LEADERBOARD - Masterclass - 024 - Mike Cernovich's - Principles By Which to Live - Part 3
0THEME: Personal Development
LESSON: Mike Cernovich's - Principles By Which to Live - Part 3
Mike writes:
"Your actions become your habits and your habits become your character. Fighters fight. Weak people quit and strong people survive and thrive. Even if a challenge you set is arbitrary, meet the challenge because small victories, like small surrenders, add up."
A challenge is something we all face everyday in different ways.
Let's look at more advice about how we can overcome the problems that face us on a daily basis.
1. Seek small victories.
Comparison is suicide, as Ralph Waldo Emerson told us in Self-Reliance. Your victories are yours, and it doesn’t matter how they “size up” with anyone else’s. I’ve met the obscenely rich and famous. For the most part they are bland people who struck it big one time, which isn’t hating on them, but they can be petty and nasty like everyone else.
2. Play the odds unless you have an edge.
This goes for investing in the stock market, dating, and living generally. Certain rules are going to lead you to the best outcome frequently enough ... so it’s folly to break those rules.
3. There is no singular life purpose.
You will change over time, and so will your preferences. Convincing people to seek their life purpose has led millions in the wrong direction. Stay busy, be useful to others. A sense of purpose will arrive in time.
4. Write something every day.
This might be a journal, blog, or book. Writing allows you to process your emotions in a healthy way. Plus, you don’t really know what your ideas are until you can articulate them precisely.
5. Read fiction like it’s non-fiction.
Fiction isn’t “fantasy,” because characters and their actions represent the author’s view of humanity. Bonfire of the Vanities is ostensibly the great American novel. Read it and tell me if it doesn’t sound like a non-fiction work about current affairs. Snow Crash imagines what humanity could be like in a future time. Catch-22 uses stories to help us laugh at human irrationality. Cormac McCarthy shows you the dark side of humanity in Blood Meridian.
Whatever your path you must move forward.
Mike writes:
"Try to make one big move a year. In 2017 I decided to become a journalist. In 2016 I moved into films. In 2015 I published my first book. Your move is your move, but make each year count. Maybe it’s time to lose some weight, start a side business, or simply read a book."
You get anywhere the same way that you got here.
Think about it.
Mike Cernovich is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and best-selling author of Gorilla Mindset.
Today's Key Words & Phrases
Surrender + Self-reliance + Bland + Folly + Frequently + Seek + Articulate + Irrational + Current affairs + Ostensibly + Bonfire
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