u eventually start to love the game for the game. u wake up and do the work for the sake of the work and nothing else. To labor in arts or entrepreneurship for any reason other than love is prostitution
If you continue to waste your days now, you have no reason to worry about maintaining yourself for the future. You do nothing with your intelligence, nothing with your beauty, nothing with your time.
If you don't make use of your gifts now, what are you even preserving them for?
To continue doing nothing in the future?
This is the miserable irony of the hoarder.
Always collecting; concerned about loss; anxious over expiration.
In the end, they realise they held it all.
But because they never used it – it was as good as nothing.
Actionable steps on how to get lucky:
>realize how lucky you are. you are healthy. you are good-looking. you are born into the right environment. you have a family that cares for you. the game has been rigged in your favor since day 1
>you are never "unlucky" - remove this from your vocabulary
>start paying attention to what separates the lucky ones from the unlucky ones. are those lucky ones really lucky? or are they just bending reality to their will + creating opportunities that make them lucky?
>ask yourself every day, what have you done today to make yourself lucky?
>understand that to get lucky, you need to EXPOSE yourself to the right environment, people, circle, and moments. no one gets lucky sitting on the couch watching TV or playing games
>to increase your chances of getting lucky, you need to invest time, money, energy, and work on your mental models. without this, nothing will succeed, and you should remind yourself of this every day...
>remember that luck can be created (influenced)
The lowest hell is getting everything you begged for, and waking inside it, and seeing you begged for the poisoned things, and God knew, and gave it anyway
The man who stopped begging for love walked into the room and love started begging him. desperation is a stench. God himself turns away from the one who kneels for approval, but moves mountains for the man who asked nothing. beggars stay beggars, even in heaven
controversial: the best thing that can happen to a young man is losing everyone who believed in him.
not some. all of them.
because when the last person who was carrying your confidence disappears, you are forced to find out whether you actually believe in yourself or whether you were borrowing belief from people around you.
most people never discover this. they live their entire lives running on borrowed conviction. they feel strong when supported and collapse when alone.
the loneliest season of your life is where you finally find out what youre actually made of.
every great man i know went through a season where nobody backed them. nobody believed. nobody called. and instead of breaking, they built an engine inside themselves that didnt need external fuel.
thats the shift. from borrowed belief to built belief.
self belief is self built. and the only way to build it is to survive the season where nobody else believes.
if youre in that season right now. good. youre being forged. not abandoned.
How to spot a divine masculine: he’s off, away tirelessly working on his craft.
He has a belief in something, much larger than him, much larger than the two of you. Purpose.
The core knowledge and understanding that he is here to master something, master that thing and then use it as a tool for healing — for himself, for you, and eventually to teach to the community around him.
When you realize that Jesus fed 5,000, but only 500 followed him after the meal. He had 12 disciples, but only 3 went farther into the garden, and only 1 stood by him at the cross. The closer you get to the cross, the smaller the crowd becomes.
Being your own father is a strange thing, but a necessity for all men. It is a mode switch. And if you cannot father yourself, how do you expect to father others?
When will you stop relying on others to guide you, but instead become that source of guidance?
When will the boy take a step back, so the man can take a step forward?
When will you self-govern, and become sovereign?
You must forge yourself into the authority you keep searching for.
God's blessing does not look like a blessing it looks like a breaking you cannot explain. you will be called to something, and the call will take more than you have. you will pray for easier work and get harder work, and then you will pray for strength and get even harder work, because God does not answer by removing the weight, he answers by thickening your bones
you get one life. and you’re going to spend it being what - safe? liked? understood? go be the thing that sets your chest on fire and let the safe people watch from wherever safe people watch from.