2️⃣058: No Fun Whatsoever ☹️

I've mentioned this before, but we should be frolicking. Everyone should have a moment of frolic in their lives. There's nothing quite like running around in an open field feeling utterly free ✨

Sometimes, the world makes it seem like everything happening around us is meant to stop us from frolicking. If it isn't the institutions or the powers that be telling us we need to work harder, it's our friends, families, and colleagues reminding us we need a side hustle to survive.

It's got me feeling like...😖

"Oh, you enjoy yoga? You do it six times a week? You're a certified instructor now? Why don't you create a webpage and an entire brand (no biggie), start a new TikTok account to post daily yoga videos (on top of regularly posting videos to your personal accounts), add your phone number to the yellow pages, hire one of those digital billboards that float out on the water by South Beach, and maybe stand on the side of a busy intersection with a huge poster with a QR code that links to your (not yet created) website so people can discover you. You know, just a few basic things. I'm sure you can get it done during your free time."

Bet, brb, working on that right now...

For the last few centuries (or millennia?), humans have done everything conceivably possible within our skills to move away from consistent hard labor and have more freedom. But it seems all this new technology has done is find more ways to keep us busy with shit that doesn't add any true value to our lives (except making money for someone else).

Listen, I don't want to completely monetize my (physical) passion when I've only been doing it for a few years. There are people out here doing it for decades who still can't make a living!

Just let me be free!

Just let me sweat! 🥵🧘🏽‍♂️☺️

If it's not yoga, it's the writing: the two things I've found that help to distract me from the "grind" and the "hustle" that's wearing everyone down to bits and pieces.

And everyone is asking me to find a way to monetize it 🤑

"Wouldn't you be interested in creating a marketing course that teaches people tips on making good content and then selling that e-book through your emails and making money off it?"

Frankly, my dear friend, absolutely not. Idgaf about teaching anyone about marketing during the time I use to write creatively for my own amusement.

I am sick and tired of everything in our lives revolving around this constant need to be selling or buying, or buying or selling.

I'm tired of people thinking the only "progress" is people with money taking advantage of people and places who have no money (aka buying them up) and then talking about "we're helping everyone out here" when you're building 100-story apartment buildings in Downtown Miami with a starting price of $5.4 million per condo while unhoused people can be found on every corner and families in Overtown and other historic neighborhoods continue to get displaced.

(rant over)

This hustle culture is evident across the digital realms and irl ("in real life"). As an avid interwebs user, I've seen the lies, deceit, and toxic work-hustle mentality find its way to (what I believe to be) one of the most beautiful (and effective) ways of digital communication: Twitter Threads.

If you've spent time on Twitter in the past few months, you know precisely the type of content I'm talking about.

It looks like this:

The levels of "I'm just going to come up with random shit that sounds good in my head and makes me look smart without actually thinking of the work it takes or real-world implications it could have" is outstanding.

Our boy Sahil Bloom might be the poster boy for this type of content, but he's far from the only aggressor.

There are also the people who tell you don't go to college because Twitter is free:

There's a guy who invented writing down things to remember them (aka lists). But he made it for a specific topic, so I guess it's an innovation?

There's a guy who tells you, "Here's how to become a millionaire," without actually telling you a single thing at all:

The Alpha Male Advisors (lolololol):

And the Self-Help Gurus who can help you turn your life around by ignoring every single thing in it for a prolonged period of time (when you're not building a copywriting business that will bring $ 1 million in revenue a year):

I know what you're thinking, "David, that's a lot of bullshit and a lot of Twitter threads. It's hard enough for me to open this email to read it, and I only do it because you're kind of a nice guy who made me smile once."

Thanks, I appreciate that. I bet it was more than once, and probably a light chuckle on top of the smile.

But that's why I'm here today. I don't want you to read all those threads (seriously, please don't). Because I already read them all for you. I've scoured the internet to read all the best advice threads possible and distilled it into seven lessons everyone should know to succeed in life, love, business, and everything 🔮