I could barely afford to buy my daughter a goldfish. I told this story in my book. Roughly six months before I broke the income barrier I needed to pave the path to quitting my full-time job, I was dead broke. A weekend of buying my kid a few fish and going to Chik Fil […]

“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.” – Charlie Munger You only get what you feel entitled to in life. If you believe you deserve certain outcomes, on a long enough time scale, […]

Just once, I wish someone would run up to me looking frantic and say: “Ayo, I need to know the distance of the line of sight from my eyes to this nearby flagpole.” Look, it’s easy to rail against the education system, but it does not good to dwell on the fact that there are […]

I recently watched a YouTube video where the guy in it said: “Entrepreneurship is a form of mental illness.” Not that it needs to be said, but in 2020 it does — he means it in jest and is saying it tongue and cheek. The core insight behind this message, you have to be a […]

How much time do you spend thinking about the past? Not just your mistakes, but the things that happened to you, the random chaos the comes your way, all of it? How many of us suffer almost solely due to the way we focus on and interpret the past? The past can be many things. […]

I hate what they’ve done to you. Who do I mean by ‘they’? This haphazardly cobbled together Kabal of media pundits, institutional overlords, politicians, employers, and well-meaning authority figures that have not only convinced you that you’re average, but that it’s okay to be average. It’s not okay to be average. I’m not saying there’s […]

Most people who see me speak in public or on camera, or by observing the tone I write with, probably wouldn’t know this about me, but I’m quite introverted. I like performing and being in front of people, but when it comes to 1 on 1 interaction and social gatherings, I’m actually prone to be […]

I have a simple philosophy in life I’ve learned from people much smarter than me. Watch the people you don’t want to be like, and do the opposite of what they do. I’m not trying to be a dick, but I have more than enough examples to last a million lifetimes. Let’s call a spade […]

Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt sorry for yourself. Unless you are some sort of sociopath or robot, you’ve been down on yourself before. Hell, you’ve probably already been down on your self at least once today. Feelings of self-pity are prevalent. You live in a world where there are more than enough reasons […]

“Big dreams aren’t meant for everyone.” As a self-help writer, I get this comment at least once a day. The funny thing? I agree with them. Statistics say that success is meant for a few people. Does it have to be that way? No. But that’s the way it is. Why? Because it’s hard to create […]