“Don’t be afraid to break some rules.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
To win, you must exploit the system. I get it - you’re worried about what the outside world will think of you — that possibly bending some rules in your favor is “beneath you”.
Listen: The most successful people on this planet do not care about how they achieve it. They DON’T CARE ABOUT THE RULES.
The entire world is simply many clearly-defined systems and rules that all work together to limit you from going anywhere. Imagine a game of poker or blackjack. Most people will say that it is just “luck” or that “luck is the primary factor in the game”. This is BS and you know it.
Just like poker, the world does not have luck, it has probability. Luck of the draw is simply a term that defines your starting point, everything else is how you play your cards.
Unlike poker though, the rules of life can be argued, bent, and even broken. Do you seriously think the people in power didn’t break every rule in the book to get their hands on the biggest jackpot in the world?
Basically, life is a maze built by people at the top to reduce competition from the bottom. Some people find they exist by wasting their entire life trying every single option.
Using the basic resources out in the world and your persistence, you can increase your odds of success. This is what successful people do. By counting the cards, observing patterns, and trying what has already been proven to work, you can increase your odds of success an infinite number of times. In other words, climb the walls of the maze, and look to find where the finish is. Once you know the end goal you can take concrete steps towards it.
But we all know this. Go forward without looking back.
You just still think that you aren’t that kind of person. You don’t need to be savage. You don’t need to embody the hunter you were born to be by evolution thousands of years ago.
You can play it safe, play it cool, and play by the rules. Guess what? No one who wins plays by the rules. We bend them to their limits. We go against the grain. The trick is to keep the rules from breaking in a way that gets you in trouble.
There is no such thing as a dream job. A dream partner. An American dream. Because it’s a . . . . DREAM.
Pick the career that you know you are predisposed by biology to excel at. You are good at math? Be the top accountant of all time. Good at arguing? Be the top dog attorney that puts Harvey Specter to shame. Oh you don’t like law school? Be honest with yourself, do you want to win?
The person printing your money obviously does. We love to bash the idiots on Wall Street for making dirty money by using YOUR money to make them money. Do you think they care?
Think about it. Do you think that someone like Jeff Bezos became rich because he had a brilliant idea? No. He simply crushed the competition, out-sued the government, walked on everyone’s head who was in his way.
Successful people are made not born. And they aren’t made through some fair game. Time to start breaking the rules.
“It’s easier to apologize than to ask for permission.”
P.S. I am not advocating for you to do anything illegal, but there is significant leeway when bending the rules.