If I had to sum up what I've learned that matters most over the past few years, I'd say this:
1. To stand out, you need to set up a system.
Succeeding at something once, even brilliantly, isn't enough. It's the repetition of an action—even a simple one—that brings the transformation we're looking for—within ourselves or in the world.
This holds true in spirituality (nothing more repetitive and simple than meditation), in music (we even call it "practice"), in work, in communication, in relationships, in health...
Persistence in one direction matters more than intelligence, willpower, or talent. But...
2. No system without alignment.
Discipline, willpower, good resolutions (...) will never be enough to stay the course. A few days, a few months, maybe. But soon enough, we burn out, we break down.
The only way to set up a long-term system is to be perfectly aligned.
To be entirely yourself. To do what's 100% natural. To blindly follow your instinct and let everything else fall away.
Except that... Very few people truly know who they are and what they want. Their self-knowledge is obscured by intellectual ideas and decades of conditioning. Hence...
3. No alignment without self-knowledge.
This is the cornerstone of the whole structure: learning to know yourself.
Doing the inner work to deconstruct the preconceptions we hold about ourselves and the world in order to reach our truth.
This truth is the real source of action. The one that will last. And therefore change things.
"Know thyself." - Socrates
"Become who you are." - Nietzsche
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