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I am going to start this with a statement that might make you close this tab. If it does, good. It means you aren’t ready for what comes next.
Your unhappiness is your fault.
The fact that you feel stuck, anxious, or unfulfilled is not the fault of the economy, the government, your parents, or “bad luck.”
It is the direct result of the choices you have made and more importantly, the choices you have avoided making.
We live in a world that is obsessed with coddling you. Open Instagram or TikTok, and you will be bombarded with “gentle parenting” for adults. You will be told to “be kind to yourself.” You will be told that “you are enough just as you are.” You will be told that your mediocrity is actually a form of self-care.
This advice is poison.
It is poison because it keeps you weak. It keeps you waiting. It keeps you trapped in a cycle of hoping that if you just wait long enough, someone or something will come along and fix everything.
I am writing this to tell you the cold, absolute truth: The rescue is cancelled.
There is no lifeboat coming. There is no helicopter. There is no rich uncle who is going to leave you an inheritance. There is no “perfect time” to launch your business. There is no mentor who is going to spot your hidden genius and drag you to the top of the mountain.
You are standing on a burning platform. You can either stay there and burn, waiting for help that doesn’t exist, or you can build wings on the way down.
If you are tired of the lies, keep reading. If you want to stay a victim, go back to scrolling.
Part 1: The Savior Trap
The greatest lie society ever told you is that there is a safety net.
From the moment you entered school, you were trained to wait. You waited for the bell to ring. You waited for the teacher to give you the grade. You waited for the syllabus to tell you what to learn.
Then you got a job, and you learned to wait for the boss to give you a task. You waited for the promotion. You waited for the weekend.
You have been conditioned to believe that authority figures are responsible for your outcome.
But as a man or simply as a Sovereign Individual you have to realize that this contract is void. “Nobody is coming to save you. You are responsible for your own life.”
This sounds terrifying to people who have lived their whole lives in the passenger seat. They ask, “But what if I fall? What if I fail?”
The answer is simple: Then you get back up.
If you have dreams and goals, you are the one who has to achieve them. No one else cares about your dream. No one else wakes up thinking about your potential. They are thinking about their own lives. “If you have dreams and goals, you are the one that has to achieve them.”
When you realize that you are alone, a shift happens. The fear doesn’t go away, but the helplessness disappears. You stop looking at the sky praying for rain, and you start digging a well.
Stop being the child waiting for permission. Permission is never given; it is taken.
Part 2: You Are Playing Defense (And Losing)
Look at how most people live their lives. They are terrified.
They save every shilling not to invest, but because they are scared of poverty. They stay in relationships that are dead because they are scared of being alone. They stay in jobs they hate because they are scared of the unknown.
They are playing goalie. They are just trying to stop life from scoring on them.
But here is the rule of the game: “Most men play Life on defense and that’s why they lose.”
You cannot win a game by only blocking shots. Eventually, you will get tired. Eventually, the ball will get past you. Defense is a slow death. It is a strategy of attrition, and life has more stamina than you do.
To win, you must play offense.
You have to take risks. Especially if you are in your 20s or 30s. “If you don’t take risk as a young man you will regret it when you are an old man.”
What is the worst that happens? You launch the website and nobody visits? You try to learn Rust and it’s hard? You ask for the sale and they say no?
So what? You dust yourself off. You are not made of glass.
The “safe path” is actually the most dangerous path of all. The safe path guarantees that you will wake up at 65 years old, filled with regret, wondering who you could have been if you hadn’t been such a coward.
“Be brave instead of a coward and bold instead of timid.”
Start the project. Quit the bad job. Post the content. Offense is the only way out of the trap.
Part 3: The Iron Word
Let’s talk about why you don’t trust yourself.
You probably have “imposter syndrome.” You feel like a fraud. You feel like you aren’t capable of achieving the things you want.
Do you know why you feel that way? Because you are a liar.
I don’t mean you lie to other people. I mean you lie to the person in the mirror.
Every day, you make small promises to yourself. “I’m going to wake up at 6 AM.” (You hit snooze until 7:30). “I’m going to go to the gym.” (You go home because you’re “tired”). “I’m going to finish this project.” (You watch Netflix instead).
Every time you break a promise to yourself, you are training your brain that your word means nothing. You are teaching yourself that you are not a person of authority.
If you cannot command yourself, how can you expect to command a business, a team, or a legacy?
“Your word has to be Iron.”
This is the foundation of confidence. Confidence doesn’t come from affirmations. It comes from a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are.
If you say you are going to do something, you must do it. Even if you don’t feel like it. Especially when you don’t feel like it.
“If you tell yourself you’re going to work out first thing in the morning but you don’t feel like it anymore when the morning comes you still have to do it.”
Stop negotiating with yourself. You are not a democracy of feelings. You are a dictatorship of will. When the order is given, the body must obey.
Part 4: The Comfort Prison
Why is everyone so anxious today? Why is depression at an all-time high in the most prosperous era of human history?
Because life is too easy.
We have engineered the struggle out of existence. You can get food delivered to your door without moving. You have infinite entertainment in your pocket. You have climate control. You have safety.
But human beings were not built for the couch. We were built for the hunt. We were built to carry heavy loads. We were built to solve hard problems.
When you remove the external struggle, the mind invents internal struggle. It invents anxiety. It invents drama. It invents problems where there are none because it is desperate for something to overcome.
Comfort is a prison.
It softens your hands and it dulls your mind. It makes you fragile.
If you want to feel alive, you have to voluntarily choose the hard path. You have to choose the cold shower. You have to choose the heavy weights. You have to choose the complex code.
Suffering is necessary for meaning. You cannot have pride in something that was easy. You cannot value a trophy that was handed to you.
Stop praying for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a hard one. That is where the gold is.
Part 5: The Silent War
Finally, we have to talk about the noise.
There is a war being fought right now, and the battlefield is your mind.
The news, social media, advertisers, politicians they are all fighting for a piece of your attention. They are mining your focus like it is a natural resource. They want you angry, distracted, and reactive.
“It is impossible to break free from all the bad advice and nonsense if you lack awareness.”
Most people are sleepwalking. They react to notifications like Pavlov’s dogs. They have no original thoughts; they just regurgitate what they heard on Twitter five minutes ago.
If you want to be free—if you want to be a Sovereign Individual you must cultivate silence.
You need to be able to sit in a room, alone, with no phone, and just think. You need to journal. “It triggers the mind to high level thinking.”
You need to hear your own voice again.
The system is designed to keep you a consumer. It wants you watching, scrolling, and buying. It is terrified of you becoming a creator.
Because creators are dangerous. Creators change things. Creators build their own systems.
Conclusion: Kill the Victim
I didn’t write this to make you feel good. I wrote this to make you move.
You have a choice today.
You can go back to your life. You can keep blaming the economy. You can keep waiting for the perfect moment. You can keep playing defense and hoping you don’t lose too badly.
Or, you can kill the victim inside you.
You can decide, right now, that nobody is coming. That it is all on you.
That is a heavy weight to carry. But it is the only weight that will make you strong.
I have written a manifesto for those who are ready to make that choice. It is called “KILL THE VICTIM.”
It is not a book of hacks. It is not a guide to “manifesting” wealth. It is a manual for radical responsibility. It covers the philosophy of aggression, the power of the Iron Word, and the strategy of the Sovereign Individual.
I am not asking you to buy it. I am telling you that if you are tired of your own excuses, this is the tool you need.
The war has started. You are either a casualty, or you are a King.
Pick a side.
