If you hold the belief that you’re worthless and you need to work harder until you know you’re not. Then you have a belief that helps some people work harder and get better results. But others will use it to grind themselves into the dust, thinking they’re worthless no matter what happens, and then exhaust…

Desire is the most honest thing on earth. When you want to eat, you want to eat. When you want to say something, you wanna say it. It comes from a place deep in your gut that can’t lie. And if you act on what you want, then you’ll have been honest with yourself and…

Stop being a victim. Not because you aren’t one. But because there is no solution to be found inside of that experience but to become a hero of your own design. And the way you do that is by choosing to throw off the chains of victimhood. People may have done terrible things to you…

It’s dangerous for a society to conclude that power corrupts. Because power isn’t good or bad, it just exists. And if the masses believe power is evil, they will voluntarily give it up. And a small minority will happily take it for themselves who will be truly corrupt. Not because of the power, but because…

Stop thinking of that helpful thing you learned as a law you must obey. Your brain is lazy and wants to save calories by following advice without thinking. But you must think to survive because you must spend energy deciding what advice is appropriate for your situation. If you don’t, the advice that once saved…

The self-help gurus are also right. The way to get things done effectively is to believe that you can. Unbreakable faith is the fastest route to progress that exists. It just comes with the dangers of ignorance. If you put your faith in the wrong thing, then you will fail big. If you put your…

You’re procrastinating because you’re not seeing the task in context. Think about these sentences. “Oh, I should just go talk to that girl.” Or, “I should just get my essay finished.” Do you mean the girl representing an ultimate feminine judgment that can crush your dreams with a look and the research paper that counts…

If you feel like a failure, there’s only one solution. You have to stop failing. Your brain is way too smart to accept any other solution. But thankfully, there are two ways to do that. You can change the situation or change how you feel about the situation. For example, you can keep having the…

Whatever you’re worried about is often what you don’t need to be worried about. If you’re overly concerned with other people’s feelings, then you’re often a pushover and need to say something that might make somebody angry. If you think you’re too demanding, you often are the person who lets other people take things away…

If you’re sad because you’re lonely, then you need to assume that no one else can fix your problem. This is hard because people make you less lonely and it’s easy to think other people made you sad because they weren’t there when you needed them. But they’re not to blame for your loneliness. Because…