Thursday 16 November 2023

The Best Life Lessons I’ve Learned from Studying the Lives of 10,000+ Ultra-Successful Individuals


Walt Disney looking at his successful theme park opening. (Credit: Midjourney)

F. Scott Fitzgerald once asked Hemingway to look at his penis.

Fitzgerald’s wife said he had a small one, and it’d never make any woman happy or give them pleasure. Wow. Harsh statement. So the two gentlemen went to the bathroom to pull down Fitzgerald’s pants and find out.

Hemmingway said:

“Your manhood [d*ck) is perfectly fine.”

Hemingway gave Fitzgerald a great solution to his manhood problem. He told him to go to Louvre Museum and look at the statues with male body parts exposed. Then to go home and look at his slong to compare size.

Hemingway was quite smart and told Fitzgerald that when a man looks down on their manhood from above, it naturally looks small because of the angle. Hemingway drops a bomb at the end of this famous encounter:

“It is the size that it becomes.”

So what can we learn from these two ultra-successful writers and their naughty little bathroom competition? Well, it’s that we all struggle with imposter syndrome and insecurity.

It’s normal.

So if fear, insecurity, and imposter syndrome are holding you back then force yourself to take action anyway.

Here are more of the best life lessons I’ve learned from studying the lives of 10,000+ ultra-successful people. Read them then take action on your favorite ones.

The best description of age I’ve ever come across

Getting old gives me the scaries.

A few grey hairs are poking through and I wish I could push them back down into my skull. If my hair starts to fall out I’m gonna lose my sh*t.

But we all get old.

Understanding the various age levels is the cure. Greg Isenbergbroke it down perfectly:

When you’re 18, your situation reflects your upbringing.

When you’re 38, your situation reflects…

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Tim Denning

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