most people dismiss sleep as mere downtime, but it's actually the night shift of your mind. free from the constraints of the waking world, the subconscious mind does not reason in straight lines like it normally does when you're awake... speaking to you in symbols, solving highly complicated problems, or even glimpsing into the future. you spend 1/3 of your life asleep. better make it count.

the mechanics of the dreaming mind, the 5 types of dreams, and the exact protocol to program your nights and wake up with answers.

a worry. fear. anxiety. envy. thousands of thoughts pass through your head every day, and most of them were never yours. you are not the stream of infinite thoughts. you are the one watching it. and the moment you frame it that way, it loses its grip on you. the entire art of metacognition, inside.

“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” ― Leonardo da Vinci how you do fitness is how you do business. how you treat your girl is how you treat your coworkers. how you spend your mornings is how you spend rest of your days. sometimes by neglecting one thing, one can lose everything.

throughout most of the day, your brain runs on beta waves: fast, restless activity that makes your attention jump from one thing to the next. once you get into flow, your brainwaves slow down, from beta through alpha toward theta, and the critic in your head goes quiet. how to get there on command, inside the article.

your brain is not built to remember words. you can reread the same sentences 100 times, but none of it will reach your mind if it has nothing to hold on to. the primary language of memory are IMAGES. the entire mechanism and how to build memory palaces inside the article.

who would you rather be? a gym bro with a greek physique yet nothing in his head? an artist or scholar with a very rich inner world and the body of a third grader? or a hustler with a full bag and an empty soul? or everything mixed into one person: athlete, scholar and an entrepreneur? you don't have to choose. the key is letting every branch of your life feed the others.

you may think that as you go to sleep after all that learning, the work is done. in truth, only half is done. it's actually the time of sleep when your brain best stores incoming information. the entire mechanism and how to use it inside.

in physics, the act of observing collapses a wave of possibilities into one state. your mind works in very similar way. the moment you watch a thought, it stops being the same thought. the mechanism is written down.

too hard, and the mind panics. too easy, and it wanders off. perfect flow lives on the thin line between the two. how to find it, and how to stay on it, in the article.

the word "school" comes from the greek scholē. it meant leisure. free time. doing nothing. the greeks believed that thinking only begins when the noise stops for a moment. we kept the word and forgot the meaning.

about 11,000,000 bits of information hit your senses every second. about 11,000,000 bits of information hit your senses every second. only about 50 make it to your conscious awareness. you are blind to almost everything, and yet most people try to learn by mindlessly repeating the same page until it sticks. the key to learning isn't flooding your mind with even more information, but making the material enter the chosen 50. more about this inside.

turns out, reading about the great achievers of the past, spending long hours in contemplation, and pouring enormous belief into your own vision is a pretty good way to live this life.

2500 year manual to being the universal man. learn to make every part of your life feed the others and master body, mind & spirit at once.

the ouroboros, the snake eating its own tail, is one of the oldest symbols on earth, yet most people don't know its original meaning. it doesn't mean eternity. it means you have to consume who you were to become who you are. let that sink in.

there's an old Igbo saying I can't unhear: "until the lions have their own historians, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." write your own story, or be written as the prey.

the word "sacrifice" comes from the latin sacer facere: to make sacred. in order to get something of a higher nature, you have to sacrifice something of a lower nature. you cannot have anything without first giving something. even heaven demands death.

next time you feel like you've done enough already, remind yourself: Alexander the Great conquered most of the known world by 30, and still wanted to keep going.