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May 9 - July 12, 2016
9. BE UNFUCKWITHABLE. Here you learn how to be so rock solid in your own self that judgments from others or fear of loss no longer affect you.
Give me the thrill and excitement of the unsafe, rule-breaking, dogma-questioning life anytime over the boring unfolding of a safe life
If you can’t win, change the rules. If you can’t change the rules, ignore them
Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what’s possible and impossible and what we can and cannot do. They shape every action, every thought, and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.
LESSON 3: When you replace disempowering models of reality with empowering ones, tremendous changes can occur in your life at a very rapid pace.
Each disempowering model of reality we have is really nothing more than a Brule we’ve set up for ourselves—and, like any Brule, it should be questioned.
You can help heal your own inner child.
happiness and work need to go hand in hand.
Have big goals—but don’t tie your happiness to your goals. You must be happy before you attain them
If you can choose any model of reality you want and accept it as true—why not choose a model that suggests that you can literally bend reality to your wishes?
Be merciless with your kindness.
Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. —JAMES J. LACHARD, ON WHAT IS MOST SURPRISING ABOUT HUMANITY
In order to have the experiences above, how do I have to grow? What sort of man or woman do I need to evolve into?
The most extraordinary people in the world do not have careers. What they have is a calling.
Sometimes you have to destroy a part of your life to let the next big thing enter.
Don’t worry about the HOW. Start with the WHAT and the WHY.
Your true greatness comes when you focus not on building a career but on finding your quest.