Most people are playing someone else's game. The game involves lots of losing, for some reason. All you have to do is what others do, and if you do it worse, you lose! Simple right?

What's funny is even the people who play and are considered 'winners' still end up feeling like losers in the end. I will elaborate on this in some moments. The fact is though, we're all playing 'The Game of Life' as prescribed by media, friends, celebrities, parents, godfather, fuck I don't even know anymore. Point is we all play along, with futile hope of one day being Grand Follower, King of all Followers.

Back to feeling like a loser:

Before I started reading TRP I was getting laid often enough, I was lifting 3x/week, and playing the guitar once or twice a week. I was told often that I looked good, did all the things 'right', and I felt like I was still doing better than most of the people around me. For some reason though, I was still unsatisfied. I was constantly doubting myself, and constantly felt like I wasn't doing enough. If I had a bad week, I might not play the guitar at all. I might take a deload week when I shouldn't have. I generally valued happiness over fulfillment, and validation from others was a great source of happiness. Then, one fateful day, ONEitis bit me and I found TRP.

And now, for something completely different:

What is truly good, and what is truly bad? This is where the daimon comes in: the inner guiding principle. This is the faculty which cannot be perturbed, cannot be moved, and does not tell lies. This is at its core your consciousness. (credit: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations)

To put it simply, your daimon is the voice in your head telling you that you should be going to the gym. Or should be reading. Or shouldn't be sleeping. Or should be going for a run. Or socializing. You shouldn't be playing games right now. You shouldn't watch another YouTube video. There's a voice inside of us all that speaks to us, as though from our core, echoing only what we know in our souls is truly righteous.

  • There is truth in exercise.

  • There is truth in reading.

  • There is truth in finding your passion.

  • There is truth in deep conversation.

My prescription

TRP means different things to different people. We all have different value systems and we're all in different places on the journey to our own life's task (credit: Robert Greene, Mastery). Since I started following my daimon and separating myself from the image others have of me, I've been a lot more disciplined in my daily life. I don't deload when I'm not supposed to, I read every day, I play the guitar every day, and I can see myself reap the rewards of my diligence. Sex even feels better somehow, and courting is a lot more fun now that I'm killing my ego.

What is most wonderful though, is that I am finally content. Every day, I wake up feeling genuinely good. I dance to music, I laugh out loud, I truly appreciate the things in my life. This 'happy' feeling comes and goes, but so long as I maintain my discipline and align my actions with my daimon, I have no doubts. I do not compare myself to those around me. I do not prescribe to other peoples' ideals and principles (including TRP, by the way). I take what I find truth in, and discard the rest.

That's my little bit of truth that I wanted to share. TRP gave me lots, so I thought I'd post something.

Thanks for reading!