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Tim Denning is an Australian writer and blogger best known for his work on Medium and LinkedIn, where his essays on personal development, entrepreneurship, money, work, and productivity have accumulated hundreds of millions of views. He has been a contributor to CNBC and Business Insider and writes the Substack newsletter Modern Freedom. He works in technology outside of writing and has an interest in finance and blockchain. After overcoming personal lows including severe mental illness, he became obsessed with personal development in 2011 and has since centered his work around the vision of "inspiring the world through entrepreneurship and personal development." He teaches high performers to build digital businesses through his site timdenning.com and a free guide at timdenning.com/1-million/

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If you’re seen as harmless, you’re not a good human being. You’re just weak.

Don’t let the corporate world ruin your optimism.

6 months of obsession can fix 10 years of f*ck ups.

A lot of rage goes away when you figure out how to make more money.

If you can master self-improvement, you can make a lot of money. Building wealth is just extreme self-improvement in disguise.

I don’t think people realize how much worshipping politics rots their brains.

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

Adopt the mindset that you can literally do anything you want in life and you will.

The influencer era is dead. It’s now all about the practitioner era.

Stop being a people-pleaser. It’s sad. Fitting in means being mediocre. And that’s how you end up broke and depressed. There’s no need to be nice. Just say what you think. Avoiding conflict only makes the problem worse. Embrace the confrontation and be assertive. That’s how you create change and get unfairly yet highly compensated for it.

Every tragedy in your life is secretly good luck.

May you heal so hard you tell your parents you love them and forgive them for all the stuff they messed up during your childhood.

The worst part about climbing the corporate ladder is it requires an ass licking skillset.

Get addicted to the work you do. Wake up early. Do it on the hard days. Operate in a flow state for 4 hours a day. Love it so much you don’t need a holiday from it.

If you’re high agency type of person who loves high performance, the only thing you can do is entrepreneurship or you’ll lose your mind. Everything else just feels like a joke. It’s the only path that lets you exploit your talents, act like a psychopath, and run things how you want without being told what to do. The more you try to continue being an employee the more depressed you become. You just know. You’ve always known. You have this fire in your eyes no one can put out and every minute you avoid it feels like death. Some of us are born to solve problems and change the world in some small way. And we must take risks to feel alive. Only entrepreneurship can give you that. There are downsides though such as uncertainty, more stress, and inconsistent income. But life is too f*cking short to work a boring job. Stop avoiding the one path that’ll make you come alive.