You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.
get a haircut every 2 weeks to stay sharp, wait 5 secs before answering the phone to control the rhythm, always arrive 15 mins early, stay away from free lunches, never talk about people who aren't in the room and when anger rises, wait 10 mins before reacting. these habits may look rigid but they're the hidden discipline of the elite.
The Arabs in old times used to say:
Four things separate brothers:
wealth, women, jealousy, and death.
Four things make you lose your value among people: talking too much, laughing too much, lying, & gossiping.
Four things by which a wife ruins her home:
stubbornness, anger,
The secret to winning is learning how to lose. Things will not always go your way, so you must learn to handle failure.
Failure is not the opposite of success. It’s part of the process.