Avoid the temptation of revealing how hard you work, it only raises questions. The world values results, not the effort behind them. Struggle in silence. Let your composure suggest ease, and your ease suggest mastery. Effort unseen carries more weight than effort explained.
What the fuck are you afraid of?
Death?
We’re all gonna die.
Bankruptcy?
You can make it all back.
Shame?
Everyone will forget in a week.
What the fuck are you afraid of?
There is nothing to fear.
Fight for the life you deserve.
Nothing scares a man more than getting to a phase in life where he wants to assist his mama, but he's not financially stable. May God open a door for you soon.
Men,
A man should destroy poverty, or poverty will destroy him.
Attack poverty relentlessly.
Whichever way, you must dismantle, destroy, and overcome poverty.
This battle has only one acceptable outcome: you win.
Poverty fears only one thing: a determined man. Be that man.
There is a calm that appears once you accept that most people’s judgments of you are projections of their own limitations, because human nature resists the sight of someone breaking patterns they themselves could not escape.
You don’t have to be liked. You have to be useful. And when you’re not useful, you have to be rare. If you’re not rare, you have to be respected. If you’re not respected, you’ll be replaced. Learn the game or be played by it.
You seek validation because you doubt yourself. You talk too much, explain too much, and need to be understood. The man who knows his worth does not chase approval. He becomes his own source of certainty. Silence becomes his loudest form of strength.
Harsh Facts About Reality:
1. Your silence increases your price.
2. Over-accessibility breeds contempt.
3. Weak men explain; strong men imply.
4. People respect what they can’t predict.
5. People value what’s scarce, not what’s good.
6. Perception creates reality, manage the illusion.
7. The moment you seek approval, you lose control.
8. The less available you are, the more they assume your value.
Avoid the temptation of revealing how hard you work, it only raises questions. The world values results, not the effort behind them. Struggle in silence. Let your composure suggest ease, and your ease suggest mastery. Effort unseen carries more weight than effort explained.
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you”
Carl Jung
People don’t betray you out of malice, they betray you out of self-preservation. When survival collides with loyalty, loyalty dies first. Understand this and you’ll stop being shocked by human behavior.