The old way of doing things is to not try. To think that the best course of action is to climb the corporate ladder and hope, hope, and hope that the ladder is not crooked or broken or that there isn’t someone at the top that’s about to throw the ladder off the building. The new way of doing things, the red pill, is to jump into the abyss. To try a

Here’s the operating theory: you don’t need to spend 10,000 hours at anything to be the best. You just need to be pretty good at something (spend a couple of hundred hours) and then you need to know how to give a good talk in public. You will stand out, because so few people want to talk in public.

Physical Sleep well. Eat well. Exercise. This doesn’t mean go to the power gym with a trainer. It might just mean take a walk three times a week. Whatever works for you. Emotional Be around people who love and support you and whom you love and support. Ignore everyone else as much as you can. Engage with nobody who is bad to you. When you get in th

Only stepping out of the prison imposed on you from your factory will allow you to achieve abundance. You can’t see it now. It’s hard to see the gardens when you are locked in jail. Abundance only comes when you are moving along your themes—when you are truly enhancing the lives of the people around you. It happens when you wake up every day with t

How Do I Execute My Ideas? Here’s what I do often when I am writing down ideas that I think I might want to act on: I divide my paper into two columns. In one column is the list of ideas. In the other column is the list of “First Steps”—only the first step, because you have no idea where that first step will take you.

PowerPoint will only distract from the main attraction: you.

I think we’re meant to often feel lonely and scared. It allows us to recalibrate where we are and ask the important question, is this what I’m supposed to be doing right now? When I am filled with fear is exactly the time when I want my idea muscle humming, when I must write those ten ideas a day down and become an Idea Machine.

When you are in the Idea Machine, nothing can stop you. This is where abundance is. This is where seeds are planted. This is where you dip into other dimensions not yet created.

Ideas are the currency of life. Not money—because money can run out. Money gets depleted until you go broke. But good ideas buy you good experiences, buy you better ideas, buy you better experiences, buy you more time, save your life. Financial wealth is a side effect of the “runner’s high” of your idea muscle.