Good afternoon Steemit. I’m writing to you in extremely high spirits, good times lie ahead. 🙏🏼

Just a few hours ago I wrote my third and final exam for this period and it is needless to say a huge relief being able to wrap this study-madness-period up, and yet again spend more time on work and personal projects.

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Investing in Steem

Yesterday I did my first investment in Steem, $1247 USD to be exact (which accounts for about 10 000 Swedish crowns). No crazy amounts or anything but definitely a first step.

My prime reason for this is obviously because I believe in the platform and its underlying technology. I see a bright future for Steemit that I’d love to be a part of to a greater extent.

My secondary reason for investing is due to psychological commitment. Although I already am active daily and have seen INSANE natural growth to my channel (thank you everyone for showing such interest), this will even further motivate me to keep at it at the pace I am, and also to bring onboard my friends and acquaintances to the platform.

For those of you who read Better You #2 knows that I’m currently reading Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferris during my 1-hour morning-read-sessions.

As per usual I have extracted some profound knowledge in my notes ready to be shared with you readers.

Key Takeaways (Tribe of Mentors)

• Inside suffering is the seed of change.

Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change.

Holding on and getting dragged down made me learn how to let go. Choosing the false friends made me see and choose the true ones. Travelling along the wrong path made me see the right one. The list goes on.

At times it truly takes a moment of despair before you wake up and you finally ask yourself “What the fuck am I doing?”. I’ve made major decisions for the better in my life thanks to suffering.

And then again, you can’t have pleasure without suffering, they are two tokens of the same coin.

Learn to appreciate both.

• The means of learning are abundant - it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Cultivate the desire to learn by reading what you want, not what you’re “supposed to”.

That we live in an era of abundant information likely doesn’t come as a surprise to you. But I think that Naval Ravikant who wrote this paragraph really put the nail in the coffin that it is the DESIRE to learn that is the scarce resource.

What I observe is a major problem, is that our long academic journey in todays society squelches peoples desire to learn.

Many individuals experience their academic years as something “forced”, obviously resulting in very negative neuro-associative pathways linked to reading books and to the process of taking in information.

Sadly, this makes the process to pick up a sublime book a friend or a podcast recommends is to them this insurmountable task because they have so much pain associated with reading books.

In the past when I’ve encountered people who have asked me for advice on this matter my response have been to:
‘Push through, put in the effort, and slowly but surely rewire those neuro-pathways’.

But after reading this I will take a different stance.

Instead of pushing through by force, I’d rather say let yourself be pulled by force.

Fuck it if the first book you pick up isn’t the most productive or complex, just simply pick up a book and read it for the pure joy of learning something new.

Magic Bullet of the Day

I notice that this post has grown quite long, so I’ll simply round of todays Better You with a quote (also by Naval Ravikant) that will serve both as inspiration and as food for thought:

Happiness is a choice, and a skill you develop