As an entrepreneur, person of high ambition and action taker you understand what it takes to make your dreams and desires come true. You know that we are in minority because almost everybody around us acts as if they had already made a lifelong subscription to mediocrity. A square person in a square hole, striving to live by some ridiculous and mostly outdated rules imposed by others. Always seeking approval and always being passive. Timidly avoiding any getting out of comfort zone or changing their beliefs. Never confronting their own fears. How pathetic for a human being, after all those years, decades and millenniums of constant development .
It's always possible to limit interactions with those people, but their wide spread mental slavery ideology is always going to make its way to you, mostly in tiny fractions. It's inevitable and it's like a cancer of society, very similar (and related) to political correctness.
In order to stay sane and true to yourself, in order to stay on track, you need a personal guidance system.
The more clear you are about what you stand for and what you will never stand for, the more you are immune to expectations and mental slavery bits and rules spread by others.
Everything within your character is related to this issue. You need to take care of it all.
You need to:
-develop and master several disciplines which are basically habits that foster our self-discipline
-be absolutely clear about who you are, what you are set out to do, what values do you respect and admire
-understand that getting any sort of valuable material or non-material things comes from deserving, not needing. You want to be as far from neediness as possible.
-be aware of mental masturbation and feel-good law of attraction bullshit that will make you feel better and keep you from making measurable progress
-master skills like time management, decision making
-master habits like delayed gratification, doing it "until"
-be self-reliant. Don't rely on anyone but yourself.
-have your B.S. meter tuned
-be aggressive and not passive
-be assertive
-ultimately, you need to take full responsibility and control of your own life. You need to run the year, run the week and run the day one second at a time.
Notice how I didn't mention confidence or self-esteem? It's because they are symptoms of mostly 2 first things mentioned. Take care of the roots and the symptoms will automatically disappear - I noticed that few people realize that.
I walk into a computer lab at my University and what do I see? Literally 80% of people scrolling through funny pictures, facebook news feeds, gossip sites. Yuck. When did people's lives become so meaningless? Whenever there is a deadline approaching, or an exam, they panic. Whenever there is an opportunity to act upon, they are fuzzy and indecisive.
These are the people that do TV series marathons, check facebook at every possible occasion and the only time they are working is the night before an exam or deadline. They only work for institutions and companies and never for themselves. Never work on themselves. The thing they mostly care about is their resume.
I've been employed enough times to realize that:
-those people aren't working any smarter at their jobs
-if it's a desk job, there they are, mindlessly surfing the web (I can do their week's worth of work in a single day)
They were there, in Primary School, High School and College passively waiting for a class to end, striving to reach authorities expectations and following the path of least resistance.
Now they are at their job, passively waiting for the work-time to end, striving to reach authorities expectations and following the path of least resistance.
They have very few interesting things going on, they spend vast majority of their free time on meaningless, instant gratification activities, they have no real purpose. But here they are to tell you that:
-You need to be very lucky to achieve means to your dreams, e.g. financial independence
-You are crazy if you make a moderate income yet your goal is to make it to at least 10 million (really? And their life with little or no purpose? Who is being crazy?)
-You are radical in your ways if you get up at 5:30 AM every single day and weekend or if you dump relationships that don't serve you right away and without any remorse.
-You are weird because you refuse to watch any amount of TV or listen to any amount of radio or read the mainstream news on the internet. I can tell you that I never do any of those things because I don't like my mind cluttered with useless information. I like my mind razor sharp.
Do you want to learn more about non conformity?
Do you want to embrace the advantage you have over the other 98%?
Do you want to learn from my 21 years of experience always being in 2%? Always not fitting in and how I turned that into one of my greatest assets?
Do you want to learn how to be bold and aggressive yet not rude or inconsiderate?
Do you want to know how to be firm and stand your ground, no matter what situation you find yourself in?
Do you want to learn from my 2 years of struggling with taking control over my life to finally turn my life around and never look back?
Do you want to learn how to develop your own time management system? Refined and tailored specifically to your own needs?
Do you want a blog with kick-a$$ content about the things I've mentioned above?
Please, let me know.
It's always possible to limit interactions with those people, but their wide spread mental slavery ideology is always going to make its way to you, mostly in tiny fractions. It's inevitable and it's like a cancer of society, very similar (and related) to political correctness.
In order to stay sane and true to yourself, in order to stay on track, you need a personal guidance system.
The more clear you are about what you stand for and what you will never stand for, the more you are immune to expectations and mental slavery bits and rules spread by others.
Everything within your character is related to this issue. You need to take care of it all.
You need to:
-develop and master several disciplines which are basically habits that foster our self-discipline
-be absolutely clear about who you are, what you are set out to do, what values do you respect and admire
-understand that getting any sort of valuable material or non-material things comes from deserving, not needing. You want to be as far from neediness as possible.
-be aware of mental masturbation and feel-good law of attraction bullshit that will make you feel better and keep you from making measurable progress
-master skills like time management, decision making
-master habits like delayed gratification, doing it "until"
-be self-reliant. Don't rely on anyone but yourself.
-have your B.S. meter tuned
-be aggressive and not passive
-be assertive
-ultimately, you need to take full responsibility and control of your own life. You need to run the year, run the week and run the day one second at a time.
Notice how I didn't mention confidence or self-esteem? It's because they are symptoms of mostly 2 first things mentioned. Take care of the roots and the symptoms will automatically disappear - I noticed that few people realize that.
I walk into a computer lab at my University and what do I see? Literally 80% of people scrolling through funny pictures, facebook news feeds, gossip sites. Yuck. When did people's lives become so meaningless? Whenever there is a deadline approaching, or an exam, they panic. Whenever there is an opportunity to act upon, they are fuzzy and indecisive.
These are the people that do TV series marathons, check facebook at every possible occasion and the only time they are working is the night before an exam or deadline. They only work for institutions and companies and never for themselves. Never work on themselves. The thing they mostly care about is their resume.
I've been employed enough times to realize that:
-those people aren't working any smarter at their jobs
-if it's a desk job, there they are, mindlessly surfing the web (I can do their week's worth of work in a single day)
They were there, in Primary School, High School and College passively waiting for a class to end, striving to reach authorities expectations and following the path of least resistance.
Now they are at their job, passively waiting for the work-time to end, striving to reach authorities expectations and following the path of least resistance.
They have very few interesting things going on, they spend vast majority of their free time on meaningless, instant gratification activities, they have no real purpose. But here they are to tell you that:
-You need to be very lucky to achieve means to your dreams, e.g. financial independence
-You are crazy if you make a moderate income yet your goal is to make it to at least 10 million (really? And their life with little or no purpose? Who is being crazy?)
-You are radical in your ways if you get up at 5:30 AM every single day and weekend or if you dump relationships that don't serve you right away and without any remorse.
-You are weird because you refuse to watch any amount of TV or listen to any amount of radio or read the mainstream news on the internet. I can tell you that I never do any of those things because I don't like my mind cluttered with useless information. I like my mind razor sharp.
Do you want to learn more about non conformity?
Do you want to embrace the advantage you have over the other 98%?
Do you want to learn from my 21 years of experience always being in 2%? Always not fitting in and how I turned that into one of my greatest assets?
Do you want to learn how to be bold and aggressive yet not rude or inconsiderate?
Do you want to know how to be firm and stand your ground, no matter what situation you find yourself in?
Do you want to learn from my 2 years of struggling with taking control over my life to finally turn my life around and never look back?
Do you want to learn how to develop your own time management system? Refined and tailored specifically to your own needs?
Do you want a blog with kick-a$$ content about the things I've mentioned above?
Please, let me know.
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