"The deepest love is knowing someone who sees everything you tried to hide and somehow makes you regret only one thing: that you ever hid anything."
With you, there is nothing to hide.
~ Dostoyevsky.
Do not play fair. Use every available advantage. Winners are cheaters, they use every possible way to succeed. That is why they win all the time. If you play fair you are more likely to lose. Know your interests. Understand theirs. Know that people only demand you to play fair when they are operating from a position of weakness. Winning matters much more than being a fair loser.
The smartest broke people I know all have the same problem
They refuse to sell themselves
They think:
- Self-promotion = cringe
- Marketing = sleazy
- Selling = desperate
So they stay brilliant, humble, and broke.
The market can't pay you if it can't find you
I think hate is a more powerful motivator than love. Love can inspire you, but hate can make you relentless. Sometimes, the strongest version of you is born not from being loved, but from remembering what it felt like to be rejected, underestimated, and written off.