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30 Insights Acquired In 30 Years of Living

The following snippets have been won with blood, tears and sweat.

They are not your average personal development “lessons” to make you happier and more productive.

These insights are observations from travelling in dozens of countries, thousands of books read and countless experiences had in varied, far-in-between environments.

Buddha proclaimed a couple of thousands of years ago that life is suffering.

You have no idea how true this is, no matter how harsh your circumstances were or are.

Irrelevant of how pessimistic you are, it’s probably even worse than you think.

But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something about it. That doesn’t mean that you’re a victim or that you shouldn’t take responsibility.

Many things will happen which will not be your fault. However, everything that you encounter and live is your responsibility.

Unfortunately, the prosperity of modern world shields people from this uncomfortable basic truth and makes them think that life is about being “happy”.

If you start from the presumption that you’re smart, deserving and perfect, every small thing which will contradict these statements will feel like a big blow.

Life is mainly strife, even if you’re just “chilling” and taking it easy.

2. Believe In Miracles and Prepare For Disasters

We do not rise to the level of our expectations — we rise to the level of our training.

Be optimistic but be prepared as well. Don’t bury your fear in hope and call it optimism.

3. Follow Your Heart and Don’t Forget To Take Your Brain With You

Intuition is the best compass you have in your life.

Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between it and emotions, between it and our desires.

That is why it is important to engage both mind and heart in all decisions you make. Neither of them is smart enough — but together they make a good team.

4. Prepare for Massive Change

The only way to grow is through experience.

To have a lot of experience, you need to undergo massive change.

Don’t be afraid to leave all that you’ve know and cherished behind. Then again, don’t be afraid to come back if this is your true path.

5. Learn About Human Nature

Learn about female and male nature (more specifically the Red Pill philosophy) and the laws of power (Robert Greene’s books are amazing).

Study the classics — they’ve devoted centuries to understanding what the hell is going on in the human life. Stoicism, religion, spirituality and philosophy are great starting points.

6. Learn Useful Skills

Study health and healing. Learn about business and marketing. Engage in self-defense and survival classes.

Listen to everyone but think critically about what they are saying. Most information available is biased, outdated or outright false.

Do your own research. Invest time in being your own expert. It will pay off immensely.

7. Challenge Everything You Think You Know

There have been multiple times when I thought I “knew”, for sure, how some things are.

I’ve been bitterly wrong.

This is not necessarily a harmful thing. To fully undergo an experience and learn its lessons you need a certain belief system in place.

However, as circumstances change, so should your “mind software”. Don’t take anything for granted.

Anything, really.

8. Meditate

This is one of the best skills you can have to increase awareness and personal power.

You can start with Vipassana, some binaural beats or anything really that tickles your fancy.

Even better than meditation is Pranayama.

Whatever you do, invest time and energy into sitting still and being aware. It’s one of the best investments you can ever make.

9. Change Your Environments

If you want to avoid becoming a robot, you need to change up things.

When you change environments in a radical way, you will notice how stuck you were on certain habits and on thought patterns.

If you change your environment, you change yourself to a certain degree.

10. Do What You Can With What You Have

Every body is different. Every mind and personality is different.

Everyone’s circumstances and upbringing is different.

Don’t wish for something different. The opportunity is right here, with you.

Don’t adopt solutions which worked for someone else expecting it will work for you. It might not.

11. Exercise

Probably the most effective antidepressant in existence.

Walk, do bodyweight exercises and sprint sometimes. Skip exhaustive workouts, they aren’t worth it unless you are an athlete.

12. Work In The Short-Term Towards The Long-Term

Always have a long plan towards which you are working.

Although they change over time, if you do not have a long-term vision, you will quickly find yourself stuck, frustrated and meaningless.

The more experience you have the clearer you are on what you truly want.

13. Don’t Be A Copycat

Don’t follow trends just because they are cool.

YOU are an asset, no matter how “anti-cool” you appear to the current culture.

YOU are unique, and so is everyone else.

DO YOU, not some tasteless standard recipe.

14. Lose Your Beliefs

A belief is a lens through which you view reality. The problem with this is that although some beliefs might make you feel better than others, they are still false at the end of the day.

Humans aren’t good or bad. They just are, ranging from one extreme to another.

The Universe isn’t benevolent or malevolent. It doesn’t give two cents about you.

The beliefs you invest in are the blind spots you will have.

15. Aim For Personal Mastery

Forget living the “good life”.

Don’t chase comfort, happiness or peace.

Self-mastery is everything that matters.

When everything falls apart, you are the most important asset you can ever have.

This includes your character, your inner resources, your will, discipline and skills.

16. Have A Few Trustworthy Friends

Being “Mr. Popular” isn’t worth anything, unless you’re a politician of some sort.

What matters is that you are a high-quality individual, which will make you have standards for only high-quality individuals in your life.

These people are better than gold, platinum or any other useless precious metals. These people are the salt of the earth.

Cultivate the relationships with open-minded, proactive individuals. You are massively influenced by your social circle.

17. Write

You are the best psychotherapist you can work with.

For this, you need to objectively assess your thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

Writing down everything, this is much easier to achieve and work with.

Organize your wisdom and output. Take notes of insights, lessons and strategies which you found useful in your learning and studying.

18. Health Is Your Greatest Wealth

Although the human body is frail, it is also incredibly resilient.

Although diseases and even death will occur, the most important objective to strive for is to be and feel at your best every single day.

This includes high-quality, smart nutrition, high-quality sleep, proper exercise and other techniques which you will learn only by studying and doing your own research.

19. Everyone’s Looking For Their Own Interest

A tough pill to swallow, but nevertheless true.

In spite of what people say, everyone has a selfish reason for doing anything. This includes your parents, your spouse, your friends and so on.

The only person who you can depend you is yourself. If you cannot do this, you are doomed.

20. Kill Your Naivety

I was the most optimistic, altruistic and friendly person you could even meet ten years ago.

With experience, things have changed.

Naivety is a child’s quality, not an adult’s. Naivety is very dangerous because it makes you dependent, weak and submissive.

Man up or you will suffer enormously until you do.

21. Memento Mori

At 12 PM, every day, I have an alarm on my phone which says exactly this.

Translated from Latin, it means “remember that you will die”.

Even if you live 1000 years, what has a beginning also has an end.

If you put this everyday in perspective, it will drastically help you make better choices and be aware of what is truly important.

22. Pleasure Is A Tool

If you live for pleasure, you are lost.

However, turning against your conditioning is rarely productive.

You need to find a balance between pain and pleasure in your life so that you push forward as much as possible while keeping your sanity.

Know what activities bring you the most pleasure with the least possible destruction implicitly.

This is easier said than done, as most pleasure weakens both body and spirit.

23. Practice Detachment and Self-restraint

Nature is the operating system of this world.

It is cruel, harsh and incredibly slow to achieve evolution.

Although we appear civilized, our base instincts still dictate most of our behavior.

You need to put some healthy distance between the spirit that you are and the animal that you are inhabiting. Otherwise, you are just a slave to stimulus.

24. Accept Randomness

No matter how powerful, competent or masterful you are, randomness is still a big factor in all events.

You can substitute the word “randomness” with “God”, “destiny” / “fate” or “quantum entanglement”. It’s all the same.

The sooner you accept its role and influence, the more peace you will find in focusing just on doing what is within your grasp and power.

At one point you will notice that randomness decides most of what is happening. What you can do is adapt to it as proficiently as possible and make the best out of it.

25. Reduce

The less you own, the less masters you have.

The less you need, the more resources you have.

The less you want, the more free you become.

Strive to reduce habits of action and thinking while increasing flexibility and skills.

26. Nobody Has Any Idea What They Are Doing

There are very few people who took the time and energy to ask the important questions in life.

There are even fewer who have the honesty and energy to pursue their answers.

When you realize that humans are creatures of habit and comfort, you will find a newfound freedom and motivation to walk your own way.

There are no clear-cut answers and no supreme perspective or Truth.

27. Money Is The New God

In the modern world, everything revolves around money.

If you don’t believe me, try living off the goodwill of others for more than a few days.

This doesn’t mean that you should make money your god, but to properly take care of this resource in your life and understand the social, political and economical engine in the modern world

28. You Are Born A Slave

We are born conditioned through and through — from our biological instincts to psychological biases, trans-generational emotional traumas and energetic imprints which limit us.

No matter how well-off you were born, you are still a slave to many variables and factors.

The more you push your “boundaries”, the more you will realize this — and probably (and hopefully) revolt against it.

“Freedom” is just a buzzword to sell you useless, hedonistic stuff. In the real sense, freedom is very relative to context.

Go ahead and try to be “free”. You will be shocked, as you research and understand more, in how many prisons we are trapped — physically, economically, socially, politically, etc.

29. The Physical World Is Just Another Layer of Reality

When you start to decondition yourself from the Matrix, you will understand that there are multiple facets to this reality, with the material one being just one of them.

Pay attention to your dreams. Be aware of your thought patterns, emotions and automatic reflexes. When you realize how complex and intertwined everything is, you will start taking even more responsibility for yourself and transcending your conditioning.

30. Just Keep Moving Forward

There will be tragedy, sorrow, pain and loss in your life. If you don’t think so, you are fooling yourself.

When pain arises, when suffering occurs, when shit hits the fan — a great opportunity for self-mastery and development arises. Don’t drown it in victimhood or fear.

Take extreme ownership of everything in your life. If you don’t, nobody else will.

The only thing you can do is to keep moving forward with dignity, responsibility and awareness.

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You might think I’m bitter, callous or cynical for being so harsh. It might be true.

However, if you want to be prepared for any situation and become a Master of your Being, then it’s only a matter of time until you will learn (on your own skin) the value of these insights.

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