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Sum it up in one sentence: The better your questions, the better your AI.

I think that's exactly right.

Two people can use the same AI model.

One asks it to write a business plan.

The other asks it to identify an unmet customer need, find evidence people will pay to solve it, investigate failed competitors and explain why the entire premise might be wrong.

Same technology.

Completely different results.

The first person gets a beautiful document.

The second might get a business.

This applies to investing, too.

The next time you're excited about a stock, don't ask ChatGPT to explain why it's going to double.

Ask it to construct the strongest possible argument against owning it.

What am I missing?

What assumptions have to be true?

What happens if they're false?

Then go verify the answers.

You might save yourself a fortune.

Let AI Ruin Your Dreams
For the first time in history, almost everyone has access to something resembling a team of extraordinarily knowledgeable advisers.

And most people are using that team to tell themselves what they already believe.

Don't.

The greatest advantage AI gives you might not be the ability to produce more. It might be the ability to discover you're wrong before it costs you money.

And if you're still determined to open that travel agency to Saturn? I'll invest. As soon as you get back.

The most underappreciated AI story isn't happening in major institutions.

It's happening in spare bedrooms.

Alan Wells raised $6.5 million from Y Combinator to build Rocketable—a company that acquires profitable SaaS businesses and replaces the entire team with AI agents. One person. Full operations. Customer support, development, marketing. All agents.

Nat Eliason built an AI agent called Felix—"CEO of a zero-human company." Felix built a website, integrated Stripe, deployed sub-agents for support and sales. Revenue: $195,000 in five weeks.

The tools making this possible are now absurdly cheap.

Meanwhile, solo-founded startups jumped from 23.7% to 36.3% of all new startups between 2019 and mid-2025. 58% of small businesses now use generative AI.

Tech CEOs have a standing bet on the first year a one-person billion-dollar company emerges.

Dario Amodei says it could happen in 2026.

He’s probably right.

Here is the most common plateau in this craft: the gap between knowing and doing. You can read the chart correctly and still lose money, because trading is not an analysis problem. It is an execution problem wearing an analysis costume.

I have seen this in nearly every serious trader I have worked with. The analytical capability runs ahead of the actual consistency. You see the setup. You know the rules. And still, in the moment, you hesitate, second-guess, widen a stop, skip a clean trade, or chase one that already moved. The numbers do not match the knowledge.

The fix is not more analysis. More analysis is what got you here. The fix is to shrink the decision. Write your entry rule, your stop, and your size before the market opens, when you are calm. Then in the moment, your only job is to recognize the setup and follow the page. You are not deciding. You are executing a decision you already made.

This is why the one-page trading plan and the pre-market routine matter so much. They move the thinking to a time when thinking helps, and remove it from the moment when thinking only feeds doubt. The Zero State - the calm, ready, observing mind - is what you are protecting.

Overanalysis in the moment is fear looking for permission. The plan is how you stop asking..” – Dr. Ken Long

1. Not having taken enough photos with the people you love.

2. Wasting years worrying about what others think of you.

3. Letting fear keep you from chasing your dreams.

4. Not telling anyone how much he or she means to you.

5. Staying in a toxic relationship for too long.

6. Taking your parents' time for granted.

7. Waiting for the "perfect moment" that never comes.

8. Not putting yourself first when you should.

Source: Quora

When your household relies entirely on your salary, urgency can become an expensive emotion.

Pressure to cover everyday living can make it harder to negotiate, easier to compromise, and more tempting to accept less than you're worth.

That's why I believe learning to manage your own capital is about far more than building wealth.

It's about creating options.

Imagine walking into a salary negotiation knowing you've also developed another skill that can help support your household over time. Or facing an unexpected career change, knowing your future isn't tied to a single employer.

The conversation changes.

You're making decisions from a position of confidence rather than urgency.

Trading isn't necessarily a replacement for a career. It's a skill that sits alongside one. It provides another avenue for building assets, another way to participate in the markets, and another layer of resilience for your family.

Careers will have highs and lows. Markets will too.

The people who navigate uncertainty best aren't necessarily those with the highest salaries.

They're the ones who have built choices. And in a changing world, choices may be one of the most valuable assets you can create.” – Louise B

1. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN NOBODY IS WATCHING?

Your private behavior tells a different story than your public image.

Anyone can look disciplined when people are watching. Anyone can look kind when praise is available.

But your habits in the dark reveal what you actually value.

2. WHO ARE YOU WHEN YOU DON'T GET YOUR WAY?

This is where character gets exposed. Do you become bitter, manipulative, aggressive, or quietly resentful?

Or can you accept disappointment without punishing everyone around you?

Your reaction to losing control often reveals more than your reaction to winning.

3. WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE MAKE YOU JEALOUS?

Don't answer with “successful people.” Be specific.

The person who makes you uncomfortable may be showing you something you secretly want. Sometimes jealousy isn't hatred.

It's desire wearing a mask because admitting what you want feels too vulnerable.

4. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH POWER?

Give someone authority, money, attention, or control over another person and watch carefully.

Power doesn't always corrupt people.

Sometimes it simply removes the consequences that were keeping their worst instincts hidden.

5. WHO ARE YOU WHEN SOMEONE CAN DO NOTHING FOR YOU?

It's easy to respect the wealthy, attractive, powerful, or useful. But how do you treat the waiter, the stranger, the employee,

the old person, or anyone you will never need? Character often appears when there is absolutely nothing to gain.

6. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE WRONG?

Do you apologize? Defend yourself? Change the subject? Attack the person who caught you?

Pride has a thousand disguises, but one of its favorite tricks is making you protect your mistake simply because admitting it would hurt your ego.

7. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW NOBODY WOULD EVER FIND OUT?

Now we're getting somewhere.

Remove the cameras. Remove the reputation. Remove the consequences.

What remains? Because morality that only exists when someone is watching isn't really morality.

It's reputation management.

8. WHAT DO YOU KEEP TOLERATING?

Your boundaries reveal what you believe you deserve.

If someone repeatedly lies to you and you keep handing them access, eventually the problem isn't only what they are doing.

It's what you have decided you will continue accepting.

9. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN SOMEONE ELSE SUCCEEDS?

Do you celebrate them without secretly wishing they would fail? Do you learn from them?

Or does their success make you question your own worth?

How you respond to another person's victory reveals your relationship with your own identity.

10. IF YOU COULDN'T IMPRESS ANYONE, HOW WOULD YOU LIVE?

Take away the applause. The likes. The money. The status. The attractive partner. The expensive clothes. The image.

What's left?

That person is probably much closer to the real you than the version you spend your life presenting.


Source: Quora

1. Master your emotions. A calm mind can handle any situation.

2. Never force anyone to choose you. You'll learn the art of spending time alone.

3. No one’s coming to save you. Get up and be your hero.

4. To avoid disappointment, you need to take people for who they are not for what you want them to be.

5. Everyone will show you who they are, give them time.

6. You're at peace with yourself when you mind your own business.

7. Ensure you take good care of yourself, if anything happens to you, the world will move on.

8. Nobody cares, work hard to get better every day.

9. If you don't work to build your own dream, someone will hire you and give you a purpose.

10. Free yourself from society's advice, most of them do not know what they're doing.

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By Bijan Datta, Quora

Most men will ignore this. Some will get angry. But a few will read, understand, and change...:

1. You either suffer voluntarily, or life will force suffering on you.

There is no escaping pain. You can face it head-on, control it, and grow.

Or you can run... only to be hunted down by a worse version of it later.

2. No one wants to hear your struggles until you’ve won.

When you’re losing, your pain is a burden.

When you’ve conquered it, your pain becomes “inspiring.”

People only respect the story when the ending is impressive.

3. The modern world wants you weak.

Weak men are easier to control, manipulate, and discard.

The more dependent you are, the more replaceable you become.

You weren’t "born into a broken system." You were made to fit into one.

4. There is no such thing as unconditional respect.

Your mother might love you no matter what. The world won’t.

Respect is leased, never owned.

The moment you stop proving yourself, the world stops caring.

5. A man without power is invisible.

Without status, strength, or resources, you don’t exist.

People don’t see you, women don’t want you, and society doesn’t care about you.

Reality is brutal. Adapt or disappear.

6. Your emotions don’t matter... until you’re strong enough to enforce them.

A weak man’s anger is “toxic.”

A powerful man’s anger is a warning.

If you can’t back up your emotions with action, they mean nothing.

7. Most men die as ghosts.

They pass through life unnoticed, unrespected, and unfulfilled.

Not because they were cursed... but because they never demanded more from themselves.

A forgotten man is still dead. He just takes longer to disappear.

8. Your genetics are a starting point, not a life sentence.

Some men are born into wealth, height, and good looks.

Others start in the gutter.

But no man gets to decide how his story ends without a fight.

9. "Balance" is a lie for men who haven’t built anything.

You don’t deserve peace until you’ve conquered chaos.

You don’t deserve rest until you’ve earned exhaustion.

The world doesn’t hand out rewards for participation.

10. No one is coming. Ever.

Not society. Not your friends. Not your family.

If you don’t build yourself, no one will.

If you don’t fight for your place in the world, you’ll be forgotten like the billions before you.

Brutal? Yes. True? Absolutely.

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Cryptocurrency exchange OKX has officially restored full platform access and peer-to-peer (P2P) trading for users in Nigeria, following nearly two years of restricted access and suspended operations.

The global exchange was forced to halt its Nigerian operations—specifically restricting Naira deposits and P2P markets—in August 2024 amid a broad government crackdown on crypto exchanges to curb currency speculation and stabilize the naira.

Its recent return comes as Nigeria’s crypto landscape has transitioned to a structured regulatory framework, notably following the implementation of the Investments and Securities Act, which formally recognized digital assets and empowered the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to oversee the industry.

For Nigerian traders, this means you can now log back into your existing OKX accounts and resume executing trades and P2P transactions as previously supported.

Musk has an unshakeable desire to make humanoids work. That tends to translate into real results.

Eventually.

But China NEEDS them to work. That’s a different kind of force.

China's aging faster than almost any society in history—its workforce now shrinking at a pace the world has never seen, against a manufacturing labor shortage its own Ministry of Education has pegged near 30 million workers.

China is also suffering high youth unemployment—a skills-and-willingness mismatch. The young would rather "lie flat," as they call it, than take the factory jobs going unfilled.

For a country not eager to pull the immigration valve wide open, there's only one way to fill the gap.

Build the workers.

That’s why "Embodied AI" is now a named priority in China's 15th Five-Year Plan, backed by a 1-trillion-yuan (~$138 billion) state fund.

Chinese firms already shipped roughly 90% of the world's humanoid robots last year, and the government is running humanoid "training schools" in Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan to teach them warehouse and factory work.

China's building toward it from both ends.

It gives the brain away—flooding the world with free, open-source AI models that drag the cost of a robot's mind toward zero. Then it corners the body: the motors, the batteries, the sensors, the supply chain it already built dominating electric cars.

Give away the mind. Own the body. The body was always the scarce thing.

That matters. Because when China commits to owning an industry this big, Washington doesn't sit still. A robot workforce is industrial capacity and military logistics, so Washington will treat a Chinese monopoly as a strategic threat.

That's the tailwind under Tesla, Figure, and every American maker.

So the humanoids are coming. Slowly. Sideways. Occasionally into a wall. And, in America, Tesla is in pole position.

The only question left is who owns the parts that matter.

By Chris Campbell

Quagmire

The longer you delay, the more stuck you become.

Backtest. Journal. Place the trade.

That’s where your power lives.

1. The beginning is mostly luck. How you finish is mostly by choice.

Every trader scores a lucky gain or two at the start. Don’t mistake that for skill.

Real mastery comes later - when the market gets tougher, your emotions flare, and your strategy is put to the test.

That’s when your choices matter.

Your results will reflect the discipline you’ve built, the plans you’ve refined, and the grit you show when things become hard.

Luck might light the spark - but your system fans the flame.

2. Write down your methods.

Want to hit your trading goals? You’ve got choices.

Position sizing, entry rules, exits, portfolio design - every bit of it is flexible.

Don't just commit your half-baked ideas to memory.

3. The longer you delay, the more stuck you become.

Your habits lock in. Your doubts grow louder.

You start believing 'later' is safer. But later rarely is.

There's no time to waste.

Tighten your process. Strengthen your mindset. Learn the tools.

By Louise Bedford

Nobody cares, so work harder.

2. You will upset many people when you start doing what is best for you.

3. They will ignore you until the day they need you.

4. Life gets lighter when you stop caring about what does not matter.

5. What breaks your heart will also open your eyes.

6. Stop only seeing the good in people, and start believing what they show you.

7. Some people will never support you because they fear what you might become.

8. People will disappoint you. Promises will break. Expect less from others and trust yourself more.

9. Be a good person, but never waste time proving it.

10. A skill is ten times more valuable than grades. Learn a high-income skill to solve money problems.

11. If success were easy, everyone would have it.

12. Always dress well. Life itself is the biggest occasion.

13. If it is important, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.

14. If they act like they can live without you, let them.

15. Do not forget how badly you wanted what you already have. Blessings are still on the way.

Mustapha Y, Quora

It is said that a man was walking with his son through the fields.

As they walked, they saw an old pair of shoes that they assumed belonged to a poor man who was working in a nearby field and would soon return to collect them.

The son said to his father:

"What do you think, Father, if we hide this worker’s shoes just to play a prank on him and see how he reacts when he finds them missing?"

His father replied:

"We should not amuse ourselves at the expense of another’s sorrow. But my son, you are wealthy and can make yourself happy—and that poor man too—by doing something better. Put some coins inside his shoes and let’s hide behind the bushes to see his reaction."

The boy liked the suggestion.

He placed a few coins inside each shoe, then he and his father hid behind some bushes to watch what would happen.

After a few minutes, the poor worker came, dressed in worn-out clothes, having finished his work in the field.

As he slipped his foot into one of the shoes, he felt something inside.

He reached in and found some coins!

He did the same with the other shoe and found more coins!

He looked at the money in disbelief, checked again to make sure he wasn't dreaming, and then looked around in all directions—but saw no one.

He put the money in his pocket, fell to his knees, raised his eyes to the sky, and cried, saying:

"Thank you, Lord! You knew my wife is sick, and my children are hungry and have no bread. You have saved me and my family from despair!"

He continued to cry and pray for a long time, overwhelmed with gratitude.

The boy was deeply moved, and tears filled his eyes.

His father then said to him:

"Aren’t you more satisfied now than you would have been if you had played him prank?"

The son replied:

"I’ve learned a lesson I will never forget in my life. Now I understand the meaning of words I never understood before: 'It is more joyful to give than to receive.'"

Then his wise father said:

*"Know, my son, that giving comes in many forms: 💫💫💫💫💫

Forgiving when you're able to punish is a form of giving. 👍

Praying for the poor in their absence is a form of giving. 👍

Excusing their mistakes and thinking well of them is a form of giving. 👍

Refraining from speaking badly of them behind their backs is also a form of giving. 👍

By: Smooaa Mhara, Quora

10 signs she is not into you

1. She doesn't text you back.

Women are communicative. If you text a girl, and she likes you, chances are, she will reply to you. And soon! If she isn't answering your text messages, that is a surefire sign that she just isn't that into you.

2. She avoids being alone with you.

If she always says things like "I'll meet you there," or if she never wants to hang out alone with you or at your house, she probably doesn't like you.

3. She doesn't ask you any personal questions.

If a woman isn't 'mystified' and 'curious' about you as a man, odds are basically zero that she's going to be interested in you.

4. She tries to tell you all her bad qualities.

Pointing out all her faults is a way to tell you that you should find someone who is better suited for you, or that she is just not into you.

5. She doesn't care about the topics you're discussing.

If she doesn't seem to care about anything you're talking about, odds are good that you just need to accept that this particular woman probably isn't the woman for you and move on.

6. She is always busy.

If she is constantly telling you that she can't possibly get together because she is so busy, then you may want to consider that she is making up excuses because she doesn't want to see you.

7. She just doesn't pay attention.

If her attention is primarily on anything other than you, and if she doesn't seem excited to be spending time with you, that's the number-one universal sign that you're not her #1 choice.

8. She flirts with other guys around you.

Almost always, if a girl is flirting with another guy completely oblivious to your presence, chances are, the girl doesn't like you back.

9. She doesn't flirt with or touch you.

If she can be around you without wanting to reach out and touch you, then there is little chance that she is interested in you.

10. You're the one making all the effort.

If the girl you like isn't shy, and she's literally not texting you first, making plans with you, or even interested in keeping a conversation going, take the hint.

By Bello Osagie, Quora

Win Rate: 93%

A trader recently made nearly $1 million betting on military strikes.

Not after the strikes.

Before them.

Hours before US and Israeli forces hit Iran in October 2024. Hours before airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025. Hours before the surprise attack that started the current war.

Win rate: 93%. On unannounced military operations.

That's a wire into classified information.

Then Israeli prosecutors charged an IDF reservist and a civilian for using military intelligence to bet on the timing of Israel's Iran strike. The officer allegedly sent a WhatsApp message minutes before the attack that said:

"It's starting."

He sent that message to a Polymarket position.

The Weird Part

The US Army—the same institution connected to these leaks—published a report telling its intelligence analysts to use Polymarket and Kalshi to detect national security threats.

The Federal Reserve published a paper showing Kalshi has correctly predicted every single interest rate decision since 2022.

Every one.

The day before the announcement.

So—indeed—the same markets leaking classified military secrets are being recommended by the military as intelligence tools.

And the same platforms being prosecuted as illegal gambling are being studied by the Fed as the most accurate forecasting tools in existence.

The government is both the source and customer for the signal.” – Chris C.

"A man and his wife went to the zoo. They found a Monkey who was passionately playing with his female. His wife said to him, "What a romantic animal."

Then, they found a Lion and his Lioness separated from each other; the silent Lion sat alone in his corner as if the Lioness doesn't exist. His wife said to him, "What a sad scene without love."

Her husband then said to her, “Throw that stone at the Lioness and watch.” When she threw the stone at the Lioness, the Lion roar to defend his Lioness, then she was asked to repeat it with the Monkey, the Monkey then jumped up and climbed the tree 🎄 and abandoned his female to save his own skin.

Her husband then told her, “Do not be deceived by what you see as romance in outward show, often times, it is a deceptive appearance just to hide an empty heart; there are others on the contrary who are relaxed, but their hearts are full of sincere love."

Presently, we have so many in the monkey 🙊 shadow, and few Lion 🦁 nowadays." -
Richard Strachan, Quora

Here’s the dirty secret nobody likes to admit:

Open source built everything.

Linux.

The internet.

The web.

Google.

Apple’s OS.

Microsoft’s OS.

Every trillion-dollar software company is sitting on top of code written by people who mostly didn’t get paid.

That’s insane.

There was a Harvard study that estimated: Every $1 put into open source creates ~$2,000 in economic value.

Great ROI.

Except the person who contributed the $1 doesn’t get the $2,000.

The value evaporates into society.

Open source solved innovation. It never solved compensation.

That missing piece is why so many open-source projects burn out, get captured, or get strip-mined by corporations.

But there’s a solution…

Bittensor is the Antidote
Bittensor fixes that.

Not by closing anything. Not by gatekeeping. Not by centralizing.

By doing something more radical:

It turns incentives themselves into an open system.

Think about it this way:

Open source says: “Anyone can contribute.”

Bittensor says: “Anyone can contribute—and the system will continuously decide who contributed best and pay them.”

That’s it.

That’s the entire breakthrough.

Each “subnet”—which is like a business in the Bittensor ecosystem—is a competitive arena.

Miners bring intelligence. Validators judge it. The network rewards improvement.

No hiring committee. No VC permission. No résumé games. No billion-dollar GPU budgets required.

If you’re a kid in Oklahoma with a better idea, you can compete with Anthropic.

That sentence should scare a lot of people. And it does. That’s why they don’t like talking about it.

What About the TAO Token?
People get distracted by the token.

TAO isn’t a currency. Subnet tokens aren’t equity.

They’re instruments for incentive alignment.

Bitcoin stores the incentive to secure a ledger. Bittensor stores the incentive to improve anything.

Coding models. Drug discovery. Mental health. Compute. Energy optimization.

Whatever humans can define and measure.

Each subnet has a fixed supply.

No printing. No dilution. No “just one more round.”

Finite supply + infinite improvement = deflationary incentives.

That’s why this works.

You can always print more shares. You can always reprice options. You can always dilute.

Bittensor doesn’t let you do that.

If you screw up incentives, miners leave. If you get lazy, competitors appear. If you stop improving, the market moves on.

I don’t know how big Bittensor will get exactly.

I do know this: Every major technological leap happens when incentives finally match reality.

Open source unlocked creation. Bitcoin unlocked monetary truth. Bittensor unlocks coordination at scale.

That’s rare.

And rare things don’t try to convince you.

They just keep working… until suddenly the world looks different.

And everyone asks: “How did we miss this?”

But you won’t.

Not anymore.

Author: Altucher Confidential

If a nurse earns a PhD in nursing, are they referred to as doctor? If so, how do you prevent the patients from getting confused?

As I used to tell my students, doctor is a title, not an occupation. That being said, my hat is off to anyone who gets a doctorate. What annoys me is when some groups have no problem addressing a 25 year old with a PhD in physics (yes, Sheldon, I’m looking at you) as “doctor” but get their knickers in a twist if they’re expected to address a nurse with a doctorate as “doctor.” Go figure.

Source: Quora

A single minute of procrastination can destroy a month of hard work & discipline.

Rich people don't use their money to show off. Rich people use their money to make more money.

Earning money while sleeping is the ultimate flex.

Never show off keep winning in private. Not everyone wants to see you winning.

Like minded friends who treat you to do better is the real game changer.”

By Sneha, Quora

Ever have a small comment ruin your entire day? You’re not alone. We spend hours replaying conversations, trying to decode texts, and assuming the worst. It’s exhausting.

Learning to let things go is a superpower. Here are a few shifts in thinking that can help you get there.

1. It’s almost never about you. Seriously. 99% of the time, people's words and actions are a reflection of their own stress, their own bad day, or their own insecurities. You just happened to be in the room when it spilled out. It's their movie, not yours.

2. Know your own worth. When you are the main source of your own validation, other people's opinions become just noise. If you're already solid in who you are, a negative comment is like rain on a window—you notice it, but it doesn't get inside.

3. Stop assuming the worst. Our brains are great at inventing negative stories, but they're usually wrong. Before you spiral, force yourself to ask: "What are two other, less dramatic explanations for what just happened?" This breaks the cycle of negative mind-reading.

4. Set boundaries to protect your peace. You have the right to walk away from conversations that are constantly critical or draining. Protecting your energy isn’t rude; it’s necessary for your mental health. A simple "I'm not going to continue this conversation" is a complete sentence.

5. Focus only on what you can control. You can't control what others say or do. You can only control your response. Wasting energy on their behavior is a losing battle. Put all your focus on your own actions and peace of mind. That’s where your real power is.

It takes practice, but it's a game-changer. The less you absorb the negativity of others, the more peaceful your own life will become.” - Ayaz Ali , Quora

“In December 2003, Joyce Vincent died of an apparent asthma attack in her North London flat. The television remained on

The mail continued to be delivered. Her rent was set to be automatically deducted from her bank account. Days passed and no one noticed she had died.

Those days turned into weeks and the weeks into months. There were large bins on the side of the building next to her flat, so the neighbours never gave much thought to the foul odor they could smell. The block was full of noisy children and teenagers and no one questioned the constant hum of the TV noise in the background.

Eventually, Joyce's bank account ran dry. Her landlord sent her letters of demand. These, like the others, simply fell into the mix on her floor. They received no reply. Finally, with more than six months of back rent, the landlord obtained a court order to forcibly remove her from the premises. The bailiffs broke down the door and only then was her body discovered. At that point, it was January 2006, more than two years after her death.

In all this time, no one ever came looking for Joyce Vincent. No family, no friends, no colleagues, no neighbors who knocked on the door to see if everything was okay. No one called. She was 38 years old when she died.

This story is surprising for its social implications. It seems incomprehensible that entire years pass without anyone noticing the death of a person. However, these types of stories happen frequently. Chances are, you have seen a story similar to that of Joyce Vincent. And they are all the same.

A person lives alone. They lose contact with family and friends. They never know their neighbors. They stay locked up with the television or computer on for years. The world goes on as if they were no longer there until one day they are no longer there. And the bad thing is that no one notices...” - Alessandro13, Quora

SELF IMPROVEMENT.

The whole self-help industry began when Dale Carnegie published How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936. Then came other classics like Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins toward the end of the century.

Today, teaching people how to improve themselves is a business. A pure ruthless business where some people sell utter bullshit.

There are broke Instagrammers and YouTubers with literally no solid background teaching men how to be attractive to women, how to begin a start-up, how to become successful — most of these guys speaking nothing more than hollow motivational words and cliche stuff. They waste your time. Some of these people who present themselves as hugely successful also give talks and write books.

There are so many books on financial advice, self-improvement, love, etc and some people actually try to read them. They are a waste of time, mostly.

When you start reading a dozen books on finance you realize that they all say the same stuff.

You are not going to live forever in the learning phase. Don't procrastinate by reading bull-shit or the same good knowledge in 10 books.

What we ought to do is choose wisely.

Yes. A good book can change your life, given you do what it asks you to do.

All the books I have named up to now are worthy of reading. Tim Ferriss, Simon Sinek, Robert Greene — these guys are worthy of reading. These guys teach what others don't. Their books are unique and actually, come from relevant and successful people.

When Richard Branson writes a book about entrepreneurship, go read it. Every line in that book is said by one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.

When a Chinese millionaire( he claims to be) Youtuber who releases a video titled “Why reading books keeps you broke” and a year later another one “My recommendation of books for grand success” you should be wise to tell him to jump from Victoria Falls.

These self-improvement gurus sell you delusions.

They say they have those little tricks that only they know that if you use, everything in your life will be perfect. Those little tricks. We are just “making of a to-do-list before sleeping” away from becoming the next Bill Gates.

There are no little tricks.

There is no success-mantra.

Self-improvement is a trap for 99% of the people. You can't do that unless you are very, very strong.

If you are looking for easy ways, you will only keep wasting your time forgetting that your time on this planet is limited, as alive humans that is.

Also, I feel that people who claim to read like a book a day or promote it are idiots. You retain nothing. When you do read a good book, you read slow, sometimes a whole paragraph, again and again, dwelling on it, trying to internalize its knowledge. You try to understand. You think. It takes time.

It's better to read a good book 10 times than 1000 stupid ones.

So be choosy. Read from the guys who actually know something, not some wannabe ‘influencers’.

Edit: Think And Grow Rich was written as a result of a project assigned to Napoleon Hill by Andrew Carnegie(the 2nd richest man in recent history). He was asked to study the most successful people on the planet and document which characteristics made them great. He did extensive work in studying hundreds of the most successful people of that time. The result was that little book.

Nowadays some people just study Instagram algorithms and think of themselves as a Dale Carnegie or Anthony Robbins.

By Nupur Nishant, Quora

There is nothing new there.

I also did the same.

And we are still together.