25 Lessons from 2025

Everything I learned in 2025:

1. Healthy stress outlets will save you. Go for runs. Deep clean. Journal.
2. Slowly, then all at once. You’ll feel like things happened overnight but they didn’t. It all compounded into “overnight success”
3. Every low is followed by a high and every high is followed by a low. You can’t have one without the other.
4. Say yes to more scary things. Say yes to things you wouldn’t normally do.
5. Maintain composure even when you think you can’t
6. Stay around people whose happiness brings you happiness. Celebrate them more than you celebrate yourself.
7. For every person wishing for you to lose there’s another wishing for you to win.
8. Not everything you lose is a loss.
9. Reading before you sleep will give you the best sleep ever.
10. Wealth is not finite. Wealth is returned energy you decided to put into the world.
11. In the age of AI, the best leverage you have is being authentic.
12. As soon as you seek outward validation you won’t ever truly accomplish anything.
13. Loneliness is the price of growth.
14. Replace all your drinks with water and tea. It’s the easiest change you can make for your health.
15. Don’t seek love. Radiate love.
16. Most ideas and concepts are incredibly simple. People just make it sound complicated to look smart.
17. Fail so many times till you aren’t phased by failing.
18. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t let the big things remain inside.
19. No matter the outcome you will always win.
20. Half effort is closer to no effort. Put your heart into it or don’t bother at all.
21. Anxiety lives and thrives in idleness. Stop thinking, start doing.
22. It’s only too late for the guy in the casket.
23. Foundations that are built fast, crumble fast.
24. Pay attention to how people talk about others around you. That’s how they talk about you when you are not around.
25. You don’t have to finish every book you start reading. This doesn’t apply to just books.