1) Like charges repel. Opposites attract 2) Gravity is the weakest force but affects EVERYTHING 3) Newton's laws of motion also apply to human behavior 4) Relativity: two observers can witness the same thing, disagree, and both be correct
5) If you want more energy, move faster, do more, or push yourself further 6) If two people coordinate on the same frequency, their output is much greater than the sum of the parts 7) It doesn't matter how much energy you exert--if nothing moves, there is no work done
8) Moving at the same the speed is effectively the same as sitting still. Step it up or go home. 9) Sometimes the fastest path isn't the same thing as the shortest distance. 10) Potential is useless until there's movement. If you ain't making progress, you may as well be dead.
11) 100% efficiency is impossible. But quite a lot can be accomplished if you prepare for it. 12) Necessity isn't always the mother of invention. Curiosity is responsible for many advances. 13) Most things are amoral. The same concept can power a city--or level it.
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If you want to move from where you are to where you want to be in life, you need to have a plan.
The Four Confidences is the system I used to build confidence in my academic, boxing, writing, and sobriety pursuits.
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Confidence #1: The Process
You need to believe that life can and will get better.
No matter how many times I felt hopeless, the belief that "One day this will all have been worth it," kept coming back to me. And it turned out to be true.
When you start out insecure, feeling weak, like I have felt, you still have hope.
Improvement is a process, a journey, a climb.
Your self-doubt will try to get in your way, but it is imperative to trust the process.
Nothing good will come from giving up on yourself.
Keeping a level head is undoubtedly one of the most crucial skills you can develop in life.
It can make a huge difference, sometimes even saving your life, in situations where you might not even be aware of the danger.
After all, you never know who you're dealing with
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-Someone who might have a gun
-They don't care about going to jail
-They're "mobbed up"
-They're protected from the law, by the law
It's not difficult to imagine encountering someone in any of these scenarios, particularly given the easy availability of firearms in the U.S.
Organized crime might be illegal, but its influence is so vast that many of its members enjoy de facto immunity.
Even in cases dealing with low-level street gangs, the threat of intimidation can be surprisingly potent, causing witnesses to forget crucial details of an incident.
The problem with building in public–TRULY building from the ground up–is that your path is influenced by your audience.
Their praises, criticisms, rewards, and your subtle fear of losing their approval (and it's there, even if you don't acknowledge it) affect your choices.
You won't take the hard paths because those don't make for good content.
Or it takes so long to become proficient that you lose interest because your audience does.
Your insights aren't earned because doing something to REALLY earn them hurts.
Time, energy, audience, & money.
This is why many writers under 30 are generic.
Social media has made you prize making money with the least amount of work possible.
Because you've avoided work, you don't really know jack shit about discipline & productivity.