You Don't Need to Beat Your Competition (Do This Instead)

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📚 Hey! Time to win.

I’ve been a full-time creator for about a year now, coaching other creators for the past six months, and in the game for about seven years by now. Give or take.

And I can tell you that you absolutely do not have to beat your competition.

Because they’re probably going to quit anyway. You just have to outlast them.

This is also seriously easy to do, since most people won’t stick to anything hard for more than a few months (especially if results are slow in coming).

They’re going to beat themselves, so you honestly don’t even have to think about them at all.

Sure, I mean absolutely take inspiration from the bigger, much more established creators - it’s unlikely that Jon Brosio, Taylin Simmonds, or Dan Koe are just going to “give up” and disappear.

They’re here to stay.

And it’s also not that you don’t have to constantly iterate and improve. Because you absolutely do.

But I’m telling you:

Just wait six months. The vast majority of creators you see right now who are “crushing it” will be gone, and only you will remain. You and I, and the rest of my community, of course :)

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Note: “Week Three” Runs From August 18th-24th

Woke Up: 12:00PM

Sleep Quality: 82%

Pages Read: 88

Workout: Chest + Triceps

DB Incline - 60lbs, 60lbs, 55lbs, 50lbs (8 reps, last set to failure)

BB Bench - 155lbs, 155lbs, 150lbs, 145lbs (8 reps, last set to failure)

Cable Fly - 25lbs, 20lbs, 20lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

Tricep Pushdowns - 65lbs, 65lbs, 58lbs, 58lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

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I spent virtually the entire day finishing my breakdown of The Anthology of Balaji, and it’s taking sooo much longer than I thought it would. I’m well over 10,000 words, which is pretty long for a book summary haha but the ideas keep flowing! The book…is…phenomenal.

So it actually didn’t feel like I got a whole done today, but I was working flat out. I knew I wouldn’t get a YouTube video out today, which is alright for now, but I’ve got some excellent videos brewing! Including a podcast with the author of The Anthology of Balaji.

But hey, it’s 4:34AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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