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MASTER YOUR INTERNAL STATE | MYTHOLOGIZE LIFE | UNLOCK RELENTLESS GREATNESS.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

PLAYFULNESS will attract everything you desire

people are islands, you must create bridge

when you're PLAYFUL people remember you, they refer you, they want to work with you

connections is the ultimate power move in this society

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Another msclz classic has dropped. Tap in.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

It's now what you know about the world, but who you can contact it in that matters.

Relationships are levers. Give me enough of them and I will move the world.

This was 1 of 7 principles pulled from my essay you can find here: https://t.co/y6x6to7cQd

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Success is understanding the balance between compounding knowledge and compounding relationships:

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

People are doors.

Doors into their world, into their connections and ideas.

They're force multipliers for your base knowledge.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Underrated skill: tolerance for discomfort.

Your ability to be bad for as long as it takes to see progress will always determine your ability to be great.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

480 BC: three hundred Spartans under King Leonidas held the pass at Thermopylae against the largest army in history.

The Persian emissary demanded their weapons.

Leonidas said: come and take them.

The Persians sent arrows that blocked out the sun.

A Spartan said: good. Then we will fight in the shade.

They held for three days.

On the fourth, betrayed by a local who showed the Persians a path around them, they were surrounded.

Leonidas refused to retreat. The three hundred fought until none remained.

They were fighting for something worth more than life. And although condemned to death — they were free.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Joan of Arc was 19 when they burned her to the stake at Rouen.

Illiterate. A peasant girl who heard voices and convinced the Dauphin to give her an army.

She crowned a king and turned the war.

The English caught her at Compiègne. The French king she'd crowned refused to ransom her.

The flames took her in May 1431.

A bishop standing at the execution said her heart did not burn.

No flame from even the hottest fire could match the fire she'd blazed across her lifetime.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Diogenes carried a lit lamp through the streets of Athens in broad daylight.

Asked what he was looking for, he said: I am looking for an honest man.

He walked the city for years and never found one.

When asked what he'd concluded, he said: I have found honest children and honest dogs. As for men, I have only found two — and they were arguing about which of them had more virtue.

To display virtue is easier and more rewarding than being virtuous.

The right path is the latter. Character is man's only treasure.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

No man steps in the same river twice. — Heraclitus.

The river you're about to step in is different from the river you stepped in yesterday. And so are you.

The current is ever changing. You must grow with it — or stay stagnant, like the rocks at the bottom, where no light reaches.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Lord Horatio Nelson commanded the British fleet at Trafalgar in October 1805.

He had lost his right eye in Corsica and his right arm at Tenerife.

He refused to take cover when the French marksmen came in range.

A musket ball entered his shoulder and pierced his spine.

He lay in the cockpit of HMS Victory for hours, fully conscious. Learned the battle was won — 27 enemy ships taken.

He said: thank God I have done my duty.

Then to his flag captain: kiss me, Hardy.

Then he died — broken-bodied, victorious, content.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

You're not afraid of failing. you're afraid of being seen trying.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Hominem te memento.

Remember you are a man.

The slave whispered this in the ear of the triumphant Roman general parading through the streets in glory.

His job: keep the conqueror from believing himself larger than life.

You are a man.

A frail, death-bound man. remember that.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Marshal Michel Ney — Napoleon's bravest of the brave — was sentenced to death after Waterloo.

December 7, 1815. Led to a firing squad in Paris.

He refused a blindfold and ddressed the soldiers himself:

Comrades, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you.

He put his hand on his chest. He gave the command.

H died at 46, by his own order.

Fearless, proud, French to the core.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Tomorrow is the country liars promise themselves they will visit.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Memento vivere.

Remember to live.

The other half of the famous Latin warning.

Memento mori asks you to remember the sorrow of death. Memento vivere asks you to remember the beauty of life.

Act with both in heart, and your every action, thought, and decision will be filled with passion and beauty.

Memento vivere.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Beethoven was 56, dying of cirrhosis and infection.

A massive thunderstorm rolled over Vienna on March 26, 1827.

The dying composer had been unconscious for hours. The thunder shook the room. Lightning flashed.

He suddenly opened his eyes, raised his right fist toward the storm, and held it there.

He died.

Wied with his fist raised. Proud, defiant, elegant.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Between 1665 and 1666, Isaac Newton was 22 years old and stuck at home.

Cambridge had closed because of the plague.

Newton went back to his family's farm at Woolsthorpe. For 18 months, alone, with no peers, no professors, no library beyond the books he'd brought.

He invented calculus.
The theory of color.
The law of universal gravitation.

Historians call it the annus mirabilis. The work of three lifetimes, done in 18 months, alone, by a 22-year-old, during a pandemic.

Solitude + focus = success.

Simple.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Now is the only place the dead would come back to if they could.

[ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ @thegreeeeat]

Death smiles at us all, all we can do is smile back. — Marcus Aurelius.

To smile back in the face of the inevitable is detachment.

There is no greater energetic state.

Smile back, my friend. the visitor is on his way.