“Think about what you’re passionate about and do that!” – Bad guru. “You need to soul search to find your passion!” – Even worse guru. Bad gurus don’t understand that normal people aren’t passionate about anything, so they don’t know what to pursue, and then it makes them feel like they just need to soul […]
“Think positively!” – Bad guru. “If you can’t see the negative in everything, you’re screwed.” – Truth Cake. People make decisions by listing pros and cons. But beyond the surface, every ‘pro’ is a ‘con’ in some way. And every ‘con,’ is a ‘pro’ in an other way. Many times people want to see the […]
“You need to increase your discipline!” – Bad guru. “Discipline is for losers. Not needing discipline is for winners.” – Truth Cake Getting yourself into situations and environments where discipline isn’t required is the only long term solution. If your job, spouse, etc is wearing you down all day and you realize you don’t have […]
“Everything will work out in the end! Trust the universe!” – Bad Guru. Everything may NOT work out in the end. – Truth Cake. There’s 2 pieces of reality when it comes to this advice. It’s better to feel good because you’re in a situation that warrants feeling good, vs feeling good because you think […]
Certainty is often craved and when it’s found, it’s just an illusion. If you’re certain aliens don’t exist, or certain that 9/11 was an inside job, or certain about anything regarding covid, or certain about anything for that matter, you’re simply not thinking. Certainty is an illusion. – Truth cake. The good news to that […]
“Come listen to my seminar!” – Random bad guru. I hear people speaking at seminars always struggling with the idea of trying to figure out what would be valuable they could talk about that can fit into a 30-60 minute presentation. They realize that’s not enough time to even scratch the surface with attaining the […]
“Sit down and really think about what you want, make a plan and then achieve your goals!” – Random bad guru. The reason you see how many super rich people miserable is because they thought that was what they wanted but it turns out it wasn’t as good as they thought it’d be. The reality […]
Most people’s advice to others is almost always to do exactly what they’ve done. If you know what they’ve done in the past, then you ALREADY know what their advice is. Ask Alex Hermozi for some good advice? Learn to sell. Ask Codie Sanchez? Buy boring businesses.Ask Brandon Turner? Get into real estate. Ask Mr […]
A lot of people want to learn about something as much as possible before actually getting started. The easiest way to determine whether you still need to research and learn more or just get started is at the point that when you’re continuing to research something and everything coming up is stuff you already know. […]
“Find something your good at and make a business out of that!” – Random bad guru. If you’re good at digging ditches, that doesn’t mean you should be a ditch digger. A lot of people that don’t want to have kids have people say things like, “You should have kids – you’d be a great […]