It’s hard to be honest. It’s probably the hardest thing that you can ever do. Brutally honest. Not to the people around you, well, that too, but to yourself. I watched the first 16min of Chase Jarvis interviewing Seth Godin. And minute after minute, Seth Godin blew my mind. And as I was being honest to myself, he blew my ego out as well. The understanding needed 15min to … [Read more...]
Farts, Blogging and Shit Sandwiches
Everybody wants to have their own business nowadays. And that’s good, it’s dope, I believe it’s a long-needed paradigm shift. But what not everybody is willing to do is to go through the shitty starting-out period. Or as Mark Manson puts it, you gotta eat shit sandwiches. The trick is to eat shit sandwiches that you like. Blogging is one of the easy solutions.The good … [Read more...]
Experimental Storytelling
HeySo I read an insanely dope post on storytelling by no other than the magician of copyrighting John Carlton. If you like words, their flow, and their ability to produce hard cash, you might want to check out that article here.So yeah, I was inspired to write a short story. To make it a little harder on myself, I picked something super simple and boring - drinking my … [Read more...]
Soya Sauce, Beans and Stoicism
If you follow my content, you know I am a big fan of stoicism. The basis premise of stoic philosophy is denying yourself of various pleasures. Deny yourself of good food, sex, clothes, material things, positive emotions, success, whatever. As a result you toughen up. It’s a personal choice. And when you have no access to those things as a result of fate/chance/shit happens, … [Read more...]
Are you a Monkey?
Here's a mind blowing experiment that will explain social conditioning and WHY you should be asking yourself WHY all the time:Scientists put 5 monkey in a cage. They placed a ladder with bananas in the cage too. Every time a monkey would try to climb it and get bananas, they would spray all the monkeys with really cold water. Eventually, no monkey would ever go for the … [Read more...]