People who experience magic live a life that is truly incomprehensible to most. Normal people donโt believe because it would quite literally be impossible to digest.
You get good at anything by doing it a lot. Just do things a lot
It's not time spent. It's volume of doing. Make sure the time it takes you to do a single thing is as fast as possible. Your cycle time is sacred
A girl just said she tried to get rejected 1000 times in 2025 and ended up being cast in plays, winning pageants, securing hella paid brand deals, and appearing in commercials.This is your sign to chase rejection to the point of "accidental" success. You'll be surprised.
Mushrooms: for people who've been running from themselves.
MDMA: for people who've been hiding from others.
Ketamine: for people who need a break from both.
Cannabis reduces activity in the default mode network, the part of your brain responsible for overthinking and self-referential thought.
The same thing happens during deep meditation. This plant literally quiets the noise so you can actually hear yourself clearly
"The thought of being punched, is 1000 times worse than being punched"
- Mike Tyson
Your fear is the worst part of anything you are trying to accomplish
Autism might finally be treatable.
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I lie to myself every morning.
I look in the mirror and tell myself I slept great when I didn't. That today is going to be one of the best days of my life when I have no reason to believe it.
It sounds delusional...
It's the most important habit I have.
Every business I've started was built on belief before it was built on anything else. Every relationship I've kept. Every comeback I've made. All of it began in my head, weeks or months before it showed up in my life.
A 2014 study at Colorado College put a number on this.
Researchers took 164 people. Hooked them up to fake EEG machines. Told half they got 28.7% REM sleep, above average. Told the other half 16.2%, below average. But the data was made up...
The machines weren't measuring anything.
Then they ran cognitive tests. Attention. Memory. Executive function.
The "above average" group destroyed the other group on every test.
How rested they actually felt that morning predicted nothing.
Their belief about how they slept changed their performance more than how they actually slept.
That's the whole game.
The story you tell yourself in the morning is the operating system everything else runs through.
And most people are letting their Apple Watch program it. Their Oura ring. Their bank account. Their last text from a difficult person.
You haven't even gotten out of bed and you've already given up the controls.
So when someone asks me how I'm doing, the answer is always the same... World class.
Not because everything is. Because everything is going to be.
The lie always catches up to the truth eventually.
I just make sure I tell myself the right one.
You should too.
-DM