Walking is much harder than lying in bed. Should we stop walking and start lying more? Running is much harder than walking. Should we stop running? Learning is much harder than sleeping. Should we stop learning? Doing the easier thing isn’t a beneficial strategy.

If you want to become effective and achieve success switch ineffective herd belief and following mechanisms with understanding. Always try to understand anything you do instead of just copying and following.

When you don't have followers, whatever you say is ignored. When you have many followers, whatever you say is considered the truth. Even if the message is exactly the same.

If you say you understand money and talk about making it while you don’t have any, it’s suspicious. If you talk about health and fitness but are weak and fat, it’s deceptive. If you teach about communication and relationships but are married to an overweight mid, it’s strange.

I love progress. This is why, when I go to the gym, I do exercises I hate — that is what gives me the most progress. And when I get used to them and start loving them, I change the exercises. I use this principle in other areas of my life too — relationships, business, communication.

Money allows you to influence people who don’t have it and are desperately craving it. Money won’t help you influence people who have more money than you.

If I knew a working trading strategy that was making millions, I wouldn’t sell it for $29.99 — I would use it and make billions.

“People love doing easy things and hate doing hard things.” Not entirely true. We all do the hardest thing ever every day, all the time — we exist. It expends much more calories than any hard activity we are supposed to hate. We love doing what our body thinks is important for survival and reproduction, and hate whatever isn’t important. This is how you start loving whatever hard thing you want to do — make it important for survival. — Warrior's Path

People who don't understand just believe either the masses, the authorities, or the professionals. The problem is no one will actually tell you their secrets.

Lambs following their instincts and desires become sheep. If they want to become lions, they need to learn from lions and suppress their instincts.

Give immature children freedom to do whatever they want and they will destroy their lives. This is true for women and immature men too.

You already have everything you want, it's just not where you are right now. To get it, you need to go where it is.

Most people experience the world through their emotions. But emotions are the internal language used to communicate between the cells, not an external means to interact with the world. People don’t care what you feel — they only care what you do and what you are capable of doing.

It's not about what you have. It is about who you are. Everything!

They want you to believe that all life is equal, because if you accept your place among simple organisms, you will be easier to control and exploit. Humans are physically more complex and have much greater capabilities. We are the smartest life form on Earth. It’s not a social construct or an ego thing — it’s reality. But I’m not forcing you. You can believe that you are on par with sheep if you want.

Most men are stuck in a childlike state seeking mother love and father acceptance. This is what prevents them from reaching their full potential.

Engagement-focused algorithms promote whatever people want to see and like, and punish whatever they don’t understand or ignore. This is why posting simple things people like or hate gets engagement, and why new and interesting ideas and concepts are ignored and forgotten. This is how dummies get dumber and are exploited more and more.

It takes absolutely extreme focus, willpower, resilience, determination, and intent to build something complex and unusual in the modern world. Everything is trying to drag you toward average normality. You must have really big ballzz to succeed outside the system.

While it may seem that any partnership is always beneficial, a lion and a hyena can never be partners. Such partnerships always end the same way. Watch The Lion King.

The collective state of society is at such a low level because people are talking about things they have no clue about. The modern world not only allows them to do this — it incentivizes it. Because the dumber the herd, the easier it is to milk it.