"Grinding" is a scam

I've been running a soft experiment ever since I moved.

Call it a reset.

What I've done:

-> I've been playing video games 4-5x a week.

-> Meditating & praying weekly

-> I've been working out less (but when I work out, it's more intense).

-> I've been eating clean but haven't focused on gaining mass or had any orthorexic pathologies (Steak n Shake milkshakes are anabolic)

Results:

-> I tripled my income

-> My lift numbers are going up like crazy

-> I'm up 5 lbs of muscle like nothing.

Basically, less forced routine grinding & more free form choice.

The real question is: why did this work?

Since we've logged onto the "business hustle" side of the internet that, the main message has been all about brutal endless grinding.

Working 12 hour days, pissing into a cup at your desk & refusing to see an ounce of sunlight to bang out e-products and make $10k a month so you can "escape the dying west” to bang random Filipino women, certainly works for some people.

"If you don't do this, you don't want it." 

But for many of us, this modus operandi has always left us feeling empty. No matter how hard we tried, the grinding only seemed to burn us out.

We think "Is there something wrong with me?" 

We then go down the rabbit hole of "discipline". We're just undisciplined. If we only woke up at 4am and ran 10 miles a day, we'd be savages whose hunger would only be satisfied by conquest (getting a boomer to click a date on Calendly).

But once again that felt off too. You are plenty disciplined when you need to.

But catching that wave of energy is the challenge. Is it motivation? But you were told you shouldn't need motivation to b u i l d.

This swirl of confusion makes you feel defective.

Well, I'm here to tell you that you aren't defective.

You've just been psyopped into using a bad life strategy.

See, those internet business people tell you about grinding to sell you. To make you feel inadequate for not working super hard all the time, so your anxiety bottles up and you eventually cave to buy their product in the hopes of "fixing yourself" and replicating their lifestyle.

Enough of that crap. You're trying to build a life of freedom, not create your own rat race.

Principle: when you encounter resistance, it's a sign to let go

The first step to deprogramming is accepting that what works for them will not work for you. 

Stop trying to force it, man.

Next, you need to take a leap of faith and plunge straight into the exact opposite of intense work: intense rest.

Take a few days off. Turn off your phone. Play a game. Spend time with loved ones. Read a book. Cook. Meditate. Pray. Or do nothing at all.

Give yourself space to be unstimulated. To remove yourself from the online arena of business bullshit. Allow yourself to just be.

It's going to suck at first. Being without stimulation makes you feel like a drug addict, only you're not itching for meth but information.

It might take a whole day to "reset". Be patient.

But once you do, something interesting will happen:

You'll find a thread that your curiosity is telling you to pull on.

It may be a sound. Maybe a cool car. A domain name. A serendipitous text. 

In that nothingness, there will be something to grab your intuition.

Call it the magic in the world, God's road signs or whatever. 

Follow it with 0 judgement, and it will lead you towards exactly what you should be doing right now.

I fought this for years. It felt too stupid to actually work. But, I was in constant resistance to life, fighting tooth and nail for the smallest of edges. In the end, I decided that a trust fall into the arms of God was better than continuing 10 hour days with 0 return.

And it worked.

All it took was some faith. 

The question is - are you ready to do the same?