Progress is slow. boringly slow. but the rewards you reap at the end of those thousands of days is just so monumental that you can't help but keep going.
The more you're in pain, the better you are at handling it.
Expose yourself to more suffering. Suffering is your friend. Suffering will lead you to the life you want.
The more you lean into pain, the more you lean into pain.
Does that make sense?
The more you do shit that sucks ball to do, the better you get at gritting my teeth through the suck, the better you get at bearing the suck.
Understand that work, and thinking about doing work, are two different things - stop thinking and start doing -
Doing work is the only one of the two that actually brings you results.
Want to get in shape? Don't listen to some fat guy's advice.
Want to make more money? Don't listen to someone with a dead end 9-5 job.
Find people who do have what you want in life, and listen to what they did to get them,
Regardless, we need different sources of inputs to make sense of a situation, We must not allow information to be censored, or altered for that very reason.
Stay true to yourself.
You don’t need to change who you are just to fit in with people who wouldn’t even like you for you.
Find the few who genuinely care and appreciate you for being yourself.