If you’re feeling used or tired or stepped on you need to know this. There is no reason for society not to ask everything of you. Because if you accept, then society will drain you of everything you have until there’s nothing left. It will have won by harvesting you as a resource. But if…

You rest by getting yourself out of fight or flight mode into a state of recuperation. Technically, it’s called the parasympathetic nervous system. To do this you have to understand what gets your body there. It’s different for different people. Some people need to play an aggressive sport so that when they lay down to…

Picking up an instrument more often is more important than how long you practice it for. If you’re having trouble learning something you don’t need more time working on it. You need practice at the skill of getting yourself to work on it. In other words, you don’t need practice being in the gym. You…

Being dangerous is about risk. You have to be willing to risk that your actions might hurt others and that you might get hurt in order to take an action in the world. And only a monster would do something like that. So you have to be willing to become the monster in order to…

Tapping into your desire is one of the most important things you can do in the modern world. The narratives we have running through our mind are usually telling us not to get a big head, not to go after what we want, and we carry a lot of shame into doing the things we…

Learning to be a quieter person was difficult for me. When I was young I was extremely social and I based a lot of my self-worth on my ability to be fun, the reactions I got from the people around me, and how cool I believed other people believed me to be. Over time, as…

Theory follows practice. Almost never in history has someone written a theory book and then started using it to make things. But many times, someone’s done something cool and then fifty years later another person has studied that creation, created a theory based on it, and then taught it to others. Most teaching comes from…

If you ever want to go far in life, you have to know this. There are an infinite number of things you aren’t good at. And there are a finite number of things you can do. This means you could spend your entire life doing things you’re bad at without ever tapping into your real…

If you’re struggling to improve your life and it’s not working you might be looking down on the simple things you need to do. For example, reaching out to a new person is a simple idea. But it’s hard. And it’s easy to run the numbers and think you’ll need to meet ten people before…

You can be incredible. But you don’t know what form that incredible will take. Skill sets and accomplishments are developed over time and the path is winding. If you come up with a vision for the person you want to become it can energize you to push towards that identity. But you have to remember…