How to Become More Ambitious

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Dear friends,

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What is the greatest source of inspiration and motivation in life? Ambition.

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The tools

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The best MacBook laptop (the fastest, smallest, lightest, most powerful) you can afford.
In-ear monitor headphones (I don\'t like bluetooth headphones nor the airpods -- not enough bass and high fidelity for music)
Great sleep the night prior
A bunch of coffee
Powerlifing at least once a week.
Don\'t use your phone or iPhone. Lock it up when you don\'t need it.

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Life without music would be a mistake.

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Make music that bangs, and also listen to music that bangs and gets your body moving.

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Don\'t care too much for your self preservation

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In order to become more ambitious, and to attempt more, we must become anti-self preservation. For example, the mistake that a lot of people make in the gym is that they only work out in order to \\u201cmaintain\\u201d their health.\\ufffc\\ufffc This is very boring. Far more interesting to strive to figure out the limits of your body, and supersede them.

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For example, my personal curiosity is how physically strong I can become. I don\\u2019t take any supplements, no protein powder, no creatine, only coffee and meat.

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Therefore, it seems that the source of ambition is fulfilling a personal curiosity about yourself, your limits, and what you\\u2019re capable of.\\ufffc\\ufffc\\ufffc

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Keep filtering down

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In order to maximize your impact on the world, you must be very selective. For example, I think it is good to pursue all of your interests, but at the end of the day, you cannot do 1 million things. You cannot care about 1 million things, nor care about 1 million issues.

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This is the big problem with politics and news: my personal reservoir of physiological energy I could spend on caring about the external world or people is limited.

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For example, let us assume that your limited time on earth is 120 years, and you must sleep at least eight hours a night. And given the day, any sort of thing you do or attempt will deplete you of some of your physiological energy resources. Then the question:

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Given your limited energy, how do you want to best leverage your energy, in order to maximize your impact on the world?\\ufffc\\ufffc\\ufffc\\ufffc
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For me, during my waking hours, I first care about taking care of Seneca, and training him. Then, my attention and energy towards Cindy. But after that, it is energy for myself. There is nothing much else I could care for.

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Even a personal realization: as much as I love going to the gym, there is a lot of wasted time. There is the time I must walk or drive to the gym, be stuck in traffic, and then once I actually do get to the gym, having to warm up, and often the equipment I want to use like the deadlift platform for the squat rack is taken, which means a lot of wasted time\\ufffc\\ufffc\\ufffc\\ufffc. \\ufffcAt least one of the biggest advantages of just doing heavy kettlebell swings at home, with my 105 pound kettle bell, is that I could literally finish the whole workout in less than 30 seconds. Maybe if you strive to maximize your time, just buy a bunch of (very heavy) kettle bells.\\ufffc Maybe this is even a better investment than spending money on a car, a home, etc. \\ufffc

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Why did Elon Musk sell his house, and get rid of all his physical possessions?\\ufffc\\ufffc

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This is the funny irony: everyone wants to become a billionaire in order to buy a bunch of\\ufffc stuff. They want to buy the really really nice house, in a very great location, do you want to buy the very very expensive car, and they want infinite money to travel the world indefinitely, and stay at all the nicest hotels.

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But, stuff and time is a commodity. Any physical thing you purchase, or even a home you purchase, or real estate you buy has a hidden cost. For example, even'