Roman Simon

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 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 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.

Most people are delusional because they don’t understand the concept of incentives. Take the moon landings, for example. What was the goal of humans landing on the moon? Did they want to get something from there? Build a base or create something new? No. The only goal was to show the world that they were capable of doing it. Could it have been done in a different way? Of course. Hollywood has existed for more than 50 years and has produced far more complex special effects. Why would they actually risk everything and land on the moon when they could achieve the same goal by staging it? Analyze everything through incentives perspective and you will see a completely different world. People who do big things are not stupid. Everything is driven by incentives.

The most successful people may be focused on winning, but it is not the victory itself that motivates them. What truly drives them is an obsession with the activity itself.

If you appear rich, sellers will try to charge you a higher price. If you appear poor, sellers of quality, expensive goods will not even bother talking to you.

The world is shiittt because you feel bad about it. It can be incredible or disgusting and the way you feel about it depends on random genetics and random events that happened in your childhood. Imagine allowing randomness determining the quality of your life. That would be dumb.