the only consistently proven path to success is being completely delusional about your own abilities and refusing to let reality update your priors until the universe eventually gives up and lets you win. every founder who made it was told they were crazy. every artist who broke through was "unrealistic." every person who built something from nothing had friends and family genuinely concerned about their mental state. the "rational" people who "knew their limits" and "had realistic expectations" are all working for the delusional ones now. you literally cannot achieve anything extraordinary while maintaining an accurate assessment of your odds. the math never works. the market is always saturated. someone more qualified is always already doing it. if you actually internalized the statistics you would never start anything. success selection bias means we only hear from the delusion that worked out. but here's the thing - the cautious realistic people didn't make it either. they just failed quietly at things they didn't care about instead of loudly at things they loved. fake it till you make it isn't a hack. it's the whole game. you act like the person you want to become until your skills catch up to your confidence. there is no other way. the gap between who you are and who you're pretending to be is called growth. stay delusional.
Retardmax
Stop overanalyzing and overthinking
This keeps u in one place forever
Your profound thoughts dont matter
Just do things and push forward
Some decisions might be wrong
But atleast u moving in some way
The “secret” is when you jump, the net appears. But in reality there’s not really a jump & a net isn’t really even required
What your mind creates/perceives as an “infinite fall into a never-ending abyss of unknown & scary” is actually nothing. U step outside of it & realize there was never even a cliff there. Its just a normal field of everyday grass with infinite potential/opportunity. Ur like “oh”.
99% sadly never see the other side of this psychological mirage due to fear. They never jump in - never realizing there was never anything to jump into. The fear, the cliff, the fall - all fake
You basically jump off “the edge” mentally preparing for impact & some insane adventure & then afterwards realize u don’t even fall. Its like standing next to your bed in full-on parachute gear and then jumping UP onto it, thinking it will somehow just break & ull fall down. But u don’t even go down, ur just immediately “there”, in ur normal, & then u relax & u look around & ur like “ok well guess ill figure it out now” & its still just you with yourself, except now you don’t have th extra bullshit in your way