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Real self-Improvement can’t be taught…

If you’re one of those rare individuals who feel the need to constantly throw yourself into various fires and build a stronger player— you should know something.

There is no self improvement practice, at least, not the ones where you do random habits or read a specific amount of books– and somehow unlock phoenix mode? No.

That’s not actually real.

Maybe it helps, but not in the ways you’d like.

Ironically, I’ve developed the most personally while maintaining the least habits, and while nearly reading next to nothing new.

Morning routine is essentially the gym and casually writing these posts. Reading is random, I do it when I feel like it. Diet, it’s just okay–

And yet I’m learning far more about my strengths and weaknesses and developing my character, how?

Through my work.

That’s the answer for all of us. Work develops us. Now, the catch is there has to be some connection to who you are. In my field, there certainly is.

But when I tried to deliberately improve, I oddly became more neurotic and isolated. When I embraced my craft and leaned into what I was doing, I started seeing results. The other day I wondered how I’d convey this idea to my younger self if given the chance…. and I don’t think I ever could.

That idiot was just too big headed.

You have to bump your head until the headache makes you stop.

Embracing your life is the answer. I treat my career like I wish I’d have went through my youth and school. Nothing matters, so play. Quit resisting everything, these little moments are what you’ll look back on in the end.

Improving is human nature.

It will fulfill you, give you more confidence, and make life far more engaging and interesting. But to do it, you have to shift your attitude towards the game.

What are you playing for?

Til next time, #FOOLFWD

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Sacrificing the old goat…

Everything comes down to what you’re willing to give.

There is no real concept of imposter syndrome or deserving something. It’s just will you do what you need to– to accomplish the thing.

The things that used to work for me, won’t for the next level.

I recognize that, and so that’s what goes.

I don’t mind, actually theres relief that comes with that.

Most of us likely don’t want to repeat our lives— making the same mistakes and being hung up on the exact same problems.

You have to make a sacrifice and that’s of your own weaknesses.

The old goat.

I used to try to clever my way through things, sometimes at the expense of others. That will never work for where I’m going. I want a good reputation, one that promises authenticity and delivering excellent work.

Keep cleverness in the craft itself.

We’ll get hung up on things like whats next or where to? Those aren’t the questions we need answering.

What you’re looking for is: Who?

Who will you live life as? How will you live? Where do you spend time, what do you do?

Life follows the character, not the other way around.

Develop the character and life molds itself to match.

Focus on who you need to live as to have that dream life, and everything follows.

Til next time, #FOOLFWD

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Returning to what delivered me…

The other day I had a moment of weakness.

I felt overwhelmed, which resurfaced old feelings from my youth– the ones that make me feel like vanishing.

Strategically, I slept it off. And now I’m clear headed.

I’m going back to what brought me here, to the things that gave me results.

I’m going to harden myself and rise to this new chapter of my life. Remember, there is nothing to ever take personally or feel guilty about.

Guilt is society’s voice.

There is only you and what you want.

That said, I’m leveling up.

I have to be a better writer, and better at my own personal self improvement practices (the laws).

Not much of a post today, but there is something here for all of us:

Anchor yourself to something that can never be taken from you. This will become your superpower in times of crisis.

There is one belief you should know this brand will forever encapsulate, and that is: YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF YOUR LIFE.

Reject everyones roles for you, and write your own.

Til we meet again,

#FOOLFWD

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Opportunity evades the neurotic…

Regular action unlocks desire.

Where I am right now, and where this all leads to– is pretty awesome.

I couldn’t have created or manufactured any of this, no matter what I would have done. Things actually turned out far better than anything I could have ever dreamed of. But how the hell did all this start?

I let go.

You have to forget your dreams to achieve them.

When you’re neurotic and death gripping every aspect of reality, something weird happens… opportunities evade you because you’re creepy.

Everything comes from a state of play. We’re excellent problem solvers, fluid, adaptable, and fun to be around– which matters.

Letting go is a crucial first half.

The second– that’d be nonstop action.

Theres an idea in our heads that when we’re chilling or in our down time, we should think about what we’d like to happen next. I have yet to meet one person actually good at sitting and thinking into the future.

You don’t think your way there, you act.

What you build becomes the journey itself. The things you try, people you meet, random applications you send out.

Life is made up of random moments that lead to unimaginable journeys.

Your problem is you want to know, before you go.

It doesn’t work like that.

If you’re ready for something new, do something different. Throw out a bunch of stuff and see what happens.

Chat soon. #FoolOn

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Waking up from a stupid dream

Same brain, different mind?

Changing dreams will do that. And that pretty much sums up my journey from where I came from, to where I’m now going.

If you had 5 minutes in a room with 17 year old you– what would you tell them?

This is the only person I compare myself to, and it’s a real eye opener.

My quick advice would be: WORK MORE. Always be working, dreams on their own turn into delusion fast, and delusion rots reality.

You don’t need the books. You don’t need all those freakish habits. It’s okay to enjoy taking a shower.

Just keep building.

Have skills, create, play, do as much as humanely possible. Working is a habit. Once you find your niche, you’ll see– it’s true fulfillment. I’m to the point where weekends are lame distractions.

The weirdest phenomenon is what happens to the brain when we’re removed from reality. Even some of the smartest people fall to this– it’s like everything you touch turns to failure. That’s why you need to be on the pulse.

You have to be in the arena, on the field, you have to be a player.

Otherwise your ideas aren’t based on anything useful.

How do you move out of the fog when you’re stuck in the middle?

By taking the smallest steps.

My mistake was I kept trying to go from nothing– to giant grandiosity. Because I was removed from that niche, market, and what people desired and I only thought about my growing pains– I kept creating useless crap.

Whatever it is you think you’d enjoy or like to build, you can’t go from nothing. You have to first get a feel for the field, you have to understand the players.

Start as small as possible.

Do it casually.

Then you’ll wake up, and to a different life.

Til next time, #FOOLFWD

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Prioritize Day Living > What’s Coming…

You suffer because you’re not day-living.

If you looked back on your fondest memories or moments where you deeply enjoyed your life, you know what you wouldn’t find?

All the time you wasted thinking about the future, or putting off living– because you were saving yourself for some goal.

If we don’t love our journey there, then we’re miserably existing– and what’s the point of that?

Prioritize day living.

Bring the excitement to the things you do or suffer the rest of your life.

That’s how you create the momentum needed to change your life. The most important skill is really learning to stay present, and letting go of our wishing-for-better habit.

None of any of it matters. Nothing matters.

That’s a liberating thought.

I suffered when I was a kid. I held on so tightly to my future, everything was a big deal. I was so wound up that everything in front of me was half experienced, if that.

I was too good at self control.

I never let myself relax.

I was never off the hook.

Life sucked.

Vs now.

Now, I don’t care.

The more I play, don’t think about anything, and just move with it– the more momentum and success I see.

The lesson for me was letting go. Pay attention to what’s in front of you. Learn how to be an opportunist when it comes to living.

LIVE.

Quit trying to find reasons for things, or explain away shortcomings or overly intellectualize every situation.

The point is to live. That’s it.

The reason you suffer is because you don’t know how to play and you think different circumstances will change that?

Ironic.

You won’t play just because things are better.

Play is a habit, and yours is one of suffering.

Change now.

Til our next chat,

#FOOLFWD

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Fiction Writing Chameleon: Your bio changes when you’re not around…

A lot of us desperately need father figures.

Not because we’re all ho’ho’ho- in on the internet, but because with all this battle of the sexes type content– it’s obvious there is a forever empty we’re trying to fill… with attention.

You’ve got women being more sexually liberated and men being more… It’s a classic toss up between wanna-be alpha red pills, and wanna-be dominated betas.

I don’t care about what your side, group, tribe, prerogative is.

I’m more interested in does your mind do this and how often…

When they’re not around, do you switch up on them?

If you’re of the paranoid variety, you’ll look too into things. What people say hits different soon as they leave. This is not something I like, in fact, I hate that my mind does this. And to be clear, we’re wrong for doing it.

And we all do this at times, but does it become something you take action on?

Do you trust your fiction?

It’s easy as shite to believe everything is the way you see it. That’d explain nearly all the problems in the world right now.

The hardest thing in this game is to see reality. It’s to be clear thinking, and away from self delusion.

If you have this… then what you have is really a knack for fiction– BUT DON’T BE WRITING IT INTO OTHERS BIOS.

Channel it into a craft or something and remove yourself from detective work. Maybe you’re wondering why? You may even think its not a problem at all…

… but theres no way you can succeed in the long run doing this. Not any real or fulfilling success.

You’ll always be alone, delusional, have strong ass opinions backed by nothing, oh– and you’ll be the person in the corner of every gathering that people common-sense not to be around.

When you work yourself up over others, you exit the real world. Now all of your ideas are based on bullshit, and that alone makes them bad ideas. No one will follow you, han solo.

You’ll have nothing but a wild look in your eye, and the same exact life since youth– because you can’t grow.

Assuming you’re done with all of that shit, it begs the question: how do we stop? What do we do?

You need an anchor, something to keep you from following shadows in the fog, that lead to…. bio writing antagonism.

You won’t be able to say “I don’t believe you” at least not at first, as the mind is far more compelling.

But you can leverage it.

For me, I open a google doc and brain dump. I ask myself questions like: What is true? What actually happened and what I am merely implying? Where does this emotion really come from?

Then, once its all been docu-recorded, I move TF ON.

Hoping for something better? There isn’t another way.

The solution is STOP WRITING BIOS, and go write fiction instead. Your mind is obviously wired for storytelling, use it to your advantage rather than pointing it at others temples.

Here is the truth: No one cares.

Seriously.

Everyone is running their own hedonic treadmill, they’re not thinking about how to get you.

So, go write the next great novel and live a better life.

Til next time,

#FOOLFWD

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Careless Ambition: The counterintuitive attitude for success in life

It’s still a mystery to me.

The fact that we become basically more intelligent, smooth, quick on our feet, and better problem solvers…

… when we don’t care?

No one likes a try hard, especially not the school of life.

As soon as something MUST happen or you NEED it to happen, the glands in the human body produce the desperation hormone— and the universe dodges you like you sent it a horrifying sext message.

It’s science, if you’re desperate– nothing but failure will touch you.

Then theres the reward of openness. No phucking idea why this is a thing but heres what I’ve observed.

When I needed to know where I was going and what my purpose in life was— do you have any idea how far removed I became? Figuratively and Literally. My death grip led to material divorce, and she (the universe) took everything.

So, Why— when I stopped giving a shit, casual success rained over me and things played out far better than I could have imagined?

I think it’s less magical than we imagine.

Play boosts our creativity, and the state of play is openness. At the same time, if we’re overly attached to the end goal, we’re not open enough to adapt with the changes on the way to that goal.

You’ve heard them say, “love the process.”

The reason is it’s literally what will keep you going. Your journey is random, it’s supposed to be. There will be trolls, treasures, triumphs, and tragedies. If you only care about the end, you’ll find yourself pissed off all the time.

Mainly because, you’re delaying winning til you score.

Everything you come across will be a distraction, rather than an opportunity.

When I let go, I was free to try a bunch of other shit. The random things led to my success, not the planned ambitions.

If you want to succeed, do the things you’d do– just to do.

And stop giving a shit– this is the hardest one. But if you can do this, while still pursuing a better life, you become this alpha upgraded human being.

And then succeed.

I guess it’s a universal law: Be ambitious and have drive, but don’t let it take your play. Maybe thats the answer to the universe, its the lesson I need.

#FOOLForward.

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Less Feral, More Focused: Swapping the crotch cloth for a suit…

I’ve settled.

From the moment I started all of this (blog included), I gave everything the bare minimum.

This was my backup plan.

Just something to point to as insurance, should nothing work out– still not a loser.

Since my marriage to this grind, I’ve mentally cheated every single day. Not one moment in this “journey” where I didn’t wish for outside intervention & excitement to intervene and abduct me from normalcy.

But I’ll tell you wholeheartedly, the urges do get more manageable.

Despite my protests, the more I write– the less appealing my original desires become. In short, I’m not leaving my momentum for delusion.

Your career depends on others, regardless of what you choose– that’s a highly vulnerable position.

Skills stand alone.

They’re yours, beyond that– they transform your character.

Intentional self improvement is garbage if it’s not aimed directly at the head of your weaknesses.

Reading books each day. Cold showers. Meditation.

All of it, unnecessary.

I only improved, when I committed to a skill.

Hence the title of this post. As I continue to write, to commit, to lean into becoming better, my animalistic urges lessen.

The mind still craves what it craves, so I’m looking for an outlet– something independent of what I’m doing. But this time it’s not to take over, or in hopes of saving me from mediocrity, this is just an outlet.

I realize the most important decision you can ever make is this: I’m good no matter what.

If you sit there and torture yourself with your endless possibilities and desires, your life will suck on a whole new low.

Do what’s before you, as best you can.

Only playful embrace will lead to your path.

—fool

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Don’t chase a place, chase what’s there…

Hey MF,

If theres anything thats really saved me from my old and mediocre ways, it’s understanding and improving on the art of the start.

See, most of us are lingerers.

When we have an idea, we then linger upon it for weeks, do nothing, leave it, then return to it, research, then do nothing again.

Years pass like this, and then in our own unhappiness we randomly revisit it… maybe this time, we’ll start.

This never works.

And is the result of chasing shores, not the island. We all want change to some extent– some of us want entirely different lives, most of us want small improvements.

But wishing for an opportunity to interrupt your lame zoom call and throw you into adventure is not only impractical, it’s loser shit.

To put this all in perspective, I’ve been craving adventure and with no definition of it. All I know right now is that I want a faster and more exciting life.

How do I take what I’ve got and make it more of what I’m craving?

Travel to foreign lands– figuratively speaking.

Associate with the people already doing it. Reach out to them, connect with them.

You can’t expect something different if you keep doing the same old tired crap. The only real question is what actions lead to this current result? How do I get this new result? What does this look like, and what is this chase?

If you’re going to make this year different, you have to retire your old habits– and start something new.

It isn’t the place you want, it’s what you think is there. Start with that.

#FoolOn

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Drifting off shore? Here’s how to anchor yourself

In this game, it’s a very fine line between reality and delusion.

Knowing how to walk that line basically determines your quality of life.

Sometimes, blind ignorance is required (starting a business, launching a new endeavor, picking up a new habit, etc.) and sometimes you need ruthless practicality (all problem solving and obstacle overcoming).

But every single one of us is in our own heads— so we think we’ve got a pretty solid handle on things.

If this were true, you’d be where you wanted to be, and you wouldn’t be reading self help blogs.

So what is the key to getting unstuck and ahead in life?

You need an anchor.

Something objective, rooted in reality, that you can turn to in crisis.

For me, it’s The Laws.

The Laws are behind every success in my own life. They’ve made me more rational, objective, empathic, and most importantly– more myself.

I live by the laws of human nature (Robert Greene).

And that’s important. You’re creating your own way of life here, a code, so it shouldn’t be something that isn’t connected to you. Greene’s materials speak to me deeply, so I’ve molded them to suit my circumstances.

You need to create your own.

You might think it’s unimportant but without something outside of yourself– what will keep you progressing? Your emotional mind? That’s the reason people quit, waste time, jump around from thing to thing, they’re all over the place. I was and by nature still am, like this.

My anchor is the reason I’ve progressed.

You need rules in your life.

You need self imposed structure.

Whether it be a morning routine or some north star that guides your every action, without a code to guide us– everyone drifts.

Stayfoolish

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What brings you peace?

What’s up MF.

I change my mind shamelessly.

What you call flip-flops, I call new information.

Reading all the previous posts here are cringy… you’ll notice just how much I pivot from one idea to the next. And up until recently, it was hard to settle down on my own path.

The reason for this was simple: I didn’t understand my why behind the paths I chose. I knew why I wanted to win, and reach my destination. But I undervalued the specific vehicles for getting there.

Until I realized something:

Everything you make is for you.

If the thing you chose doesn’t bring you some unusual amount of peace, joy, and connection– it ain’t “your thing.”

I’m not saying drop it either, maybe it’s your thing for getting bread, but it isn’t the thing that will bring you spiritual wholeness.

I can’t not want money and fame. It’s just in me, always was and will be. And though I know it’s an empty pursuit, it’s one I’ll fulfill— life’s short and I’ve wanted it for quite some time.

However, I have my soul food too.

So, while I’m securing bread and trying to grow my personal stock to high demand– I’m writing, for me.

I have my soul food, but the junk food tastes good too.

I don’t all or nothing.

I don’t say yes to mastery, but no to fun.

I want it all.

If I had to choose, I’d choose wrong– by most peoples standards. Luckily, I don’t.

There is no right or wrong way to exist here. Find what brings you peace, do that.

Til next time,

FOOLON.

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Use Your Past as a Base for the Future…

Think you can do whatever you set your mind to?

… Then you don’t know yourself one lickity-bit.

People don’t change at all. Funny how you think your different habits or opinions make you a new character in this game.

I used to think the past (mine, yours, ours) was something dead. But with the right tools, all the answers you ever needed are right there.

Well… a few days ago it happened.

Swept up by some night sweat, laying there–just trying to stay alive, my mind stepped into the time machine that is memory lane. Instead of my life flashing before my eyes, I saw specific, seemingly insignificant moments, all leading to now.

It was meta to say the least.

But what I saw was pure individuality, not only in myself, but in my friends as well.

I saw our uniqueness, and instead of judging whos better or worse, I only saw it as different characters each playing different games.

Why. is this important?

Because these characters thrive in different environments, and you have to know them to know where.

If you’re darting around different options and having a hard time settling on a path, here’s the solution.

Take a trip.

Lay in bed and trying it.

Objectively view what this nature is, and where you might. be rewarded in life for it?

Til next time,

#FOOLON

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Players beat Gamers: Life is a video game but you’re not playing…

You should want to win, but winning for the sake of itself makes you a loser.

The only point of the game is to play it from start to exit… but there is a turn of the console and walk away part.

If you don’t choose your game, it’s chosen for you. That’d make you a gamer.

Everything in life is a game. Our careers, relationships, health– to an extent, our views, attitudes, pretty much how we exist.

What makes a player different is in the word itself, they’ve chosen to play. Playing is easy when you enjoy your game.

Enjoying the game is easy, when you choose the right game.

So, to end all this metaphorical talk– here’s how this helped me. As a child, I was possessed by a singular idea– and that was fame. I measured significance by attention from strangers, no love needed, just wanted my name known.

My burning desire was to rise above my peers.

This was before social media was THIS prevalent in our careers, where an audience today can literally be the reason whatever you touch turns to gold.

I wanted fame for the sake of, “fill my empty..”

But anywho, after some accidental personal growth– I ended up losing taste for it. Since I now think it would all but destroy me, I’ve pivoted onto a different path.

This new game, is far more enjoyable because it’s far more closely related to who I am.

A lot of us feel a restlessness when we’re alone, that comes from disconnection in some area of life. My disconnection was I wanted to commit myself to a skill, a craft, a career– that fit my nature.

Of course, I didn’t know that back then.

So I chased random ideas to get famous, until I crashed and burned then learned.

Life is single player.

You have to feel good about yourself, especially when you’re alone with yourself. That can’t be faked.

For me, that came from the game I’m in now. Now I’m a player.

How do you become a player if you hate your current game? Switching games is the obvious answer but what if you can’t at the moment or need to buy time….

… as hard as it is, you have to play with what you have.

That’s how you birth opportunities from nothing.

So for today, forget your worries— play.

#FoolForward

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Nothing is all or nothing…

My goals are filing for divorce from my career.

In short, the ol’ ball and chain has kept me loveless. It’s boring being overly-ambitious. That whole gotta-get-it, always thinking about what’s next, how to hit it big, success, etc. it’s lame. What’s underrated is casual exploration.

I’m not saying be a loser and don’t pursue your goals, but sometimes it’s better to let things unfold.

You’re not always supposed to know… otherwise you wouldn’t do anything unordinary and that’s where the meaningful things happen.

You already know this, and this isn’t the high value content you’ve so generously committed your attention span to unearthing.

My goals have little to do with my career. I have life goals–

–A financial number that I make, the crib I want, the lifestyle and cars, but as for the how this all comes about? That I don’t care about.

For now, I think the skill/thing is writing… but I’m open to change.

For whatever reason, restlessness will find us and we’ll try to blueprint our lives after some walmart version celebrity.

That’s usually where I phuck up the plan.

There is a point to this: and that cigarette smoking drama student might have had it right, nothing really matters.

Wanna jump ship? Start swimming.

Wanna see it through? Start steering.

It really doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do what you can and you stay doing something.

#FoolForward

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Unemployed Architects Have Terrible Ideas

Stay at home whatevers have terrible ideas. Don’t believe me?

Go do some in-the-field market research.

I don’t practice “having regrets.” Sitting and time traveling to the past to revisit my dumbassery isn’t something I make a habit out of doing.

That said, if I could change anything (and do this moving forward) I’d always be working.

NEVER be out of work, take no breaks.

Something weird happens to each of us when we’re even slightly removed from society, and that is– we become dumb AF.

Our thinking ability declines, stress increases, problem solving tanks, and we start losing ourselves.

This is true for every single one of us.

I know individuals who are otherwise extremely intelligent, but due to the straight white jackets of their home, they’re paranoid… and unreasonably so.

Don’t be out of the field.

That’s the lesson. Transformation, good ideas, your next big journey, all of this can only come from momentum and momentum comes from work. Took way too long for me to realize that.

My new rule is simple.

Always be working. Do something. Have a project– learn, read, practice things. BUT never stagnate.

Be IN society, not a gothic hippy outsider.

“We must either wear out, or rust out.”

I choose to wear out.

Momentum cures depression. So, get going.

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Reading on a playground

Solo games are tough for the extrovert, and most of this internet money is solo.

If you’re doing something new, and it’s even a smidge against your human nature, you’ll have to find ways to make it better suit you.

Becoming comfortable with what you’re doing isn’t that easy. Not all of us are so connected to our work or goals– that it feeds us scoops of energy and joy.

I’m thankful for my career, but at the same time #greenergrass.

Back to making work, work.

A lot of us will leave what brings us success and momentum to go copycat what looks fun and exciting, cause we’re bored.

Where ever you get returns in life, you should double-down. No, it’s not spiritual– we’re avoiding failure, the kind that sucks time and the lessons are useless.

Instead of searching again and again, edit– adjust, adapt. Make it more you. That’s how you reach success sooner.

For example, advertising is where my scales are tipped to favorite child. This is where little effort meets royal returns. Do I think about starting that podcast, being famous for nothing, and the influencer lifestyle? Shit yes.

But at the same time, I’m not leaving my path to go chase unicorns.

I have momentum.

Momentum is the hardest thing about success.

Instead, I’m thinking about what this looks like funner? What does my current path look like, if I were to go ALL THE WAY IN and just do this? How do I make it sustainable?

That answer– my own agency.

I draw energy from lots of projects, groups, people, variety.

Simple addition subtracts failure.

Before you run off into the meadow chasing sunsets, ask yourself: Where have I seen success in life?

Where does success find me attractive?

How can I make this mine?

#FoolForward

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I lost my last wish, and then the genie came…

When it comes to my goals, I feel like I’ve lost something… and I have.

I grew up taking short cuts.

I was good at it.

Instead of study, I’d cheat.

Instead of read, I’d pitch.

Instead of work, I’d persuade (others to do it).

When I finally got out of school, my plan was to take on the world in this same way– outthink everyone, cut to the front of the line, and just live however I want.

So when I got off the station and found myself at rock bottom with nothing to show, total shock would be an understatement to say the least.

I don’t know you.

Maybe cleverness is what your life is missing. But what I can tell you is if you’ve hit any kind of block in life or your stuck on a level, keep this in mind:

What got you here, won’t take you there.

It’s a universal law, I think it exists to keep us evolving. Point is– switch it up. I know younger me would be surprised to see me as I am.

I’m WAAAY LESS of a dreamer these days- my goals are strictly practical: skills and financial. I lost the, “wanting shit to happen” and I gained my own desire to take the wheel.

Then my life improved.

Weird.

When I did the opposite of my default I not only developed and got ahead, but I find myself more fulfilled.

The lesson here?

If you’re stuck, do something different.

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Cancel Culture Cultivator: EGO

This time the algorithm went too far. 

You all know the game. Mindlessly open youtube and continue the practiced ritual of surrendering to the internet powers that be.

Ever see one of those rise and fall videos? Basically, they cover celebrities who made it, then through the perils of fame— lost it all. Many of whom, lost a lot more than money.

It’s cringe to watch.

But as a devoted student of human nature, I felt compelled to learn from their nevermore life experiences.

Deep down, I always wanted fame. 

And I know, It’s an empty pursuit, it’ll never make u happy, it doesn’t fill the emptiness— yeah I get all that Edgar Allen Poet. 

I know its superficial and it only appeals to my grandiosity. 

But life is short, and given my personality– it’d be a fun way to pass the time.

So this post, is more of a reminder for why I’ll need certain things in place to keep me from being in one of those YouTube videos. 

The way I see it, these individuals fell from grace not because of ego, but because of a lack of channeling it properly.

They didn’t have an outlet to commit to other than the attention, so fame became they’re one and only. And that leads to the whole, “I’m awesome because I’m me” which is as dangerous as it gets.

A healthier alternative would be commitment to a skill. Sounds lame, doesn’t it?

It kinda is. But this is the only way to never lose the power one may gain:

Mastery.

A lot of our spiritual emptiness can be chalked up to disconnection from our work. Our brains are wired for mastery, and today— we have none. 

The people who fell, lost the thing that brought them initial success (skill). So, in an effort to get it back they try to outdo old habits and end up being attention seeking and obnoxious.

To fill the emptiness, we end up jumping from new thing to thing to restart. And with money and fame, this can be fun for a little while (I’ll let you know). But we still need something to hold us down—

Especially when we rebound.

When the high is over, where the hell will you land? 

Hopefully not rock bottom.

The answer here is a balanced diet. 

I’m not cutting out either, I’m cutting in both. 

You don’t have to choose one thing– you just have prioritize how you define yourself. I’m not switching up, I’ll have that rockstar life. BUT, now I’ll make sure there is constant improvement and refinement over my craft.

We are all transformed through our work.

The only thing that can actually cancel your success is ego. So, tie it to the right thing.

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The UN-originals: common experiences & trendi beliefs

The best tell of someone who’s never traveled, experienced new things, and probably does nothing with their life— is RIGID worldviews.

People with strong opinions are usually idiots.

Yeah, I bet I’ll offend a lot with that one, but idiots are easily offended and they always have the numbers.

Today, it’s popular to have “strong” beliefs.

Everyone, regardless of side, has an opinion and really, it’s far more of a conviction. Notice the self-righteousness looming in the air?

And if you do identify with a side, I don’t care about your group opinion, because you’re not an independent thinker.

That’s the price of having a mascot, your representative will tell you how to respond to this–just give it a month.

Before you point your squirt gun at me, perhaps you’d like to know where I stand, you know, so you have better aim.

I was one of you once.

A social outcast, who was proudly anti-society, and had a take on every topic. I also fit all the qualifications to be a member– I was broke, depressed, and stupid. Stupid, because I didn’t do shit, but sat there and watered my darkness with sad songs and conspiracy theories.

I was an idiot.

And of course, in being an idiot, I couldn’t see that I was one. That’s just how it works, instead I could only see the flaws of the universe, and how everything was for nothing… what a party.

But as my wallets eating disorder grew, and my depression darko’d, I knew that despite my Mr.Robot beliefs, I would have to join the machine I protested against to live any kind of decent.

That’s right, I had to become a functioning member of society, Dun dun duuuuuhhhhhn.

And so I did.

And guess what, the world is awesome you imbeciles. The more you stay in your closet home office, the more you see darkness. But that isn’t how it is, that’s just the coat hanger cutting off circulation to your brain.

Want life? Want that dream world where nothing matters?

Step outside, and leave your lunacy. Get some vitamin D you pale psychopaths.

Sides don’t matter. Your opinions are cheap AF and uninteresting. You’re so boring its revolting.

You haven’t done shit, and everyone thinks exactly as you do, so put down the tik tok and go do something.

Travel, try new things, try… not to be who you are.

There’s only one way to play this game we’ve incarnated into, and that is to be original. It’s a lonely endeavor, but gaaatdamn it’s so worth it.

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