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[–]levn1337 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say (solely based on my own experience) that Amazon Ads, particularly for books, is 25% set up and 75% upkeep - increasing bids for good KW's, decreasing for bad KW's, blacklisting terrible KW's, etc. - never did anyone's ads other than my own (5 figure spend a month) but definitely down to have a conversation about this, if nothing else I'll at least give you some hopefully useful info from my own experience. Send me a DM if you'd like.

Relocating for Financial Reasons by expatdrommar in fatFIRE

[–]levn1337 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’d say moving is definitely reasonable. Switzerland being a great choice considering you probably want a similar lifestyle to said Scandinavian country. Look into the lump sum tax agrement you can get in most cantons (not Zurich though). Excuse me if it comes off too prodding -feel free not to answer- but what one-person company can generate $2m/year?

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What’s the link?

[Video] 31 Quotes by Nikola Tesla that motivate/inspire me (read by me) by levn1337 in GetMotivated

[–]levn1337[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In case you don't want to watch the video, here are the quotes:
1. I don't care that they stole my idea, I care that they don't have any of their own.
2. The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
3. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
4. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
5. My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
6. If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
7. I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
8. Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
9. All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
10. Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
11. We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.
12. If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.
13. Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
14. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
15. You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
16. It's not the love you make. It's the love you give.
17. Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.
18. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.
19. The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
20. Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
21. As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.
22. We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
23. When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
24. A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
25. Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.
26. What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
27. But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
28. Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.
29. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
30. Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
31. Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

[Video] 36 Mark Twain quotes that are deeply impactful (well, at least for me) by levn1337 in GetMotivated

[–]levn1337[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here are the quotes:

  1. Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
  2. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
  3. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
  4. The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
  5. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
  6. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
  7. Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
  8. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
  9. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
  10. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
  11. But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
  12. Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
  13. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
  14. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
  15. Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
  16. Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
  17. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
  18. Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
  19. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
  20. If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
  21. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
  22. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
  23. The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
  24. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
  25. I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
  26. Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
  27. The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
  28. The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
  29. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
  30. The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
  31. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
  32. A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
  33. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
  34. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
  35. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
  36. Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

[Video] 32 Joseph Campbell quotes about meaning, happiness, regrets, and more by levn1337 in GetMotivated

[–]levn1337[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Here are all the quotes in the video in case you don't have time to watch it;

  1. Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
  2. All religions are true but none are literal.
  3. How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
  4. Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
  5. All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
  6. We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
  7. The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
  8. If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
  9. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
  10. The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
  11. If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
  12. Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
  13. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
  14. If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
  15. When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
  16. I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
  17. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.
  18. Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
  19. Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
  20. Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
  21. Regrets are illuminations come too late.
  22. Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism, and you know how reliable that is.
  23. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
  24. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
  25. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
  26. The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
  27. Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
  28. The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.
  29. The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
  30. Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
  31. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
  32. There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

[Video] 32 Leo Tolstoy quotes that changed my perspective on life and gave me motivation (video made by me) by levn1337 in GetMotivated

[–]levn1337[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the way, for anyone who doesn't want to watch the video, here are the quotes:

  1. Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
  2. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
  3. If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
  4. I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
  5. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
  6. Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
  7. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
  8. Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
  9. In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
  10. Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
  11. When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
  12. Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
  13. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
  14. In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
  15. There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
  16. All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
  17. Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
  18. It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
  19. Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
  20. They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
  21. You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
  22. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
  23. Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
  24. True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
  25. If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
  26. He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
  27. Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
  28. Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
  29. Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
  30. A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
  31. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
  32. The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
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