The measure of your intelligence is not your ability to acquire knowledge but how you handle uncertainty and navigate through it and behave when you don't know what to do.
I’m convinced that life will test you with the same challenge until you learn the lesson. The same fight in every relationship. The same burnout in every job. The same regret in every missed chance. Until you do the inner work, the outer world won’t change.
The older I get the more I realize hesitation has a cost. The person won’t always wait. Your body won’t always feel this strong. Ideas lose their spark. Circumstances change. You don’t need to rush everything, but when something matters to you, stop pretending you have forever.
When a man has seen a lot, he stays quiet.
When a man is working to save himself, he stays quiet.
When a man is winning, he's quiet.
As a man, silence is your best weapon.