# [[Life Lessons From The Elderly]] - Learn how to be **bored** without distraction; it's a superpower in modern society. - Cut off all energy and happiness **vampires** from your life; be ruthless about who you spend time with. - **Worrying** is wasted energy; it will never make a problem better. - **Sleep** is the best legal performance-enhancing drug on the planet. - A **goal** is a destination; the steps to attain it are your GPS—focus on the steps, not just the goal. - If someone drains your **energy**, take it as a signal not to hang around them. - The less you care about what others **think**, the more peaceful you will be. - Cherish every moment with **friends** as if it were your last. - Your diet consists of not only your **food** but also the information you take in and the friends you hang around. - Exercise is the most underutilized **anti-depressant**, and food is the most abused drug. - Spend quality time away from your **phone** daily. - A great life is lived **outside**, not in front of a screen. - Choose your habits and **vices** wisely; the older you get, the harder they are to break. - Get the most important tasks done at the beginning of the day; this is called **eating** the frog. - Invest in better **rooms**, masterminds, and conferences; this is one of the best ways to build your network. - **Choosing** your partner in life is the most important decision; avoid basing it on looks alone. - Learn how to **invest** to turn your dollars into more dollars. - The foods you eat affect your **gut**, and your gut affects your brain—improve your food quality. - **Forgive** your parents; they did the best they could with what they were taught. - Save at least **10%** of what you earn, regardless of debt, to feel more secure. - Feeling uncomfortable means you're **growing**—embrace it. - Hire mentors or **coaches** as fast as possible; they will get you from point A to point B faster than any book or course. - Get married and have kids on your own **timeline**, not anyone else's. - Your brain is a piece of **software** upgraded by reading, learning new skills, and choosing the right people. - Ignore lists that say you should be doing certain things by **30**; you have your own timing. - Get your body to a level where **food** and pharmaceutical companies cannot profit off you. - Self-pity and arguing for your excuses are signs of learned **helplessness**—avoid these at all costs. - What you **measure** is what you manage; if you want to get better at anything, you must track it. - As you **level up**, your friends will change—accept this. - Get 8 hours of **sleep**. - Taking a 30-minute **walk** in nature is better than any health guru on the planet. - Write a **vision** for your life, break it into goals, and turn them into actionable tasks. - Life is too short to not live in a place that suits your **personality**. - Sleep is more important than **food**; without sleep, you become the worst version of yourself. - Your body is a piece of **hardware** upgraded through cardio, stretching, and lifting. - When you're young, live in **cities** for opportunities; when you're older, live in small towns for peace. - The things you want are on the other side of facing your **fears**. - A good life is never a **comfortable** life. - Always pay off your **credit card** at the end of each month to avoid financial frustration. - Don't take **advice** at face value—test it out in your life; if it works, great, if not, discard it. - Live life according to your **rules**—not your parents', not society's, and not some random person's online. - If you want better results, find better **friends**. This doesn't mean you have to get rid of your current friends, but level up. - You will see a massive **divide** between the people who took care of their bodies and those who didn't. - Happiness is not something you **postpone** for the future; it is something you design for the present. - Trust takes years to **build**, seconds to break, and forever to repair. - The truth is that maturing is realizing that a **relationship** can always work out and always be fixed, no matter the situation. - Be careful how you **talk** to yourself because you are listening. - **Private** life always wins—keep it secret until you win. - Sometimes you need to burn **bridges** to stop yourself from crossing them again. - You might not enjoy **discipline**, but you'll enjoy the results. - Today is the oldest you've ever been in your life and the **youngest** you'll ever be again. - Stop thinking you're doing it all **wrong**—your path doesn't look like anybody else's because it can't, it shouldn't, and it won't. - Never tell anyone about your **problems**; 90% of them don't care, and the remaining 10% are even happy to hear this. - When the **hounds** come after you, send in a wolf; when a wolf comes after you, send in the hounds. - Never express too much **love**, affection, or care to someone because it's human tendency to underestimate anything that's free of cost. - Two things are **infinite**: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe. - The world is a **dangerous** place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - I live in that **solitude** which is painful in youth but delicious in the years of maturity. - When someone **walks** away from you, it's not the end of your story; it's the end of their part in your story. - We become what we **think** about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret. - A man without a **vision** for his future always returns to his past. - Those who can make you believe **absurdities** can make you commit atrocities. - **Love** is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Tomorrow belongs to the one who **prepares** for it today. - Be like the **flower** that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it. - **Time** can feel slow right now, but one day it will seem like a million years have gone by in a blink. - Know the **rules** well so you can break them effectively. - We all must suffer pain—either the pain of **discipline** or the pain of regret. - People say nothing is **impossible**, yet I do nothing every day. - You all **laugh** at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because you're all the same. : - The true wisdom is knowing that you don't **know**. - When people **disrespect** you, be strong enough to walk away, wise enough to forgive, and brave enough to stand tall. - No one can make you feel **inferior** without your consent. - Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer **serves** you, grows you, or makes you happy. - Don't let someone else's disrespect diminish your **self-worth**. - People may disrespect you, but it is up to you to decide if it will **affect** you. - Disrespect is the weapon of the **weak**. - Your **value** doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth. - **Rudeness** is a weak imitation of strength. - Never allow someone to be your **priority** while allowing yourself to be their option. - Pain of **regret** is so much worse than pain of discipline. - Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to **die** having left undone. - Don't **practice** until you get it right—practice until you can't get it wrong. - The **bamboo** that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. - Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you **can** do. - The future belongs to those who **believe** in the beauty of their dreams. - A **tiger** doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep. - Never let the **odds** keep you from doing what you know in your heart you are meant to do. - No work is **beneath** you—the only thing that should be beneath you is your big ego. - Work hard in **silence** and show your skills at the job you get rather than criticizing the job. - No matter how many times I may **stumble**, I will rise each time a better man. - The most important step a man can take is the **next** one—it's always the next one. - Thousands of **candles** can be lit from a single candle, and its life will not get any shorter—happiness doesn't diminish when you share it. - At first, you choose a partner based on **appearance** and enjoy it until you realize that your children will be raised not based on appearance but based on values. - If you expect the world to be **fair** with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself—that's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him. - Don't tell anyone what you think or what you **know**—keep your secrets to yourself because a friend today could be an enemy tomorrow. - Every person in your life is a **teacher**—some ## Reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8GVF7uav6s