By Kamal Ravikant<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/a>PART I: THE VOW<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. ONE QUESTION<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this? LIGHT SWITCHES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n James Altucher, in one of his best blog posts, talks about how he stops negative thoughts in their tracks with a simple mind trick. \u201cNot useful,\u201d BELIEF<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s one example. I\u2019ve always known that growth is important to me. If I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m growing, I\u2019m drifting, depressed. But what I didn\u2019t know, until the practice of self-love showed me, was my belief about growth: real growth comes through intense, difficult, and challenging situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can you see how that would define the path of my life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was immediately obvious where it came from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What we believe, that\u2019s what we seek, It’s the filter we view our lives through. I’ve actively thrown myself at intense and difficult situations. All situations where I grew, but at what price?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I woke up to a spotlight shining on that belief, except the truth was a slight twist: I was driven to not fail. END<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I think that instead of reading loads of self-help books, attending various seminars, listening to different preachers, we should just pick one thing. Something that feels true for us. Then practice it fiercely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Place our bet on it, then go all out. That’s where magic happens. Where life blows away our expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PART II: THE MANUAL SECOND, YOUR VOW<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And please trust me on this\u2014just because I was at bottom doesn\u2019t mean you must be. Every single moment in our lives is an opportunity to commit. No matter where we are, no matter how good or bad things may seem, this moment is the perfect moment to take our stand. To say no more<\/em> to what doesn\u2019t serve us and an all-in yes <\/em>to what does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PART III: THE LESSON<\/p>\n\n\n\n XI<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, he’s a blockbuster movie star. His movies consistently break records all over the world. And the name of his film studio: Seven Bucks Productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n L<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I haven’t had a drop of alcohol. My social media consumption is nil. Zero small talk conversations. Depressants, all of them. Carbon dioxide of the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pascal once said that humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Well, bring it on, buddy. I got this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Kamal Ravikant PART I: THE VOW 4. ONE QUESTION If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this? LIGHT SWITCHES James Altucher, in one of his best blog posts, talks about how he stops negative thoughts in their tracks with a simple mind trick. \u201cNot useful,\u201d BELIEF Here\u2019s one example. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,7,242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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