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.
Mark Manson on how to win at life:
1. Commit to doing a hard thing.
2. Do the hard thing.
3. Feel good about doing the hard thing.
4. Become someone who enjoys doing hard things.
> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO
Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.
Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.
How to be a winner:
1. Quit being a pussy
2. Assume everything will work in your favor
3. Be delusionally optimistic
4. Take a psychopathic level of action
5. Have an incredible sense of urgency
6. Be unhinged online to attract the right people
7. Study pattern recognition.
7. Attract a few haters.
8. Retire from corporate forever in your 30s.
9. Figure out how to access personal freedom.
10. Never believe climbing the corporate ladder leads anywhere
11. Assume the gatekeepers are full of sh*t
12. Join the permissionless economy
13. Stop trying to fit in and just be weird AF
14. Replace delayed gratification with "I want it now"
15. Build a one-person business. Then build whatever the heck you want.
16. Be unreasonable enough to believe in yourself
17. Let the madness overtake your life
18. Let the world see your dark side.
19. Do what you say you're going to.
20. Forget about saving money. Just make more money.
21. Never say "I'll start in 6 months."
22. Assume there will always be chaos around you.
23. Learn to love uncertainty.
24. Seek our rejection and failure.
25. Fall in love with embarrassing yourself.
26. Apply more effort than is rational.
27. Be irrational about who you can become.
28. Rewire your brain with neuroplasticity.
29. Put your family first, always.
30. Have a personal mission.
31. Lead people even if you're not a leader.
32. See the world better than it is.
33. Lower your expectations in every scenario.
34. Accept that society will disappoint you.
35. Ignore politics and the news.
36. Act like Keanu Reeves.
37. Collapse at the end of the day from going all out
38. Rewrite the rules in your favor.
39. Study the art of negotiation.
40. Worship quiet people.
41. Live the good life before you die.
42. Assume you only get one life.
Major cheat code for life: Master the art of the fresh start. From a bad morning. From a bad interaction. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.
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
Fuck being shy.
Fuck being an introvert.
Strangers will make you rich.
Start networking.
As a man, silence is impolite. Make small talk everywhere you go. You never know what kind of connections you'll create. Closed mouths don't get fed.
every savage at the top paid the price
isolation
exile from family
years of being misunderstood
pain that would break the average man
that's why there are so few