Category: Mental Models

  • BE CONSCIOUS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY

    Be conscious of the extraordinary. You don’t get to do normal things and get extraordinay results. So you have to understand when you’re doing something extraordinary so that you can keep doing it. If you work out three days a week you’re doing something extraordinary. If you’re eating a diet that makes you feel better…

  • PROVIDE STRENGTH

    If you’re having a moment with someone and that other person is feeling fear and you want to help them work through it. Don’t try to lessen their fears by making yourself appear weaker. Accept their fear and provide them with strength. Making yourself small is not the answer. It’s easy to assume that when…

  • TAKING ADVICE FROM SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

    Be careful not to take advice from people just because they’re successful. Many intelligent people have won in life because they were smart and lucky. But they don’t realize they were lucky. They only see the hard work they put into something. So when they tell you what to do, they don’t realize the advice…

  • IF THINGS AREN’T GOING WELL

    If you’re a self-doubter and struggling then taking advice from too many people might be keeping you down. When life isn’t going well you get a sensation called scarcity, the feeling that there isn’t enough to go around. And people that are confident in their opinions seem like they have a lot to give. And…

  • GOING AFTER WHAT YOU WANT

    It’s a skillset to go after what you want. And most of us don’t do it often enough. We have a couple specific dreams we’re working toward, and then we occasionally give up, blow off steam, and go after something that makes us feel terrible the next day. But how often do we plan for…

  • ALL ADVICE

    All advice is contextual based on psychology and circumstance while supported by fundamental laws of nature. In other words. Black and white does exist. And it manifests in infinite shades of grey. You can watch the TikTok version below:

  • WHEN WE’RE YOUNG

    When we’re young we’re often cocky, confident, proud, and ignorant. And because we don’t know as much as we think we know, life punches us in the face when we’re least expecting it. We realize that we need to lower our self image a bit and go learn about how life works. The problem though,…

  • START SOMETHING

    If you want friends. Remember that you need to make them. Surrounding yourself with the people you want in your life isn’t something that happens on accident. And if you expect it to occur naturally then you’ll live a lonely life. But if you understand that it’s work, and you build things that help people…

  • DECIDING THAT YOU’RE DONE

    You will never know if you’ve done everything you can or if you’ve made the right decision. Because it’s impossible to know that. But it’s also impossible to live a life where you question everything. Indecision is the most inefficient part of your process. It lowers your performance, causes anxiety and depression, and it lowers…

  • HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT

    The price of getting what you want is higher than you think. And way more possible than you realize. You’re going to have to eat right, put your phone down, do a lot of push-ups and control your temper, make new friends, sit on the floor in silence and push way harder than you ever…