Tough Life Decisions.

 The regret of failure is temporary; the regret of never trying is permanent.

To win an unconventional 1% existence you can’t think like the conventional 99%.

You can always earn more money, but you can’t make more time. It’s time to stop trading our time just for money.

Trading good time for bad time is a terrible life strategy. Demand different,work different, or live the same.

As humans, we have an instinctual, positive charge toward money-chasing, no different than that rat seeking cheese. And it doesn’t matter who holds the cash—the broke college student or the billionaire philanthropist—cash - always carries a positive charge.

The rat race makes balanced, or “middle way” living nearly impossible.Commitment can often cause things to go temporarily unbalanced.Embrace unbalanced periods of your life to seek lasting balance.Your actions express your priorities.

Purpose is the primary driver behind motivation and perseverance. Without an intense Purpose, a great rat race escape is unlikely.

Porous beliefs are the only way to give truth a chance. Everything must be questioned, even your most sacred convictions. If you want the truth of God, you won’t find it at a Christian church, a Jewish synagogue, a Muslim mosque, a Buddhist temple, or at an accelerator. The truth is found at all five.You’ve never been conditioned to seek the truth; you’re conditioned to confirm your biases.

You’re not seeking the truth; you’re seeking to confirm your belief.

When your beliefs aren’t porous, the truth will bounce off them.A solid belief is immune from new information, no matter how pertinent.

Mark Twain famously said, “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so"

A porous belief is anything that you believe to be true but is open to critique and investigation.

Most people aren’t interested in the truth; rather, they are seeking to confirm biases, which is why they watch the same news programs, visit the same websites, and go to same church.

If you are the same person today as you were five years ago, it’s likely your beliefs are not porous, but concrete.

The best foundation for decision-making is truth, not belief.

Truth isn’t curated to mainstream news: if you’re not actively seeking the truth, you’re not getting the truth.

Steve Jobs said, “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

If your Identity isn’t aligned with who you need to become,you likely will struggle. If you have a challenge ahead of you, whether it’s starting a business or hitting an Escape Number, your identity must shift to who you want to be.

Some might say I’m retired, because I haven’t earned (hardly) any money since from 2024. And in some sense it’s true: I don’t want any more money than I’ve already got. And I don’t want more fame, recognition, or anything external. 

So in that sense, I’m done. Retired. 

No longer working for money. Now my ambitions are entirely intrinsic and intellectual. I work as hard as ever, but just for my own learning, creating, and giving.