All they have done is taught you how to be scared.
How to be anxious.
How to be hesitant.
How to hide, doubt and delay.
Which is why sometimes you just need to say fuck safety and do it anyway, and if it goes wrong, then so be it, because at least you aimed for the stars, launched yourself at the heavens, and dared to risk yourself in a blaze of wondrous glory.
You are brave.
You have honoured your soul.
You are beautiful.
When you look at the exceptionally creative work of Masters, you must not ignore the years of practice, the endless routines, the hours of doubt, and the tenacious overcoming of obstacles these people endured. Creative energy is the fruit of such efforts and nothing else.
One of man's deepest desires is not to be a burden on anyone and to earn his way. Burdening others brings him shame. He aspires to self-sufficiency so he can be one that gives rather than takes. He does not pursue independence out of vanity, he covets self-reliance out of honour.
Having “young energy” as you get older is literally just not getting fucking demoralised and becoming a resentful endless whiner, but instead possessing hope, passion, and vigour at an age where people expect life to have already sucked the soul out of you.
It is true power.
Men get addicted to themselves when they’re running at 100%, then get frustrated when they’re running at less than that because they got a taste for what they can be, but are failing to be - they’re chasing their own greatness.
Consistency is king, because potential is a flirt.
@BerbarianWizard Regarding liver, how many grams would you advise per day/week to maximize benefits while not overloading vitamin A, iron, copper etc.?
Game theory proves that understanding someone's motives is far more useful than understanding their argument. Arguments can be constructed, but true motives can never be fully concealed. Every position a person takes and every alliance they form secretly unveils a central incentive that they might not even be aware of. To understand them, strip the argument entirely. Instead, ask: "What does this person gain if they are believed?" The answer to this question predicts their next move far more accurately than any of their words. Listen to their permanent actions, not their malleable words.
High intelligence often comes with heightened pattern recognition. You start noticing social masks, forced conversations, performative friendships, hidden motives, emotional immaturity, and energy that feels draining instead of nourishing. Many highly intelligent people also have more active nervous systems, deeper inner worlds, and lower tolerance for superficial stimulation, so solitude can feel safer than constantly shrinking themselves to fit environments that don’t feel aligned.
In life man faces 3 deaths: the 1st death is cowardice, he becomes domesticated and risk averse, but tells himself he's civilized, the 2nd death is to become useless, to produce nothing of value and lose the ability to self-sustain, the final death is apathy - the loss of hope.
Being courageous doesn’t mean not feeling fear. It means not legitimising it by rejecting it as an authority, then rebelling against it.
Courage is defiance against terror.
You should not be delusional in a way that causes you to misunderstand your situation, nor allows you to absolve yourself of moral duty, responsibility or accurate self-reflection. But you should be delusional about the things that matter most to you, and that require your consistent directed effort and intention to be achieved, in order to bend reality to your will, and make what is untrue or undetermined categorically true through your force.
This is the only correct use of delusion, the exception to the rule, the narrow lane in which delusion is wisdom rather than foolishness - where fanaticism may generatively breathe. And this is the very fine distinction that must be drawn. Otherwise, you get high on your own supply, and think whatever you pull out of your ass is enlightenment, rather than what it really is: cope and hubris.
Momentum alone is not correctness, and so should not in your love of impetus be mistaken for it, for it is more than possible to travel the wrong path, and the longer you traverse it, the harder and more costly it is for you to turn back. Timelines have a way of punishing you - of locking you in, and binding you to your choices. Consequences, they call it. So do not be sloppy. Identify the value of delusion precisely, and employ it surgically to extract its value and elevate yourself without being wholesale contaminated by it. Do not allow your addiction to vitality and felt omnipotence sabotage you. You must thread the needle!
Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose, they want to keep you down.
Being self-reliant does not mean burdening yourself with petty details.
You must be able to distinguish between small matters that are best left to others and larger issues that require your attention and care.
To stop this world taking your soul is the ultimate victory. The only one that matters, really. Otherwise, what’s it all even for? Hollow prizes and even hollower company - the sacrifice of the real. None of my fruit shall be rotten. I will know the full colour of this life.
The highest testosterone men are both the calmest and least neurotic men, but also the most capable of state switching into concentrated instrumental aggression when they observe an intolerable justice that requires correction.
Aggression as a blade, rather than as an explosion.
Believing it's even possible is about 50% of the difficulty.
Once you know and believe it is truly possible, about 40% of the difficulty is knowing what to do.
Once you believe it's possible and know what to do, the final 10% is the hardest part: executing successfully.