It takes great talent and skillto conceal one’s talent and skill. – François de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
Read moreLife Lessons
Am I high to believe…
That I am not trapped by limitations of out, but self-imposed limitations within. How can I change my reality?What do I want reality to look like?How and who do you want to be? You have many battles? Can you win them all? Some? Which ones are worth winning, which ones are you okay to lose?…
Read moreFear Drove Me
I didn’t have to be fearful or anxious. I didn’t have to punish myself, this unnecessary suffering, which only added weight, anchoring me to sadness and despair. I played the game on hard, and I didn’t know I had a choice to make it easy. In moments of blissful enlightenment, I realize how unnecessary it…
Read moreCowards just behave.
Cowards don’t recognize they are cowards. They just behave. As a snake does not identify as a snake, but simply behaves, so does a coward behave cowardly leaving a trail of fuckery, without truly identifying and accepting and acknowledging. Are you able to see the differences in animals?
Read moreDiscipline is hard, sans a schedule.
Discipline is so hard to have, especially when a schedule does not exist. I am enjoying the break from my normal disciplined life, for the most part. However, my inability to control my eating is cause for concern. What haven’t you done in a long time? Meditate bread in the middle of the day. Walk…
Read moreSpeed and Trajectory
I have plenty of people in my community who I’ve mentored. Some have been in the country for only 4-5 years and are miles ahead of you. Why?Are they smarter or better than you? No.They’re simply operating on a different OS. You’re not going to get from here to there downloading mental apps. You need…
Read moreConfidence or Courage?
Of course, courage all day long. Courage enables you to move forward. With courage, you develop experience. With experience, you build confidence. Courage comes before confidence.
Read moreWho’s talking about family?
FAMILY LIFE: Oh, how a good one amplifies success!
Read moreMy issue with your enlightenment:
So you did (another) hero dose of psychedelics. 👍👍👍 Good for you, buddy. And how long will you hold on to your newfound enlightenment before you need another dose? As if the wise sages in the past needed deprivation tanks, shamans, energy healing, micro and macro dosing. For fucks sakes. Get over yourself. Grow up. Mature. …
Read moreLaying Bricks?
Two men are laying bricks. Somebody asked one of them what they were doing. The first man’s response was, “I’m laying bricks.” To the same question, the other man answers, “I’m building a cathedral.” I don’t want to go through my life thinking I’m just laying bricks I’d much Paraphrased from Founders Podcast episode 347…
Read moreMental Bondage
“If someone tried to control your body, you’d fight for freedom. But how easily you hand over your mind to those who offend or insult you! By continually stewing over their misdeeds, you make them your master.” Epictetus, The Manual
Read moreUnspoken expectations are…
“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.”– Neil Strauss
Read moreDo Epic Things
Epicness, not for this: It’s basic to think that doing some epic shit is a great way to grab attention and increase standing in your social hierarchy. This true. Doing epic shit can give you the fame and admiration your weak little soul may yearn. And with one step in this direction, you’ll have started…
Read moreSocialites
More wisdom from Sun Tzu. 13. The Use Of Spies
Read moreHow to Write
1. Write. Write jibberish. Write stupidity. Write your feelings. Then, write why your feelings are dumb. Write why you love someone. Then, write all the things you hate about someone. Write why liberals are stupid. Then, write why conservatives are dumb. Write about racism, prejudice, and social justice. Then, write why you can’t stand certain…
Read more90-year old’s regrets
What are some things you’ll regret? You’re 90 years old. What are you happy you did? What would you have done if you could have a retry at life?
Read moreWants, and other questions
What don’t you want? This is equally, if not more important, than what you want. But be careful not to not-want things that are good for you. For example, suffering. And what about those you love? What do they (think they) want? In what domains and categories are you willing to help others achieve their…
Read moreIdeas: Small? Big? Massive?
Are your ideas small? Why aren’t they massive? Your ideas, what’s the endgame?
Read moreNew day. New life.
Every morning is an opportunity for a new life. This gets forgotten, often, especially when the night ends in drink and smoke. This is karma. Waking up in debt for decisions of yesterday. Not careful; this can replicate in weeks, months, and years, setting you so far back that no time available to you is…
Read moreThe Descent of a Soul: A Journey Through Temptation and Reflection
In many ways, bad ways, I have devolved. Weaknesses have run amok. Coasting. Eating away the good fortune created yesterday.Stealing goodwill from tomorrow. Where is my soul? Like being trapped by a black hole. Being pulled. I see the disasters, and rather than change trajectory, rather than fly back the opposite way, I flow like the river into…
Read moreThrough Detachment
Only through true detachment, can I think clear. Through true detachment, my feelings are no longer blown by the winds of the external.
Read moreBe a white blood cell
If you had an option, to be a healthy white blood cell or cancer, you would pick healthy. The same goes for healthy vs dying or decaying. The answer is clear. The behaviour is simple: focus on serving, fixing, and building. That’s what healthy cells do. Doesn’t matter how you feel or what you think,…
Read moreWhat ruins a community
Having qualms about a member of your community, sharing your qualms with others, but not having the guts to talk to the person directly. This plants seeds of resentment in your own heart, and seeds of doubt and dislike in the hearts of the listener. Some of those doubts and disenchantment are of the person…
Read moreSurrender
Allow this moment to be as it is. Allow = surrender. To what? God. The Universe Perfection.
Read moreA few notes from Subtle Art of Not Giving a F
What is the value that you hold so dear? What is the (made up) metric that you measure the progress towards that value? Problems may be inevitable, but their meanings don’t need to be. Our values determine the metrics by which we measure others and ourselves. If you want to change how you see your…
Read moreLetting go of people
There is a lack of talent. This is great news for us. Email to myself: Dec 25, 2021, 9:13 AM Why? Whatever the challenge, if it’s market, social, industry, or whatever challenge that other orgs and people face as well, not isolated to PD or a PD member… This is great news. Why?
Read moreWe’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” – Charles Bukowski
Read moreThe fear of death…
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
Read moreTwo types of knowledge
When reading and studying, consider, there are two types of knowledge. OS Upgrades App Downloads Sure, sometimes you need to download an app in your brain. Some new technique, skill, or process. But to see real massive strides forward, go for books and knowledge that upgrade your OS. Just like in real life, most Apps…
Read moreGetting out of a funk in 2021 Q4
Notes taken whilst listening to a Queen. Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 10:21 PM I want to feel understood and understood. Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 10:23 PM I don’t need other people to understand me, of I’m willing to understand myself. Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 10:25 PM To ___: 1. I’m so glad I talked with…
Read moreProtected: Getting out of a Funk
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Read moreChildren = Increase in Love Meter
Before children Pain Pleasure After children PAIN PLEASURE
Read moreHappenings
9:31 am // A few questions participants should ask. How do you define attack? How do you define defence? What is the relationship between claiming what is and asking what is? How do you stop the spread of suffering? What behaviours amplify and spread suffering? What is Truth if two or more parties witnessing an…
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Read moreStop
Essentialism Stop trying to help everyone. Help only ten that will help ten. Too many projects on the go. We can only close so many projects at the same time. Initiatives: Beachhead Firing too many cannons in too many directions. I don’t want to be like N____l S_____y. Spread too thin. Behaving erratically. I must…
Read moreIntense few weeks
Below are my unfiltered thoughts to myself. Thought I’d share. I’m either a commander, a captain, a ruler, or a commando. When I am a commando, everything seems to be too slow, an obstacle to overcome, an enemy to slice. Nothing is good enough. Things are not good enough. People are not good enough. I…
Read moreNoise before the defeat
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before the defeat” – Sun Tzu
Read moreWarriors
It’s easier to find a warrior and train him to be a gentleman, than finding a coward and training him to be a warrior.
Read moreNo more templates, only frameworks
No more templates, only frameworks!
Read moreArtist >< Accountant ?
Great creative minds think like artists and work like accountants. ( Ignore inspiration. Do the work. )
Read moreDon’t be an “HNR”
Q: What is an HNR? A: Human Network Router Q: What does that mean? A: It means you’re literally moving information from one place to another. You cease to be creative. You are reactionary. Your time is mostly spent in emails, instant messaging apps, and social media. Don’t. Be a person. Live life.
Read moreOpinions
Let’s have less of them. Fewer, but better in quality. Q: What is a quality opinion? A: One that has been thought through, and as close as possible to fact and far as possible from bias.
Read moreConfidence & Competence
Confidence > Competence (massive failure) Confidence < Competence (massive underachievement) Confidence = Competence (Accurate progress) Confidence seesaw. Meek vs arrogant.
Read moreGoddess Fortune
Fortune is a picky and fickle Goddess She gives love to men who are prone to act. Don’t get too comfortable with her praise and love. She is known to switch lovers with no warning, leaving men naked and empty, worse off than when they started.
Read moreWeak-kneed Governments
Our governments are weak-kneed when it comes to the rich, and bullies when dealing with the poor. Look at any courtroom and see how the rich are treated, and those that cannot afford expensive representation. Look around and see how policies are influenced, and by which groups. See how harsh punishments are to the poor….
Read moreFast, reckless, slow, careful
Move fast, move recklessly. Move careful, move slow. Can you move fast and careful (with precision)? Many cannot. Yes, you can. Also know, how you move will communicate. Sometimes the truth, sometimes fiction. Move fast and with precision. Let it be magical, and fiction.
Read moreGenerational wealth. All or nothing.
Basically all or nothing. If not this generation, tough luck, the next generation can try. And repeat.
Read moreOf course I love video games.
Of course, I love video games. As well as other forms of getting drunk, high, and out of this world. But some forms of pleasure are much more dangerous than others. For example, take working-out in comparison to playing video games. One opens the lungs, blood vessels, and the mind. The other takes us into…
Read moreI don’t need permission
To be the best leader I can be. Neither do you. I used to think I needed permission to be my best. I’m reminded of the following: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness That most…
Read moreHitchens, and becoming a drunk
Was well respected, but clearly a drunk. Do I need to drink to be my best? He died young. Perhaps he maximized his value through alcohol. Perhaps he short-lived his potential. Remember Bill Gates. This trip has brought out, created a drunk in me. Remember: you can achieve such nights of euphoria through meditation, exercise,…
Read moreEverybody has a story
Everybody has a magical fantastic story. Everybody. No exception. For some, it’s a sad story. For others, a story of triumph. Regardless of theme, everyone has an unbelievable interesting story worth hearing. Organizations are no different. They have a beginning, a middle, an end. And even a resurrection. We fall in love with these stories….
Read moreHappiness is in short supply and high demand.
Be happy. Spread happiness.
Read moreTrain now to navigate later
Navigating the world and yourself is incredibly difficult and so you better start training immediately.
Read moreImitation
Imitate Why do what someone else is doing or being, when we are all One, anyway. You are him and he is you. Now be you, uniquely You. Open yourself to the UniVerse. Let it move you freely, ungrudgingly. MESSAGE TO J_____: A message to myself. Perhaps relevant in your life when you admire others…
Read moreLose your identity
Lose your identity. This is the way. This is the opening to all things possible.
Read moreOnly one
There is one mission. No other missions. Raise I+C high enough to reach Escape Velocity. There is one war. Fight against those that intentionally or unintentionally decrease I+C. There is one war. All other conflicts are battles. Some matter. Most do not. Winning can be measured. Individuals. Families. Communities. The world. Strategies not accounting for…
Read moreMarry someone
Marry someone that can thrive with the rich and the poor. He has homes in all places.
Read moreYou seek a lose/lose scenario
If your insults and condemnations regarding my nature and character are true, then our father’s investment in me was in vain. And such a thing brings dishonour and shame to his house. If your comments are untrue, your behaviour is one of a Liar. Such actions bring dishonour and shame to his house. Only a…
Read moreJoys unimaginable
Within reach Family – Toronto, probably stoned.
Read moreThe 15 second workout
Ridiculous, but effective! Let’s create an infomercial-style call-to-arms for those who don’t work out. What are we selling? The 15-second Workout! Super easy to do! Only takes 15 seconds! We dare you to NOT do more!
Read moreInteracting with people comes with a risk, another song maybe?
Every time you speak to another person, you are at risk. Risk of what? Oh so many things. Risk of talking too much talking too little interpreting incorrectly interpreting correctly, and wishing you didn’t acting like a fool saying things you regret miscommunicating creating a new frienemy creating a new enemy sowing doubt, anger, hostility…
Read moreDesire to live through your children
Okay. Good. So what? When is this not healthy? Probably when your interests and desires outweigh or contradict your child’s. – I love my children so fuck’n much. I could never have imagined joy and love like this. THROUGH my children. Through my children I live on. Through my children I learn to be a…
Read moreSperm boy! You won the race agains trillions. What’s next?
This life. It’s only a reenactment of the life of a sperm. Will we evolve? How can we even imagine such a thing? Imagine telling a little bitty sperm what an apple tastes like. Or the pleasure of taking a deep breath in a cool spring morning. It’s impossible. And so is explaining enlightenment to…
Read moreThe case for organizational health
Homo Dues page 132 …lacks flexibility. Bees cooperate in very sophisticated ways, but they cannot reinvent their social system overnight. If a hive faces a new threat or a new opportunity, the bees cannot, for example, guillotine the queen and establish a republic. Social mammals such as elephants and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexible than…
Read morePSME – Happiness
PS is where happiness is. Through S can you become fulfilled. There is an opposite correlation between financial wealth and happiness. Homo Deus. Page 33. The Order P: Physical S: Spiritual M: Mental E: Emotional
Read moreWeak and faulty. That’s what I am.
We, and especially I, am weak and faulty. My performance is heavily influenced by my environment and conditions. I need strict structure. Without it, I will never realize my potential.
Read moreThe Courage To Be Disliked, a song
I’d like to create a song. Sorta like a children’s sing-along song. One on the importance of not giving a fuck, and being okay to be disliked. Something fun, cheeky, but also critical. Cast of people the song can refer to include Jesus, Galileo, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Perhaps even a few non-people like…
Read moreComplicated
Sex, life, death, marriage, kids, community, duty. The whole thing is so complicated. Perhaps this is why we need direction, purpose. – Vietnam, unedited
Read moreMen, and the West
The West is pushing hard for men to be more feminine. Cool. But other countries (our enemies) that look to devour us, are not feminine. They are not fair, equitable, beautiful, and complicated. They are masculine. Fierce. Dominating. Looking to devour its prey. Let’s not forget. For centuries, men were the protectors of women and…
Read moreCoincidences (and droogs)
My life is filled with coincidences. Time slowing down. This is what I need. Chronos. Katana Zero. Slow down time. This is. Is it? I see to be awake. How can I test myself? 12:21 am No. I can’t be rational. My risk level is off the charts. I seem, and feel like in control….
Read moreThe more I consume
A break is needed. The more I consume, the emptier I feel. Food. Drugs. Alcohol. Women. Eat, eat, eat. Emptiness. Refrain is needed. I’m hollowing out. – Vietnam
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