-I wrote this when I was 23, (Im 32 now). Its good advice
1. Waking up stupid early
If you want anything in life to happen, you have to make something move, and that means getting that started as soon as possible...
If you want to maximize your quantitative experience, then start your day early. If you want waste time, then wake up whenever you like
But don’t be surprised when you get beaten by someone who put in more time than you did—because it will happen.
2. Working way later than you should.
Rarely do people fail because they devote too much time to something
Aside from actively working to create opportunity, there will also always be instances where someone has the good fortune to simply be the person that showed up first...
stayed late, and was in just the right place at just the right time
That does occasionally happen (not that it's something to ever count on), but it arises from you being there in the first place—before and after everyone else.
3. Being tired.
If you devote enough time to something you care about, then it will make you tired. At times your sleep will suffer, you will run on coffee and energy drinks...but it will be worth it at the end
Get comfortable with it and dont avoid it., fatigue is a skill
4. Putting up with bullshit and/or dumbasses.
No one gets through life bullshit-free, at least no one who has done anything worthwhile. You will have bosses you hate, coworkers that give your whole industry a bad name, and team members who are disrespectful assholes...
You will also be forced to endure all manner of incompetency, pointless meetings and trainings, backstabbing, lawsuits, work politics, petty bullshit over who said what, and every other eye-stabbing irritation you can think of
And it never ends because...
The more successful you become, the more aware you will be of how screwed everything can be
You can be let this bother you and be angry constantly
OR,
You can set boundaries, standards of excellence, vigorously enforce them, work for yourself or start your own business, and...
earn to let go of things you cant affect, do what you can, and do your damnedest to do the right things, make things work, and accept that people are people and that the bullshit and the obstacles are what make you better over everything else
5. Out-learning everyone around you
The day you stop learning is the day you steadily start working to become irrelevant. Anything that might be relative to what you do: read it, watch it, learn it, work with that expert person, and find a way to gain greater perspective...
Knowledge is value, and the most well-respected people in a field are the ones who simply “know more" compared to everyone else—Learning never stops, and it becomes more and more important the higher you go.
6. Knowing that this is going to take awhile
Things are going to take as long as they are supposed to take—not how long you want them to take
Again, this will be repeated across the entirety of your human experience. So, you had better learn to enjoy the process
7. Failing forward
You’re going to fail...a lot. And sometimes really badly. There are different ways of failing, and I can't readily say that everything can be well handled (as there will be times when you royally fuck up)
The best advice I could give is to fail forward
Somehow fail ahead of where you started.
Learn everything you can from it and work to end up ahead. Sometimes you fail sideways.
Success is not a straight path—sometimes going sideways gives you the perspective to move back to where you need to be.
The idea of Nature being peaceful and equal and loving is a modern deception
The animal world is one of Indiscriminate violence, prey animals are eaten alive asshole first, killing for fun is common, aging predators dye in starvation or being killed by their own kind...
The very act of going to a river to drink can end in death,
Weak and lame offspring are left to die and/or killer, mothers will eat their own children for food if need be
The world of man is kinder and gentler by orders of magnitude
The civilized world is built on creating boundaries that protect man against the wild
roofs, walls, Fences and fire pits
Structure and infrastructure
is protection and passage Against and through the environment
The teacher of Hippocrates was Herodicus. He is called the Father of Sports Medicine
He lived during the 5th century BC, he was the first physician known to have prescribed exercises as medicine
He commonly recommend 20 mile walks to his patients to restore robustness
He was a former athletic trainer, and he believed that ill health resulted from imbalance between not enough exercise, and too much eating.
To restore health, he recommended regular, daily training, and a strict diet free of rich and sweet foods
This was 2500 years ago, for perspective, and he understood obesity better than most doctors today. Your modern primary care doctor is likely to be a fat fuck with 38% bodyfat and a neck wattle as he is to be healthy.
The best business advice I ever got was from a bay area Meth dealer while I was in Jail
The guy was a genius and a psychopath, had been selling dope to techies and yuppies for decades and basically taught himself law to keep getting in & out of jail
Irreplaceable education
I dont suggest committing felonies and doing time
BUT...if you do, you'll learn more about business and (people) than you ever will reading fucking business books.
Stay safe and obey the law boys and girls
Your goal in creating a service or product is to fill a niche and make your what you are selling absolutely necessitous to the person
Make your dope the absolute best, and people will always be happy to pay, and they'll want more
The idea that a man must be "high value" to attract women is pure BS. Its cope
Women will be with loser men ALL the time. Confidence and being cocksman will keep women coming back, regardless of lacking everywhere else
Hard reality is most men live their lives as losers, and its not until they gain financial and professional success and FINALLY have some veracity and swagger that women respond to them positively
They ironically make the same mistake feminists make...
That Men must really care about their professional success and accolades.
"Women only want to fuck winners at the finish line!"
Eh, not quite bro, you just finally started walking around like you have balls after 30+ years & learned girls like confidence