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25 Ways to Avoid Living Your Life on Someone Else’s Terms
“An individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.” -Steven Pressfield
1. Don’t Watch Commercials
Commercials offer you virtually 0% value. They are psychologically designed to capture your attention and make you buy something — regardless if you actually should.
Extraordinary, focused people are never “sold” anything. They decide what they want, then they buy it. Everything else is just distractions and propaganda.
2. Don’t Take Advice From Almost Anyone
“Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.”
-Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect
If you want an extraordinary life, you’ll soon discover almost no one knows how to achieve that goal.
Frankly, most people aren’t living an “extraordinary life.” If you took a screenshot of the “average” American, here’s what you’d see:
- $67,400 in debt (that’s just under 35. It triples for 35–44 year olds and gets worse from there).
- A coin-toss whether or not they get divorced
