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Orange Book

People who couldn't marry well will keep warning you against marriages; people who couldn't invest well will keep warning you that everything is a scam; people who couldn't get what they want from life will keep warning you that you won't be able to do it either.
Pessimism and cynicism are just common signs that you are failing in life. Don't get annoyed, and don't take it personally either.
#orangebook #Marriage #Investment #LifeAdvice

2026-07-20 02:00:49 CEST

You are wealthy when you have health, money, time, love, and purpose.
#orangebook #Wealth #Health #Purpose

2026-07-19 08:00:29 CEST

Every day is actually a great day when you don't take for granted the gift of being alive.
#orangebook #Gratitude #Mindfulness #Appreciation

2026-07-18 02:00:42 CEST

Mental health is like physical health, it doesn’t just happen out of nowhere, it takes discipline and efforts, and people who can’t even maintain simple healthy habits over the course of many years are actually consciously choosing to stay low-energy and anxious.
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2026-07-17 08:00:45 CEST

All you need for life to keep getting better as you get older is good taste: good taste for what kind of person you want to be, good taste for what kind of person you want to marry or befriend, good taste for where you want to live, good taste for what you want to create.
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2026-07-16 20:00:43 CEST

Relationships are actually very simple once they involve people who have the intelligence to understand that spilling your anger, frustration, insecurities on someone else, doesn't make them disappear.
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2026-07-16 08:00:32 CEST

It's practically getting harder and harder to maintain genuine friendships as you get older, because people prioritize their family, they move around, they have personal issues to deal with;
if you are lucky to have friends that fill your days with positive energy and gratitude, treasure them, make an effort to keep in touch, show some flexibility of schedule, don't let them go because you are "too busy and tired," at some point, you are not going to be that busy anymore, and sadly realize that no one cares about you, because you didn't care enough when they did.
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2026-07-16 02:00:43 CEST

A lot of success boils down to having a very clear idea of what kind of old person you don’t want to look like and be like, then make sure you are currently not walking a similar path.
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2026-07-15 20:00:36 CEST

A hoarding mindset is a symptom of poverty, and that's regardless of how much you have in the bank account. True wealth is about feeling free and being free.
#orangebook #HoardingMindset #Poverty #TrueWealth

2026-07-15 08:00:41 CEST

If you want to know whether you are underperforming or overperforming your "potential," take a look at what your grandparents had achieved at the same age, in terms of family, career, legacy, then take a look at your own life, be honest about it, and make the necessary changes.
Nowadays, there are just too many people who blame their genetics instead of their own lack of efforts, and they'd radically change their stance if they knew what their ancestors overcame to get them a shot at experiencing their current life.
#orangebook #Potential #Ancestors #Effort

2026-07-14 20:00:51 CEST

The biggest part of the wealth transmission that happens within a family is not the money, it's about the way you think, the way you learn, and the way you prioritize your time and energy.
#orangebook #WealthTransmission #FamilyValues #Mindset

2026-07-13 20:00:34 CEST

You see a lot of good people who end up “sacrificing” their lives trying to change the unhealthy habits of some of their family members. At some point, if they want to drink, smoke, take drugs, get diabetic, sit on the couch all day long, let them do it, and go live your life, you are not a better person just because you chose to lower your standards and be miserable too.
#orangebook #FamilyHabits #Boundaries #SelfCare

2026-07-11 14:01:04 CEST

Most of your anger actually naturally disappears once you live in a place where people are full of common sense.
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2026-07-10 08:00:12 CEST

It's actually very easy to walk in the wrong direction in life when you are living in a society where "success" is all about how much money you make, you can afford to be confidently wrong for so many decades because that society will keep validating your conventional choices.
#orangebook #Success #Society #Choices

2026-07-09 20:00:12 CEST

People with no goal and no ambition always find many ways to come up with a lot of unnecessary drama in their daily lives.
#orangebook #Goals #Ambition #Drama

2026-07-09 08:00:12 CEST

Most "unlucky" adults are just people who still believe in shortcuts instead of coming up with a long-term plan in decades and actually following through.
#orangebook #Shortcuts #LongTerm #Mindset

2026-07-07 20:00:37 CEST

Most people who think they struggle with their relationships actually struggle with their own mental health.
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2026-07-06 20:00:10 CEST

The only reason a lot of people tolerate "family" or "friends" who abuse their kindness is because they have never experienced what it's like to have a deep bond with a thoughtful, kind, generous person: what they think is normal is not, and they don't realize they deserve better
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2026-07-05 14:00:29 CEST

The most common way to waste your own potential is to spend years trying to help people who gave up on taking responsibility for where they are in life.
The world is full of talented and hard-working people who don’t have the success they deserve and who hate asking for help, you will find so much more satisfaction helping these people instead.
#orangebook

2026-07-04 20:00:27 CEST

You will appreciate listening to music so much more once you are a better musician; you will appreciate watching sports so much more once you are a better athlete; you will appreciate reading great novels so much more once you are a better writer; and you will appreciate living life so much more once you are a better person.
#orangebook #Skill #Appreciation #Growth

2026-07-03 20:00:34 CEST

The quality of your book is the quality of your mind at the time of the writing. If you don't feel relaxed and rested, if you are not having fun as you are crafting your thoughts, the book won't embody these qualities either.
#orangebook #WritingQuality #AuthorMindset

2026-07-02 14:00:38 CEST

Intelligence isn't about getting what you want, it's about getting what you need; most people will actually live their whole lives never noticing that so many of their "wants" are actually manufactured by other people.
#orangebook #Intelligence #Needs

2026-07-02 02:00:28 CEST

It's actually funny how many people who advocate for "diversity" will either get very offended or very judgmental if your values don't align with theirs.
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2026-06-30 20:00:45 CEST

If you have time to complain about how the game is unfair, you have time to figure out what game you should play if you want to win next time.
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2026-06-29 14:00:42 CEST

Lack of depth is just lack of courage to deviate from the beaten tracks.
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2026-06-28 14:00:10 CEST

“Bad luck” is when you act without knowing.
“Anxiety” is when you know without acting.
“Peace of mind” is when you know and act as you are meant to.
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2026-06-27 08:00:46 CEST

You can't be a good writer without good observation skills, and you can't have good observation skills if you are constantly living in your mind and judging everything instead of seeing things as they are.
#orangebook #Writing #Observation #Mindfulness

2026-06-27 02:00:59 CEST

You can fix all your addictions and unhealthy habits by simply clarifying a meaningful long-term goal that requires you to become the most clear-minded, high-energy, healthy version of yourself.
#orangebook #Addictions #Goals #Habits

2026-06-26 02:00:36 CEST

Growing up poor but with access to a high-quality education is actually a good starting point for a meaningful life. You quickly learn the value of money in a non-materialistic way. You are incentivized to learn about the world and develop your own skills. You know you are alone and won't be given anything unless you prove your worth. You plan, you execute, you enjoy an unpredictably great journey.
All the "success stories" that started with "I had no money" somehow omit the education part, maybe because it became too obvious in most parts of the world, but knowing people who grew up with parents who couldn't read and write (and therefore, not think with clarity either), there are many cases where you will never be able to truly "catch up" if your starting point in life is too unlucky.
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2026-06-25 08:00:32 CEST

We need fewer "successful people" who got there out of spite and manipulative tactics, and more successful people who got there because they genuinely enjoyed what they were doing; the latter are actually inspiring and many would benefit from their insights, the former are very misleading because they are usually rewriting their own story in order to feel good about themselves.
#orangebook #Success #Authenticity #Inspiration

2026-06-23 14:00:24 CEST

Making fun and laughing at what you don’t understand is one of the most common forms of self-protection.
#orangebook #SelfProtection #Understanding #Humor

2026-06-23 08:00:52 CEST

Most people just don’t want to believe that what they don’t have exist:
- happily married couples who enjoy growing old together without falling out of love
- people with kids and enough free time to stay the healthiest version of themselves
- cities where people have common sense, and hence, where the streets are safe and clean, and the public infrastructure works
- people who made a lot of money doing what they loved without thinking much about the money
- people with great relationships with their parents, siblings, family
- smarter people who are also more athletic, good-looking, loved, sociable
- lifelong friendships with loyal people who genuinely care to stay in touch throughout the decades
- people who grew up with much worse circumstances, who were not initially more talented, and who succeeded beyond expectations mostly thanks to strict self-discipline, long-term planning, and unwavering self-belief
#orangebook #AspirationalGoals #LifeSuccess #PositiveOutlook

2026-06-22 08:00:08 CEST

People move to big cities for financial opportunities and serendipitous encounters, but it’s clear when you finally get to spend a lot of time in nature that your mind was overstimulated by unnecessary noise and disconnected from what you actually needed to feel mentally clear.
#orangebook #BigCities #Nature #MentalClarity

2026-06-19 02:00:10 CEST

You can have a healthy lifestyle and still feel low-energy if you constantly let yourself consumed by unnecessary thoughts or drained by one-way relationships.
Being constantly high-energy usually means that you are very good at filtering out what you don’t need in your life.
#orangebook #MentalHealth #EnergyLevels #SelfCare

2026-06-18 14:00:28 CEST

The quality of your time alone is the quality of your mind, and the quality of your mind is the quality of the people you attract.
#orangebook #TimeAlone #MindQuality #Attraction

2026-06-17 08:00:18 CEST

The most common way of actually "wasting your life accomplishing nothing" is ironically, when you are afraid of wasting your life accomplishing nothing. You end up living the life that other people set up for you. You make few mistakes but also learn nothing. You never discover who you could have been, because they never had the courage to push your limits and explore life in unconventional directions.
#orangebook #Fear #Regret #Potential

2026-06-16 14:00:37 CEST

A lot of people who say that money isn't that important to them because they value their time with their family more,
seem to forget that financial security actually improves their relationships:
they aren’t constantly stressed out or worried about unexpected expenditures,
they can afford to invest in themselves and become a happier version of themselves,
they have time to listen to others, be supportive, and actually care.
#orangebook #money #FinancialSecurity #relationships

2026-06-16 02:00:34 CEST

You only need to experience the healthiest version of yourself once, and you will never understand how anyone can trade short-term pleasure for long-term peace of mind.
#orangebook #Health #PeaceOf #SelfImprovement

2026-06-14 20:00:13 CEST

Everyone has an agenda, especially those who claim they are selfless, that claim is part of their agenda.
#orangebook #agenda #selfless #deception

2026-06-14 14:00:11 CEST

It's very easy to belittle the achievements of other people when you grew up with advantages they didn't have, it's much harder to encourage, empower, and lead them to become who they didn't know they could be.
#orangebook #privilege #empathy #empowerment

2026-06-14 08:00:11 CEST

Not having any other choice is actually a competitive advantage.
#orangebook #nochoice #advantage #strategy

2026-06-13 14:00:31 CEST

Happily married people often forget how rare it is to be able to effortlessly communicate with their spouse. So many couples struggle to understand each other as they get older. They grew in different directions as they got busy with life. A great lifelong relationship is like staying healthy as you get older: it doesn't happen by chance.
#orangebook #marriage #communication #relationships

2026-06-08 02:00:19 CEST

The most important truths, the ones that lead to the most life-changing opportunities, are found in the gap between how you see the world and how everyone else sees the world.
#orangebook #Perspective #Opportunity #Truth

2026-05-28 02:00:11 CEST

You see a lot of rich people who struggle with their marriage, their family, their relationships, because accumulating money is much easier than accumulating wealth.
#orangebook #Wealth #Relationships #Money

2026-05-26 20:00:10 CEST

The biggest opportunities you miss throughout your life aren’t measured financially, they are the experiences you never knew you could have had, that would have transformed you into the healthiest, calmest, happiest, most confident version of yourself.
#orangebook #LifeOpportunities #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement

2026-05-26 08:00:10 CEST

Anxiety happens when you know deep down that you should be doing better. It's the voice that screams when you've betrayed yourself and lowered your standards.
#orangebook #Anxiety #Self-betrayal #Standards

2026-05-25 02:00:09 CEST

Most people who think that relationships are complicated are actually struggling to fix their own insecurities first.
#orangebook #Relationships #Insecurities #Self-improvement

2026-05-24 14:00:28 CEST

A lot of "talent" boils down to assuming that you have no talent, no particular good luck, that no one will help you for no reason, and that miracles don't happen.
That's when you will shift to the right mindset of taking responsibility for who you are and where you are in life.
That's when you will start clarifying and cultivating the right long-term habits and efforts.
That's also when "good luck" and miracles may start happening.
#orangebook #Mindset #Responsibility #Habits

2026-05-23 08:00:17 CEST

You somehow make a lot of people feel “uncomfortable” when you just mind your own business and chase an ambitious vision for your life.
#orangebook #Ambition #Vision #Uncomfortable

2026-05-22 08:00:27 CEST

Marrying someone you love and having plenty of time to raise your kids together, that’s wealth.
#orangebook #Family #Love #Wealth

2026-05-21 08:00:10 CEST

It’s scary how the attitude of some people suddenly change when they know you have money or connections, and actually quite sad when you just wanted a genuine, non-codependent friendship, but they suddenly “disappeared” when they couldn’t get what they wanted from you.
#orangebook #Friendship #Money #Connections

2026-05-20 14:00:46 CEST

If you become more cynical as you get older, it actually means that you've been failing at life.
#orangebook #Cynicism #Aging #LifeLessons

2026-05-20 02:00:10 CEST

Life actually keeps sending you the very exact wake-up calls you need to turn your life around, but most people fail to hear them because they are too busy listening to their rationalizing mind.
#orangebook #WakeUp #SelfImprovement #Mindfulness

2026-05-14 08:00:45 CEST

Everyone talks about how they have less free time once they have kids, no one talks about how you also learn how to be much more focused and more efficient with your time.
#orangebook #Parenting #TimeManagement #Efficiency

2026-05-13 08:00:33 CEST

There is no such thing as being "too ambitious."
It's really clear to anyone who had any past success in any field that you either go way beyond your initial expectations, or you fail completely, there is rarely any in between.
We live in a society that rewards people who are already winning, and where "the best" takes it all, and where the "merely excellent" is effectively "invisible."
Most people who ended up with "average" lives actually worked really hard; and people who aimed for an "average life" right from the beginning actually often ended up with way more sufferings than they wanted; and the people with "extraordinary" lives actually often took "crazy" or unconventional risks to get there, or they were very disciplined for very long periods of time.
People who managed to "escape the competition" didn't get there with average standards and with "work-life balance" in mind; they were, ironically, actually often extremely competitive.
#orangebook #Ambition #Success #RiskTaking

2026-05-13 02:00:37 CEST

Overthinking is a sign of average intelligence. Keep investing in your mind until clarity becomes your default state.
#orangebook #Overthinking #Intelligence #Mindset

2026-05-11 20:00:10 CEST

One of the most common mistakes that people make is to think of their energy as something to save. To feel drained is to be distracted. High-energy people are just people actively focused on meaningful goals.
#orangebook #Energy #Focus #Goals

2026-05-09 08:00:33 CEST

So much of getting luckier as you get older boils down to the quality of your everyday conversations, hence to the quality of the person you married.
#orangebook #Luck #Conversations #Relationships

2026-05-06 14:00:43 CEST

It's always the people with little talent who spend their time criticizing others, talented people know better how to focus on their own efforts, that's how they got where they are; to be average is actually a choice, the choice of being distracted by the lives of others.
#orangebook #Talent #Criticism #Focus

2026-05-05 14:00:31 CEST

You save so much time and energy once your relationships are with confident people. You never have to worry about whether facts might accidentally offend them. You can be yourself, they can be themselves. Everyone can focus on meaningful goals instead of each other’s feelings.
#orangebook #Relationships #Confidence #Authenticity

2026-05-04 20:00:50 CEST

People often complain about being too busy when they should actually question their own inefficiency.
Most people waste so much time on conversations with no depth, entertainment with no substance, investments with no conviction (or no investment at all), and then, when life finally catches up to the quality of their decisions, they play the victim and act "surprised" by how unfair life is.
Some people actually have it all: a loving family, loyal friends, a creative job, financial freedom, fitness and health, a meaningful journey, but it didn't happen overnight, and it was the product of long-term calculated risks, independent thinking rooted in self-belief, and a lot of humble daily training and preparation for the rainy days, but also for the life-changing opportunities that never seemed obvious when they came.
#orangebook #TimeManagement #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement

2026-05-03 14:00:07 CEST

So much success in life boils down to keeping yourself unemployed enough that you can stop everything you were doing with no hesitation, and take the jump when the game was obviously getting redefined: you just needed to pay attention and not blindly follow the herd.
#orangebook #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #RiskTaking

2026-05-03 08:00:20 CEST

In a society where technological leaps keep redefining the rules of every game, people who refuse to unlearn and relearn their methods are actually choosing to suffer very unnecessarily.
#orangebook #Adaptability #Resilience #Learning

2026-05-03 02:00:17 CEST

People who can't find peace within are always out there seeking conflicts with people who were just minding their own business.
#orangebook #InnerPeace #Conflict #Mindfulness

2026-05-02 20:00:11 CEST

Not being able to appreciate silence and unstimulated time alone is the sign that you don't have much ongoing in your mind; otherwise, you would understand that these are gifts for your creative output.
#orangebook #Silence #Creativity #Mindfulness

2026-05-01 08:00:13 CEST

Anxiety fades away as you start working on yourself with more conviction.
#orangebook #SelfImprovement #AnxietyRelief #Mindfulness

2026-04-28 02:00:52 CEST

You offend a lot of people when you refuse to lower your standards to accommodate their feelings.
#orangebook #Standards #Feelings #Boundaries

2026-04-25 20:00:34 CEST

The best things in life actually don’t cost that much money, but only after you invested enough in a mind capable of appreciating depth. Money is just a tool to be free from the anxiety of whether you’ll be able to pay your bills, feed your family, never betray your core values.
#orangebook #Mindset #Values #FinancialFreedom

2026-04-25 08:00:10 CEST

When you grow up with immigrant parents who never got the chance to get a good education, who earned the minimum salary working with their hands, whilst never going on vacation or buying anything for themselves, and who never complained about it because they were happy to be able to feed their kids, you naturally have less empathy for people who grew up in a country full of opportunities and who were fluent in the local language, and yet, who somehow put themselves in a terrible financial situation just because they didn't feel like working most jobs that were "below them" or because they couldn't handle the "humiliation" of downgrading their lifestyle after learning about what "success" looks like on social media.
#orangebook #ImmigrantParents #WorkEthic #Privilege

2026-04-24 20:00:10 CEST

When you go to school, you think you are busy, until you become an adult and have to take responsibility for where you are in life.
When you are an adult, you think you are busy, until you become a parent and have to take responsibility for where your kids are in life.
When you are finally old and full of free time, you think you can finally do everything you want, until you realize that most of your life is now behind you, and that was it.
A successful life is the art of enjoying what happens during all those moments when you think you are "too busy" to appreciate them.
#orangebook #LifeLessons #Parenting #TimeManagement

2026-04-22 20:01:14 CEST

Don’t take it personally when life gets hard and painful, consider it an opportunity to grow the kind of mental strength that will become your most valuable asset for the rest of your life.
#orangebook #MentalStrength #PersonalGrowth #LifeChallenges

2026-04-22 08:00:46 CEST

As an adult, your potential is exactly what you have achieved, nothing less, nothing more.
So many people still haven't unlearned the mindset of "I could have done better if I had studied harder."
In real life, no one cares about your external circumstances, your private life, or that the games you chose to play are unfair.
You find a way to get results and you move forward, or you don't and you stay where you are.
Life goes by awfully fast for people who don't nurture the mental strength to take the pain and question themselves when they stagnate.
#orangebook #PersonalGrowth #Accountability #Mindset

2026-04-18 08:00:10 CEST

Foolish decisions often come from having too much free time, that's when you overthink the details that don't matter, that's when you seek unnecessary stimulation to escape your boring daily life, that's when you destroy what you've built without noticing it until it's too late.
#orangebook #FreeTime #Overthinking #SelfDestruction

2026-04-15 14:00:10 CEST

Every day is actually a great day when you don't take for granted the gift of being alive.
#orangebook #Gratitude #Mindfulness #Appreciation

2026-04-12 14:00:19 CEST

2026-04-10 02:00:44 CEST

2026-04-07 20:00:36 CEST

Most of your anger actually naturally disappears once you live in a place where people are full of common sense.
#orangebook

2026-04-06 20:00:37 CEST

The older you get, the fewer people will call you out on your foolish behaviors, because everybody knows how harder and harder it becomes to change habits, and everybody who has their lives in order is too busy to deal with any unnecessary drama or your potential hard feelings.
#orangebook #GrowingUp #Accountability #PersonalGrowth

2026-04-06 14:00:43 CEST

2026-04-03 14:00:25 CEST

Longevity and "anti-aging" are actually very simple, but it's also the very opposite of what people stuck in a "grind mindset" will tell you: a low-stress lifestyle, a lot of time to spend with family and friends that you love, being and feeling useful as opposed to capturing as much value as you can, a clean environment where you feel connected to nature, a healthy diet that you can unapologetically stick to instead of being forced to drink every week just because it's the norm, a neighborhood where people are still thoughtful and kind instead of constantly judgmental or obsessed with "success", time for daily walks and reading novels, time for soulful music, time to volunteer for a community you care about, time to actually live your core values instead of signaling them, time to train your body and your mind in order to finally become who you want to be and not who society wanted you to be.
#orangebook

2026-04-03 08:00:09 CEST

It's actually funny to see so many old businessmen spend so much money on trying to stay young with very average results compared to the random "young" men in their sixties at your local gym who simply kept working out for several decades just because they were enjoying it.
#orangebook

2026-04-03 02:00:27 CEST

2026-04-02 20:00:27 CEST

You always feel disrespected by a lot of people when you lack self-confidence; then after you spend the many years required to develop your own talents, you realize that no one ever even thought about you. Being overreactive is a common sign that you are not who you want to be.
#orangebook

2026-04-02 14:00:36 CEST

Life suddenly gets better once you understand that most of your health issues, financial issues, relationship issues, career issues, and self-esteem issues, are actually self-control and self-discipline issues.
#orangebook

2026-04-02 08:00:18 CEST

A healthy lifestyle, loving relationships, financial security, and a clear purpose that makes you grow as a person, that’s all you need if you want to get rid of your anxiety.
#orangebook

2026-04-02 02:00:12 CEST

A lot of people constantly feel exhausted because they spend their energy judging everyone and everything, and taking every bit of criticism personally, instead of investing that energy in themselves until they finally become who they want to be.
#orangebook

2026-04-01 20:00:10 CEST

2026-04-01 14:00:08 CEST

Relationships are actually simple when you have your mental health in order, and respect yourself sufficiently to spend your time with other people who have it together too.
#orangebook

2026-04-01 08:00:24 CEST

No one is as manipulative and emotionally overreactive as someone insecure. You want less unnecessary drama in your life, it’s very simple: hang out with confident people who love who they are, people who have the confidence that they can get anything they want, they will never waste your time, they are too busy getting things done, they are wholly focused on the things that matter.
#orangebook

2026-04-01 02:00:30 CEST

2026-03-31 20:00:26 CEST

The whole world will never stop pushing on you their vision of who you should be, and if you don't have a strong idea of what kind of person you want to be, you will inevitably bend, and only realize, way too late, that you never truly lived a life aligned with your core values.
#orangebook #SelfIdentity #PersonalValues

2026-03-31 14:00:25 CEST

The process of uncovering ideas you didn't know you had in you and connecting them in a way that makes sense to others is often called writing, but it's actually also therapy.
#orangebook #Writing #Therapy

2026-03-31 08:00:29 CEST

If you are scared of ignoring the whole world for a few hours every day, you are not serious about your goal.
#orangebook #Discipline

2026-03-31 02:00:14 CEST

2026-03-30 20:00:52 CEST

People who succeeded out of spite and desire to “win” often fail to realize that they are suffocating people who are succeeding when they are doing what they love at their own pace.
#orangebook #Success #Passion

2026-03-30 14:00:50 CEST

If thinking about it won't fix the problem, it's a sign of intelligence to redirect your energy elsewhere.
#orangebook #ProblemSolving

2026-03-30 08:00:23 CEST

If you have to sacrifice your health and your relationships to get to whatever "success" you are aiming for, the only outcome is actually failure.
#orangebook

2026-03-30 02:00:30 CEST

To get lucky is to fail more often than most people even tried.
#orangebook #Luck

2026-03-29 20:00:29 CEST