You can judge a man by the problems he adopts.

The risk vs return ratio of the challenges a man faces is a simple measure of that man's quality.

Escaping the cage victorious > baking a muffin.

If you lived the life you wanted to live.

Instead of sitting and hoping to have the life you want to have.

You’d be happy.

Go laugh in places you cried.

Go win in places you lost.

Rewrite history.

Death is not the worst of evils.

Your surrender to slavery is.

Do not be a slave.

Serve God, and live well as a divine warrior who owns his life, his future, his fate.

Try it.

You have something to lose by trying?

That isn't already being torn from you and your children?

Young Kings.

Don’t pay much attention to what people say.

But spend considerable time analysing WHY they said it.

What did they want you to think?

Or to feel?

To reply?

Identify motives to prevent leaving weakness for attack.

Be very careful who you let onto your ship.

Many men will try to sink it if they can’t be the captain.

Anything that has the power to emotionally affect you can steal your power.

I was born with zero money but very rich.

I was born with something very valuable:

The ability to shut up and listen to those who knew what I didn’t know.

To learn and obey without being lazy or ungrateful.

Fighting. Cash. Chess. No matter.

Success was absolutely assured.

A lack of money teaches you the importance of money.

A lack of strength teaches you the importance of strength.

You’re never going to be truly thankful for something, unless there was a time you needed it...

And didn’t have it.

Book vs street "smarts"

Book is simply remembering arbitrary information

Street is predicting uncertain futures based on experience, especially regarding human nature

You can Google the particular book smarts needed at any given time from a smartphone

Can’t Google survival

Yes means absolutely nothing without HOW.

I ask, do you want an amazing life? YES.

My next question to you is... How?

HOW is the secret to life.

View your life in HOWS, and things will begin to happen.

You will fight with life, so strike FIRST.

If you sit and wait, life comes to you to deliver the first blow.

War is INEVITABLE.

Between you and the universe there will be CONFLICT.

You owe it to yourself to at least get the first shot.

GET READY.

GO.

Unless you like everybody you’ve ever met.

Don’t expect to be liked by everybody you ever meet.

You will never get in fantastic shape by accident.

OOPS - look at my huge arms and 6-pack.

You will never get rich by accident.

OOPS - look at my huge bank.

It requires both PLANNING and EFFORT.

One isn’t enough.

Do not Kneel


Apologies are pointless in the face of a tiger.

Kneeling just emboldens the predators.

If you ever catch yourself feeling bitter.

You’re losing.

Imagine you won at everything all the time.

Imagine you were fantastic.

Could you ever feel bitter?

I’m thinking of my lowest ever point in my life.

When everything went wrong.

When I had nothing.

NEVER, not even for the smallest fraction of a second, did I EVER consider giving up.

The Job


Humanity is a small flame inside a cold, eternal darkness.

Your job is to fan that flame.

To have your ripple extend humanity’s existence by a few hundred thousand years.

Your job is to make a mark.

If you understood how powerful your thoughts were.

You’d never think negatively again.

The odd person is exceptionally lucky or unlucky.

But in the vast majority of cases, people are exactly where they belong.

One thing women will never understand.

Dishonour and why men will kill for it.

“It doesn’t matter just let it go”

No.

It matters more than anything.