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Energy flows where attention goes, and some of that attention is just emboldening the negative forces in the world. There are many reasons for this, but one is because people who can’t get positive attention often opt for negative attention, rather than getting no attention at all.
That’s all we’re talking about online. What’s the last story you saw about someone spreading love? And if you did see that story, how many minutes was it until people were hating on that person who was spreading love? We are living in the most shit-talking time in human history. There has never been so much shit talked and spread so quickly. And it’s easy to talk shit.
all your major downs in life are just preparing you for the major ups. Every chapter has a lesson that builds on the one before. That is, at least, if you have your eyes open to see it. Understand that all of the shit that you go through is only preparing you for the moment where that education is supposed to become of use.
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This guy Napoleon Hill had a beautiful spin on the moments when things don’t work out the way you planned and unexpected hardship falls on you. Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a “failure,” he called them “temporary defeats.”
We all start in the same place.
Disagree - tell that to modern slaves or women living in patriarchal cultures
What-is-ness is accepting everything for what it is. When shit inevitably happens: it is what it is. You are at peace with the nature of this new reality.
In the words of Bruce Lee, “Be like water.” He knew the secret to life—to staying centered and strong—was flow.
Sometimes we’re bitching and complaining about shit we can’t fucking change. Make the best of those moments. Complete those moments. And after completing them, move on rather than sitting there and letting it fuck up your day. That’s my suggestion. Be like water: allow, adapt, and keep moving.
For example, let’s say you want to be a doctor, lawyer, journalist, editor, basketball player, swimmer, or teacher, or if you want to finish school and get your master’s degree. Whatever it may be, it takes an abundance of work to get there. And so while doing the work, doing the thing that’s needed to get you where you want to go, if you’re making it harder by bitching, complaining, and hating—it does nothing. It’s a waste of time. Be like water: allow, adapt, and keep moving—and finish.
When you take a few days off and you look up and suddenly it’s been two weeks, three weeks, and you haven’t been to the gym or done any work or spent time with your friends, you’re going to do something about it because you know what it feels like to be at your best. So, when you start feeling down, it’s because you know that you’re not doing what you’re supposed to do and applying yourself 100 percent in order to give yourself the best possible opportunity to be great.
You begin to see results build up over time, and it makes you want to put even more work in. Consistency inspires consistency.
Oprah Winfrey once said something that was so good, which is, “Not everybody is going to like you.” And it’s okay.
It’s not even about you. It’s just what people like to do online. But they read all this shit because they care so much about what people think. They care about how they’re received and whether the public thinks they’re good enough. They’re not even living their lives for themselves. This is why the higher you climb, and the more attention you start to get, the more you need to master your mental in order to survive.
When people stop moving in life, they stop getting these internal hits of feel-good chemicals. They have to start relying on other ways to artificially stimulate them, like video games, alcohol, smoking weed, social media, or watching porn. We get addicted to these things in a desperate attempt to compensate for the fact that we’re not really living our lives.
I love to snap. I love to tease and make fun of my friends. It’s what we do. We’re all comedians—we joke on each other. One of my friends has a funny thing he says: “Well, that’s not gonna hurt my feelings. No matter what you say, it’s not gonna hurt my feelings.” And it’s the funniest shit in the world because he’s playing, he’s being silly, and we get to come at him as hard as we can. But there’s a real meaning behind it. Basically he’s saying that he’s intact no matter what—“Imma be good.” “I know you’re not gonna wear that dumbass shirt outside.” “You’re not gonna hurt my feelings. This is
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For most people, motivation is temporary. It’s something they occasionally get from the outside. They start a workout plan for a week and drop it. They buy a domain for their blog, and it sits unused. But to bring consistent enthusiasm and action every day is a choice you have to make for yourself.
It takes time for trees to bear fruit.
the minute you think that you’ve done something right, there’s always someone who thinks you’ve done something wrong.
Other people’s opinions of you—positive or negative—don’t mean shit. And what you have doesn’t mean shit either if it’s about putting on a show and not rooted in what makes you feel happy and whole.
