GRAND RISING MY PEOPLE ❤️

The lowest form of human existence is one based on hating everything.

Because it's a clear sign of the lens that you perceive the world from.

It says more about you than it says about the world.

It's not the world that's rotten.

It's your own perception.

In other words, you are the problem.

If everything looks like shit, it's because your perspective is shit.

If you hate yourself how can you love anything?

I don't know if you saw on Twitter this morning but I woke up to a comment about guy wishing harm on my family because I said that life was fantastic.

And honestly?

I don't even hate him for it.

I just feel bad for him.

What would be the point of getting mad at someone who already lives in hell.

Now I know most of you are absolutely not like this guy.

So my point is that when faced with such people, the best you can do is walk away and let them rot in their hatred.

No every battle is worth fighting, you already knew that.

Anyway, not to bring more attention to something that doesn't deserve it, but I thought I'd share with you what the real issue with those people is.

Don't let them pollute your world.

They're ticking bombs and you don't wanna be around when they go off.

A genuine smile and some nice words will take you places.

If you learn to make people like you without acting like someone you’re not; you’ve unlocked everything you want.

You know what that’s called?

Aura and charisma.

And it’s not innate as people want you to believe.

It’s something you work on, train yourself for and master.

It’s a skill.

There is within you, a respectable, likable and enjoyable person that everyone wants to meet.

If you can convey that through your behavior, then people feel that energy and welcome you with arms wide open.

Speak slower, speak lower, smile when necessary, look people in the eyes, say what you think and ask more questions to gather more information.

These are your first steps.

Practice enough and this becomes natural.

As it should be.

This is the man behind the brand.

https://x.com/egodriv/status/1902370586795401461?s=46

Go out there and meet and kinds of people.

Poor. Rich.
Left wing. Right wing.
Young. Old.

Doesn’t matter.

Get their perspectives on life, pick their brain and exchange ideas with them.

You will disagree with most but your understanding of the world and your ability to blend anywhere will expand beyond what you thought was possible.

Do not isolate.

That's how your soul rots.

You are human.

You are not supposed to live on your own.

No man is an island.

Do you understand?

Nietzsche might have went a little overboard on this as he was approaching his latter years when he wrote this.

But there is a deep truth to it.

No matter how much you try to systematize and optimize; nothing will ever make up for the lack of will and conviction.

Your deeply ingrained beliefs will always overpower any attempt.

Because you cannot trick them.

What you believe is what you experience.

You cannot put make up on things.

You must fix the deep internal conflicts.

You must change what you believe in so you can change how you behave.

Not the other way around.

You will try to fake it and you’ll keep failing.

You cannot escape who you are in the depths of your soul.

But you can explore it to the point of full understanding.

You can get a full grasp of why you believe what you believe.

And then you can decide which beliefs serve you best and should be kept.

And which beliefs are detrimental and should be discarded.

Until you do the inner work, everything you will try will miserably fail and weaken your willpower.

This is why I always tell you:

Freestyle your way through life.
Fuck around and find out.

Stop trying to control everything.

Get the life changing experiences you need so that your perception on things change.

Do not try to mimic what works when it comes to the person you’re building.

What works for others will probably not work for you.

Context is king.

You are the context.

Tell me you understand now.

Curious.

What is your biggest challenge at the moment?

What's keeping you from achieving your goals?

HOOA

I’m often asked about my thought processes and I don’t always have an answer for that.

I’ve been thinking about ways to put it simply so I came up with four principles that I believe are my guidelines for everything:

Self-sufficiency:

This was the very first thing I wrote about online and also the name of my first book.

This is the backbone of everything.

You cannot pour from an empty cup.

I’ve said it time and time again and I will never stop saying it.

The bottom line: “If I don’t build it, it won’t happen.”

Integrity:

I value this more than any sort of reward.

Yes, sometimes circumstances push you to digress and you act out in ways that compromise it.

But I made peace with this fact of life.

I am not perfect and I don’t aspire to be.

All I want is to be able to look at myself in the mirror and think:

I’m proud of this motherfucker.

The bottom line: “What’s the most efficient, clean way to win without selling my soul?”

Respect:

This is something that comes to complete the above two points.

My self-respect, self-sufficiency and self-reliance make me want to mirror that out.

But if I’m not getting it back, I cut complete contact.

The bottom line: “I’ll let you in but only if you move with respect.”

Authenticity:

This might sound exactly like integrity but it’s more about gut feeling than calculated decision making.

It’s also more about I interact with others. Integrity is more about my internal monologue.

This is not something you put efforts into.

This has to come naturally and this is why I put it last.

It’s a byproduct of all the above.

The bottom line: “This needs to feel like me or I’m out.”

And above all, fuck it we ball.

Don't ever apologize for who you are. Don't ever hide from yourself. Embrace your self, and all its sensitivities. But also armor your self to the Utmost limit, in complete understanding of the world and the people contained within it — that is, most are not like you, and they never will be.

Alright, starting tomorrow I will be back to posting every day on here.

Long overdue.

Apologies for the frequent breaks.

Time to pick up the pace.

There is a reason I do not post as often anymore.

My last post on here was 3 months ago.

My last Twitter thread was a year ago.

My last Instagram post, I don’t even know.

That’s because I’ve been completely focused on growing to distinct businesses that have nothing to do with the Ego brand.

I’m often asked how I make a living and I never answer this question because nobody needs to know.

Not because I’m hiding anything I just don’t owe anyone that.
But if you’re still here, still paying attention, then I’ll say this:

I own a consulting agency and a travel agency.

Managing both takes time sure.

But that’s not the problem.

What it really takes away is mental space.

If you’ve been reading my stuff for long enough you know that I value mental space more than anything else.

So I had to make a choice:

Focus on my businesses or focus on writing.

And for the past year or so I’ve chosen the former.

But then yesterday evening I’ve finally came to a realization:

I was doing exactly what I told you many times not to do… limiting myself.

I will keep up with everything as promised.

Because I know in the depth of my heart that you can have it all, do it all and achieve it all.

And I will prove that to you.

Going forward, expect a lot more from me.

This is not a promise I’m making you, this is a promise I made to myself.

God bless you.

I love you all ❤️

The most important thing in life is alignment.

Not achievements.
Not success.
Not approval.
Not status.

The most important thing in life is looking yourself in the mirror and not feeling like you’re not doing enough.

It’s aligning who you think you are with what you do on a consistent basis.

That is the most priceless feeling in the world.

Time and time again, you will lose that balance.

Don’t think it’s something you achieve and keep forever.

It’s a constant effort.

Day in.
Day out.

And when you slip up, don’t blame yourself.

Get back up and fix it.

This is what winning feels like.

If you make sure you achieve and maintain alignment:

You will be fulfilled.

I promise you this.

Procrastination Cure:

Meta-Attention and Hyper-presence.

I’ve talked about this in the past but it’s time to refresh your memory.

Pay attention and understand this.

Your procrastination is mainly a result of two things:

1. Your attention is constantly solicited. It’s scattered, split and that makes you unfocused. You keep getting distracted because that’s the world we live in. You need to retake control over your attention.

2. A lack of vision, lack of proper direction. What you’re doing is simply not fulfilling enough or not aligned with what your heart truly desire. Alignment. Read yesterday’s post.

You have to fix those two.

And that’s not hard at all.

Cut out the noise, make a plan and stick to it.

Correct course every time you stray away from the path YOU defined.

If none of those two sound relatable, then I have very bad news:

You are very lazy.

If you’re both present and passionate about what you’re doing, there is no way you’re not productive.

Eliminate everything that doesn’t contribute to your fulfillment.

An unfulfilled life is a waste of time.

You’re either building the future you want to live in or wasting your time on this Earth.

Fix that shit.

Rush into things.
Don't take your time.

Move fast, fail fast, learn fast.

There is no time to be wasted on theory.

Go fuck up and then figure out how to fix it.

Stop trying to do everything perfectly.

It’s keeping you stagnating and you know you deserve better than that.

Perfectionism is just fear in disguise.

Jump head on.

Shoot first, correct course later.

You have no time to waste.

Keep making moves, keep taking shots..

You will figure it out more easily by making mistakes.

As humans, we have a deep need for control because it makes us feel safe.

That feeling of safety comes from an illusion of certainty.

I say illusion because complete certainty is unachievable and unrealistic.

What does it mean?

It means that the very first step to gaining control over your life is accepting that some things are simply out of control by design.

Once you accept this, you can shift your focus to controlling things that you can actually maximize certainty of.

But how?

Gaining Control comes from 3 others words that also happen to start with a C.

Comprehension
Completion
Consistency

I will explain the role of each and how you can gain control through these three things.

Comprehension:

To feel and be in control you must understand what you're supposed to be doing.

If you have zero understanding, you will definitely feel out of control.

The more you know, the less uncertainty there is around you.

Less uncertainty, more control.

Completion:

Once you comprehend and understand how things work, the next logical step is to simply complete what must be done.

If you know how to do it, you do it.
If you do it, you don't have to worry about it.

Once again, reducing uncertainty.

Consistency:

The last step is self-explanatory.

The first two already set you on the right path, all you have to do is rinse and repeat until you have full understanding of your direction and completion of whatever is on your plate.

It comes last because it only matter if you're not screwing up.

With all the above in mind, I insist on the fact that not everything is within your range of control.

- You can't understand everything
- You can't complete everything
- And you probably can't always be consistent (and shouldn't be consistently doing the wrong shit)

All of this is useless if you don't acknowledge that some things can simply not be controlled.

Control what you can.

Deal with the consequences of what you can't control.

It's that simple.

Stop trying to be subtle.

Be more direct and straightforward.

Most people don't understand hints.
Most people cannot read your mind.
Most people will fail to guess or even see it.

Stop expecting people to understand what you never said.

They're not that smart.

Speak out.

If you think far enough ahead, plan every little details, do everything to make things work:

Things will still find a way to get screwed up.

But if you add that little parameter to how you plan, build and design your life:

You will always find a way to circumvent the fuck ups and adapt to those situation.

If you’re not sticking to the promises you’re making yourself and get thrown off by every incident that comes up, you will constantly be overwhelmed and get stuck in the planning phase.

It serves absolutely zero purpose to try and follow rigid plans.

You make a plan for your diet, for your workouts, build a schedule to follow to the T, and one day 3 something unexpected happens and everything goes down the drain.

So you tell yourself:


“Back to the drawing board, let’s start planning it all again”

Or

“I need to start all over”

These are two of the worst ways to handle this.

Instead, simply keep going.

Your obsession with perfection is exactly what makes you stuck.

Stop bugging and restarting.

Swing through and fuck it we ball.

If you move fast enough, you don’t feel the speed bumps.

Never forget this.

Stop holding yourself back for a fake excuse of perfection.

Nobody’s perfect.

Stop trying to be.

Just get shit done and never stop getting shit done.

Stop giving a fuck about other people's opinions of you.

Everyone sees things from their own lens and my efforts to justify myself won't change that.

People will judge you based on their own limitations, fears, and experiences. Not on who you actually are or what you're trying to accomplish.

You can waste years trying to make everyone understand your decisions, or you can focus that energy on actually living your life.

Let them think you're an asshole.

Focus on protecting your mental space from people who drain it with their need for you to fit their narrow definitions of acceptable.

The right people will get you without explanation. The wrong people won't get you even if you spend the rest of your life explaining.

Stop diluting yourself for an audience that was never meant to understand you anyway.

Your life, your rules, your peace of mind.

Those that are capable of understanding your vision will invariably show respect for you and cherish your point of view, despite the fact that other people will label you as deluded. This is the natural filter that separates the visionaries from the spectators. When you're building something meaningful, when you're pursuing a path that hasn't been walked before, most people won't get it. They can't see what you see because they're looking through the lens of what's already been done rather than what's possible. The people who dismiss your vision aren't doing it because your ideas are flawed. They're doing it because your ambition reminds them of their own abandoned dreams. Ignore the naysayers, because they project their own lack of confidence on you. Every time someone tells you "that's impossible" or "you're being unrealistic," they're really saying "I gave up on my own impossible dreams, so you should too."Here's what separates successful people from everyone else: they understand that criticism from people who aren't building anything meaningful is worthless. The person stuck in a job they hate for twenty years has no business giving you advice about risk-taking. The person who settled for mediocrity because it felt safe has no authority to judge your pursuit of excellence. Your vision doesn't need validation from people who can't see beyond their current circumstances. It needs execution from you and support from the rare few who understand that extraordinary results require extraordinary thinking. Those people exist, but they're not the loudest voices in the room. They're the ones quietly building their own impossible dreams while everyone else complains about why things can't be done. Stop seeking approval from people who lack the imagination to understand what you're creating. Their limitations aren't your reality.

The most devastating response to anyone trying to mess with your peace is indifference. This is the psychological warfare tactic that actually works, but most people are too emotionally reactive to use it effectively.

When someone comes for you, they want a response.

Any response.

They want you angry, defensive, hurt, or even grateful if you're the type who responds with kindness to bullshit.

What they can't handle is being treated like they don't exist at all. When you give someone your emotional energy, you're telling them they matter. When you withhold it completely, you're erasing them from your reality.

Whatever you don't pay attention to? Dies.

Not just in your head, but in actual practical terms.

Understand that your attention is currency, and some people don't deserve to be paid.

Perception is reality.

The moment you stop acknowledging someone's attempts to disrupt your peace, they stop existing in your world in any meaningful way.

Curate perception.

You get to decide what gets space in your mind and what gets filtered out as irrelevant noise.

Stay in control. Not through force or manipulation, but through the simple power of selective attention.

The people who can't get your emotional investment can't control your experience.

That's the difference between being reactive and being powerful.

Strategic indifference is your greatest asset.

Use it to protect yourself.