I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
The currency called Loyalty.
The rule is simple: You can't earn it, if you don't have the capacity and willingness to give it.
It's a currency you first have to give to earn it.
Your day 6 could be someone else's day 345.
You are not better off, or behind, because someone else is moving at a speed higher or less than yours.
It's a long game for the relentless soul.
How do you count your win or losses? The journey is the destination! Never arrive.
On interviews. First——
Get them engaged and make them like you. Your entire strategy should be built on how to make this happen. Sharing some tips based on cool comments I’ve received from interviewers.
Be DANGEROUSLY consistent
Be TERRIFYINGLY reliable
Be ALARMINGLY disciplined
Be STUPIDLY impossible to discourage
As Spartan mothers used to say to their sons: come back with your shield or on it!
We are wired to long for something. Our mind sometimes, is our most accessible "VAR" to check our why. Belief is strengthened in reminder. Hope can take a fast disappearance when we forget to remind ourselves of the spark that started it all.
To be present, to be fully present, is to stay for something you believe in, but may never see. Even if you see it, you can't be privileged to see all of it.
Scared of falling? You must have been up there to garage the thought of a fall. Don't you see it? Your steps are a reminder of what is counting. Your dance is a hurricane. Your every motion is a blast in every atomic level. Carry your pace with grace. You're so much moreeee. ❤️
There's so much a man can hide in the punchable skin of his heart.
The soul longs to be an escapee of a capsulated realm: inexpressible and unseen, not by just anyone, but by its most cherished witness, with the truest sense of presence. ❄️
You don't know how much it matters until it's demanded.
Everything has a price. The rules are not fair. Walk away or fight with every gracious hair on your skin.
Night will be here soon, and it'd be call for eviction. Rent is due everyday. Pay up! ❄️
You don't know how much it matters until it's demanded.
Everything has a price. The rules are not fair. Walk away or fight with every gracious hair on your skin.
Night will be here soon, and it'd be call for eviction. Rent is due everyday. Pay up! ❄️