Despite its challenges, the United States stands out as the greatest and best country on the planet, period. I speak from the experience of having lived in several countries before moving to the U.S. It truly is a land of opportunities for those willing to put in the work.
The reason I left France after a year of living there is because it’s not a serious country when it comes to capitalism. You can cry all you want about how America sucks at this or that. But let’s be real. There is no real social mobility in Europe. If there was, we’d all be flooding there. C'est tout. Micro coupé. All this “Europe is superior” is a cope.
Kobe Bryant once said:
“Everyone wants to be a beast. Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes. Because what it takes is boring. It is waking up at 4:00 AM. It is shooting the same shot a thousand times. It is watching the film when you are tired. People fall in love with the result, but they hate the process. You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition.
If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights will eventually shine on you.”
I’m an AI researcher turned brain tumor patient, and recently I used the models to crack my mystery fatigue faster than my PCP could.
I believe everyone can do the same with their own symptoms. Here’s how:
Speak 5 lines to yourself every morning:
1. I am the BEST.
2. I CAN do it.
3. GOD is ALWAYS with me.
4. I am a WINNER.
5. Today is MY DAY.
Do this for 30 days straight.
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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.
Be forgiving with your past self. What's done is done. No sense in beating yourself up about it.
Be strict with your present self. Win the moment in front of you right now.
Be flexible with your future self. There are many paths to success. You don't need life to be a certain way to live well.
Men tend to get lonelier as they age.
One reason is that many of their friendships are built around shared interests rather than shared inner lives.
There's nothing wrong with golf, fantasy football, or talking about work. But if every conversation stays there, it's possible to spend years surrounded by people and still have nobody you can tell the truth to.
I've met countless successful men who can name dozens of colleagues and acquaintances but struggle to identify a single person they could call in a moment of real pain.
By middle age, many have become fluent in banter and almost illiterate in confession. The friendships that endure are often built through small acts of courage: asking the deeper question, giving the honest answer, and risking being known.
Loneliness rarely arrives all at once. It accumulates quietly, one surface-level conversation at a time.
@TaPlot Take care, brother. Give it all you've got. Miracles do happen. Stay positive and beleive it. Read/listen to Rhonda Byrne's book on repeat if you can.
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