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Patrick Will retweeted
The reason you're not creative. Not motivated. Not focused.
AKA the stuff that came easy to you as a kid.
Is that every form of "relaxing" in our society is SMASHING our minds with serotonin and dopamine.
TikTok. Video games. Drinking. WATCHING sports.
If you're doing these to relax, your mind is never at rest.
Like a dude spending every waking minute in a strip club. You'll become numb to things that used to drive you wild. Your motivation to chase plummets.
When you relax, you have to actually relax and empty the mental bucket.
Drop it all. Read. Pick up an instrument. Lift. Keep your phone in a drawer far away from you. DEPRIVE yourself of the easy serotonin and dopamine.
All that gusto you used to have as a kid will come right back. Then USE the drive on what matters. AKA the thing, the work. Then ACTUALLY relax again.
99% of people are on a treadmill. They do low-focus, low-creativity, ass work... Then get home and scroll, eat sugar, play video games/scroll/watch Fox News/CNN, wank, binge Netflix and repeat.
Like the guy in the strip club, they can no longer enjoy the "curves" of life because they're in overdrive... staring at ass and tits 24/7.
You're not getting old or dull or necessarily suffering from ADHD.
Your brain just hasn't had a breather in years.
Patrick Will retweeted
I haven't taken much, or any really, time to digest everything that's happened in the last few months. (I realize I didn't even tweet a big message about Prime Video and what our content going up on really meant to me, as a person, having gone through so much shit in this space and being perpetually in startup and defence mode.) I don't celebrate wins much, it's always what next, what now, and how do we go even bigger? You go as high as the bar you set.
But holy shit, we've achieved things. Web3 is an incredible place. It's noisy, yes, but it's a place for dreamers, and by extension, crazy people that have a pulse on the future other's can't quite discern yet. It's punk and counter culture.
We were told so often that "we can't do this" "this isn't gonna work" and "I don't get it". Because it's unfamiliar territory, and that's uncomfortable for bystanders. Being a founder is all about leaning into discomfort, welcoming the trials, and leveling up. It's much easier when you have a die-hard community that begins to see the light and believes in your mission.
We've done insane things at @Claynosaurz. We will continue to do insane things at Claynos. We've challenged a status quo. And we will be a best-in-class community-driven collectibles entertainment brand for the digital age.
In just a day, the ecosystem has supported us in ways I don't even know how to react to right now. Over $1.1m to get this next adventure started. Your belief in us is fuel. Thank you, over and over. There is no finish line, and I think you know that about us.
You better believe we will do incredible, industry shifting things with HEEBOO. I am so turbo bullish on the possibilities that platform will create, and our trajectory. I am so bullish on the creator economy, because we live it ourselves, it's our story, in a way that's much more intimate and aligned, and that is where the future goes when legacy companies are dis-intermediated.
There is no Hollywood if it does not monopolize artists, fans and creators: there are simply content & entertainment creators. And they go wherever tf they choose. And they will build fan constellations as a moat. And those fans will also be builders, ambassadors, enjoyers, collectors, buyers, sellers, ideators. Participants. And that deserves alignment. That will be the only way forward. And that is the great promise of web3. A redistribution of power.
Higher.
Patrick Will retweeted
In my early days, I had to numb myself. There was so much work. The amount of work you can only measure by how much it weighs. And if I stopped to think about how “unfinishable” the amount of work I had to do was, I would’ve quit.
So I did the only thing I could do, I’d take the first thing off the stack and start…without thinking about how shitty & alone I felt. And how everyone I knew was enjoying their life in their perfect bubble of security following the path someone else put in front of them.
There’s a reason race horses wear blinders. Focus only on what’s in front of you.
You’ll get through it. Keep going.
Patrick Will retweeted
There’s a Japanese saying:
“If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember, trees lose their leaves every year, yet they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.”
Patrick Will retweeted
people with higher quality sleep make more money, are more attractive, age more slowly, and win at life FAR more than those with worse sleep.
sleepmaxxing 101:
-no screens or blue/flickering light for 2 hours prior sleep (use red lights)
-consistent bedtime day to day (no more than 30 min variation)
-blackout curtains
-earplugs
-67 degree F room (+/- 2 degrees)
-linen or cotton sheets (washed with no fragrance detergent)
-CO2 level <750ppm (most forget this)
-10 min morning sunlight to entrain circadian rhythm
-air filtration in bedroom (PM 2.5 <5ug/m3)
-last caffeine >10 hours before sleep (zero caffeine is elite status)
-last food 2-3 hours before sleep
-last substantial fluid 2-3 hours before sleep
-hot shower 90 min prior to sleep to begin cooling down core temp (vasodilatation->cooling)
-3-5 min journaling brain dump prior to sleep
-supplements (+/-): magnesium, glycine/collagen 30 min prior to sleep
Why are you not sleepmaxxing?
Patrick Will retweeted
The things that actually create 10x outcomes for normal businesses:
1) New offer/pricing
2) New acquisition channels/formats
3) Time
That’s about it. Everything else is good & additive, but those are the big guns.
Patrick Will retweeted
There is no single “correct” path to the top.
Novak Djokovic went 3 years without sugar, let one piece of chocolate melt on his tongue after the longest tennis match ever… then went straight back to training.
Roger Federer won the Australian Open eating ice cream every single night.
George Mack’s point: Djokovic’s extreme discipline vs Federer’s relaxed enjoyment. Stephen King raw-dogging novels vs J.K. Rowling using spreadsheets. Buffett reading everything vs Jim Simons using algorithms.
At the highest level, the winners pick what works for them.
Patrick Will retweeted
If you assume everything will work out in your favor, bizarrely, it probably will.
Patrick Will retweeted
How fast your life moves and improves is directly correlated with how fast you’re willing to have hard conversations.
Patrick Will retweeted
I’m in love with this sentence:
“Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.”
Patrick Will retweeted
Haters are a fixed cost of life.
If you do anything, people will criticize you.
If you do nothing, people will criticize you.
So you might as well do something you love enough to be hated for.
