I wrote down exactly who I want to be and what I want my life to look like. then I asked what does he do. how does he start his day. what does he eat. when does he sleep. how does he handle the hard conversations. what does his work look like. I wrote all of it down. then I just started doing it. you don't have to feel like him first. you act like him until you are him.
MAKE THIS COMEBACK PERSONAL
Become arrogant. Redemption arc. Apology to yourself. The feeling of revenge. Everything or nothing. Now or never. Tired of misery. Others will think you’re a psycho. Mediocrity always disgusted you. Desire to be the best. Impossible to lose. All In. People doubt you. You’ll show up completely new. Success is your proof.
Even after the darkest night, the sun will rise with its brightest rays. So should you.
Take full responsibility for your life.
Because in the end - it always works out.
Your lack of urgency is destroying the comeback of your lifetime. Not because you are not ambitious, but because you are not obsessed with actually changing. You are still the same miserable you and comfort is the reason why
My current lifemaxxing stack:
- 4:30am wake up
- Read classic books
- 3 hours creative work before 8am
- Lift/run 6x/week
- Eat single ingredient foods
- Present time with fam/friends
- 20-min evening sauna
- Wild Roman skincare routine
- 8:30pm bedtime
Wouldn't change a thing.
Instead of watching Netflix tonight, recite these quotes as you sleep:
Warnings of new media, instant gratification and unearned pleasure.
“Beware of unearned wisdom” - Carl Jung
"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now." - Zig Ziglar
"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses." – Francis Bacon
A farmer buys a young cock. As soon as he gets it home, it f*cks all the farmer's 150 hens. The farmer is impressed. At lunch the cock screws all 150 hens again.
The next day it's f*cking the ducks and geese too. Later he finds the cock lying on the ground half-dead with vultures circling overhead.
The farmer says, “You deserved it, you horny bastard!” The cock opens one eye, points up, and says, “Shhhhhh. They’re about to land!!”
Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?"
"Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress."
Naval explains the difference between stress and anxiety:
"Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things."
He shares his personal anxiety resolver:
"One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?"
Naval reframes what "wasted time" really means:
"What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for."
He concludes:
"People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."