Peter Towers, A.K.A. "Cephas"

John McAfee was asked countless times for the “secret to success,” and finally got too tired to keep pretending. He said it straight: you won’t like this answer. Many people spend their entire lives working their asses off, constantly trying and failing, and grinding themselves to exhaustion, only to end up right back where they started. It’s not a lack of ability, and it’s not that your luck hasn’t come yet. Because you’re essentially a balloon tied tightly to the bottom of the sea. Balloons are meant to float upward. What really keeps you pinned in the depths, suffocating, isn’t a lack of talent, but the weight you’re carrying: Fear, resentment, disappointment, and an obsession with being a victim. Unless you cut those rotten ropes, no matter how hard you struggle, you’ll never make it to the surface. Cut them, and rising to the top is simply a physical inevitability. McAfee’s solution is brutally simple, just one sentence: Cut them immediately. Never linger in the fight. If a partner pisses you off or a business partner stabs you in the back, and you still can’t move on within 10 seconds, you’ve already lost the game completely. Because that’s already in the past. 10 seconds ago is the past, 10 hours ago is the past, and 10 years ago is the past too. In this physical world, the past simply doesn’t exist. Every extra second you spend angry, you’re paying an enormous rent with your life in the present to a dead ghost. Stop ruminating, stop resenting, and cut every force dragging you down. What traps you has never been the cruel outside world, but that rotten rope you keep clutching so tightly, unwilling to let go.