If you’re ever down bad
Put on a fresh fit so you feel like a baller
Get a fresh haircut so you feel like an international sex symbol
And make a monstrously/unreasonably large ask for no reason other than to feel something
Pitch,date,offer,position
Remind yourself that you can feel great & that there’s no rules. Break out of the heavy energy & dance a bit
"Lorsque les femmes nous aiment, elles nous pardonnent tout, même nos crimes. Quand elles ne nous aiment pas, elles ne nous pardonnent rien, pas même nos vertus." - Balzac
The more I think about this graph, the more I realize how powerful it is at explaining adoption of all forms
Innovators and Early Adopters are convinced by the quality of an idea or product alone
Early Majority and Late Majority cannot be convinced by the inherent quality, but require social proof from others
This should explain why trying to convince people with arguments is largely futile. You need to gain popularity and power (or at least the perception of it) before The Majority will join you
⚡️Most people are too socially obedient to win.
They wait for permission.
They soften the message.
They make the thing acceptable before making it powerful.
They confuse being respected with being effective.
Then someone louder, cruder, and less afraid walks through the door they spent years polishing.
Ten lazy years can disappear the moment you lock in. Six months of discipline can erase a decade of drifting. Momentum is magic. It turns yesterday's failures into tomorrow's fuel.
Action feeds and strengthens confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone.
– David J. Schwartz
You will be tempted to think your knowledge of the "broken system" is special and tempted to refuse individual solutions. Maybe you'll imagine the system being "fixed." These are foolish.
You become an adult when you start to play the hand you are dealt.
The thing about exhaustion from a 9-5 is that it's not physical. You're mentally empty. You could go to the gym, learn a skill, work on something. Your body can do it. Your brain just refuses to start. So you scroll. Or watch something. And before you know it the alarm is set for 6am again.
The line you walk as a man is having enough swagger loaded in the chamber that you don’t give a fuck if you lose anything but also being protective of what you have at the same time.
Loose but tight grip. Hold on too tight and you break everything
⚡️The value of executing known processes is collapsing toward zero.
The value of judgment, pattern recognition, and decision-making under uncertainty is increasing.