Chris Williamson shared one of the most overlooked truths about self-improvement.
“If you want to go from where you are to where you want to be, you're going to have to do something that makes you more different, more weird, more easy to be mocked.”
The hardest part isn't waking up early, going to the gym, or staying disciplined. It's surviving what he calls “the lonely chapter”: the period where you've outgrown your old life, but haven't yet built your new one.
Chris: “You're so different that you can't resonate with your old set of friends. But you're not yet sufficiently developed that you've created your new set of friends.”
Most people mistake this feeling for failure and go back to the habits, people, and routines they already know. Not because they're happier there, but because familiarity feels safer than uncertainty.
Chris: “There is this temptation to go back to the old ways of thinking... to the road that you already know how it's going to end.”
Movies make personal growth look like one inspiring montage. In reality, it's years of showing up without knowing if any of it will pay off. You're surrounded by uncertainty, questioning whether you're wasting your time, while everyone else seems content staying the same.
That's why so few people truly change. The loneliness isn't a detour. It's part of the journey. If you can survive that chapter without turning back, you're already further ahead than most people ever get.
MrBeast reveals Big Chocolate using 1.5M+ kids in illegal child labor on cacao farms 🍫
“There’s 1.5 to 1.8 million kids working in illegal child labor on cacao farms in West Africa, where majority of the world’s cacao comes from. I had no idea how bad it was until I started a chocolate company. It’s been normalized for decades in the chocolate industry. Big Chocolate pays farmers so little that they just can’t afford to not use children.”
“When I asked distributors if I could pay a premium and not have little kids work on my farms, it literally didn’t exist. No one really seemed to even think it needed to exist.”
“So we went to five villages that the average child labor there was like 45%. Seven months later we were able to get a 90% reduction and get it to where there are only around 50 still in child labor with our first check-in.”
“There literally wasn’t a school because kids just worked on the farm. So we built a school so they could go to school. The goal isn’t just to get the kids out of child labor. It’s also to get them an education so they’re not only working on a cacao farm and doomed to work on it their whole life, because they don’t know anything else.”
Your attention works fine. You don't need to "fix" it. You just don't have a target that makes it easy to focus for months on end. You don't have a vision so strong that everything else becomes boring.
You’re all a bunch of fucking bums hating on my brother’s name, especially fighters.
Without Conor McGregor, everyone in MMA would still be making 10K fighting on Spike TV. He changed the game forever.
Watching him fight through things people don’t come back from inspires me to keep facing my own demons. He didn’t have to go for it, but he still did for the love of the game. That’s what separates him. A real motherfucking G.
Nobody knows the real man. He taught me the game, taught me about life, and so much more than I could ever put into words. He taught me how to believe in myself, think bigger, trust my instincts, keep going when the whole world doubts you, and never settle. I’ll always be grateful for everything he’s taught me and everything he continues to teach me. My brother for life. 🤞
If you hate on that, you’ll never achieve greatness.
Always up. The legend. The best ever to do it. McGregor forever.
I love tourists.
Long may they come to Uganda.
Here, they’ll meet the best people in the world.
Warm. Kind. Generous.
Just utterly fascinating human beings.
Uganda is beautiful.
I wish we Ugandans knew this.
Tourists are great and whatnot.
But Ugandans are greater.
Ugandans need to tour Uganda.
People travel from all over the planet to see what we have.
Ugandan tourists would be more reliable.
I think.
Anyway, the last Ebola patient will be discharged this morning.
I love tourists.
Long may they come to Uganda.
Here, they’ll meet the best people in the world.
Warm. Kind. Generous.
Just utterly fascinating human beings.
Uganda is beautiful.
I wish we Ugandans knew this.
Tourists are great and whatnot.
But Ugandans are greater.
Ugandans need to tour Uganda.
People travel from all over the planet to see what we have.
Ugandan tourists would be more reliable.
I think.
Anyway, the last Ebola patient will be discharged this morning.
There was a 1 in 625 trillion chance this photo of Lionel Messi bathing baby Lamine Yamal would ever happen.
"Families entered a raffle, Barcelona players were assigned by random lottery, and somehow 20 year old Messi ended up pairing with this five month old baby, and that's Lamine Yamal right there."
"The probability of this happening says you are more than 2 million times more likely to win the Powerball Jackpot than to have this script play out. It is roughly equivalent to picking one specific second out of 20 million years, 1 in 625 trillion, insane."
Russia trains their sex spies to give the PERFECT blowjob 😭
Deep throat technique, banana practice, 90 degree head angle mandatory.
Your husband will thank you (or hate you).
This podcast went too far and I’m here for it 😂
Looks open the door. Character decides who stays.
If you don't deal with your insecurities, control your emotions, and become comfortable with who you are, no amount of good looks will build lasting relationships.
I was so sharp and so ready for this fight I cannot believe what has happened. The talk of me being off while walking in to the fight is nonsense. I was calm, ready, and confident. I am in shock what has taken place. The devil is literally staring at me right in front of my face here. I am not engaging. I will be at church tomorrow.
I will overcome this.
I will not be deterred.
I will return.