“To not improve is to deteriorate” “There’s no neutrality, you either improve or you deteriorate” No it’s not so simple When you’re going from points A to B — and point B is your goal, then getting closer to point B is considered an “improvement” and getting further away from point B is considered …
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Unless You’re Extraordinary — Why Should Anything But Ordinary Apply To You?
There’s the ordinary — and there’s the extraordinary. There’s ordinary men, taking ordinary actions, getting ordinary outcomes. And there’s extraordinary men, taking extraordinary actions, getting extraordinary outcomes. It anything wrong with that logic? Only one thing. It’s not set in stone, obviously. There’s the element of luck Quite a significant one. You can have …
FULL RESPONSIBILITY — or NONE
Always take either FULL responsibility — or NONE. If something matters — you take responsibility. You personally make sure that it succeeds. Because you care, because it matters If something doesn’t matter, if something is not so important — then you don’t have to take responsibility You can dabble There’s nothing wrong with …
100x Man
Let’s talk about inequality You think it’s unfair that he has 100x what you have You think that system is evil Or that he is evil Or in the best case: that this is just a bug in the system That 10x is maybe sensible, but not 100x The only bug in the system …
Knowing a Formula — vs Actually APPLYING It
When you were in school, on your mathematics classes, you would learn a formula And then you had to apply this formula to solve a problem Knowing the formula was sufficient to solve the problem But it DIDN’T YET solve the problem You still had to apply this formula And that you had to …
What Improvement Actually Means
Every single thing around you could be improved (Or, if it’s already perfect — it can still be changed, be made different) Every single thing around you can be improved It requires intent, Then realisation of that intent, There is a degree of exertion There is a movement of resources There is a change …
Look Back And Change For The Worse?
if you were to look back at your life, and think of an improvement would you choose to be more lazy more stupid, more mediocre ? obviously not would you choose to have less? to have things in lower quality? to have things inferior? ? obviously not now, would you choose to be …
Outcomes vs Methods, Imitation vs Realness
There’s the OUTCOME you want to attain. And there’s HOW you attain that outcome. The OUTCOME is concrete . But the “HOW” is more vague The “HOW” is sometimes clear and sometimes utterly obscure, and usually partly clear and partly obscure. To get the OUTCOME you are looking for the “HOW”. You follow, IMITATE …
What Shall Society Give You?
I know few man who can move themselves. Who can will their reality, will their action, will their mind — INDEPENDENTLY of the outside world. Most man are the product of outside forces acting upon them Most man are the product of outside forces acting upon them Therefore most man only get better if …
Bet on The Self-Improving
Bet on The Self-Improving Bet on the self-improving But only on the TRULY self-improving In general people don’t change. Therefore you want people already FITTING, already SUITABLE, already PERFECT. Yes you can teach them a thing or two — but you can’t expect them to change. Therefore you want them already changed, already …