INTRO

There's a lot of cool shit to do in the world. Personally, I hate going to sleep because it means I have to disconnect from whatever I’m doing for six or seven hours. Sleep is boring - life is fucking dope.

As you open your mind and progress on the path of self-improvement, you'll realize that nothing is really off limits. If you're wiling to work and engage in serious self reflection, you can eventually go on exotic vacations, plow through the world's great books, make money, fuck women, join secret societies, master various skills, get an archeology degree on the side, and so on. A lot of this stuff even becomes easy.

Maybe none of those activities interest you - that's not the point. The point is that you can develop a great lifestyle for yourself. And once you're living this way, you'll start to see the inability to create a bomb-ass lifestyle in this world of abundance as a truly great Failure.

BODY

You need to get in the habit of making each moment excellent. That sounds vague, but over time I have observed that Nature hates when we waste time and float by on autopilot. Many people spend their days in this state of low-consciousness, taking actions that are rationally sub-optimal.

For example, I used to come home from work and order food a lot. In my mind, I didn’t have the time or energy to cook a full dinner each night. Over time, this caused me to gain weight and waste money (though I didn’t make the connection between ordering and its consequences while it was happening).

Part of my self-improvement journey has involved going straight to the grocery store after work, and then cooking a good dinner every night. I am amazed at how - after a couple weeks - this habit of cooking became not only easy, but extremely enjoyable. I have bomb-ass dinners every night now. Steak and potatoes, shrimp with cajun sauce, chicken parm made from scratch, delicious fruit smoothies, the list goes on.

What’s striking about making dinner is that it’s actually easier than ordering once you get into the habit of it. You eliminate the 40 minutes of dead time while waiting for delivery, gain a skill that is endlessly useful, and feel healthier every day. Why would I ever want to go back to ordering pizza?

The same mentality I applied to cooking dinner must be applied to every facet of life. You want to continue “leveling up” so that you reach ever more refined levels of existence.

To this end, you must learn to think in what Elon Musk has called "first principles." Learn to see through to the core of every part of your daily routine, and distill the value it holds. When you find what set of actions produces the maximum value, you've found the correct way to approach the given activity, and should then always do it that way going forward. Making dinner, for instance, is more of a value-add to your life than ordering. End of story. Do it every night. It's a principle now.

When you live your life entirely based on first-principles you will become single-pointed in focus. This is stoicism.

THE FAILURE

What holds most guys back is the Blue Pill idea of relativism. This dogma holds that there is no objective truth. For instance, a Blue Piller would not concede that cooking steak and potatoes is an objectively better use of time than ordering dominos and watching TV. He would claim that we can all do whatever we want, and if he “feels like” eating junk then he should be able to do so without any consequences.

Don't be a failure. Put the Xbox controller down, cook a man’s dinner every night, and then pick up a book and study something interesting. Watch as Blue Piller’s desperately cling to their squirts of dopamine from their screens and drugs while going deeply into the Blue Pill trance.