There are a lot of dummies in this country, and a lot of dummies who listen to dummies. Perhaps one of the greatest examples of stupidity is the way people who know nothing about a particular industry - say, energy - making all sorts of crazy, senile predictions about an industry they're not even involved in.
God damn this feels good to type. One day, I'll explain what it all means. Like, after I hit $1B. Haha.
I wrote this post during a moment of intense rage. Found it in my drafts. Here you go.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I have felt the pain expressed in the song posted above these words. If memory serves correctly, Eminem penned those rhymes during rehab.
I have hit low points in my life more than once. And more than once, I have found refuge in the lyrics spit above.
I find it difficult to encapsulate the intensity of my feelings in these sentences. How do I explain the rage of a man so hellbent on brutally raping, maiming and murdering the game that he deserves an infinite life sentence?
But that begs the question of where to send such a man - or, dare I say, creature - capable of such depravity. Surely, someone - or something - that so consciously and willfully premeditates a gloriously strategic massacre - through focused and determined meditation - deserves the lowest rung in hell as an eternal prison.
Tomato, Tomato. One man's Satan is another man's Fallen Angel. To some, the love of money is the root of all evil. To others, it is the key to wretched glory.
In the 12th chapter of the 33 Strategies of War - Lose Battles But Win The War, Grand Strategy - Robert Greene discusses the importance of visualization.
"To become a grand strategist in life, you must follow the path of Alexander. First, clarify your life - decipher your own personal riddle - by determining what it is you are destined to achieve, the direction in which your skills seem to push you. Visualize yourself fulfilling this destiny in glorious detail. As Aristotle advised, work to master your emotions and train yourself to think ahead: 'This action will advance me toward my goal, this one will lead me nowhere.' Guided by these standards, you will be able to stay on course."
Ignore the conventional wisdom about what you should or should not be doing. It may make sense for some, but that does not mean it bears any relation to your own goals and destiny. You need to be patient enough to plot several steps ahead - to wage a campaign instead of fighting battles. The path to your goal may be indirect, your actions may be strange to other people, but so much the better: the less they understand you, the easier they are to deceive, manipulate, and seduce. Following this path, you will gain the calm, Olympian perspective that will separate you from other mortals, whether dreamers who get nothing done or prosaic, practical people who accomplish only small things."
"Never strike a King unless you're certain you can kill him." - Ancient Chinese adage, quoted on page 163 of Dr. HAHA Lung's Mind-Sword, Mastering the Asian Arts of Mind Manipulation.
"The spirit of this truth is echoed in Machiavelli's warning: Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge." Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 3.
In the first video clip on this page, Robert Greene described Machiavelli's The Prince as the inspiration for The 48 Laws of Power.
In the interview above, Greene terms Machiavelli as a "low-level diplomat" for the city of Florence, Italy, and states that Machiavelli "never had much power." However, he goes on to wisely note that, due to Machiavelli's influence, his power "far out-stripped that of any King in the scope of world history."
Lol...
Depending on how deeply you want to look into what Robert is saying here, when he references how Machiavelli wrote The Prince to ingratiate himself into the circle of the powerful...
And then... he unleashes The 48 Laws of Power on the Universe...
And then you have most of the top artists in hip hop references his book, all the way up to 50 Cent writing a book with him...
Wretched Glory - Glory obtained only after enduring something wretched for an extended period of time (usually years).
Example: Roger's entire lame family, his shit talkin' ex-girlfriends, and his so-called friends never thought he would get rich and change the world. He showed them wrong. One day, he pulled up doing donuts in a black-on-black 2014 Aventador. In the midst of tire smoke and the fury of 700 roaring horses, Roger attained wretched glory by stuntin' on fuck niggaz and the hoes who love them.
Shit is about to get real fuckin' ugly for my haters and doubters.
Man, those times when you're grindin', and the end result - that glorious vision in your mind - seems light years away, those are the moments that create greatness. Endure the criticisms of lesser minds.
Consider these times of loneliness as an investment. Every time you work a sleepless night, you get yourself closer to the ultimate strategic goal. The pain now will pay off later.
Floyd Mayweather reportedly did 1,300 pushups a day in jail. Ironically enough, I first found out about this from a bitch ass fuck nigga who ain't never gonna get no paper. Ironic, because those 1,300 pushups - and everything else about the insanely intense hard work that The Champ puts into training his body - are a metaphor for a way of living that this bitch nigga can't even comprehend. Why do you think Mayweather is stackin' paper like he is? Bitch ass fuck niggas don't get it, so they get stunted on.
Let's see. What else has pissed me off? Ah. Yes. Social Media. In general, I view social media is like reality television for people who are too broke, too fat and too uninteresting to actually be on an actual TV show. It's a way for girls to post pictures that make them look better than they do in real life. It's a way for niggaz to front and act like they ballin' when they really ain't.
Robert Greene rightfully considers self-reliance as the most important skill you can develop. With self-reliance, you can push through the hurdles and obstacles that invariably stand to threaten your success. With self-reliance, you don't need support from lesser minds. Why get some moron to co-sign your idea?
The more time mediocre people spend with you, the more they are to think themselves your equals, the more they think they can comprehend their greatness. Show them different.
Once you learn to blend your dreams with your daily actions, and every moment of your day is spent immersed in your project, you will know mastery.
Don't listen to the fools with empty pockets who tell you that money isn't everything.
Don't listen to the fools with full bank accounts tell you that money isn't everything.
Money isn't everything is a straw man, a red herring.
I have a new energy coursing through my veins. The past several years of work, adaptation, and evolution has reached a culminating point.
I've turned into a money-chasing, money-focused motherfucker. Not that I wasn't before, but the reality of the situation is that there really is no one out there like me. No one out there who grew up as I grew up, went to college so early, and became so completely and utterly focused on money at a young age.
And started plotting...
A long time ago.
From a scientific point of view, I am very interested in myself. The notion of such an extreme intelligence being focused and filtered by the likes of Greene, Lung, Sun-Tzu, etc...
It's just damn interesting to see such a specimen. All the better that when I see the specimen - this glorious piece of evolutionary dominance...
It's not just about intelligence. It's about a certain type of intellect, and it's about how that intellect is applied.
Lol. I laugh when I think of lesser minds attempting to wrap their tightly-wound minds around the concept of my greatness.
I'm so lucky I wasn't raised and taught by uneducated parents. HAHA.
I'm just playin' around with this writin' shit right now. If you've read my quasi-Objectivist rants, you should know that.
There's a big difference between the level of ballin' I'm trying to obtain and what the owner of a local snow removal company can do. Heh-heh-heh.
