It’s my book, but it’s your story.
And now Burn The Boats is a
@wsj
bestseller!
The book is meant to hold up a mirror to what we are all capable of when we refuse to settle for anything less than our God given purpose on this Earth.
The consolation prize of early trauma is refined pattern recognition skills. I know this from experience.
Because you spent so much time early on scanning the environment for danger, you tend to see the unseen and hear the unsaid before others do.
I’ll never quit.
I’ll never stop.
I’ll never feel sorry for myself.
I’ll never blame anyone but me.
I’ll never complain.
Because even if I lose the battle
I will never lose the war.
You with me?
#burntheboats
🔥⛵️
Great books that took me from HS dropout to a 🦈 on Shark Tank
10. Man's Search for Meaning
9. Grit
8. 48 Laws of Power
7. Warren Buffet Way
6. Can't Hurt Me
5. Originals
4. Rich Dad Poor Dad
3. Discipline is Destiny
2. Atomic Habits
1. What's yours? Like & I'll send mine.
These life-changing books took me from HS dropout to a 🦈 on Shark Tank
10. Man's Search for Meaning
9. Grit
8. 48 Laws of Power
7. Warren Buffet Way
6. Can't Hurt Me
5. Originals
4. Rich Dad Poor Dad
3. Discipline is Destiny
2. Atomic Habits
1. (Like & I'll send)
Your goal is to make your children resilient, not reluctant.
Tenacious. Not tentative.
When they share with you a bold dream, instead of suggesting a backup plan, tell them to buckle up.
#burntheboats
🔥⛵️
Only 9% of resolutions stick.
Half won’t survive January.
This New Year's Eve
Break the pattern.
Skip the resolution
Start the execution.
You already know what you want
Now burn the boats 🔥⛵️
Here's how:
Stuck in a rut?
There's only one way out - become intentional.
Even if it's intentionally lazy. 😴
From today, consciously decide EVERYTHING you do. 🧠
You'll stop going down dead ends. 🚫
Like & I'll send link to the one book to get you unstuck. 📕
#burntheboats
🔥⛵
These life-changing books took me from HS dropout to a 🦈 on Shark Tank
10. Man's Search for Meaning
9. Grit
8. 48 Laws of Power
7. Warren Buffet Way
6. Can't Hurt Me
5. Originals
4. Rich Dad Poor Dad
3. Discipline is Destiny
2. Atomic Habits
1. (Like & I'll send)
If you’re not familiar with
@edmylett
you are missing out on an opportunity to change your life.
There’s something so soulful and missionary about his work that I am transfixed by everything he puts out.
This is one of the most extraordinary conversations I’ve had since
My top books to change your life!
10 to 2 inspired 1.
10. Man's Search for Meaning
9. Grit
8. 48 Laws of Power
7. Warren Buffet Way
6. Can't Hurt Me
5. Originals
4. Rich Dad Poor Dad
3. Discipline is Destiny
2. Atomic Habits
1. Burn the Boats 🔥⛵
I know it’s painful but I read these tributes every day. We can’t become desensitized to human beings’ tendency to scapegoat. This isn’t ancient history.
Anti semitism is here, vigilance is always needed - especially from those who aren’t subjected to it.
12 September 1939 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Hanna Harriët Samson, was born in Emmen.
In December 1942 she was deported from
#Westerbork
to
#Auschwitz
. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
Make anxiety work for you.
Much like a nuclear reactor, the right amount can unleash infinite power.
But…too much can result in a catastrophic meltdown.
Learn how some of the best leaders strike the right balance in Burn the Boats.
Stop self censuring your ambition bc you fear they'll say you're full of yourself.
Ridicule you for becoming something you’re not - yet.
Nobody's thinking that much about what you’re up to.
Or they live a small life.
The one you left behind. 🔥⛵️
These life-changing books took me from HS dropout to a 🦈 on Shark Tank
10. Man's Search for Meaning
9. Grit
8. 48 Laws of Power
7. Warren Buffet Way
6. Can't Hurt Me
5. Originals
4. Rich Dad Poor Dad
3. Discipline is Destiny
2. Burn the Boats
1. (Like & I'll send)
These life-changing books took me from HS dropout to a 🦈 on Shark Tank
10. Man's Search for Meaning
9. Grit
8. 48 Laws of Power
7. Warren Buffet Way
6. Can't Hurt Me
5. Originals
4. Rich Dad Poor Dad
3. Discipline is Destiny
2. Atomic Habits
1. (Like & I'll send)
Career advice:
The more you think like an owner, the sooner you’ll be one.
What do owners think about?
Value creation.
You become indispensable
Which creates leverage
To pursue YOUR own dreams.
Read BTB & learn how think like an owner!
Happy New Year!
I did the exact opposite of these 3 supposed rules of investing - and it’s why I went from selling flowers on street corners to a 🦈 on Shark Tank.
Your 2024 contrarian guide to wealth creation.
Myth 1 - All debt is bad, pay it off.
No, high interest debt
I’ll never quit.
I’ll never stop.
I’ll never feel sorry for myself.
I’ll never blame anyone but me.
I’ll never complain.
Because even if I lose the battle
I will never lose the war.
You with me? 🔥⛵️
City/state govts must realize, they now must compete & earn right to tax.
All capital is mobile.
No one has to be anywhere in particular. Not New York. Not San Fran.
YOU no longer have monopoly power.
YOU must be a place people want to live/work in.
Or they’ll flee.
.
@garyvee
: "Matt is one of the few humans who's ever been a Shark on Shark Tank. I’ve known Matt for a very long time..this project that he’s on now, his new book - I know the tireless efforts, work ethic, and passion - this man put more effort into this
These life-changing books took me from HS dropout to a 🦈 on Shark Tank
10. Man's Search for Meaning
9. Grit
8. 48 Laws of Power
7. Warren Buffet Way
6. Can't Hurt Me
5. Originals
4. Rich Dad Poor Dad
3. Discipline is Destiny
2. Atomic Habits
1. (Like, RT & I'll send)
Went deep with
@garyvee
about my new book Burn the Boats on his podcast. Lots of brotherly I told you sos, lots of lessons learned, new stories over our 15 year journey together. Order for 2/14 delivery! Pls drop a note below when you do 🙏
Newsflash: whether you like it or not, or want him to fail or not,
@elonmusk
is going to turn Twitter into a very successful company. What do you think is harder: self driving cars from scratch, privatized space ships, or…Twitter? Come on.
Never let your fear of publicly eating humble pie prevent you from doing a 180 on once strongly held opinions when new information comes to light.
Your disregarded opinions are just data.
There’s so much to gain from being so right after you were so wrong.
#burntheboats
🔥⛵️
Most people have great insights.
They lack confidence to act BEFORE validation.
I go all in early & consistently beat the S&P by 3x.
I learned to attack opportunity before the tipping point of evidence.
Then burn the boats 🔥⛵️
You can too!
Stop trying to be an “influencer” but a person of substance who has influence.
Why do you want that influence?
Will use influence to enrich yourself, or enrich others to better themselves?
If it’s the former, you’ll have a date with Karma.
I hate wasted potential
When I see someone being forced to take less than they deserve
Or accepting less than they can get
It breaks my ❤️
I wrote Burn the Boats to right those wrongs 🔥⛵️
Pls let me know if it helped you become more of you 🙏
“I have decided.”
Three words with infinite power.
They are the essence of the burn the boats mindset.
I committed.
Stop revisiting.
There’s no turning back now.
Please read this story. A wonderful group called Oasis built a working farm in NJ teaching life skills to adults with autism. Met with heartbreaking cruelty. We must speak out against all forms of discrimination, especially for those least able to defend themselves.
we’re committed to building a more inclusive world, with greater understanding and acceptance, so that no one ever has to endure this type of treatment…
I was 32. Newborn at home. Lying on a hospital bed. 48 hours since the doc told me the lump in my groin I ignored for months was a massive tumor. Spilling cancer cells throughout my abdomen.
About to go under, lose my right testicle - maybe my life too - I thought, wait wait.
Career advice:
The more you think like an owner, the sooner you’ll be one.
What do owners think about?
Value creation.
If you master value creation, you become indispensable.
Being indispensable creates leverage.
Those who have leverage call the shots.
#burntheboats
If you’re worried you won’t succeed, you’ve already failed.
Just thinking about a backup plan is the very thing that causes you to need one.
My free
#burntheboats
workbook will reframe your relationship with fear so you can go all-in.
Like and I'll send now.
Before you anoint yourself a preacher, be a practitioner.
So many people pedaling recycled insights that are not drawn from their own experience but right click copy paste.
I prefer to take my counsel from those who traveled where I’m headed.
Thank you everyone for incredible feedback on Burn the Boats.
It’s amazing to open yourself up, bleed out on the pages of your book for 2 years and then have it move people to change their own lives.
It confirms the catalytic power of being vulnerable.
Be so so careful who you first share your big idea with.
Not because they’ll steal it but because they can kill it.
Many nascent dreams die from a lethal eye roll.
I’ll show you how to build support for your new baby in my new book 🔥⛵️
The consolation prize of past trauma is refined pattern recognition skills. I know from painful experience.
You spent so much time early on scanning the environment for danger, you tend to see the unseen and hear the unsaid before others do.
That one gift can now make you
It’s hard enough to be right.
Impossible to know when you’ll be right.
Structure your bets so you can survive long enough to reap the rewards of your early calls.
#burntheboats
🔥⛵️
When you say to your kids they need a backup plan what they hear is you don’t believe in them.
Assure them they’ll figure it out - they always do.
Cultivating resilience is more protective than instilling fear.
Send them a life changing book instead.
#burntheboats
Stuck in a rut? 😔
There's only one way out - become intentional.
Even if it's intentionally lazy. 😴
From today, consciously decide EVERYTHING you do. 🧠
You'll stop going down dead ends. 🚫
Read this 📕 to get unstuck. 🔥⛵
The consolation prize of early trauma is refined pattern recognition skills. I know this from experience.
Because you spent so much time early on scanning the environment for danger, you tend to see the unseen and hear the unsaid before others do.
To the innovators, respect your early adopters like your company’s life depends on it - because it might.
Early adopters are priceless. They forgive missed deadlines, tolerate product glitches, endure ridicule, stomach uncertainty.
Their irrational conviction is your bridge to
gm!
Burn the Boats is finally everywhere books with fiery covers are sold : )
It is a blueprint for the doers, hardwired to do hard things.
For those who know we can achieve anything with the right mindset.
Thousands of years of military history & reams of science prove
I'm geeking out non stop on AI. Why?
It's the most revolutionary innovation of my life.
You're in a race against time to acquire knowledge right now bc your competition certainly is.
For the latest tools I'm tracking, Like this & I'll reply.
First they doubt you.
Then they discourage you.
Then they placate you.
Then they sabotage you.
Then they come for you.
And when nothing works.
Then they fear you.
Until they join you.
But now they work for you.
🔥⛵️
#naysayers
Make imposter syndrome work for you.
It’s not something to run away from. Imposter syndrome is just a feedback loop that says you’re doing new, hard things.
Learn how the best leaders are embracing imposter syndrome.
These life-changing books took me from HS dropout to a 🦈 on Shark Tank
10. Man's Search for Meaning
9. Grit
8. 48 Laws of Power
7. Warren Buffet Way
6. Can't Hurt Me
5. Originals
4. Rich Dad Poor Dad
3. Discipline is Destiny
2. Atomic Habits
1. (Like & I'll send)
If you invented a product.
If you created art.
If you launched a business.
YOU must rep your work.
You must abandon embarrassment about the audacity of putting yourself out there.
Dissociate.
You’re a steward for something magical that has no voice.
I'll never understand why some people truly wish to stay a victim.
Yes, we've all been victimized.
But how is staying helpless rewarding?
In business, when something goes wrong, I first assume it was my doing.
Why?
Because if I broke it
I can fix it.
#burntheboats
If you’re worried you won’t succeed, you’ve already failed.
Just thinking about a backup plan is the very thing that causes you to need one.
My free
#burntheboats
workbook will reframe your relationship with fear so you can go all-in.
Like and I'll send now.
Stuck in a rut? 😔
There's only one way out - become intentional.
Even if it's intentionally lazy. 😴
From today, consciously decide EVERYTHING you do. 🧠
You'll stop going down dead ends. 🚫
Like & I'll send link to the one book to get you unstuck. 📕
🔥⛵
Many people struggling with failure right now.
In studying people before breakout success, I’ve seen one theme emerge: they first processed failure like a Jedi, broadening the idea of success to accommodate each setback, as if always part of the plan.
4 stages:
🧵
Is it perseverance or madness?
Tenacity or insanity?
Whenever I’m on the edge of quitting
When I’m so broken.
So tired.
So stripped of dignity.
A new path appears out of nowhere.
If you can stay alive
Just one more day.
The universe will show you the way.
🔥⛵️
Meditations on the blockchain:
• every physical asset, every digital asset, every ticket to an event, every legal document, every credential (diploma, license) will be recorded on the blockchain to prove authenticity and ownership and will be represented by a token in your
Brick & mortar business dying?
Fatal real estate decisions often culprit:
🔦 “My food is so good they’ll find me in this alley.”
🚗 “No parking is fine. They’ll walk 4 blocks.”
💵 “My buildout is over budget but it will drive revenue.”
None of these are ever true.
I get asked all the time, what do you look for in a founder? What qualities predict who will win in the end?
The answer:
Confidence and humility.
The confidence to probe for what isn’t working.
The humility to acknowledge they got it wrong.
The foundation of confidence and
The consolation prize of early trauma and hypervigilance is superior pattern recognition skills. I know from experience.
Do you tend to see around corners 🕶️ or hear what remains unsaid? 👂
I'll teach you how to tap into your superpower. Like & I'll send link.
🔥⛵
When you say to your kids they need a backup plan what they hear is you don’t believe in them.
Instead, assure them that no matter what happens they’ll figure it out - they always do.
Cultivating resilience is way more protective than instilling fear.
#burntheboats
gm!
Anyone with a perpetual growth mindset has an undercurrent of anxiety and imposter syndrome because you are always in new situations. Don’t relieve the discomfort by abandoning the pursuit.
Instead welcome it as a sign of striving.
Then press on.
Simple formula to 🚀 your career:
1 - get leverage by making yourself indispensable at current job
2 - use leverage to secure more responsibility
3 - if 💰not available, prioritize higher title, still shine
4 - when indispensable at new job, fight for $ - or quit
Why?
Is the negative voice in your head killing your dreams?
Retrain your brain to be your greatest ally.
Because the most impactful conversations you'll have in life will be with yourself.
So say it:
I'll never quit.
I’ll never stop.
I’ll never feel sorry for myself.
@gweiman_eth
@ensdomains
Thanks for epic help getting me up to speed. I never dismiss what I don’t understand & I will stay curious until the day I die. But best part is YOU got your wish to be in 10k.
#hardwork
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothin' you can't do…
The consolation prize of my traumatic childhood is refined pattern recognition skills.
On high alert, you must see around corners.
Hear the unsaid.
We all have a superpower born of pain.
Read BTB to reframe your past & unlock your future.
@historyinmemes
Lovely - except this isn’t true.
That’s an AI generated image.
Here’s the full story of how an artist named Bas Uterwijk took liberty with Lady Liberty.
Good morning ENS family!
I want to help burn your boats and get after your dream.
Shill me.
Clean words. Under 1 eth.
Advice: If you wouldn’t buy it at the price you set, don’t expect me to.
Go.
#ens
Adapt.
Or die by AI.
IBM says 40% of workers will need to reskill in next 3 years.
But those who do will see 15% uplift in comp.
“AI won't replace people—but people who use AI will replace people who don't.”
Good morning!
Especially to all those who knew the answer when Eliza asked Hamilton, “Why do you write like you’re running out of time?”
It’s how I feel every damn minute of this life.
Because it’s TRUE.
Even on Sunday, when you can play offense in solitude.
Have you ever felt so excited by a great idea you can't sleep - then talked out of it as "too risky"?
Does the voice in your head make you feel incapable?
Ridiculous.
An imposter.
Tired of settling, like, RT & I'll send a link to the book that will "change your life."
I’ve known
@garyvee
a decade, closest thing to family outside of blood. Yet even I still underestimate him. I love being around ppl who make me marvel at what humans can do - & make me want to try harder, reach farther, be better. Keep surprising me Gary.
This is why I’m so passionate about this new class of weight loss drugs.
My mother would never have died at 55 if she was living in the era of GLP-1 drugs.
But she lost her battle with obesity when I was 26.