You think intelligence protects you from suffering. It doesn’t. It often deepens it. The more clearly you see reality, the harder it becomes to participate in its illusions. Awareness brings clarity, but it also removes many of the comforts others rely on.
The Full grown adults who can’t vacation, take a gap year, have hobbies, play an instrument, speak multiple languages, swim, cycle, skate, or backpack. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to escape survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics nobody really talks about.
Flow state can only come when you submit to the universes plans. You gotta have faith that life is always moving in a way that best suits you. God makes no mistakes so start moving like that. You ain’t got shit to fear bro
You’re supposed to use every unfair advantage you have. Connections, looks; money, all of it.
You're not noble by picking the hardest path just to look like an underdog.
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.
BREAKING: Anthropic has urged for a global pause in AI development as artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention, per WSJ
Create something. Write something. Anything. TODAY!
I know, it’s uncomfortable. That’s the whole point. Do it for YOU, not commerce. Every day you postpone your craft and creativity, your creativity gets weaker. Your happiness continues to move further away upstream.
You owe it to yourself to create.
Underrated life hacks:
- pray first thing every morning, last thing every night
- always keep an open notebook and pen within sight
- halve the amount time you allot yourself to read books & do your work
- extend your vision out by 5-10 years, then reverse engineer to present
- every time you catch yourself worrying, immediately surrender it to God
- never stop learning, ever, no matter what
- recognize no one is stopping you more than yourself