doing hard things help you trust yourself, and trusting yourself helps you attempt harder things.

hard generalizations sound profound until you pay attention, pit it side by side with empirical data and realize that they are, profoundly incorrect.

principles always work in tandem with one another as opposed to absolute isolation from others. they’re not mutually exclusive, and like the nodes that form a neural network, while they can sorta function in the absence or damage of a few, they kind of need each other.

imagine what it felt like being the first person to conceptualize the first non-tangible but existent reality. sure you had to be weird and borderline crazy but the fruits of wisdom speak and they can’t be ignored. run with your vision; just go, people always catch up anyway. but if you never move, someone else will and you’d be a spectator in history, watching from the sidelines, robbed of the right to even say you knew it because that reveals your folly.

those that choose a different path eventually find a way to create systems and structures along that path that help to redefine and subsequently create a new order. that’s disruption.

in the journey of understanding concepts, you’d stumble on established ideologies and precepts that have become either obsolete or factually false and that’s the take off point, leveraging these findings would be the crux of a new building block that when established, will strengthen the old landmarks albeit modifying it to birth new ideologies and precepts that would become concepts that future pilgrims on that path will leverage; and that cycle repeats.

the moment you settle for what’s good or great, you bid excellence goodbye because you ceaselessly tinker away at good to attain excellence.

what’s the wisdom in cynicism? in my opinion, it’s first a disadvantage to you and then the people around you. you see, the principle of seeking necessitates that you find what you seek, and if the object of your search is folly; guess what you find?

you don’t cast your pearls before swine because a swamp is a goldmine to a pig and pearls hold no value to it.

my life has been a revelation of interwoven synchronicities, it’s like a never ending loop of i knew it, i felt that, or i kinda perceived that but i couldn’t quite articulate it. everything has something to teach me – the instructions, the experiences, the results, the cards i’m dealt, the choices i make, the fixes, the straits, the good, the great, the bad and the ugly all happen to teach me something. things happens for me; creation is on my team; this revelation is hinged on a very intentionally crafted perspective and it’s really comforting.

self-expression – the expression and subsequent effulgence of your why and why you are is up there with the loudest markers of true freedom.

mastery is dominion expressed in dexterity.

inventors in history were people who gave intellectual context to already existing intangible realities. they contextualized things that people knew but couldn’t quite explain. things like desires, needs and knowledge that was crying out to be expressed and established as wisdom. the understanding of these inherent desires that needed satisfaction led them to taking up the responsibility of solving problems, creating solutions and standardized benchmarks that’ll serve as foundations for the next generation of inventors who’d give context to the things that evolve from those existing solutions. this is the cycle of innovation.

why? is probably the most important question in life, in every context. you’d be shocked at the secrets revealed; mysteries discovered; truths unearthed; seals unlocked, and scrolls unbuckled when you ask or wonder why long enough.

every process ends when the key to the next door is found. this key might be a lesson, an experience, a dimension of wisdom, higher light, or whatever is a building block whether tangible or intangible but one thing is constant, processes end and begin with the deciphering of keys or the realization of the necessity for one.

you can’t optimize a concept you don’t understand, you can’t change a system you’re not well versed in, and you definitely can’t have dominion in a realm without a sound understanding of the rules and systems of governance. so if you’re trying to change the world, your first port of call is to understand how it was inherently designed to function.

there’s a better version unveiled and revealed in every idea when you respect the original idea; ideas are seeds and fruits bloom from every idea that was planted and tended to as a seed. they come as flashes of thoughts and impressions and writing them down is the first level of acknowledging value.

so many voices yet none is without signification; reverberating infection or inspiration and paradoxically some find a way to do both. a lot of people walk around with engineered thoughts and mindsets and they’re mostly unaware of this fact. i humbly appeal to you to be sure that you understand why you believe what you do, you have to.

it’s disingenuous to attempt to establish half-truths as absolutes. it could be dangerous too because true isn’t truth. if it requires some sort of context then it might be true but truths are true regardless of the context.

experiences – both good and bad, give you testaments, and the aggregation of these testaments count as one of the qualifying components for leadership.