To collaborate with people you will need to make the first step. Pitch yourself, your ideas, and make them curious. Then, show what they gain. People are passive, even the active ones. If you don't act and persevere, you won't move anywhere.

Pleasure is good. But it becomes dangerous if not earned properly, like a drug. If you get too much of it by doing too little, it starts distorting your reality and destroying your world. Money is similar. If you earn too much of it by doing too little, it destroys your life.

Fire is quick and uses everything to its advantage. It doesn't need rest, pleasure, distractions, or excuses. Just allow it to start, and you won't be able to stop it until it finishes. It swallows everything in its path to create energy. Fire teaches us how to succeed.

Beauty leads to prosperity. Life can be beautiful. And it doesn't necessarily require vast resources or much time. If you pay attention, there's beauty everywhere. And if you start noticing it, your state changes. Beauty is the guiding strategy the universe uses to tune itself toward singularity, like an artist who paints his dreams. Beauty is like a guiding manual we can use to align ourselves with the bigger goal. Everything in the universe that is progressing and aimed at flourishing moves toward beauty. Pay attention. Notice beauty. Tune your taste to it. Incorporate it into your creativity. Help the universe achieve its goal.

Emotions are your advisors. You decide whether to listen to them or not.

Something is as dangerous as you believe it is.

The problem is, you are too easy to satisfy. This is why you eat junk food and chase fake pleasure. You have no standards. And this is why it is so easy to exploit you.

While being aware of your surroundings and adapting your behaviors accordingly in general is a very effective strategy, it should never be used with women. If she feels that you adapt to her, you will lose value very quickly. With women you need to hold your frame no matter what.

All fitness influencers who do strange and funny exercises are clowns entertaining the herd.

All the problems in the world stem from delusions. We become ill and unhealthy because we don't understand health. We remain poor because we don't understand wealth. We argue and fight because we don't understand relationships. We wander aimlessly, distracted, because we don't understand life. And our delusional state of mind leads to parasitism. We want to exploit others and grab as many resources as possible. Cancerous behavior. When we are connected to reality and understand how the world works, we start creating, cooperating, helping others, and making the world a better place. But the system wants us to be delusional because we become easier to control and exploit. The system is the main parasite, and it will squeeze the life out of us into oblivion. We need to be conscious, brave, and curious. This is how we win.

You are not making choices here; you've already made them. Now you are trying to understand why you made them.

I have no fears because I worked on all of them, understood them, and let them go. But I didn't do it willingly. No one works on their fears willingly; it's a disgustingly miserable experience. We work on our fears because we have no other choice. This is why seeking comfort will destroy you. It will allow you to hide. But if you throw yourself into the fire, you will be reborn like a phoenix.

We are clueless, ignorant, delusional, and unintelligent in the beginning. Every time we act upon our delusions, we face reality that kicks a portion of the shiittt we are full of out. This is how we become smart and experienced — by grinding against the harshness of the world.

Greatness was never the goal of evolution, survival was. This is why people are so bad at achieving greatness and so good at surviving.

If you need someone to help you achieve greatness, you will die mediocre.

We interpret reality through our preprogrammed filters. Different people will experience the same event but perceive completely different things depending on their beliefs and worldviews. This is why evidence won't work in search of truth.

You can't just be yourself. The system has been brainwashing you from the beginning. The real you is hiding deep inside. Whatever you believe is you is a fake character you have been convinced you are. To be yourself, you will need to do a lot of work. It's a journey of liberation.

When I was just starting with motorcycles and was clueless, I was reading a lot and asking questions frequently. There was a guy who sold me his liter sportbike (it was a Honda CBR1000RR), and he was a well-known and respected figure in the motorcycle community in our city. He said that this bike was very good, but this model had a flaw — the engines on this particular model blew up every couple of years. He said that Honda's designers had made a mistake on this one. He taught me how to change the oil. While I was listening, I was asking questions and noticed that he just "knew" the information he was teaching, without understanding it and without citing the sources of the information. I researched it and found out that the process he told me to follow during the oil change was incorrect and led to overfilling the oil, which increased pressure in the engine and was causing seal leakage and engine failures. I followed the correct process described in the official Honda manual, and the motorcycle remained in excellent working condition for all 12 years I owned it. This pattern followed me my entire life. I have communicated with hundreds of well-known professionals in different areas, and I understood one thing: the world is absolutely delusional. The higher the rank of a specialist and the more experience they have, the more delusional they probably are. Everywhere. In all areas. It is a sad reality. But there is a choice. You can think and do your own research instead of blindly believing "professionals". This is your life, and delegating it to other people may be a fatal mistake.

"Evidence from studies shows..." Not your evidence. Not your studies. You haven't even explored these studies yourself, just parroting the conclusions, most likely.

The more intense stress you can tolerate, the better you will look and the more effective you will be.