00:01:56.760I've talked about the rune Perthro before.
00:01:59.680I write about it in Demigod Mentality as well, that the better you prepare for something, the higher your chances of a successful outcome.
00:02:09.040If you play in a sort of strategy game, I'm an enjoyer of Warhammer for example, you know that yes, there is an element of chance with the dice.
00:02:18.120But the better you position your models, the better you position your pieces on the gaming board, the higher the chances of luck finding you, the higher the chances are of a successful outcome.
00:02:29.840So this is how you should approach life as well, that yes, there will be a risk.
00:02:35.600We can talk about business, for example, you will have to take risks, like it or not.
00:02:41.400But you can try to position everything in such a way that you limit the risk, that you optimize the chances of success by studying the mistakes of others, by preparing as much as possible.
00:02:54.980So that when you take that leap of faith, which you will have to take often, and this can be true for anything in life really.
00:03:01.600It can be a sensitive young man who approaches a young fair maiden.
00:03:11.040So you need to prepare as much as possible.
00:03:12.960You need to have, you know, be well-groomed, be well-dressed, be polite, well-spoken.
00:03:18.020You need to be charming and everything like that.
00:03:21.400You need to prepare to the best of your abilities.
00:03:23.480There is still the risk that she will reject your conversation or whatever it might be.
00:03:29.800Or if we're talking about business, it might be there is a risk that you will lose, that you will make mistakes.
00:03:36.560But do try to, you know, prepare as much as possible.
00:03:39.980Do your homework before so that you can say to yourself, should you, gods forbid, should you lose, should you make a mistake, should you fail in your endeavor?
00:03:47.600You can at least say to yourself that I couldn't have known.
00:03:51.500I did the preparation to the best of my abilities, despite that it was not meant to be.
00:03:57.620The last thing you want to do is to take a big risk, lose, and then the thought will haunt you that you should have known better.
00:04:06.440So this is what I mean, that you will have to take risks, especially to my young audience here.
00:04:12.200You will have to take risks to get ahead in life, no matter what you do.
00:04:15.940But for your own sake, do try to learn from the mistakes, do try to learn from the mistakes of others.
00:04:24.720Talk to older guys, guys who have been in the same, you know, who have walked a similar path as you ask them.
00:04:33.600And they might say, it's not a good course of action.
00:04:36.040Or they might say, yes, it is a good course of action, but think about these other things.
00:04:40.920So when I went to university, for example, in one of the introductory speeches one teacher held, he said that you should, of course, try to pursue good grades and everything like that.
00:04:52.700But you also need to engage in other things while you are here at the university.
00:05:00.520You also need to be engaged in, you know, other activities.
00:05:05.160Because ultimately the path to success, it's also about who you know.
00:05:09.980So this good advice he gave, and I listened to it as well, because the older generation, perhaps some older boomers will say that, you know, go to school, get good grades, and then you will get a good work.
00:05:21.860That's, you know, the advice might come from a good place, but we all know that's not quite how it works.
00:05:27.220So I was quite grateful for this lecture this particular teacher held, and he said that you need to engage yourself in other things as well.
00:05:34.360So that was some insight, and by the way, when you're listening to insights from older guys, you don't need to necessarily admire the guys.
00:05:42.540It can just be the case that they've lived for 15 years more than you, so they have accumulated mistakes.
00:05:50.100They can share the lessons they paid a heavy price for, and you can, you know, take on board the lesson without actually paying for it.
00:05:58.220Because that's also something you can think about mistakes.
00:06:33.840What you can do when you get injured is to try to pursue other venues of progression.
00:06:39.600So I have a friend recently got injured, and I said to him, you know what, you can try to get better at meditating or doing breath work or something like that.
00:06:48.260You can't do any heavy deadlifts over the next couple of weeks or even months, so you need to find something else to progress in.
00:06:55.120So that is the high thumos approach to life, that whatever happens, you will try to find something that you can get better at, that you can progress in.
00:07:04.220But when you do get injured, you might end up bitter and jaded.
00:07:10.760And this is, you know, the brutal truth.
00:07:18.140But we also need to be honest here to say that if you injure yourself, it is bad and it will probably haunt you for quite some time to come.
00:07:25.620I struggled with an elbow injury for much of last year.
00:07:28.720Now it's better, but still in my mind, there is a before and after date of the injury.
00:07:33.440Now I know that, yes, I cannot do, you know, chins on any of the trees here because I might injure myself again.
00:08:50.160You should continuously try to get better.
00:08:52.520And that, you know, includes an element of venturing out outside the comfort zone, outside what is known to you.
00:09:00.540You need to overcome many of these things to go forward.
00:09:03.380So the only thing you can do is to prepare yourself accordingly.
00:09:08.280So when you take that step, the next step on the path to the overman, I made a video where I Nietzsche posted a bit about a year or two ago.
00:09:17.720I said that the path to the overman is to continuously get better.
00:09:22.040Now, for every step you take, it's a step into the unknown.
00:09:25.140It can be, but make sure at least that you are well informed for every step you take so you don't, you know, stumble and fall and you fall down into the abyss.
00:09:35.140So, yeah, that's something to keep in mind at all times.
00:09:38.680So to conclude this hopefully insightful video is that you will have to take risks.
00:09:44.020You will probably make mistakes, but do endeavor to learn from the mistakes of others.
00:09:48.780Do endeavor to limit the amount of mistakes because they can accumulate and they can leave scars on you, mental scars.
00:09:55.460And they will, you know, eventually they can make you bitter and jaded.
00:09:58.980I've been a bit bitter and jaded myself over this last year because I've taken many heavy blows and I'm saying that it's not good because it has halted my momentum a bit.
00:10:09.740Now I have tried to work up the Fumos and momentum again.
00:10:18.360So keep that in mind also that you will have to take risks, but calculate the risks, view life, view business, view whatever you're doing as a strategy game.
00:10:28.980Position your models, position your pieces in such a way that whatever, when you roll the dice, that whatever the dice might show, might be a one, might be a six.
00:10:39.760You have a response to it and you are prepared to, you know, act accordingly.
00:10:44.460Same thing if we're talking about fighting.
00:10:46.220If you drop your guard, you will be knocked out.
00:10:48.360You can't just come in to, you know, throw a haymaker.