Why?

If you want to become successful, you need to replace the word discipline in your mindset with purpose.

The problem with discipline, which prevents mediocre people from achieving success, is that they call things they hate doing but do anyway — discipline.

“But successful people talk about discipline all the time.”

Exactly. But they mean a completely different thing. For them, discipline is purpose, it’s obsession. For you, it is enforcement and resistance.

You can’t achieve success by fighting yourself and resisting your nature.

But you can start loving the idea of your best self so much that you become obsessed with everything that leads you there.

This is what successful people do. This is what’s effective. And this is what you can do as well.

— Warrior's Path

You don’t stop living your life when you become old. You become old when you stop living your life.

I know 35-year-old guys who are so tired that they don’t do anything. I know 75-year-old men who live their best lives and continue exploring the world and pushing the limits of what is possible.

It is not about age, but about mindset. You decide how old you actually are.

Mangan is 70.

When you start building a business, before it becomes successful and profitable, you need to invest time and energy into it.

The same applies to yourself. If you invest time and effort into improving yourself, you will build your abilities, and it will lead to success — better communication, higher efficiency, more energy, and better ideas.

You will reach a completely different level and achieve results that lead to success.

When ignorant monkeys “attack” you and you feel bad about it, remember: they could have agreed with you.

When dealing with women — whether on a date, in relationships, or in business — remember this: they perceive your value and status by how comfortable you are in your own skin. If you are uncomfortable or try to please others before yourself, you will be perceived as a peasant. Always take care of yourself first.

You can tell a lot about a person by whom he considers his equals — his partners and his competition.

If he competes with mediocre, irrelevant people, that is the level he believes he is on.

If he considers women his equals and partners, that reflects his level of maturity.

To become great, interact with great people and see yourself at the peak.

— Warrior's Path

The system is set up in a certain way. Even if it were tuned to benefit people — which it isn’t — it is very unlikely that it would benefit you personally, because you are not a mediocre clone of everyone else. This is why, if you want an exciting and interesting life, you need to start retuning everything to your personal needs. You will face resistance, but it is possible to do anyway, if you focus on what is important and ignore what is not.

Yes 🔥

The more excuses you find to blame others for the problems in your life, the more control you lose. Do this long enough, and you will become a helpless victim of circumstances and of an unfair world.

Watch "American Moon"

THERE IS NO COMPETITION — ONLY EXPERIMENTATION.

The universe did not create life to clash it against itself. Mars does not compete with Saturn. Stars do not compete with galaxies. They simply exist, follow their nature, and explore different configurations of matter and energy. The universe tries things. It experiments.

Life works the same way. Every organism, every human, every idea is an experiment. Some experiments last longer, some end quickly, some transform into something else. But none of them are in "competition" in the way humans imagine it.

Competition is a human-made mental model, born from scarcity thinking. It assumes that if someone else wins, you lose. That resources are limited. That space at the top is small. That life is a battlefield.

But the universe does not operate like that — the universe is generous. It overproduces stars, planets, species, ideas, and possibilities. Most of them never even get noticed. There is no shortage. There is excess.

When you look at life through the lens of experimentation instead of competition, everything changes.

You stop copying others. You stop chasing validation. You stop measuring yourself against people who are running completely different experiments.

Instead, you ask:
"What am I experimenting with?"
"What configuration am I exploring?"
"What happens if I try this?"

Failure stops being shameful. In experiments, failure is data. Success stops being ego-driven. It becomes feedback. Other people’s success stops threatening you. It is simply another experiment running in parallel.

This mindset removes fear. Fear exists only where there is perceived competition and loss. Experiments have no enemies — only outcomes.

When you align yourself with experimentation, you start acting honestly. You choose paths that are interesting, not safe. You build things because you want to see what happens, not because you want to beat someone.

And this is why you are rewarded. Because experimentation aligns with how reality itself works.

The universe supports exploration. It feeds curiosity. It amplifies momentum.

When you move with it instead of against it, doors open that "competition-minded" people never even see.

Stop trying to win. Start trying things.

This is how life actually works. And this is how you will succeed.

— Warrior's Path