The Better Human Podcast

 “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” -MLK 

Aggression towards life is what separates the few from the many. When you start something, biz, relationship, patio deck, whatever, you should be aggressive in getting it done. You should be following up, making progress daily, setting goals, getting shit done.

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." John Kabat-Zinn You have to figure out how to ride the waves. That's the secret. While most complain, play the victim, and otherwise give up, you get on a board and keep getting back on that board, and over time, you become an expert surfer. Life is surfing or drowning. Choose. "The three most important things in life: surf, surf, surf." Jack O'Neill

This is how you manifest Max Truth—complete ownership rooted in understanding the Truth of your existence, that everything is you and only you. You're awake when you realize that nothing exists outside of you without your permission. Since lack of success is your fault—and it is—then success is also your fault. If you can internalize this Truth in your bones, life becomes so damn simple: you make it happen or it doesn't happen. There is beauty in simple Truth, and personal ownership is a prime example of that. How much of life is frittered away by detail, as Thoreau said, and on other pointless shit that doesn't matter. (Like Will Smith slapping Chris Rock and people wasting their precious life talking about it). That realization is rocket fuel to creating success in the modern world and living a truly badass life.

Humans are drawn to complexity. We believe complexity is better because it seems like it should be better. So we get drawn into complex nonsense that takes us further away from where we want to go. The reality is, simple is better. Simple is the foundation of everything. If you end up going into complex domains, your best path forward is riding the simplicity train through the complex web of options. Simplicity is the dedicated focus to first principles. Keeping things simple is hard. It takes sustained effort and constant reminders to stay the course. Don't waste time complaining or blaming. Don't waste time trying to predict every possible outcome or worst-case scenario. Don't waste time thinking about sunken costs. Just answer this question: What should I do now? That's it. It's really as simple—and as complicated—as that.

Really true, good, and great things are always simple. The language of truth is always simple. —LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Very often the simplest and least educated people can easily and unconsciously understand the meaning of life while the most scholarly people lack this ability, because they have been too educated to understand the simple things that are basic to all people. The clearest and simplest notions are almost always concealed by sophisticated meditations. —MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO If you want to find an example to follow, you should look among simple, humble folk. There is real greatness only in those who do not advertise themselves, and who do not understand themselves as great. -TOLSTOY

If your goal is to be happy and successful then you what you are trying to do is build loops that make behaviour that brings happiness and success as automatic as possible. Here's why that's not only hard, but impossible for most people ot figure out. They try to ADD things. Books, gurus, courses, coaches, seminars, routines, habits. But that's like adding new rooms to a home built on wooden- termite invested foundation. With each additional room you add, you only speed up the collapse. You have to tear the entire fucker down and rebuild a new foundation. Nietzsche figured this out. He calls it his three step metamorphosis and his overman concept. “Make it a rule never to withhold or conceal from yourself anything that may be thought against your own thoughts. Vow it! This is the essential requirement of honest thinking. You must undertake such a campaign against yourself every day.” Friedrich Nietzsche Remove and simplify and address rather than pile on and further clutter your inner world.