Aside from outing himself as a lowlife, the most telling part, how thirsty he is seeking for other lowlifes to agree with him. Ever wonder about the type of person who you hear about when a contractor tells you a nightmare story or created a policy because of a person? You can find them in his comments, defending him and their lowlife behavior.

A number of people from my ski team all have L4/L5 injuries, myself included. And it rears its head. Mine tweaked bad 2.5 years ago. I considered a surgery. Got maybe 5 opinions, the last surgeon I saw lectured me to not get it. Said it would be a mistake. When I went to my team reunion, those of us with the L4/L5 injuries, the half that got surgeries said it was the biggest mistake of their lives. One gal was once a freak athlete. Built like powerful gymnast. Could pick up sports fast, strong as shit. She got the surgery from a top surgeon. Said she would do anything to go back to that day and stop. She wanted to eliminate the leg pain due to the disc pressing on the nerve. It sucks. But my doc said, if you can, grind it out for 8-9 months and it will go away. She opted surgery. Her balance is fucked. She said she feels like a spaghetti noodle most days. She can't play with her kids much or pick em up and hold them. Me and another guy had to help her get into and out of cars, even walking around. It was shocking. Her and the others who had the surgery said the nagging nerve pain was far superior to their lives now. I thank God I didn't get that surgery. The last surgeon told me to keep doing squats and deadlifts. Slips will happen, deal with it, but with muscle mass around the spine, don't get surgery.

It’s been 14 years today since my dad passed. His last words to me, “I’m going to give you one last chance, kid.” He ripped off the mask helping him breath. His immune system, weakened by the cancer, had given way to a rare flesh eating virus. The nurses and doctors wheeled him down to critical care. 17 harrowing hours later, he passed at 9:24am. The last few years, the more I’ve come into my purpose, I think of his legacy. He ran Clair Motors, an automotive empire. He sold it, and passed a few months later. I was reeling at both. I grew up thinking my destiny was to take over Clair Motors. And after he sold it and then died. I felt in limbo. I reeled. Heeding the advice he gave during the last round of golf I played with him, I decided to do my own thing. I left the car business, and left Boston for Colorado soon after. I still idolized him. He was my best friend. And a remarkable man. A social savant like I’ve never seen. And a part of me, felt like to honor him, I had to beat his and my grandfathers money mark. I scrambled inside a shadow of my own making. But his words stuck with me, and then I came to understand that I had to stop scrambling inside that shadow. And it took a few years, but he went from idolized, to a man in my eyes. And this was a massive change in personal maturity. His memories got sweeter. Instead of competing with his legacy, I grew proud of him. And as I grew more proud of him and his legacy, I felt closer to him. His presence became stronger. I saw his weaknesses and his strengths, and as I did, I grew more blessed to call him my dad. And within the last few years, I realize he never had the fortune of reflecting on his life, of reflecting on his professional success, of reflecting on being a dad. I wonder what I would say to him today. And I’d want to say something I never told him. Dad, I’m proud of you. And I’m proud to be your son.

I never paid any attention to crypto until I heard about the FTX thing. I took a look around Crypto Twitter. Crypto Twitter is the most insane, neurotic, and incomprehensible corner of Twitter I’ve come across.

I retired from copywriting twoish years ago. No more client work. No more client hunting. No more launches. No stage speaking. Nada. I lift, read, flaneur, write, travel, consult my Good Word subscribers. My masterclass:

And tweeting for advice... Each morning this guy must wake up and dial 1-800-IMA-KNOB

Until you inspect those groceries, fully digest that food, you shouldn't have to pay a dime!

Midwit modern Stoics love to ask, “what would Marcus Aurelius do?” And expect a progressive, 2023 answer. Marcus Aurelius ran a powerful and oppressive militaristic regime. He persecuted Christians. At his command, his legions wiped entire cities from the planet. He sped the decline of the Roman Empire choosing his son, Commodus, to replace him, choosing his son over choices he knew were better (and far more sane). His wife nagged him to promote men to positions of power, those men also happened to be among her large stable of lovers. And one of his daughters makes the young Paris Hilton look like a virtuous nun. Yes, he has his merits. For his time, and his period, he was a supreme emperor, one of the Roman Empire’s greatest. And he’s noble figure in the grand scheme of human history, and anyone would do well to read Meditations multiple times. It is a great book wielding immense insight. What would Marcus Aurelius do? He’d likely throw dissenters to the lions or have his legion wipe out your city. Despite what the midwits wish to entertain about Marcus Aurelius, the guy wasn’t running a Yoga retreat along the Amalfi coast.

I came back home after a second date. The door from the parking garage into my apartment building was one of those heavy, industrial doors. And the hinge, often broken, made for Russian roulette game of when it would slam shut violently. I parked my truck. I didn't see anyone was walking towards the door. I opened it, walked through, it slammed shut violently. I heard a shriek. I turned back, feeling like dick that I just slammed the door on someone. The door opened, and out walked long legs on wedge heels, Daisy duke shorts, a tie top midriff, wavy dirty blonde hair, and distinctly beautiful face. We made eye contact, and her expression changed from shock, to big eyes and big grinning. I asked if she was ok, said I didn't see her. She just grinned, nodded, and kinda uttered an "Uh huh" staring at me. I spotted her delight, but that door was nuts, so I just asked, "You sure you're ok? Heard ya shriek." Again, she smiled, stared, looked me up and down , and just another "uh huh." I said ok, have a great night. Again, another nod. I walked back, and I felt her just staring at me. I turned and her eyes widened again. I just smiled at her. I found out later, she texted her best friend a minute after the encounter, "The hottest guy ever lives on my floor." She's now my wife and our baby girl is due December 10.

When you read Think and Grow Rich.

Over a year ago my deadlift PR was 500 lbs. I believe I set a goal to hit 535 lbs in 2021. Today, 600lbs. Merry Christmas.

Yep. And acted shocked when asked for payment, pretty common.

The Odyssey. Without it we have none of the rest.

I never thought I could do this. I thought, maybe I can get 505 lbs for a single at the end of this year. But I chipped away, and today: 545 lbs.

Trained squats today. All these feral women keep ogling me. I wish I could train squats without being so sexualized all the time. Sure, I have a thunder clapper, but I’m more than that, I read and stuff.

“The number #1 income skill is copywriting!!” Let’s lookup the wealthiest people in the world… Hmmm…. Not seeing any copywriters…

A schedule was posted on Twitter of a self-proclaimed mega millionaire, along with her age - critical information to include age. I'm going to post the schedule of three men I know and worked with personally. One is a billionaire, and two-multi millionaires.

Def thought he was gonna get "Bro! Poors gonna poor! Who does this guy think he is!?!?"

Just finished rereading, and reread it slowly. It’s stuck around for 2370 years for a reason. Aristotle lays out how to live a flourishing life. And a lot on how to be your own best friend, advocate for yourself and an emphasis on physical and intellectual health. Banger.

A regular guy working waste management could buy this house in the 90s, support two kids and a stay at home wife, pay for his daughter's Ivy League education, own a sport fishing boat, buy his wife a Porsche Cayenne (like the pepper) and vacation in Italy. Today a two income household can't even buy some pulp orange juice without going into debt. wtf is going on.

This is pathetic. But it's common. I've seen this movie play out a bunch. Emotionally stunted boy gets into hustle. He has a girlfriend. Boy deifies a guru. Boy sees hustle couples and sees female gurus. He idolizes both, seeing both as perfect and desires to have it. He fantasizes about "showing" his girlfriend into a fellow "hustler." He hears the scripts of how "my girlfriend thought I was crazy, but now, we're launching our first funnel!" He watches a male guru try to humorously grumble about his wife not doing some success routine. Not seeing how it's low integrity move, and one betraying toxic immaturity or insecurity. And not seeing how it simultaneously reveals the immaturity and low value behavior of his girlfriend. But he believes he can turn this into a hook, all while obsequiously showing his fealty to his chosen guru. At some point, this couple goes to a big event like Traffic and Conversion. Boy is determined to network and his best methods. Girl sees a boy sucking up to everyone. Girl sees the dynamics of the people. She notices men, men who are above the fray of networking. Some are quiet, some are boisterous. But they aren't acting like the boy running around. All the while, the boy is upset she isn't acting like some female personality. He gets a little patronizing to her. She gets more put off. Girl notices certain guru's wives and girlfriends getting shitfaced, looking miserable, and flirting with any man but their husband or boyfriend. Girl notices, again, the men above the fray. Girl sees her boy running around, sucking up, acting like a hysterical teen boy trying to get an autograph from a Playboy Playmate. Girl somehow "got lost" and ends up going to one of the parties with the men above the fray. And well... In my seasoned experience, she cheats on him that night or often the next day when he goes to the event to take copious notes, and she goes to the pool (it's never at the hotel where the event is held) with one of the men above the fray who never goes to learn the "valuable content" because he knows it's for dorks and noobs. He attended to have fun and chat with some media buyers. Or also common, she flirts super hard, maybe gets a number or two, nothing happens. But the next event you see the boy at, she left him long ago. And he says, "she never saw my vision, I need a fellow hustler!"

His race to be even more arrogant about it is nuts.

I've been asked a few times, so I'll share... I hand-copied sales letters daily for six years. Each day, without a day missed. I woke up, and for the first half-hour or hour and I hand-copied a sales letter. Pen and legal pad. Even when I was ill, even on holiday mornings...

Want to write well? Check this thread out.

My 2 tips to live your best life: 1. Read books slowly. 2. Squat 620.

I thought this initially after my dad passed. I self-soothed through the car biz, working close to 100+ hrs a week. I made a ton of money, but I burned out. I weighed 155 lbs, I barely slept, and looked like a skeleton. I moved from Boston to Colorado to blaze my path. I got into copy. Not having addressed the loss of my dad, the selling of Clair Motors empire, a fiancee who turned out to be a professional confidence artist and turned my world upside down, I got right back into cranking hours to crank income. I made a ton of money. It exacerbated the issues, and pushed me further away from my self. When I stopped escaping through work and income, and worked on getting the soul right, it was life changing. I felt like I found superpowers. His advice stinks of escapism. I know a lot of you guys like his biz advice, but something is off with this man spiritually. Work can be therapeutic, but you also need to face the inner shit. And you'll never be wield your true potential if work serves as an escape from problems. All of the hours at work and all of the income will never stop the feeling of limbo. And being in spiritual limbo is a burdensome bitch.

635 lbs. This is a PR I never expected was possible. But to me it's more symbolic of a personal transformation It's last heavy single in SS Denver. I walked into SS Denver right when it opened in December of 2019. I've always been a confident person. But I was oblivious to what I brought to the table, I lacked a sense of conviction. I was 195 lbs. My squat was a shaky, at best, 315, and I had a questionable 275. I hadn't deadlifted in about twenty years. Skiing had left me with a bitchy right shoulder and a shitty back. I had been training since I was 17, I loved the famous bodybuilding place I was at, but was itching for a new challenge. I never expected how the journey from weighing 195 lbs to now 250 lbs, hitting the lifts, enduring setbacks, enduring a long and methodical physical therapy style program when I just wanted to hit big numbers, outright grew me as a person. And the bond I gained with the group I lifted, invaluable. I know how lucky it is for a great group to align, but I got people who I would sprint into battle with without question. They're all gonna be at my wedding, and my fiancée is also in this group. Many people misunderstand SS. The think it's just 3x5, getting fat, and maybe a few dogmatic things Rip has said. And the never-played-a-sport-and-hated-the-jocks-growing-up "functional mobility" dweebs can't get over their desire of wanting the aesthetics of a 13 year old boy. But SS and barbell training is way more than just 3x5. The mental maturity that comes with enduring volume work, dynamic work, failing reps, bursting through mental blocks, and patience when you're backing off due to an injury is invaluable. It offers rites of passage. Most confuse rites of passage with theatrics, that you need a form of public humiliation and melodramatic catharsis. But it's not that. It's often granular, it's often in the boring, it's when the sweat is pouring off your body, and you need to muster up all you can get to complete a volume set. It's going to an event, and seeing one of your lifting mates take home first place. It's the boring routine of the program, where you are thinking months out before a change occurs, and needing the patience to just keep showing up. And doing it with other people, seeing their transformations, holding them accountable via your showing up, and them holding you accountable by them showing up, it's something that can't be taught. You can't get with mindset books. It only comes from showing up, and then pushing through. That bond, going to battle with others, grew my character in ways I never imagined. I came into my own. I got convicted on my values and principles. I gained an inner strength and patience I only bumped into before. But now I own it, endured a ton under the bar, and it rewarded me with a personal strength. I walked into SS Denver in 2019 as fit guy. I'm walking out as a strong man. I will continue in Boise. And I'm looking forward to what's next.

“This gave me over 50 dates per year.” A lot of traffic has seen this funnel.

Finished. Start date: 01/02/23 Finish: 06/20/23 A once in lifetime intellectual journey. Traveling through thousands of years, seeing the nature of man, government, war, religion, and more play out, incredible. Insight abound. No one thing caused decline and fall.

A few have asked for my opinion on Andrew Tate. Sciolists like Dickie Bush or Garrett White, and gurus like Frank Kern or Tai Lopez all wish they were Tate. But they’ll never be close. Why? Tate takes risks. The others stay inside the safety of the approved guru formulas.

Agree that he needs to inspect. And he could have handled that via communication back, versus going on Twitter like a knob.

Critical Essentials to copywriting or marketing. Even if you don't write copy or market - must-reads. David Ogilvy - Confessions of an Advertising Man Claude Hopkins - My Life in Advertising & Scientific Advertising (Get the real version from McGraw Hill. Find it on Abebooks)

I barbell train, w/ a focus on squats and deadlifts. According to Fitness Twitter Bureaucrats, these lifts are stupid and do nothing for hypertrophy. Against all bureaucratic claims, my BW went from 195lbs to 240lbs training only barbells in the last 3ish years. No TRT. BF 16%

Ah the old, I knowingly broke a law and now I'm shocked I'm facing a consequence scenario.

Here’s what I don’t get about the AI bros. I love writing. I love the whole process. They tell me ChatGPT can do that. Cool. But I want to write. Again, they retort how AI can do that. Ok, but I want to write. From my experience, someone’s desire to write irks AI fans.

Top 5 Midwit Books of 2022: 1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, Mark Manson 2. Atomic Habits, James Clear 3. The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel 4. Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari 5. The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama

First thing I noticed after squatting 625, was that when I went to punch someone, I got winded. My strength was a huge hinderance. I got winded on the jab, and then it was lights out for me when that 125 lb person who never worked out once threw a jab. After deadlifting 635 lbs, I noticed I had a hard time picking up my dog to carry her to safety. She's 40lbs. I tried, tried carrying her to safety, but I failed. Biggest mistake of my life was getting strong. I get winded everywhere I go. All my loved ones have died because I couldn't carry them to safety. I've lost all fights since. Stay out of the gym. Learn from my mistakes.

I will never understand how some people are convinced that strength does not correlate into "functional" strength. That a person who can squat 600lbs or deadlift 700lbs, somehow, cannot tap into that strength when doing "activities" requiring "functional" strength.

During the decline of the Roman Empire, architectural taste, philosophy, art, literature, and reflection became seen as irrelevant. All that was replaced by the glorification of business success, military glory, function over beauty, and perfecting man/society through science.

Fun things Twitter taught me: Gary Halbert made a billion dollars. The earth is flat. Space isn’t real. Drinking water dehydrates you. Brushing your teeth is a scam. Booze is an elixir. Going to Costa Rica and drinking orange juice cures cancer. Don’t let women ride 🐴.

True. But his going on X making it a big deal versus handling it like a normal person says everything about him.

615lbs + the pre-squat stalk.

I went to a federal pound me in the ass prison. They gave me 33 life sentences. I smuggled in this book. I controlled the prison yard using its laws. Then I deployed its laws to obtain freedom and run a $100M copywriting business. Here are the laws I used 🧵👇

Agreed. Places like Montana, Wyoming, Idaho… just atrocious. Ramit Sethi is right, San Francisco is a gorgeous haven, a utopia.

This is pathetic theatre, not a rite of passage. If you're the age of these men, and believe that paying $30k+ to get yelled at in a Chino Hills business park is going to solve your problems, you're lost. Find a therapist, join a barbell/bodybuilding gym, join a BJJ/Muay Thai/Judo gym, find a Church, read some literature -- any of these activities will help you find your feet. Also it takes time, it's called doing the work for a reason. And you're much more apt to have a rite of passage experience competing in your first BJJ tournament or squatting 405 with other guys cheering you on versus paying to endure hustletard pageantry.

A while ago I thought this was just young kids bitching. (And I'm sure this girl needs a lot of help with personal budgeting, finance, and so forth.) But as I'm reading books for my American Decline series, and especially after reading Bell Curve, I realize the excruciating pain younger generations are facing. People saying, "hur durr pick self up by bootstrap! I started my first business with elbow grease!" are wholly ignorant of the modern economy. Guys saying, "men would grind! And make money" are just as ignorant as hoards of younger men are checking out entirely. A cognitive stratification occurred in the 1960s. It created a complex, technologically advanced economy that rewarded the cognitive elite. Then the upper classes began aging and stagnating and that created downward pressure on younger generations. Upward mobility is becoming rarer and rarer. Even a young man or woman today who are in the broad elite financially, making say $100k, now has a much harder time buying a house and a car than their equivalent did generations ago. People in the lower socioeconomic stations, and without a college degree (college is still a sorting machine) face a near impossible road to climb above their current station. It's getting bleak out there for a lot of people.

An easy text of, "Solid! I didn't expect you to finish so fast. I'm at dinner with my family, and I would like to inspect. Are you free in an hour?" Or along those lines.

I’m proud and shocked. My old shoulder injuries from my competitive ski days made my bench anemic. My previous bench PR was 322.5 lbs x 1, a brutal single after a few fails. I believed 315lbs x5 to be impossible. But I proved myself wrong tonight. 315lbs x 5

Former Army Ranger medic or something. Guy was a badass.

Step 1. Lie Step 2. Cheat Step 3. Steal Step 4. Go to prison. Step 5. Write self-aggrandizing book. Step 6. Hollywood makes a movie about you. I stole the guide so you don’t have to.

I learned that at 14 my grandfather used to go to the junkyard to find a car, take it apart to then put it together fixed up, then would write an ad in the paper to sell it. He did it to help put food on the table. I’m honored I carry his namesake.

Sharing some of my wife's wholesome content. Also, I'm gonna be a dad. We're both thrilled.

Even in the 80s hair metal ballads, the guy moves on, or "I won't forget you baby" like he's already with the next babe, but don't worry, you were a good memory babe! Nirvana birthed a spiritual ennui we've never escaped.

A quick and dirty Video Sales Letter formula. Brief Intro: who you are and briefly recapping your experience. State briefly what they're about to hear. All in all under 30ish seconds. ...

655 lbs This one was a journey. An old back back injury from skiing reared its head 2ish years ago. A spine surgeon told me to NOT get a surgery, and told me to keep lifting. I did a physical therapy SS program. I didn't do anything heavy off the floor for almost 2 years. The program required a lot of patience, but it paid off. 675 -- aka the 7th wheel -- looks possible.

Previous PR: 585lbs x1 Tonight, 600lbs for three singles (I'll get third video later). Not bad for turning 43 about a week ago. Set 1

So I guess Alex Hormozi doesn’t buy into that whole retiring your wife thing.

640 lbs Gave the new home gym in Boise a PR. I lifted my chest a bit, but more is in the tank.

One of the most misguided marketing maxims is engagement via being “shocking” like that skinny idiot saying he’ll take your “bitch.” Some see it as “5D chess! This guy knows what he’s doing! And you talking about it shows it’s working!” If you believe this, then ask yourself, what’s stopping you from trying this method? He’s becoming a parody of himself while lowering his professional reputation. He may make money from this, but at a cost of weakening his future reputation. Also, he’s serious. I know his two mentors well and their message (and both have a reputation of being slimey, even amongst the most aggressive affiliate marketers). This kid, like many in online marketing, get a taste of money, and their business mutates into a vanity project. I can’t pretend to know him psychologically, but I’ve known and seen many like him; someone lacking self-awareness and is plagued by enormous insecurities. They see personalities with inherent and innate swagger — love them or hate them — like Grant Cardone or Andrew Tate, and delude themselves with “I can do that!” They try it, and it turns them into a clown, conversions or not. This kids shtick often appeals to younger guys. But, to be the old guy in the room, again, kids like this are a dime a dozen. Many flame out, or require a massive change to survive. For my younger followers, follow and study a guy like @LogFitz6 instead. You’ll see swagger, tongue-in-cheek humor, but also authenticity on what it’s like to be blazing your path, along with some good biz wisdom. I wish I had found a personality like Logan when I was in my early 20s. Gaining attention with marketing is great. But trying to be something your not, like a skinny stick saying he’ll take your bitch, is not marketing. It’s a spiritually rotten method to play out a vanity project.

Funny you mention that... I got engaged on Sunday. I'm planning on becoming a dad soon.

I’m 42 years old. My net worth is none of your business. The Clair Motors empire, then Bernardi Motors, then copywriting success, now my site; I’ll let you imagine. My schedule: Write for 3-4 hours. Read for 4+ hours. Lift heavy weights. A few walks. Rarely a call.

My gym had a fun bench competition. I won. 382.5 lbs. A PR for me. Gonna try for 385 on Wednesday (comp day was timed right with my programming. I'm lower body dominant. And having dislocated my right shoulder a few times when I competed skiing, makes the upper body anemic at times. It's not near the big boy league of 405+ on bench, but I'll take it.

Squats and deadlifts were huge for me as well. I did chiro before, yoga, massage, etc, etc, and the pain nagged. Squats and Deadlifts my flexibility came back, and I had a much better time dealing with the inevitable tweaks.

Hi Dylan, From one rich kid to another -- the rental sticker on the Ferrari is not doing you any favors. It's also ok to say you came from money. You don't need to have a hero's journey like everyone says. It screams grift. Seek help around your parents divorce, as a lot of this post betrays spiritual limbo.

Aside from him jerking himself off with this post, this is a case of wanting to “have read” vs. reading. He’ll learn nothing and enjoy nothing all for wanting to “have read.” He lists classics. Better to enjoy and take your time with them vs treating them like sleazy peep shows.

A lot of the "college don't teach street smarts" people are also coping. They tend to work for someone who had higher SAT scores and an advanced degree. And look at who lives in the mega homes in wealthy areas, none of them are "street hustlers" who made a fortune hustling fake coats in shady bars.

About 1/3 into Dostoyevsky's, The Idiot. Hands down, Dostoyevski and Tolstoy paint human psychology better than anyone. If you're a copywriter/marketer - read some classic fiction That'll serve you way better than trying to figure out "customer language" or...

Most parts of online-direct marketing have been stagnant for decades. The Clickbank's, the success gurus, copywriting courses, etc. A few key players control most of it, generally by talent, not originality, and the rest obey the rules. It's not to say money isn't made in it.

Level 2 David Ogilvy - On Advertising Oren Klaff - Pitch Anything & Flip The Script Bryan Garner - Better Business Writing* Hand copy via pen & paper Ogilvy & Hopkins ads. *Copy courses ignore the writing in copywriting part & fetishize tactics. BBW makes you a potent writer.

He used to say meetings were for "dorks that work at IBM and for suckers that believe that Tony Robbins bullshit." He saw it is a game, a fun one. He never kept a calendar. If a meeting was needed, he let Judy or GM handle it.

If you find a book teaching habits as life-changing, you need to find God. It’s great a book showed you how to get some habits to run your day better. But if you see the axiomatic idea of habits as a holy grail, you got some spiritual soul searching to do.

My body dysmorphia .@HealthInsider 520 lbs x2

The new cold shower.

I've learned from fitness twitter today, that my low bar squatting of 645lbs, means that getting to that point of squatting that much not once were my hamstrings engaged, trained, or developed. Yet the same fit-twits also say that the squat is not an isolation exercise, despite the squat not at all engaging, using, or developing the hamstring in any way, as they claim.

He canceled Hulu a week ago, read Start with Why, and listens to Tim Ferriss… Stuff really works.

Copywriters. If you’re struggling to write original copy, then you need favorite writers who are not copywriters. If you’re reaction to this is “who do you recommend?” You need to start reading books outside of personal development and business development ASAP.

Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.

This true. My family got torn to shreds after the sale of our auto business, the death of my dad, uncle, and grandfather. Lawsuits that went on for 10 years. Millions upon millions of dollars spent on them. The other side of the family then going after what they feel is "owed" to them despite only one member marrying into the Clair family. A lot of people in my family do not speak to each other. And for good reason, some will take what you say, even if it's some innocuous comment, and try hold it against you to get more money. It can get ugly. I'm beyond thankful my dad, before his passing, was prescient seeing the fight coming after my grandfather passed (I'll likely have to deal with my grandfather's estate soon). He did superb estate planning on most of his wealth before he passed. But what wasn't protected under that estate, wow. And a lot of people come out of the woodwork, hungry for your money. I was engaged once before, but it turned out she was a professional con artist. Not the red pill "all women are cons!!!!!" but a legit professional con. Fake background, learned it from her mom and aunt, stakes out certain targets, the whole nine yards. She turned my life upside down, and stole my identity. We had to hire private investigators and lawyers to get me out of that mess, and thank god I got out. But it was awful. She found me, they believe, when she heard my family was in a massive lawsuit and that my dad had died. Estate plan. Protect yourself. Because when you have real wealth, sharks, leeches, wolves in stunning women's clothing, hyenas, mud suckers, are much closer than you realize.

My flight got cancelled today. I went to a big box gym to get some squats in. I squatted next to some young bros. I loaded up 5 plates. It hushed the bros. I did 3x5. It bent the bar, it got the bros quirked, I fist bumped the bros, and walked out. A flex, yes. But a fun one.

This you? piped.video/T-eitFmbhVw?si=QEGa…

I joined the elite institution of marriage on Saturday. I'm moving to Boise this Saturday. Charmed life.

Noticed this yesterday with a girl walking behind. The makeup, the outfit, then walking by a popular outdoor bar/restaurant, saw 4 more like her. No uniqueness.

If you’re solely reading airport best sellers, sales books, mindset books, self-improvement books and so on, you’ll never improve your conceptual thinking. Read books outside of the approved guru lists.

Guess who owns the Toyota store and locked him into biweekly payments through ACME Finance bank?

Level 4 The ONLY Books I recommend on persuasion. Along w/ Hopkins & Ogilvy u should be wearing out the spines on these things. David Mauer - Whiz Mob David Mauer - The Big Con Yellow Kid Weil as told W.T. Bannon - The Con Game Ian Rowland - The Cold Hard Facts of Cold Reading

If you want to stand out - don't use what most others fetishize without questioning. Hopkins and Ogilvy's products still stand. We remember the ad AND the product. Someone like Halbert we remember the ego and the ad - not the product. What's better to follow with your products?

I finished Penguin’s first volume of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire. It’s superb. Gibbon is arguably one of the greatest stylists of all time. The writing is stunning, powerful, beautiful, compelling, and a multitude of other adjectives. It may be the greatest non-fiction I’ve ever read as far as style. Gibbon injects tongue-in-cheek humor, ironic twists, adding levity to the work. It’s not at all a slog. People who never read it told me a lot of things about Gibbon and this work, and their opinions turned out as reply-guy canards. For one, to say Gibbon blames the Christians or is anti-Christian is patently false (at least through this volume). He’s sober with his approach, maybe at moments one could say pejorative, yet he respects Christianity on the whole. He instead shows Neoplatonism as a significant reason, among many, fueling the decline. Another, no one real reason exists for the fall. It’s a multitude of reasons, some complex, some simple. And some argue it’s chronological merits. But it’s a work entailing more than “this happened then.” It’s a philosophical work, it’s a conceptual work, it’s a political work, and it’s a history; all done masterfully. I’m onto the second Penguin volume. I predict I’ll finish all volumes by late June or early July. How it started - how it finished.

I plan to read less books in 2023. I will still aim at getting 4 hours of reading in each day. But my aim is to deepen the conversation I have with each book, critically engage better, and to dissect the prose I like to continue raising my standards as a writer.

New method up: Publicly display your girlfriend's low value traits. Then try to exalt yourself. Get dragged over the coals. Then "flip the script" by claiming you used her as a prop and were just kidding about your pathetic behavior as way to grow your business.

500 lbs 5x5. I’m proud of this one. Summer of 2020 it took me 3 tries to get 400 5x5. Volume sets is as much a mental battle at as it is a physical battle. The volume snuck up on me, my coaches dialed me back for ski season. But I felt good and kept chipping away. Set 1

Who would I suggest you hand copy today? After almost ten years, here's who had the biggest impact for me when I did this exercise and I hand-copied the most: - David Ogilvy - Claude Hopkins - Oren Klaff - @craigclemens - John Carlton

I've been seeing advice to stop using commas. I'd like to thank my parents Thomas Sowell and God for where I am today. Wow writing a sentence without commas creates clarity and who doesn't need a little clarity in their writing speaking too these days.

Raymond Chandler is one of the greatest writers of all time. He came to his mystery writing career late in life. But he used an exercise to shape and craft his writing. And it helped him become the 🐐 I'll share it below, and a few other things that made him great.

One of the most self-deluded and self-indulgent "call outs" I've ever seen. Nicolas Cole, one of the most hackneyed writers to have ever put pen to paper, calls out another writer for plagiarism. He claims shopworn advice like, "clear, not clever" as his invention.

625 lbs. I didn't get it set that great, especially in my hands. But for my first heavy deadlift in 2.5 years, after well over a year of a physical therapy protocol, I'll take it. I'll clean it up when I go heavier in a few weeks. And thanks to @TestifySC for keeping me going last week.

Money Twitter when they see a guru post a rigid, right down to the minute, schedule: “Inspiring King! Can’t succeed without a routine!” Money Twitter they see a 9-5er post a rigid, right down to the minute schedule: “Imagine being this loser! How can people live like this!?”

Level 3 Ben Franklin exercise Ogilvy and Hopkins ads. Rudolf Flesch - On Business Communications Norman Lewis - Word Power Made Easy Sheridan Baker - The Practical Stylist 8th ed. The Economist Magazine Join Oren Klaff's Pitch Anything A note on level 3...

He has a system of gatekeepers and confidants. He pays them well, and he keeps himself well out of the spotlight. My point here with this ramble: The higher up in wealth you go, the more you guard your time. You're not "typing up notes."

Thomas Sowell is 93. This is his latest book. It's insane how mentally sharp and incisive he is. Some of the topics in here are familiar, yet how he finds facts, presents the facts, and then destroys the faulty thinking of Social Justice crusaders is a masterclass. His arguments are poignant and original. Insightful, timely, timeless, and a must read.