Call me Bo. My presence in your TL is a gift. My adventures teaching, exercising, raising 2 small boys, meeting women, becoming the man I know I still can be
My dance teacher: “Always first position, never second”
Me: “Always first position, never second—in dance, in life, with women”
Bo, it’s time to stop playing small
I’ve come to the conclusion that being shallow is the purest form of life expression and anything outside of that is performative bullshit. There is undeniable purity to what people call shallow because it requires no overhead. If you marry someone simply because they are hot or like a car just because it’s fast that is a direct and uncomplicated transaction with reality. You want the thing, the thing delivers and the loop is closed. No hidden agenda. No subtext. 100p honest around boundaries. Contrarily complexity is where ego neurosis and social climbing loves to hide. You see these people construct massive frameworks around their preferences identities and philosophies and it becomes a massive performative theater production that is masking the fear of being ordinary. It requires constant maintenance and demands an audience. It’s a defense mechanism disguised as depth to make people feel superior to those just enjoying the sunshine and birds chirping. The Rolex guy bought purely for status and operates in absolute clarity. He wants people to know he has money. The incentive is obvious. The transaction is flat. In comparison the guy who buys the rare craft Swiss watch made by an artisan is being intentionally deceitful. He wants the exact same thing as the Rolex guy: Status and Validation but he wrapped it in this layer of intellectual superiority going on and on for 20min about the craftsmanship and story behind the timepiece. Dreadful. The performance requires a script. It dosent work unless he narrates the backstory to prove how deeply complex and unique he is. The “loud” shallow person is actually the person enjoying the item more. They bought the thing they like how it looks and they are done. The craft guy looks down on the Rolex guy for being shallow and superficial yet he is the one doing the Olympic lvl mental gymnastics to hide his own ego behind authenticity. The biggest lifestyle grift in modern history is minimalism. Pure deceit that flips the definition of luxury while pretending to destroy it. It’s deceitful bc it uses the visual language of scarcity to signal extreme abundance. The $2200 plain white tshirt from a Japanese label. The open expansive plain marble counter top with no items. Having “nothing” is only a flex if everyone knows you can afford to have everything. A truly poor person can’t afford to be a minimalist because they have to hord goods for potential reuse. The minimalist says ‘look how wealthy I am I can afford to own nothing’ it’s always the minimalist guy dragging on about how open space is a rejection of modern culture and consumer capitalism and how it’s mind free of clutter. This microcosm has overtaken upper middle class, rich and wealthy culture and it’s rooted in lies. The plain white $18k Restoration Hardware couch. The no logo designer clothing and handbags. In reality it’s actually a much more complex ego driven act rooted in high end curation. Rigid performance designed to look effortless. The architecture is the exact same as the no make up make up beauty trend. Hiding in plain sight. It actually takes twice as much money time and calculation to look empty but it allows the person to feel morally and intellectually superior. If we accept that materialism is an inherent empire then the current era of “quiet luxury” and sterile minimalism is a cultural depression and bloodless anxious performance designed by people who want the power of wealth but are too scared to claim it. American luxury needs to ditch the unbranded $800 tshirt. It’s time to return to loud unapologetic high contrast aesthetic that defined peak American optimism and exceptionalism.
Fuck minimalism
Because nothing good comes from staying sad longer than you need to.
Sadness won’t fix the situation, it won’t pull you out, it won’t move you forward.
For daily problems?
Work on it. Improve it. Or let it go.
Be happy, live your best life, keep your spirit light.
Otherwise you’ll get stuck in your own head, spinning in circles that lead nowhere.
I’ve never had a woman confide to me about being friends with her rapist, but I’ve had a lot of girls in HS who’d vent to me about how much of a jerk some guy was to her, & I’d always tell them she should stop hanging out with him.
And almost every time, she’d start dating him.
I equate dating to an extreme sport like snowboarding or rock climbing.
When you're decent at it everyone tells you you're crazy and that it's too risky. "You will get hurt".
For those that tried and failed, they'll convince others that it's not worth it, but just like people who get hurt in extreme sports, they often did not have the right gear or a good enough instructor to keep them safe.
For those that actively do extreme sports and enjoy it, we understand the risk, we check our gear often, we seek the best instructors, and when injuries come we accept them, heal, and move on.
See you on the slopes...
Be worthy and watch the world transform around you. You are the problem. You're operating at nowhere near your potential. As you creep towards this potential your life improves. Very simple.
GET READY🚨: Six planets will align and put on a show of our lifetime. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye from almost anywhere, on July 17th.
Movie set in the Cambrian period where nothing happens because it’s set on land. No animals, no plants, no trees, no sound but the lonely wind wandering over endless gravel. Occasionally the words “Ten million years later” appear on screen, but nothing changes.
it feels like a complete fucking scam that i got told my whole life you'd get in trouble for rарe instead of just getting a super permanently attached gf who will never block you
Not everyday is going to be perfect because unfortunately there is always some externalities as a man that end up getting in the way or derailing an element of your process as you’re embarking upon it but perfection despite being the aim is not the expectation or the point. You have to set the goals so high because it forces you into transcendent intensity because your central nervous system knows in order to stand a small chance of actualising these goals you’re going to have to really push yourself everyday and try to progressively gain inches on the previous man you were; thats the actual goal, maintaining that stern eye contact with what you want and letting the obstacles bounce off you psychologically as you continue to walk it down, some days are a grind and its hard to keep moving but you stick it through and you keep pushing to keep that wheel of momentum turning, that’s what most people cower out with when it comes to adversity; they let it infect their processes and their mind as they’re always negotiating with themselves, working is the process of rewiriing your soul to learn to continue pushing through even when the gears are moving slowly and building that spiritual resolve to learn to keep grinding when it is tough is a huge part of success; that capacity to keep bringing your face into the fire and keep grinding your soul off the objective when things slow down ultimately enables you to piece enough together through the continual information your action is giving to you; so eventually slowly the adversity moves out of your way as you come to a new level of thorough understanding of your problems through tinkering and editing and adapting so then old circumstances pass out of the way and then new circumstances are born as a reflection of the growth you have experienced lessons you have learned by embodying grit; its those deadlocked periods as I call them that grind men down; they cant outlast the boredom of building enough data points to construct a new plan to adapt what they already thought was good enough
People who have achieved beautiful things all gave into delusions of grandeur in comparison to what the normie mind would believe possible or capable and anyone who has achieved something in life will see someone using abnormal irrational rationalisations of their own potential and capacity for success and completely understand why that person is acting in that manner, average people have no idea the level of brainwashing and self propaganda campaigns needed to actualise something lofty so they shriek and whine about it when they hear someone who is confident
Super easy way to differentiate those who are truly capable of greatness and thus who are just larping is having conversations around their boundaries and what they believe is possible, ambition is something very unique in the sense of the truth of how they relate to it within their central nervous system cannot be hidden because it relates deeply to people's self worth which cannot be hidden when they begin to speak on or avoid such topics and that's the beauty of it
Any person who became great operated in that space for a long time where the vision they had for what they would become was massively outsized for what they were currently capable of executing and for their current skill level, but it's that inner belief deep in the spirit that forces a person to take so much action that bridging that competence gap is an inevitable timeline extension of who they are and what they will relentlessly choose to do
Listening to anyone else regarding your lifepath/potential is a serious suicide mission because most people are cowards with tiny mental models of the world, anytime you want to do something extraordinary you're going to have people lining up to tell you why its a bad idea, why you're going to fail, people telling you hey I would be careful if i was you, that might be a waste of time!!
You have to kill the roots of these influences and keep visualising the deepest victories for yourself so internally one day you can look back and laugh at all the negativity and pessimism that was placed at your feet knowing you were right all along, and you worked relentlessly to prove that to yourself
CHERISH YOUR LOFTY AMBITIONS
ATTACK
Part of the reason the 3/4 pounder got so popular with myself the past 2 years was because it enables me to work more
Cognitive bandwidth increases as food noise and appetite decreases.
It’s easier to lock in.
the key to getting lucky is putting yourself in more situations (exposure) where luck can find you
to increase your chances of getting lucky:
>understand you can engineer it
>start thinking in terms of probabilities
>never classify yourself as unlucky (not even as a joke)