Don’t attempt to put out content aimed at increasing your followers or subscribers count except on social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. The main thing you try to do every day is to create or build a detailed database, collection, or archive of information available online for free and in your books as well. That is, pillar content. Even if no one is paying enough attention to it, the kind of attention you think it deserves, you build or create it anyway. This pillar content described above should include all of your discoveries, content, philosophy, and whatever that you know or care about in your industry or field. This pillar content should exist in your blogging website and also in your books in as much detail as possible. Leave the other types or parts of your pillar content that take place on your YouTube channel and/or podcast for disposable further explanation of the already established facts or content on your main blogging website or books. None of what you discover should remain outside of your books only. Your books should contain everything there is that has anything to do with you or your work. This leaves social media platforms like Instagram or LinkedIn as places that you are not held back by perfection when attempting to make pieces of content on them, because they are not the main source of your material, which in turn makes it okay to make a hundred pieces of useless content a day on them without the fear of diluting your content.

One of the reasons why you are reluctant to work is being afraid of being fatigued. If you do not have a safety net that makes you able to immediately start the recovery process from the state of exhaustion that you might reach or get from work, you will not accept to try doing that work at the moment. The solution isn’t finding work that’s easy for you to do every day because you love it and you never feel tired doing it. The solution is to have the option of getting some rest as soon as you feel you’re too tired to continue working at the moment. Not because the moment you feel tired you immediately quit working and go sleep or have some fun, but because it’s really literally impossible for you to push yourself any further to continue working at the moment. The only way to abolish that reluctance to do heavy work tasks is to eliminate any fear of getting or becoming fatigued, through understanding that you’re allowed to jump into a resting session right away any time you feel that you’re too tired to keep working.

If you wait until you cool down and be sure that you can do a certain task or goal, or work now, you will only frustrate yourself too much to the extent that you’ll start adapting to not making anything. If whenever you try to make something new you end up becoming super annoyed or frustrated and you solve that by waiting longer until you are no longer pissed, you will not only waste time for no reason, in fact, wasting time in this case will be the least of your concerns, but you will also teach yourself that a life of aspiring to do great achievements successively is something that should be avoided, you will start associating being productive, creative, successful, ambitious, hungry for reward with pain. You will link always making further progress and advancing ahead with pain in your head. It is so frustrating. You would rather not bother trying in the first place. You will adapt yourself to being depressed and hopeless. You will lack interest in almost everything. This is because the activation energy ended up being wasted on an activity that resulted in you being frustrated and in pain, without you reaching any external result that makes a positive difference in the entire existence. You keep generating activation energy, pushing yourself, and achieving nothing in the entire process, but instead, you get out of the entire experiment with pain and feeling angry, frustrated, and pissed. That is a pathway to condition you to become depressed on a deep neurological level that is so hard to get you out of through reasoning and convincing you that trying harder is the way to go. Whenever you become too angry or fatigued, keep going anyway, unless pushing yourself any further at the moment has become impossible. In this case you go spend some time doing something easy and a little bit entertaining that does not fall under the category of work, until you feel you can resume working on whatever it is that you were doing earlier that falls under the category of work activities.

If you believe that I am recommending that you do not try to start your own business or that you shouldn’t try to improve your life, you’re getting me wrong here. This isn’t a call to settle for mediocrity or an attempt to discourage you from getting out of your comfort zone and venturing into the unknown because you might end up failing repeatedly in the process or on your way to establishing a better life for you or for other people. I’m not telling you to quit here. Quitting is different. I didn’t tell anyone to quit right away if they happened to fail at something. Notice that if failure was good and if you believed that the better course of action is to fail more, it would mean that J. K. Rowling for example should’ve never tried to write the Harry Potter books, because failure is a good thing and is all learning, so her previous life of living paycheck to paycheck was all learning and experience, and is a good thing. So why abandon the failing life she had before Harry Potter, if failing is a good thing and is so beneficial? Her attempt to write the Harry Potter books confirms my thesis, because it means that she has had enough of failure to the extent that she decided to do something about it and end it for good, and she wouldn’t want to go through all this trouble and struggling to make a positive difference in her life and end her suffering, if failure was a good thing. Since failure is bad, she decided to no longer be a loser, to no longer be a failure, to no longer lead a failing, miserable, mediocre, boring, uninspiring, useless, uninteresting, horrible, or poor life or a life of a low quality. Again, this isn’t a green light or an invitation by me for you to just chill and take it easy because man failure feels bad and actually hurts. It’s the exact opposite. Since failure sucks, then you shouldn’t fail, but instead try to win more and succeed more in life.

The ugly truth is that failure is something that is purely bad, despite the entire self-help industry of the twentieth century and beyond trying to convince you otherwise. Only willpower and trying until you make it makes you succeed. Having failed before that adds you no benefit at all, and it doesn’t fuel you to succeed more. I’d rather succeed from the first attempt than fail for years, because the latter – contrary to popular belief – does not make me stronger or better in any way, shape, or form. This doesn’t mean that getting stuff easily like in inheriting millions is better. It only means that if Mark Zuckerberg failed for 20 years before he managed to make Facebook a success, he wouldn’t have been better or stronger than he is now. In fact, you can argue that he might have ended up being way worse than he could ever be, that is, assuming he didn’t give up or become severely depressed. In other words, Facebook would’ve never existed, and he also might have ended up being miserable because of that. Also I’m talking about what you should have in mind. Your mindset or your initial intention. Whether or not that is what takes place in reality, or whether or not you actually win or succeed is a whole different story. There’s a difference between me saying you shouldn’t fail, and me telling you that no failure ever is going to occur in the real world because of you sticking to that advice. We try to win. But if we lose we don’t give up or choose something easier that we can never fail at or lose in. And that doesn’t mean we don’t even bother trying because we might end up losing anyway. It means that is your intention from the start. You go with the intention of wanting to win and succeed. Avoiding failure doesn’t mean avoiding doing anything that is not easy enough to always win in it, not too easy to lose in or fail at, or that the impossibility of failing at or losing in it is not one hundred percent guaranteed. It just means don’t suck. It means if you attempted to do something, do your best to win at it from the first time or with the least failing attempts possible. Do your best from the beginning or else you wouldn’t even have the minimal energy needed to get you started again in the future.

I’m not telling you to quit if there’s a chance to lose. Adjusting according to your last attempt isn’t discouraged here. What is discouraged is thinking that you’ve learned that from the process of failure or losing itself. That failure made you stronger, more resilient, better, or gave you some wisdom, or experience, or whatever positive benefits or good things you try to attribute to the process of having failed a lot in the past itself. You did that through careful analysis and evaluation…etc. Not from the failure. Suppose you didn’t know any of that. Learning these things from failure would be harmful. Figuring these things out before you try is way better. Alternatively, if you already know why you failed, then that means nothing could be gained from either the loss itself or the analysis of why you failed.

I’ll give you an example. Every time you lift weights or run a little bit there’s a presumed physical or health benefit from that exercise. That doesn’t exist from the process of failure at all. It’s like saying yeah I tend to drink more water because of exercise and that’s good. But that wasn’t the physical exercise. That was drinking water and staying hydrated that gave you these extra benefits. The benefits of water do not rule out the fact that the exercise gave you benefits even if you didn’t drink anything after it. In case of failure you got the benefit from re-evaluation and considering why you failed. These are benefits that occurred due to activities that are external to the process of failure itself. Even if they both coexisted, the fact remains that none of the benefits that occurred were due to the process of failure itself.

There’s no hope of controlling my thoughts or talking myself into being more motivated. I just jump right away and focus on making the positive difference in the external world. Practical execution over fixing your mindset and positive attitude. I don’t spend time convincing myself that this is the right move or that I shouldn’t be so unenthusiastic or impatient. I don’t fight with my own head to get it to the right mindset. I achieve and let the dopamine do all the talking.

Listen. Sometimes the story you tell yourself as to why you shouldn’t give a damn anymore, why you’re struggling so hard just to do the simplest of tasks, why you’re failing so hard at everything, or why you can’t do something, is true, bad, accurate, and really responsible for all that you’re complaining about. These are facts. How you give those facts authority over you is a whole different story. What’s being pushed by virtually everybody else who speaks on the subject is that it’s all in your head. Meaning that if you change the way you look at it, you’ll find that it might actually be in your favor. Like a blessing. So change your perspective, mindset, paradigm. Whatever. And then everything is going to be alright and sunshine and bunnies. Failure to do so leave nothing to blame but you. You could’ve taken advantage of the whole situation and turn it to your favor, but instead you cried and played the victim card. That’s the narrative that everybody else except me pushes in perpetuity. Everybody is guilty of not implementing this mindset adjustment strategy, because if they did, they would’ve done wonders despite their situation being unfavorable or horrible, or regardless of the circumstances they’re going through, or what they’re complaining of or blaming as the cause of why they are stuck in a hopeless scenario that is stopping them from reaching basic survival levels of success.

Don’t get me wrong, but when I quote somebody else, I do not necessarily agree with what they say. And I don’t exert any effort to clarify where do I disagree with them. My whole philosophy is laid out clearly in my books and on my website. That’s why if you paid close attention, you may find out that even what I say on social media may seem to be in direct contradiction with what I quote from other people’s stuff. In my worldview you don’t need to change the story as to why you’re failing. In fact, you need to pay close attention to this story because it very likely contains key information that could be used to fix your life and help you overcome the actual causes of your failure, which I strongly believe will most likely not be just in your head or a direct result of your faulty or negative mindset. You just need to fix the environment so that whatever that has led to that story taking place becomes impossible. The only thing that would lead to a real change in the real world is making a difference in your world, environment, circumstances, …etc. I’ll give you an example. Listening to your favorite type of music is something that occurs in the real world outside your mind. Telling yourself you should force yourself to think positive thoughts in order to stay happy and motivated is about changing yourself, your mindset, and mentality, as opposed to changing the environment around you or that you’re existing in. I don’t tell people to think positive. I tell them to listen to music in order to get themselves to be in a good mood, and then they’ll automatically think positive without even trying. That’s my way. So don’t try to believe that the story is wrong. Try to fix the environment and the conditions that you’re in, and your circumstances and situation, so that such a story does not happen again in the future or at present. Noise is annoying. It’s not your mindset that is making you view it as annoying. So don’t change your feelings toward noise. Make it so that no noise can reach you or get to you, through for example resorting to Noise cancellation methods. There’s nothing wrong with you. Sometimes the story is accurate. And it means you don’t want to lie to yourself in order to have a better view or opinion of your capabilities. You don’t want to believe that you got what it takes when you deep down know that you don’t. Lying to yourself will not get you anywhere. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t just give you solutions that make changes to your external world only. Some of them are major changes to how you think. Like the no remake technique. But none of what I say aims at attacking you instead of addressing the real issues that are bothering you or holding you back.

Wanting something to be perfect is not bad. It’s ambition. Procrastination because of that is what’s unacceptable.

Don’t justify your procrastination by calling it perfection. Perfectionism is innocent. You’re just lazy and afraid. Go do it anyway, and then fix, modify, and refine it, until it meets your standards of perfection.

It’s the practice that gives us all the benefits. There’s nothing good that comes from failure. If there’s one piece of advice I can give my apprentice, it would be: don’t fail. I’m not at all against trying forever, but this should be with a genuine desire to win from the first attempt, because failure is really bad, and there are no lessons to be learned from it. Still we shouldn’t settle for less or give up ambition because of the natural fear of failure.

The ugly truth is that failure is something that is purely bad, despite the entire self-help industry of the twentieth century and beyond trying to convince you otherwise. Only willpower and trying until you make it makes you succeed. Having failed before that adds you no benefit at all, and it doesn’t fuel you to succeed more. I’d rather succeed from the first attempt than fail for years, because the latter – contrary to popular belief – does not make me stronger or better in any way, shape, or form. This doesn’t mean that getting stuff easily like in inheriting millions is better. It only means that if Mark Zuckerberg failed for 20 years before he managed to make Facebook a success, he wouldn’t have been better or stronger than he is now. In fact, you can argue that he might have ended up being way worse than he could ever be, that is assuming he didn’t give up or end up severely depressed because it’s hopeless or pointless to persist or even try. Only really hardcore losers think that failing repeatedly is a good thing.
Don’t be afraid of failure as in don’t let your fear deter you from doing great things or trying to reach favorable outcomes. But that doesn’t mean that you being fearless is because there’s nothing to be afraid of, for failure, especially when is repetitive, successive, or occurring many times in a row, is insanely harmful to you in every way imaginable.
Dream big, stay ambitious, never give up or quit, but at the same time, don’t fail. Try your best not to fail by any means necessary.

There’s a difference between learning from why you failed in the past, and willfully making mistakes that can be fixed immediately, just to unlock your potential, and stop avoiding doing what you want, because you’d rather not try, unless you’re strong and prepared enough to not miss from the first attempt. When you bypass that fear of not making it from the first attempt through intentionally making mistakes, you would reduce the reluctance to begin unless you’re ready enough, which many wrongly describe as procrastination due to perfectionism.

This makes you not remain inhibitory by default for no rational reason. It means you don’t calculate that it’s okay to proceed before you begin. You don’t have to be absolutely sure that there’s no problem with what you want to do before you begin moving. You tend to talk yourself out of doing a lot of stuff just because you’re afraid of making mistakes. By having recently make some mistakes intentionally, you show yourself proof that making mistakes is not a concern for you, not a problem, so you stop being so reluctant to move forward and get things done.

Some people recommend making mistakes on purpose to unlock your courage to do more great work.

The purpose of this is to overthrow the fascist dictatorship of the prefrontal cortex, and overwhelm your inhibitory centers that are running at full speed due to the perpetual dopamine starvation that you have from being trapped in a boring life that does not let you exercise your full power enough nonstop. This strategy of overwhelm might make you panic out of being too stressed, but is essentially necessary to reduce your default suppression of impulses state and make way for your creative nature to start working guilt free, unleashing your full powers unapologetically and unchecked, even if everyone is going to look at you as an evil person in this case due to messed up weak protective instincts naturally present in the rest of the population. You gotta push yourself to undergo this mechanism or process, even though this is not necessary for your survival. Everything that is a break from your regular routine is gonna require force.

This isn’t about being not afraid of taking risks because this is unrelated to doing something anyway even if it fails or does not lead to the intended outcome. This is about mistakes, not being not afraid of failure. An example of taking risks is investing in stocks. An example of making mistakes is to let the glass of water stay under the tap and become overfilled and spill the extra water around it making a mess that you will clean up afterwards. Correctable mistakes, as opposed to Gary Vee passing twice on Uber and missing an opportunity of 300 million dollars, because he was reluctant to invest 25 thousand dollars when Uber stocks were still cheap. That’s not taking risks. On no occasion should you try to miss on opportunities like this for riches. That’s not avoidance of risk taking. That was you being an idiot. And he still regrets it to this day, working so hard to make himself and his audience to the best of his ability not repeat that kind of mistake. But intentional correctable mistakes is a whole different issue. You do something that is good or right but you do it with mistakes in how good the quality of it is initially, you make mistakes in the process of doing this good thing, along the way, that fit the description of being correctable. A precise example of this is writing first drafts that are of horrible quality which you would then keep modifying, editing, correcting, and refining, maybe even rewrite the whole thing from scratch again, just to get it to a level where it would be comfortably considered to be readable and not embarrassing. Why didn’t you write it perfectly from the start, from the get go, from the first attempt, or the first draft? That was allowing yourself to make mistakes on purpose to unlock your full creative potential, because as many writers or authors put it, the editing brain is different from the creative brain. What is that supposed to mean? The editing brain scans for mistakes and corrects them. That mindset or state does not make you so creative. This is exactly what I am talking about here. Couldn’t find an example that better fits that. The other example is taking ample time editing a video just because it contains countless moments that are not supposed to appear in the final thing. Why didn’t you film the video so that it becomes perfect from the first shot without any editing needed? Because you had to not avoid doing or saying anything on camera or while first recording the video unless it contained any mistakes. Getting it right or perfectly from the first attempt or from the start will hold you back infinitely from being as creative as you can really or actually be. The new thing that I’m recommending here is to not just work without being afraid of making mistakes, because you’ll edit them all out later on anyway, but also intentionally making mistakes that could be totally or perfectly corrected or edited later on, even if you could’ve totally avoided such mistakes from the start or from the first attempt. It’s about arguing and negotiating with your mind that you don’t have to attempt to do or pick the best and most rational or reasonable next action or move there is in order to be allowed to proceed without inhibition, suppression, careful consideration, or thinking a little bit first. This has nothing to do with being not afraid of failure. This is about developing the rule that makes you not forced to either pick the best, wisest, most rational or reasonable course of action or next action, step, or move possible, or else you wouldn’t even allow yourself or give yourself clearance to do this thing at the moment at all. It’s about allowing yourself to act to just get the thing done one way or the other.