20s/30s and specially when starting out with anything new (startup, job, college, new city, etc), you need to say yes to way more stuff than saying no. the broader you stretch yourself, the more surface area you build for luck to strike you.