Robert Greene

That's like the most important process you can go through.

The whole thing has to start from you.

It can't start from the world.

It can't start from what other people are doing.

It can't start from what's sexy.

It has to come from within.

If it doesn't come from within, then you're going to be floundering for years and years and years.

You have this quality.

You can't really control it.

It's who you are.

So make it work for you.

Find the way that it's a strength and see it as a strength and use it and don't have second thoughts about it.

Use it for power.

If everything is easy in life, if everyone loves what you're going to do, and you have no enemies, you have no opposition, nothing to resist, you're just going to be mush.

You're not going to amount to anything.

You're not going to be able to push yourself.

You're not going to be able to change, evolve.

muhammad ali said if i didn't have joe frazier around i would not have become the great boxer that i am i mean he would have been a great boxer anyway but a nemesis like joe frazier put me on a much higher level is there not a line in batman where the joker says no you you complete

And because the harshness of your circumstances often transforms you.

People who have it easy in life never have to work on themselves, right?