less thinking… more feeling.
you all became addicted to worry, anxiety, having the answer.
train yourself to think less. that’s the divine move that fills you with “purpose”
block all the gurus solve all your problems
Progress in anything comes via a succession of highs, lows, then new highs.
Fighting the lows is naive rookie behavior. Ur essentially fighting progress. The lows enwomb essential tools for reaching new highs.
Embrace them. Bath in them.
“Calm down. Learn to enjoy losing.”
I am a firm believer that fate will irreversibly descend upon you in a myriad of ways. And that no force, earthly or terrestrial can prevent this.
One of the many ways this may manifest, is…. You will FIND and seemingly random “BUMP INTO” the right people/information/opportunities you NEED to find, WHEN you need to find them.
Determined in another place, outside of space, in another time, outside of time.
Those who have experienced the above can substantiate and confirm this happening well beyond outside of what any instance of regular chance/coincidence could ever hope to confer.
One of the most transformative paradigm shifts I’ve ever adopted was to reframe DIFFICULT to CHALLENGING, and to find challenges EXCITING.
EXCITING because they become an OPPORTUNITY; to test your mettle, to become tougher, more resourceful.
Every difficulty and every trial is teeming with opportunity.
Focus on it, and you’ll find it.
The winning formula is a combination of
Chad/jock/fratboy spirit
And the soul of a tortured artist
But you can mix the traits
Every Chad type that wins big has a tortured artist hidden within
And every wildly successful tortured artist has a Chad trying to get out
You must possess both or be doomed to mediocrity.
learn to feel everything…
highs, lows, love, heartbreak, chaos, peace etc.
don’t numb it
don’t “fix it”
just feel it
feel it all before the “human experience” is over.
only place you come alive
very few come alive
I know everyone is calling this “selfish,” but until you’ve consciously had these thoughts and impulses plague you at your lowest moments it’s difficult to comprehend the intensity of them.
If you haven’t had to will yourself away from the ledge, or delete the note you wrote to your family and friends from your phone then it’s a contrarian opinion more than an insight.
Men are more prone to it because it isn’t losing the will to live. It is the opposite. It is when your Will to live will be the strongest it has ever been—but your life circumstances are utterly intolerable to your spirit.
Adding more shame to it doesn’t help anybody, it only worsens the reality of the thoughts they’ll likely experience at certain points in their lives.
Throne is found through descent, you’ll eventually rise but even some of the greatest people will run out of oxygen before they escape.
It is better to breathe life into them, and supply them with the oxygen required.
something different about the fools that died inside & came back
lost everything & rebuilt
got betrayed & kept moving
most fools scared of failure
misfits / killers know lows are just a springboard.
death & rebirth 1000x is how you level up
for real.
By far the single most powerful way to move through the world is as if everything is just one big inside joke and curriculum that exists for the sole benefit of your personal evolution. Everything becomes funny. Every obstacle is appreciated. Every experience injected with joy.
My new thing is never taking advice from anyone. I just do whatever I was gonna do anyway and it always pays off
People are self conscious, too safe, have terrible taste and calcified intuition. It's not real advice, they're venting and projecting and taking you down with them
My dad had the best line about entrepreneurship:
"You aren't truly in the game unless you find yourself in the dead of the night, head in hands, sitting in the dark, with no idea what to do next.”