Phase Shifters - Circle of Greatness

 Rome wasn't built in a day

It was built by wise stoic & blood-thirsty Conquerors Patient stoics consolidated & maintained order Megalomaniacal Conquerors expanded &dominated But how many could do both? A handful - Augustus - Tiberius - Trajan - Aurelian - Constantine

It's hard to do both If you're lucky you can do 1 well But to truly ascend Meditating between madness and reason Both raising your sword in adrenaline combat & laying foundational bricks in the hot sun Is the path I'm traversing

How anxiety-racking it is to go into combat To fight, fight, fight Until you love to fight Then you live by the sword But those who do Die by the sword So you must return the painstaking (PAIN PAIN PAIN STAKING) patience Of laying foundations Until the warrior is dead

& the stoic is born A wise man who once said nothing at all Biting your tongue Simply building In mind-numbing boredom & silence Until you love it But the man who lives in the castle, never venturing out Is no king, but a prisoner Imprisoned by his quiet routines

& that routine he must break with great agitation When the horn of war is blown He must stand, flex his debilitated muscles & begin training immediately. Training until the patient, wise, recluse Once again is capable of taking hold of the sword. & waging war.

To a lesser extent we all must do this From the comfort of the mother's womb We emerge crying Baring face to the world Then we switch, school - structure, routine. How many hate it? It's a phase shift, many fail, and few can adapt But after school again we compete

Competing for jobs, women, business We pick up the sword Those who don't smoke weed, video games, virgin. Many such cases (35%+ below 30) Then those who do Pick up a job or business & once again enter structure

At each point One can stop. At each stop, one ascends higher But in life It's not the strongest or smartest who go the furthest But those who can do the most phase shifts Win the most. Velocity of phase shifts/identity changes >>> everything

I'm not the same man who I was at the start of the year I'm not the same man who I was even 3 months ago But to phase shift quickly is hard enough But it's not speed It's velocity we're after Which is speed + direction Making the *right* phase jump over & over

If you are in your comfort zone You are not phase-shifting Not just applicable to the nerd But they also playboy who must become the reclusive The freedom-loving entrepreneur to one beholden by a board The muscular jock to the studious nerd WTF? Yeah phase shifting is hard

What got you here won't take you there When you get there, what got you there, won't take you further A constant flux Tearing your mind apart Your identity in flux Once you realize You can't help but laugh at the dudes w/ fixed identities

Men who define themselves - The watch & car they have (flexors) - The muscles they built (gym bros) - The money they have (businessmen) - The women they can get (playboys) - The books they've read, the knowledge they have (the intellectuals)

Once you become multi-dimensional You realize while all those things are nice Holding on to them too dearly cements your identity As the world changes around you, you're stuck.

I look at Elon Musk (RE -> playboy -> personal brand -> Businessman) I look at Arnold (Bodybuilder -> Businessman -> movie star -> politician) I look at Tai Lopez (Farmer -> insurance biz -> nightclubs -> dating aff -> info -> eCom rollup) All are Phase-shifting machines.

Be One.