DAN KOE

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DAN KOE

@thedankoe

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DAN KOE

@thedankoe

Mar 24, 2025

I wrote a second book. A short and philosophical take on money and discovering your life's work. I made it free because this is one of those things I just want in as many hands as possible. The paperback is not free for clear reasons. Links below to read:

Go on more walks. Walk for no reason. Walk to solve a problem. Walk to blow off steam. Walk to get outside. Walk to listen, read, and learn. Walk to escape distractions. Walk to improve your health. Walk to think. A simple walking habit can change absolutely everything.

Normalize not having an opinion on things you don’t understand.

How to do a hard reset on your life (in 30 minutes):

how to unf*ck your life

Nobody is coming to save you. Not your friends. Not your family. Not the government They can offer advice and tools. But at the end of the day, it's up to you to change your mind and act regardless of how you feel. A thread of advice you need to hear:

Wake up. Hit snooze 4 times. Stare at your phone. Roll out of bed. Make coffee. Sit in traffic. 8 hours of unfulfilling work. Sit in traffic... again. Argue with your "significant" other. Walk the pet. Watch TV. Pass out. Repeat. This should scare the shit out of you.

Self-discipline is when the desire to become the highest version of yourself outweighs the desire for cheap pleasures. A thread on reaching your potential:

You don't magically become focused. You practice it. You notice you're distracted and snap out of it immediately, over and over again until it's second nature. Most people have not trained this muscle, and they are not anywhere close to as focused as they think they are.

You feel terrible because your subconscious knows you could be doing better. A thread:

if you don’t create a routine, you will be assigned one

Mental masturbation: The process of raising dopamine in the brain by telling people your goals, plans, and how you want to change but never actually doing anything about it.

DAN KOE

@thedankoe

Aug 14, 2024

self-discipline isn't difficult, you're just distracted

Hard pills you need to swallow (if you want a fulfilling future):

Use your money to - Look better (grooming) - Feel better (food choices) - Make more money (invest) Use your time to - Look better (gym) - Feel better (meditation) - Make more money (skills) Spend your time and money on things that will improve your quality of life

DAN KOE

@thedankoe

Nov 14, 2023

If you don’t create a routine, you will be assigned one. A thread on the importance of routine:

The greatest skill one can develop is decreasing the time between idea and execution.

Your future will be determined by 3 things:

Go on a walk

“Everyone is going to make their own apps with AI” My friend you don’t even make your own food. You’ll still pay a few bucks to use an app.

Your brain works against you until you give it a meaningful goal to wire itself around.

do this once every 6 months, minimum

How to master any skill fast: - Stop studying - Outline a project - Start building it - Hit a roadblock - Research how to overcome it - Repeat until completed Most people get trapped in tutorial hell and have nothing to show for years of "learning."

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life. – Naval Ravikant A thread on becoming more intelligent:

How to create a life of meaning, money, and impact (as fast as humanly possible). — Thread —

DAN KOE

@thedankoe

Mar 16, 2025

If you don't shamelessly promote your work, every day for the next 10-20 years, you will get stuck doing someone else's work until you realize that nobody is going to pay you if they have no idea who you are.

A pattern I've noticed in successful people: They disappear from the world for months at a time to force pure focus on themselves and their vision. They laser in on one meaningful goal and make it a reality.

Write more. Write for no reason. Write to organize your thoughts. Write to get the chaos out of your mind. Write to attract people to the work you love doing. Write because most other habits are distractions that slowly chain you down. Write to change your life.

7 bad habits that are preventing you from having the life you want:

DAN KOE

@thedankoe

Apr 9, 2024

People aren't ignoring you, they are just busy with other people who add more value to their lives.

How to do whatever the fuck you want:

DAN KOE

@thedankoe

Oct 27, 2025

A pattern I’ve noticed in successful people - that didn’t sacrifice their life for success - is that they physically worked very little, yet people see them as hard workers. Mentally, they were always thinking, plotting, and scheming. They worked in their mind. And once they were

If you aren't tired when you go to bed and excited when you wake up, you need intensity and goals. A thread on getting what you want out of life:

The most important thing you can do when the world is changing rapidly is learn.

One pattern I’ve noticed in happy people: They’re obsessive about maintaining their mental clarity.

Stop wondering what to do with your life. Start trying everything until you find the one thing that makes you forget to eat. The thing that makes you lose track of time. The thing that keeps you up at night because the ideas won't stop coming. Give everything for that one thing.

The best periods of my life came after a period of being absolutely fed up with the lack of progress I was making. A thread on using negative energy to change your life:

How I've been using AI: - Choose a task - Find YT expert that teaches it - Have AI summarize their video - Add examples / context - Have AI turn that into a meta prompt - Test, refine, and reuse that prompt This has led to the best results in almost everything I have AI do.

DAN KOE

@thedankoe

Jan 19, 2025

3-6 months of beginner hell (making close to zero progress and questioning whether it's worth it) is a natures way of filtering out people who weren't serious in the first place.

If you want to see a quick jump in quality of life start going on a 15 minute walk first thing in the morning, right after you wake up, no matter what the weather is.

It takes about 1-2 months of confusion, feeling lost, and being on the verge of giving up for the right amount of vision to form where you have absolute clarity and launch into a new way of life.

The greatest skill one can develop is decreasing the time between idea and execution.

DAN KOE

@thedankoe

Apr 20, 2025

what you consume, consumes you

Do what you love but study psychology, marketing, and sales so you don’t become a starving artist. A quick thread on breaking free:

DAN KOE

@thedankoe

Dec 16, 2022

How to get ahead of 99% of people (in 6 to 12 months):

Most people's lives are determined by how they choose to cure their boredom.

The easiest way to get ahead in life is to commit to a period of skill development. 6-12 months. Pure focus for 2-4 hours a day. Learning and building. Not just binge watching tutorials, but creating quality projects that you, others, or businesses could actually benefit from.

how to take back control of your life

do anything to find that one thing

Be a failure. Approach the girl and get rejected. Post the video and get called an idiot. Start the business and watch people criticize your first moves. Everyone else did it. You aren’t a special case. Invest in your portfolio of failures until you can afford to succeed.

If you're bored, create something. Anything. Software. Designs. Photos. Videos. Writing. A business. A body. A relationship. A new way of thinking. How can you not feel electric to wake up and have the ability to do whatever you want.

Signs you're on the right track: Time moves differently Work energizes you Money becomes secondary Learning doesn't take effort Discipline is the default You think in decades, not days Waking up is a blessing You feel like you don't belong, but you wouldn't change a thing.

If you want to attract people to you, focus on your mission. People gravitate toward those who know what they want.

your future will be determined by 3 things

Surreal.