Find a woman who kills drama instead of starting it, makes life quieter not louder, tells you "you're better than these guys, you can beat them," and wants you to win even more than you do
Then become the man required to attract that woman, and marry her the moment you find her.
Being unhealthy is painful, being healthy is painful, having no relationships is painful, having relationships is painful, being lazy is painful, working really hard is painful. It's just different flavors of pain.
So you might as well pick the flavors of pain that are gonna help you and give you a better set of life.
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
> Be Jocko Willink
> Wakes up at 4:30 AM every single day
> Posts a picture of his watch to prove it
> Enlists in the Navy straight out of high school
> Spends 20 years in the SEAL Teams
> Becomes Commander of Task Unit Bruiser
> Leads the most highly decorated Special Ops unit of the Iraq War
> Commands legends like Chris Kyle and Jonny Kim
> Retires from the military and doesn't know how to relax
> Starts a leadership consulting firm
> Teaches Fortune 500 CEOs how to run companies like SEAL operations
> Launches a massive podcast completely by accident
> Writes a NYT bestseller called "Extreme Ownership"
> Core philosophy: "Discipline Equals Freedom"
> Writes bestselling children's books to teach kids how to be tough
> Starts a fitness and supplement empire
> Still rolls Jiu-Jitsu with 20-year-olds at 50+ years old
> Views every setback in life with a one-word response: "Good."
And Jocko is still the most disciplined man alive who makes everyone feel lazy.
Jocko is badass.
People believe they think clearly and just struggle to "put it into words." It's almost always backwards. The struggle to put it into words is the discovery that the thought wasn't clear yet.
Writing is the brutal honesty machine. It takes the warm fog in your head that felt like understanding and forces it onto a line where every gap shows. You didn't lose the clarity in translation, you never had it. The page just told you.
You can hate showing up early, being consistent, doing what you said you’d do, keeping your word after it’s no longer convenient, and a hundred other things.
You can hate all of it.
You just have to hate losing, more.
@rebane2001 Pretty neat :) some feedback, it somehow always puts me in the wrong direction (eg vertical when I want to write horizontally and vice versa), and the font makes "1" and "l" too easy to confuse
bro it isn’t generally intelligent bro its only read every book and paper ever written and just making connections between them bro. its only thinking for twenty hours bro it’s just brute force thinking bro. its only solving erdos problems bro it could never be an accountant bro
> competitive gamer goes from MIT to winning street fighter to leading street fighter remakes
in his own words — it's not advice for everyone; it's only for those interested in winning
a negative review calls it underground and insists, "it shouldn't even be for sale"
notes:
@BowTiedFox No role models, coasted through teenagehood without any aim just going with the flow
After I finished uni I decided to hit up my hs crush I finally figured was into me, found out pretty quick that just existing & playing guitar wouldn't do it anymore. I had nothing to offer
@BowTiedFox Absolutely true man. Hit me like a truck once I turned 22, thankfully I discovered self-improvement at that exact time or I'd be even more fucked
@onehappyfellow@W0K3_alexHD Seems to me the string does exist:
- For each graph Gn there is a string Sn to get from any position to another one
- Generate G1, find S1
- Generate G2, apply S1, this is now the new starting position. From that find S2
- Gen G3, apply S1+S2, find S3
Then concatenate all S