"We Have No Idea What Lies Outside of the Mediocrity"

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I recently teamed up with the author Nate Dallas to give away 10 free copies of his (excellent) book, You’re Too Good to Feel This Bad.

The title never really appealed to me…but then I read the damn thing.

I’m a believer now. It’s become a book I recommend fairly consistently.

But to start off I want to draw your attention to the following quote:

Before I say anything, here are my complete notes from the book, by the way. They’re free. You can just have them.

But what Nate’s saying in the quote above is important for anyone who seeks to rise above the ordinary.

For the longest time, I did exactly what Nate did: measured myself against the people who were closest to me.

Closest as in “nearby.” The people who were miserable, lazy, excuse-making do-nothings who always had some grievance or other against whatever outside force they felt was keeping them down.

So yeah, no wonder I was crushing it compared to them - their lives sucked! They hated living them, and what’s worse, they didn’t do anything to change or improve them.

But then I started performing more upward counterfactuals. I started looking at the people who were OBJECTIVELY crushing it in life, not just the people who were “a little bit better off” than the normies around them.

And I mean hey, compassion and tolerance for normies. Most of them weren’t “bad” people. It’s just that they didn’t have lives I wanted, they were doing precisely nothing to improve their lives, and so why on earth was I comparing myself to them? And feeling good about the comparison?

Set your sights higher.

Much higher.

Don’t compare yourself to the “average” and the “mediocre masses.”

Compare yourself to the best. Aspire to become the best, and never stop taking action until that’s true.

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Note: “Week Four” Runs From July 22nd to the End

Woke Up: 1:00PM

Sleep Quality: 80%

Pages Read: 148

Workout: Rest Day

Work Completed:

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Managed Paid Skool Community

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July is now three weeks old and we’re in the home stretch! I fucking hate how I wasn’t able to upload more than a few YouTube videos this month - especially after I said that YouTube was going to be where my main focus is going to be over the next few months and years.

That’s still true, but goddamnit I need to step it up. It’s getting embarrassing.

Other than that, though, I’ve been doing really, really well and lots of things are coming together. Now, it’s time to finish this month strong. I added a bunch of new tasks/projects to my mad-psychopathic dash until the end of the month, and I’m going to throw myself into them starting tomorrow.

But hey, it’s 4:52AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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