You must believe you are special. Then go so f*cking hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. Wage a daily war against the ordinary outcome until the belief you invented from nothing, alone in a room, has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.
"Passion" comes from the Latin “passio” which means "suffering" and "endurance."
So people think that following your passion means doing something you love, when it really means finding something that you are willing to suffer for.
"My job is to be calm and collected when they’re frantic. My job is to create intensity when they’re not intense. My job is to always be opposite the moment."
-Mike Elko, Texas A&M Football coach
You're the counterbalance.
The thermostat, not the thermometer.
One of the hardest and best skills to develop: How to reset quickly.
When things go wrong, do you let it linger, ruminate on it, and spiral?
Or are you able to let go and focus on the next action.
Palmer Luckey is the modern day Mcafee but sicker…
- forum rat turned prodigy
- builds Oculus in a garage off pure obsession
- sells to Meta for $2b
- gets cancelled for trolling politics and doesn’t flinch
- buys a newport mansion with a dock for his warship
- buys the one across the street and turns it into a garage for American muscle cars
- starts Anduril defense company from the trenches
- beats Lockheed, raytheon, & boeing with a team of meme lords
- still wears Hawaiian shirts and flip flops to pentagon meetings
never bent the knee. never lost the spark
🦅 📕 From Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov's book:
"Even when there were no fights coming, Khabib didn't rest, but he can allow himself to “recover a bit.” Resting, I will emphasize once again, is not allowed — otherwise you can drop your conditioning down to the level of 3 points out of 5, and that is unacceptable.
But recovering, yes, that’s allowed. “Recovery” here means active recovery of energy.
What do I mean by this?
Obviously: cycling, hiking, playing volleyball, soccer, long and slow jogs, sauna, steam room with Siberian brooms.
In other words — an activity level where your blood circulates 3 times faster than in normal daily life.
This constant movement keeps your brain, heart, liver in tone — the key organs responsible for maintaining readiness.
The effect is enhanced by healthy food, communication with friends and relatives, visiting your hometown, places connected with your family history of many generations."
HE DID IT 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Conner Mantz makes HISTORY in Chicago with a 2:04:43 fourth-place finish, the fastest time ever run by an American.
Mantz breaks Khalid Khannouchi’s 23-year-old American record of 2:05:48, as well as the all-conditions best of 2:04:58 set by Ryan Hall in 2011.
We live in an era obsessed with optimization.
Biohacks, morning routines, productivity hacks, micro-tracking every detail of life.
The irony? When we over-optimize everything, we start working at life instead of living it.
Not everything needs to be maximized. In fact, most things don’t.