Pursuing a better Life for yourself is ugly, boring, difficult and embarrassing. However, nothing worth while is easy.
If you feel like you’re behind, then you are. But the next best and earliest time to start is NOW.
Go explore the emotion of PAIN for 12 months. I love you.
People highly underestimate how many shots they can take when they have NOTHING TO LOSE. But they’re too scared to start to even realize it.
Imagine going to the casino to play craps and they tell you, “You can keep playing until you win.” But people are scared to roll.
>Be Elon
>Get bullied so badly as a kid that you end up in the hospital
>Escape into books
>Read more than 8hrs a day
>Teach yourself programming
>Sell a video game at 12
>Leave South Africa
>Sleep on couches
>Work odd jobs
>Get into America
>Build a startup
>Get fired from your own company
>Start over
>Build another company
>Merge it into PayPal
>Get removed as CEO
>Your company gets acquired
>Walk away with nearly $180 million
>Instead of retiring at 31, put almost all of it into three impossible ideas: Electric cars, Solar energy, Rockets
>People tell you you're insane
>Start a rocket company with no aerospace degree
>Learn rocket science from textbooks
>First rocket fails
>Second rocket fails
>Third rocket fails
>Divorce
>Public humiliation
>Cash running out
>One launch away from bankruptcy
>Launch anyway
>The fourth rocket reaches orbit
>NASA signs a contract
>Survive
>Tesla is weeks from collapse
>Save it at the last minute
>Get mocked for wanting reusable rockets.
>Land one.
>Then another.
>Then dozens.
>Turn science fiction into engineering
>Get mocked for betting on EVs
>Turn electric cars into status symbols
>Force the entire auto industry to follow
>Build the most valuable car company in history
>Launch astronauts into orbit
>Create a global satellite internet network.
>Buy Twitter
>Fire most of the staff
>Rename it X
>Walk into politics
>Risk your reputation
>Risk your companies
>Risk your fortune
>Become one of the most polarising people on Earth.
>Get attacked by the media, politicians, competitors, and activists
>Keep building anyway
>Become a TRILLIONAIRE
Your brain basically stopped recording your life around age 25. Everything since then is a blur for a reason.
Neuroscientists measured this so many times they named it: the reminiscence bump. Ask anyone over 60 to recall their strongest memories and almost every answer clusters between ages 15 and 25. The decade where everything was new. First job, first apartment, first real relationship. Your brain encoded each day because nothing had a template yet.
After that window closes, most people enter a repetition loop. Same commute, same office, same weekend rhythm. The brain stops recording repeated experiences as distinct events. A year with 300 novel days leaves 300 memory anchors. A year with 10 leaves 10. Both took 365 days to live. Only one of them will exist when you look back.
This is why people at 50 say "where did the time go." The time went into routine that felt like living but left almost nothing behind.
Your remaining years are fixed. How many your brain bothers to remember is entirely up to you.
doing hard shit is the cheat code at life. your body, mind, and heart need to be challenged daily. life demands that we show up for ourselves, even on the toughest days. you don't need to make a commitment to a coach, a program, or an audience. make a pact with yourself. Your word to yourself matters. honor it. uphold it. because each time you do, you're not just building credibility - you're building a life rooted in integrity, strength, and self-respect.
every time you keep a promise to yourself, you strengthen the foundation of trust within. face the friction and do hard things daily. this is how you create a life of significance.
The only equation you need for success:
((P +T) * A * A) + F = S
Passion
Talent
Association
Action
Then last but certainly not least—combining these components with Faith guarantees you success.
A quote from Kobe Bryant (A letter to my current self):
Understand that you are about to be the leader of the family, and this involves making tough choices.