The world has no emotional attachment to your potential.
A diamond buried underground and a worthless stone look identical until pressure reveals the difference.
The average man is too honest where he should be strategic and too dishonest where he should be accountable.
He shares plans with strangers but deceives himself about his habits.
Power starts when you reverse this:
Be private with the world and honest with yourself.
Humans demand fairness only when they're losing. When advantage is on their side, they call it merit. When it shifts away, they call it injustice. Human nature bends morality around incentive; the wise study incentives first and ethics second.
The final boss of intelligence is knowing to use it only when it's required.
The rest of the time, play like a child, dumb, fun, and completely unburdened.
Or your intelligence will be the biggest burden you'll carry forever.
Your kids won't remember that one time you went to their little league game and watched them lose 50 to 0
But they will remember that their dad was richer than all their friends' dads
Keep grinding
I knew a man smarter than me, better educated, better connected. He died broke.
Every year he was waiting - for the right time, the right market, the right feeling.
The graveyard is full of perfect plans. I built my fortune on ugly ones that actually started.