Steve Jobs explains why most people never get what they want
"I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help."
"most people don't get those experiences because they never ask."
"I called up Bill Hewlett when I was 12 years old. his number was still in the phone book and he answered the phone himself."
"I said, hi, I'm Steve Jobs, I'm 12 years old, and I want to build a frequency counter, and I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have."
"he laughed and he gave me the spare parts to build this frequency counter."
"he got me a job that summer at Hewlett Packard putting nuts and bolts together on frequency counters, and I was in heaven."
"I've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when I called. I just asked."
"most people never pick up the phone and call. most people never ask."
"that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them."
"you've got to act, and you've got to be willing to fail."
"if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far."
whoever said “you MUST BY ALL MEANS develop a strong opinion of yourself so you don't end up internalizing the beliefs others have of you” changed my life.
Never underestimate the power of beautiful women wishing you a good night sleep full of sweet dreams; the original spiritual protein shake. Beautiful females praying for your ascent is the way forwards
🚨 Andrew Tate on the real way a man earns respect.
"As a man, to make people like you, you have to show usefulness and competence. Everybody likes the competent man."
People are selfish, and that is not an insult, it is a map. The man who is good at things is the one everyone wants around, because he can help them get what they want. Stop trying to be liked. Get good, and the respect comes automatically.
The Full grown adults who can’t vacation, take a gap year, have hobbies, play an instrument, speak multiple languages, swim, cycle, skate, or backpack. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to escape survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics nobody really talks about.
Mona drops that Marc Lamont Hill helped her figure out having sex without emotional attachment. It didn’t quite come out that smoothly, and the whole room was surprised lol.
My dad basically only listened to soul and jazz music most of his life. one random day, he read an article about the 50 best rock albums and just started buying them and listening to them. he'd be playing black sabbath doing a jigsaw puzzle. stay curious, weirdos.
Huge element of charisma / charm is having a subjectively minor flaw that should in theory make you insecure but doesn't. Slight facial asymmetry, a subtle imperfection, etc but you just radiate unforced authenticity regardless
Naturally magnetic because it's such a contrast in a world full of inferiority and superiority complexes alike. Then comes someone who's supposed to be weird about their different sized eyes but is somehow confident
Forces people to first wonder why he doesn't shy away from cameras or why she doesn't overly edit her pics etc, and then it forces those people to ask themselves "wait why am I not moving like that?" from a place of inspiration
Silently changing lives without even being aware of it which is actually the most genuine way to do it. Tremendous source of value just loving yourself in the purest sense. Most impactful thing you can do is just be
This is a lot of truth that a lot of niggas don’t have the self awareness or introspection to grasp. I had to have a very difficult conversation with myself regarding tech my career and chose to double down on mastery of infrastructure and not just fixes to that infrastructure.
I be having to tell a lot of niggas that floating thru life using swag and charisma is only cheating yourself. These are the same people who get mad when the nerds they bullied end up being their boss and they start saying shit like “money can’t unlame you 😤”
High-agency people have this weird immunity to embarrassment. And the more you look at it the more you realize it's not that they're braver or or born without the shame gene.
It's that they relocated the shame. they moved the embarrassment button.
It's still there, they're not sociopaths, it's just wired to something completely different than everyone else's.
For most people the button is wired to: being seen wanting something and not immediately having it. Being caught trying. Looking dumb. Getting told no.
For high-agency people the button got rewired to a single thing: not trying. That's the only thing that makes them cringe.
Once you get rid of your lust as a man you'll realize that your average woman in 2026 is unironically a bigger loser than your average man. The difference is that the expectations placed on the average man are much higher so therefore, he's expected to be better.
The whole idea that a man is "depressed" because he doesn't have a woman is not real and an online discourse by feminists. Depression part is real, but the motive behind it is wrong.
A man who is depressed is depressed because he lacks a purpose. If your purpose as a man is centered around pussy, then you have no real purpose, and you'll end up with no pussy and no purpose because you're a fucking loser.
This is also why women despise nice guys and white knights, they only use them for ego boost and validation.
Women who are depressed however, are depressed because they don't have a man. They're wired to be a man's helper, but admitting this would hurt their ego, so they'll convince themselves that they have "options" and are "single by choice" to save themselves from embarrassment, typically more so online to their Instagram friends. Their "options" are men who only want to smash, otherwise they'd be married by now.
Your average Instagram obsessed modern woman doesn't bring much to a successful man's life. If you ask her 'what do you bring to the table?' she won't answer the question because she believes, largely due to feminism and Western indoctrination, that her beauty and mere existence are enough.
This is why the "dating advice" on here is so retarded; most people have the wrong fundamentals and frameworks for how they approach life and they believe a few words said out loud will fix their internal.
It's very simple actually; if you're a man, find a purpose and work on yourself and a woman will naturally be attracted to you, if you're a woman, lay off Instagram and be a wifey, and a man's heart will melt for you.
Too many Black men Trojan horse their way into crafts they lack the talent for, relying on identity, hustlenomics and swagger instead of excellence. That’s slacker culture, and i partially blame The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air helped normalize that archetype
Carlton represented the Black man who took his craft seriously, but we celebrated the slacker with swagger over the one who pursued excellence. Meticulous, disciplined Black men as “white” or “nerds” instead of people valuing their commitment
That’s part of why Black culture lost some of its edge, it became fashionable to rely on charisma over mastery
Then, when someone outside the culture comes in and executes at a high level, the same slackers who didn’t take their own culture and craft seriously rebrand themselves as Louis Farrakhan dismissing the outsider as a “culture vulture” instead of forcing an honest look at why they succeeded
Instead of them admitting they’re sore losers they rebrand it as some identity based socially conscious crusade
Where was that Farrakhan shit when you was too busy slacking when the culture was in your hands?