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Add another timeless classic at least once every week and commit yourself to reading 20-30 pages each day and continue this practice for years, reading as much as you can whenever, wherever possible. Do not stop this process. The whole point to all of this learning is not to reach an ultimate end point…

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Pick 10 masters whose work you must study deeply under as if for the rest of your life. Who would they be, and why? These selections will mirror your taste and quality. What you study is also an indicator of your character, personality and beliefs. You will therefore transform yourself into becoming the average…

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This is a journey that will take you beyond your present level abilities. You will go from being someone [who is] wildly distracted, unable to focus and constantly stuck in a state of never ending daydreaming, to being extremely disciplined, focused and wildly productive with your body, mind and life. This will take you…

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That doesn’t mean to be no one or do nothing by the way. In fact, quite the opposite. It means never wanting attention. Never seeking it. Never needing or caring for validation. It means having more concerns of your own over other people and things. Not that you don’t care about people but that…

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Serendipity is the occurrence of valuable or pleasant discoveries by chance, often described as a “happy accident” or fortunate luck. It represents finding something wonderful without looking for it, such as accidental scientific breakthroughs or chance encounters that lead to highly positive outcomes. SERENDIPITOUSLY STUMBLING ON DEEPLY ENERGISED EUPHORIC FOCUS Let’s say you have…

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“In studies done on soldiers and radar operators and snipers skill acquisition in flow goes up 200-500%… We’ve all heard about Malcolm Gladwell’s fabled 10,000 hours to mastery. This is Anders Ericsson’s research. What the research also shows that flow can cut that time in half.” – STEVEN KOTLER. I can remember drawing this…
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The best way to say what you want to say is not a simple matter of simply saying it then leaving it at that. But rather, trying your best to articulately express the best form of your idea above your current level ability. So first, it starts out shit. And starting out shit is…
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“The first draft of anything is shit.” – ERNEST HEMINGWAY. “We were all thinking the same thing: Holy shit, this guy’s gonna kill himself.” – THE RISE OF SUPERMAN, STEVEN KOTLER. a. That moment in time was the beginning. Little did I know at that time, but somehow I had an intuitive grasp that…

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One of the things that recently started to scare me was the idea of losing all of my backed up files and documents, which essentially contains my life. We basically trust that servers in California won’t ever crash and lose everything. So I’ve started the process of working my way back through the process,…