Major cheat code for life: Always assume things will work out, then do the work to make it true. It’s a mindset of active optimism. Earned faith. It creates a quiet confidence that allows you to tolerate the uncertainty of life better than anything else.
- Aspire to be a good man, not a nice man. A good man is capable of destruction but exercises restraint, a nice man is just spineless and never frontiers anything worthwhile.
- Develop a largeness of heart. Capacity must be built internally to the point where you’re never reactive, no matter how uncertain you are.
- Academics condemns failure, life rewards consistent failings. Life rewards momentum, but you must first confront resistance.
- A “brainstorming” session that doesn’t end in an immediate action is a waste of time. Clarity comes after you fully commit to the cause, not before it.
- As a man, do not let your responsibilities be hinged on other people showing gratitude. As a matter of fact, on most days, your sacrifices will not look like sacrifices to the people you bleed for. Simulate gratitude internally, and keep it pushing.
- For most of the journey, you would have to become the very company that you seek. Life will test your resolve, you must be ready to walk alone (mostly mentally).
- If the 99% understand & can relate to your work ethic, mental wavelength & strategy; you’re perpetuating the average. The road less traveled is where it’s at.
- If everybody likes you, it’s a problem. The evidence of a young man fully settled into his assignment in life is friction.
- Lastly; Gamify life.
Regret is a cruel storyteller. It rewrites the past with the wisdom of the present, convinces you that you should have known better when you had no way of knowing at all.
Polymaths will dominate the next 5 years, but only if they practice the skill of knowing what to ignore. You can learn and do anything now, meaning that it will become increasingly rare for a person to put time, attention, and care into one thing.
When someone tells you something can't be done, remember there's a sign at NASA that says:
Aerodynamically, a bee's body is not made to fly, but bees don't know that. 🐝
When someone tells you something can't be done, remember there's a sign at NASA that says:
Aerodynamically, a bee's body is not made to fly, but bees don't know that. 🐝
One of the greatest cheat codes in life is assuming everything is happening in your favor. Lost the deal? You learned a lesson. Someone broke up with you? You dodged a bullet. When you start seeing life as happening FOR you instead of TO you your life will change.
The Caribbean middle class mastered status signaling long before financial literacy became cool.
Biggest flex isn't what you drive. It's understanding depreciation, compound interest, and opportunity cost while still choosing the German sedan.
Because optics matter. But so does the balance sheet.
If you have an intense soul, you need to pour that intensity into your hobbies/art. That energy needs to go somewhere or it'll swallow you. Your depth must have a purpose. Create your own worlds, that you & other like minded people can escape into. You have a super power. Use it.