> Be Richard Feynman > Teaches himself advanced calculus at age 15 > Fixes neighborhood radios for fun during the Great Depression > Recruited to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in his 20s > Gets bored while building the atomic bomb and starts picking locks > Breaks into his colleagues' top-secret safes just to leave them mocking notes > Completely breaks down the government's security system for fun > Loses his wife to tuberculosis and uses the grief to dive deeper into physics > Reinvents quantum mechanics by drawing simple sketches (Feynman Diagrams) > Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for his breakthroughs > Refuses to take himself seriously or act like a stuffy academic > Spends his free time playing the bongo drums in a Brazilian samba band > Learns how to paint at age 44 and sells his art under a pseudonym > Travels to remote regions to decode ancient Mayan hieroglyphics > Investigates the tragic Challenger Space Shuttle disaster on live TV > Drops a piece of rubber into a glass of ice water in front of Congress > Instantly proves the O-rings failed due to the cold, cracking the case single-handedly > And Richard Feynman is still the most brilliant, chaotic mind to ever live who proved geniuses can have fun. > Feynman is badass.

You don’t actually have to have any hobbies. You can just chase one obsession instead until you reach greatness.

The goal isn’t to work hard. It’s to do meaningful work that doesn’t feel like work.

Thinking about passive income is making you lazy.

Consistency without iteration is just ego in disguise.

Hitting 40 years old will humble you fast.

A decade of effort looks like overnight success.

If you're selling to wealthy people, sell them on being around high performers.

Nobody will give you big amounts of money unless you have social proof.

Most people have never witnessed the truth because mainstream culture and politics have brainwashed them into believing lies.

The most profitable skill is being obsessed with one thing, almost to the point of insanity.

F*ck being normal and fitting in. Be weird.

Ignoring the traditional paths in life and treating every experience as an opportunity will make people wish you got hit by a bus.

Getting rich looks like privilege to people who’ve chosen envy over mastery in a field.