The ability to be productive - to be useful - is in itself therapeutic.

Uselessness breeds hopelessness where usefulness instils sovereignty.

You need to be competent not just for other people's sake, but for your own - so that you can respect you in appreciating what you add.

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If you want to give yourself a solid kick forward in your future, ask yourself:

"What will it cost me if I don't act?"

People postpone endlessly because they don't think about or connect fully with the costs of inaction.

There are costs. Act.

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You don’t escape suffering by rejecting love; you escape it by embracing growth.

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You'll develop peace in doing things your way once you accept that EVERYBODY believes they've beaten you in some arbitrary competition in their head.

No matter how much success you have, there will be an excuse they've made in their head to tolerate you.

If you're richer, then you don't have time and happiness like they do.

If you're hot, they're probably smarter.

If you work hard, they're too cool to be a try hard like you

If you're likeable and charismatic, the only reason they aren't is because they "keep it real"

If you're anon, the 'only' reason they can't post like you and see similar success is because they've doxxed, or their content is too intellectual for the masses.

Limited by their monumental courage, intellect, and bravery.

If you're tall, then short people live longer.

If you're big, you probably can't fight. They've won the imaginary brawl.

If you're in shape, they're more free to eat whatever they want.

No matter what you do, they'll make up an arbitrary metric to beat you in.

Be charitable, and let them have it.

Might as well just do what you want.

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A dangerous person in their work & life is the one that believes - in their bones - that they can figure anything out.

Never count them out.

That kind of mindset will take you everywhere you want to go.

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“If you love her, tell her. If you want it, take it. If you’re scared, do it anyway. ‘Later’ is where dreams go to die of neglect.”

The Now is the Only Weapon. Attack or Die.

The present is a knife. You can use it to carve your life into something legendary, or slit your own throat with comfort and safety and another night of scrolling until your eyes bleed.

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How to figure out what you want:

1) Make a guess at what you want

2) Do everything in your power to achieve it

3) Realize that everything you did was just a prototype

4) Start over with more clarity on what you want

Then repeat steps 2 through 4.

Probably for the rest of your life.

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Individuals often feel a sense of frustration, and perhaps even guilt, over "wasted" years or "lost" time during huge periods of monumental upheaval and growth - yet these are synonymous, for without upheaval there can be no true growth. It is meant to be unfamiliar territory.

The pain, the disorientation, the doubt are all part of what gives us our psychological spines - to see with clarity and courage when the truth finally lands.

Nothing is ever wasted, nothing is ever lost - so long as you persevere to see the truth.

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Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity.
— Robin Sharma

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In order to awaken your best life, it’s important that you “die while you are alive.” Most people live as if they have all the time in the world. They wish they had more time in their days and yet they waste the time they have. They put off living until some event in the future occurs. In order to awaken to your best life, every day should be lived as if it were your last day on the planet.
— Robin Sharma

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You will never escape the impulse to be productive.

It is impossible.

This ‘soft life’ stuff is feel-good flattery and makes mockery of human nature at its core.

The only people who preach it to you live a life you would never wish to replicate or emulate in any way, or got to an authoritative position in which they can convince you that it’s how to live—by living in direct opposition to that lacklustre way of life.

Sooner you cut off your intoxicating supply of blatant copium the better your life will be.

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There is no war on masculinity.

The world has never been more advantageous to men who are legitimately masculine in any real capacity.

None of it involves trying to bed as many women as possible, accumulating material items, or getting big muscles in the gym.

It is all internal.

The war has always been the same, the people who become hypnotised by the international chant of demoralisation are the ones who’ve lost.

Every man who embodies real masculine virtues and standards sees so much success in the world and within themselves it isn’t even funny.

Self-governance and agency is a core tenet of masculinity in itself, and so because so many men fall for victimhood propaganda, it has never been easier for the men who ignore it. Doesn’t even apply to them.

They naturally thrive.

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Sounds small but:

A lot of things change for you once you realise that enjoying life isn’t a passive process.

It is only recently that I realised having fun is literally a skill.

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You can channel your reverence for a person into either admiration and inspiration, or let the fruit of that emotion rot into silent envy.

If I see something I like about someone, I’m quick to express it in some form. It takes more energy from me to withhold it. Eases the cognitive load so that my thoughts can be clear.

It’s why if I read something I like then I’ll just like it, restack it or do those things publicly and directly message the person. Regardless of who it is.

If it’s genuine, don’t hesitate.

When you hold these things in there’s a strange tension that builds.

Nothing cool about it. Makes me have less respect for a person.

Always putrefies in your own mind. Can always sense when a person wants to say something good but deliberately holds themselves back.

Worsens your own outcome in subtle ways.

More you give to life, the more you get from life.

Abundance. The rich always get richer.

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This holds true for anything you want to be successful at: concentration of force is the only way to become the person who achieves big goals. You need to be obsessed. You need to channel as much energy as possible into that goal.

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Your success depends more on your refusal to fail than your desire to win.

Everybody wants to win.

But not everybody hates losing.

An obsession with winning may motivate you, but refusing failure as an option makes you dangerous. And you need that.

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Busy yourself with creating and sharing cool shit and the right people will find you.

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You are not your best self.

If you can accept that & actually strive to it daily:

You will be ahead of everyone else in the room

You'll grow at a rapid pace

Your professional (and personal) life will be better.

If your growth is "finished," so are you.

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Every aspect of human suffering is intensified by your refusal to embrace your state.

Inertia governs every cell.

Motion must be constant and deliberate.

Speed over a pothole fast enough and it evaporates in your purposeful blitz. Won’t even feel it.

Hesitate to slow down and it punishes you. Feel every inch. Immediate damage.

Went punting yday, slowly approached the river banks and got trapped hoping to avoid it.

Nature abhors mindless hesitation.

Second we decided to embrace the currents we bounced off the walls and ricocheted right back on course.

Nature vibrates to the tune you dictate to her. Respects you so much she rewards you for taking control.

Life is exactly the same.

Disgusted by lacklustre hands and idle minds.

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Your ability to stay focused and
optimized when nothing is going your way is your competitive advantage.

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