To succeed in this life you need leverage.
People are used to “capital leverage” - money. But there are more
There is time leverage, if you don’t have capital you use your time to accumulate capital. This is what people do when they learn software design and then sell it as a service to clients.
There is attention leverage - it is what happens when you build an audience, and then use that audience to drive your advantage and accumulate capital. It is what Peller did, and Korty too.
The worst thing that can happen to you or anyone you know is to assume that because you don’t have capital you are done, and there is nothing you can do.
Leverage is derived from the word lever - it is a tool that helps you lift things that are hard to lift.
You need to find your own leverage and use it; beating yourself up will not solve anything.
Confidence doesn't come from believing in yourself. It comes from having done the uncomfortable thing enough times that your nervous system stops flagging it as an emergency. Because nothing is actually hard, it's just unfamiliar.
Think highly of yourself. Be unapologetic about your actions. Walk like you own the place. Move like a winner. Get things because you want them. Reality bends toward people who live as if they already have what they want. Stop waiting for permission to act like the person you are becoming.
Bro to bro: the quickest way to get rich is to desexualize your brain. A distracted man is easy to control. Once everything stops being about women, lust, attention, and validation, your energy returns to you. Then your money grows, your discipline sharpens, your focus gets dangerous, and your life starts moving like you finally remembered why you came here.
If you're in your 20s:
Be bold. Be delusional. Be optimistic. Quit the job. Build the business. Get paid to be yourself. Travel 5 times a year. Create more than you consume. Start a personal brand. Learn negotiation. Don't watch the news.
Set your future self up for success.
Obsess. For f*ck sakes. You only get one life. Don’t screw it up by being normal. Go all in. Act like a psycho. Let people call you insane. Please. I beg you. Obsession is the path.
As a man, after you cross 30, sit down and study the patterns in your family. Look at what distracted, delayed, or derailed the men before you. Look at what destroyed them. Your father, his brothers, your uncles, older cousins etc... is it booze, is it gambling, is it women, is it recklessly siring everywhere, is it poor financial decisions, did they struggle with deep anger issues, domestic terrorists, did they practice witchcraft and all that.
Sit down and study those patterns,, then make intentional decisions to break those cycles. Remember some of these things are normal vices. Look for a recurring or deep recognizable patterns that are plastered all over men in your family. What brought them down. Do you see a pattern? Now that!
As Joshua Selman always says “As a man, number one thing that will help you live to your potential is knowing what can bring you down”. And you may not run away from your family tree. Refuse to be a victim of repeated patterns. Because they are there.
Whether you know it or not. Whether you recognize them or you don’t. They exist. They didn’t have the knowledge and resources we now have. Honor your progeny. Break out of them. Be made of Gold.
Intelligence is not something you should be proud of or show off; especially if you’re a capitalist who wants to be rich.
Look around you. Have you seen the skits people watch? Dumb stuff!
Jarvis and Peller make the exact kind of content Gen Z loves.
VDM can sway public discourse for an entire week.
These are not stupid people. They’re smart in a very specific way: they understand how the masses think, and they know how to command attention.
There was a BBN season where a housemate was evicted and people were tweeting, “Good riddance; she been dey do too much book book.”
And who did the masses want? Mercy Eke, because big bumbum, and hot romance.
That should tell you something.
Your problem is that you take the masses too seriously. At the biological level, we are higher animals driven by fear, lust, hunger, status, and other base desires.
We just cover it up with clothes and a little conditioning.
Animals is what we are.
That’s what you tap into.
That’s why forex is such a favorite of the masses: they see outliers flashing cars and money and they want it too; the same way an ape wants a banana another ape is holding.
It’s biology.
It’s how the world works.
To win, you have to think, talk, and behave like the masses. Don’t fight it.
Don’t mock people who follow Peller and Jarvis; that arrogance is how you miss the lesson. Be humble. Observe them.
That’s how you learn to leverage mass behavior and move up in this world.
I'm 35.
At this point in my career, I know people earning ₦1m–₦10m monthly remotely and if you ask them what exactly they do all day, the answer is they over see activities.
One guy disappears for hours during workdays, goes to the gym, runs errands, attends family events and still gets "great job" from his manager.
Another works for a foreign company, travels constantly and seems to spend more time at airports than on Zoom.
Then I know brilliant people working 10-hour days, commuting through Lagos traffic and earning a fraction of that.
The modern job market is one of the strangest things I've ever seen.
The hardest worker is not always the highest paid.
Not even close.
After Germany’s 7–1 win over Curaçao, something even more beautiful happened.
While everyone else celebrated, players from both teams formed a small circle together, put their arms around each other, and prayed.
Germany’s Felix Nmecha later explained:
“On the pitch we’re opponents. After the game, we’re all Christians and brothers. We simply prayed together because we’re grateful.”
In a world constantly trying to divide people, moments like this remind us what really matters. ❤️
Pattern 2: They do not spend time with people who drain their signal.
Energy is not just a metaphor.
Your nervous system literally synchronizes with the nervous systems of the people you spend the most time with.
This is called neural coupling. It has been measured and documented by neuroscientists.
High frequency people are not cold or elitist about this.
They are honest.
A relationship that consistently leaves you feeling depleted, small, or anxious is not a neutral experience.
It is a frequency tax.
And high frequency people have made a deliberate decision that they cannot afford to keep paying it.