UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS ABOUT PEOPLE:
1. Most kindness hides an agenda.
2. Love fades when respect disappears.
3. Confidence is often a mask for anxiety.
4. People crave validation more than truth.
5. Attention is the purest form of currency.
6. The one who talks less controls the frame.
7. Silence during conflict is psychological dominance.
8. Those who need control secretly fear abandonment.
9. People remember how you made them feel, not what you said.
"It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."
- Rumi
There is a version of you that only appears under pressure from women, money, and status; until you watch how you bargain with your own standards around those three, you have no idea whether you are disciplined or just untested and romantically idealistic.
No one becomes wise through victory, only through loss. Failure teaches humility, heartbreak teaches restraint, solitude teaches discipline. The modern man runs from pain and wonders why he stays fragile. You harden only by breaking first.
“Freedom is not the natural state of mankind. It is a rare and wonderful achievement.” — Milton Friedman
Most men don’t lack confidence; they lack competence. You can’t speak boldly if you can’t deliver precisely. Skill kills insecurity. When your ability outweighs your doubt, you stop performing confidence, you start embodying it.
You’ll lose 90% of your circle when you start improving, not because they hate progress, but because it reminds them of their stagnation. They’ll disguise resentment as advice, envy as concern. Evolve anyway. Superficial Loyalty ends where growth begins.
Friedrich Nietzsche warns you, saying:
"Do not fall victim to excessive idealism and believe that telling the truth will bring you closer to people. People love and reward those who can soothe them with illusions. Since ancient times, humanity has only punished those who speak the truth. If you want to stay among people, share their illusions. The truth is spoken only by those who are ready to depart."
“What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
We seek goodness in others not because it exists universally, but because we hope to be exceptions to their selfishness. Love, loyalty, compassion - all temporary ceasefires in the endless war of self-interest. Expecting purity from mankind is philosophy’s cruelest joke.
A man who knows himself can’t be manipulated. The world’s games depend on your hunger for validation. Once you master your shadow, your lust, envy, and fear, they lose their leverage. Self-awareness is the highest armor.
There’s a calm that comes after chaos not from escaping it, but from realizing you can survive it. You stop fearing uncertainty once you’ve suffered enough. Pain doesn’t break you; it removes the illusion that you were ever safe, it makes you resilient and more confident.
“A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.”
— Ludwig von Mises
victory belongs to the man who endures boredom without losing direction. Every empire, every legacy, every transformation begins as repetition that felt meaningless. Discipline looks like stagnation until momentum crosses threshold.
In a world addicted to novelty, consistency becomes rebellion. People chase stimulation, sabotage momentum, and call it freedom. The man who can live inside monotony without losing focus eventually outpaces those who needed excitement to feel alive.
GM ! 🌞
Anyone in Chiang Mai? Hit me up if you want to grab a coffee .
