Inspiring stuff! Being bold and direct is great and makes you stand out while everyone are just mumbling soft opinions.

To me, the only exception is when you are at your workplace. I feel that when you're working for a typical company, it's counterproductive to be upfront about your ambitions while you communicate with your colleagues.

BTW, I know that the sound quality might deteriorate, but shooting another "video post" in the middle of the Vietnamese countryside would be nice :)

Ah! I'd love to, but unfortunately it's from a web cam - I had a really nice HD Camcorder, but I wasn't using it so I gifted it away. Downsides of traveling - you're constantly battling against weight/space... I'll get another camera or phone with video at some point, but in the meantime I have been taking pictures I've meant to share. Had a couple requests for more "culture/travel" type posts, and I like doing them, so I've got 1 or 2 in the works right now.

Re: workplace and ambition - yeah, that's probably a very reasonable position to take :)

Good comment here, cheers Mony.

Hey Sebastian, I realized a long time ago that not everyone wants to grow, not everyone wants to take responsibilities and simply accept the fact that they are in control of their own actions. I'm not sure why that happens but I suspect is a result of how we are grown, which also means that we can change by identifying the bad habits that were taught unconsciously by the society we were raised in. I think that one of those habits that one must cultivate is creating stuff, producing as much as possible. That's the biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful one that I can think of.

Righteousness usually means virtuous, doesn't it? Would a better term to describe what you're driving at be self-righteousness? Those that believe in their own virtue, regardless of whether their actions betray that virtue? In any case...

That's a pretty interesting trait, because it really seems to be a few nasty traits rolled into one. The truly self-righteous I've had the pleasure of knowing are generally endowed with pride, usually some envy and wrath, stubbornness, a refusal to think critically, and maybe worst of all, fear. All traits that make people difficult to deal with.

I honestly love talking to self-righteous people, just for the entertainment value, but I don't think I've ever completed a project with a self-righteous person where one of us wasn't unhappy at the end. Any strategies for getting what you want out of self-righteous people?

Thanks for that post Sebastian.
There's been a few times over the years where I'd sort of do random searches on google, not quite sure what I was looking for. And yeah, you can find plenty of stuff on things like motivation, goal setting, habits etc, etc, and it's not bad advice. But what was out there seemed to lack a central theme or driving force. It was like the 'how' of it was regurgitated out of any self help book, without any regard for the 'why'.
I was thrilled when I stumbled across your site late last year. A site by and for unashamedly pro-wealth, pro-success and pro-expansion people is really the sort of thing I've been looking for all this time. It's good know there's alot of others out there who have the same underpinning motivation or philosophy towards life.
Thanks for the site Sebastian, what you're doing is excellent.

> I think that one of those habits that one must cultivate is creating stuff, producing as much as possible. That’s the biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful one that I can think of.

Amen!

> That’s a pretty interesting trait, because it really seems to be a few nasty traits rolled into one. The truly self-righteous I’ve had the pleasure of knowing are generally endowed with pride, usually some envy and wrath, stubbornness, a refusal to think critically, and maybe worst of all, fear. All traits that make people difficult to deal with.

Yeah, it's no good. I wouldn't actually equate virtue with righteousness - I'm not sure of the exact definitions, but virtue has the connotation to me of trying to live well, whereas righteousness implies... well like you said, pride, envy, wrath, stubbornness, refusal to think critically, etc, etc.

> Any strategies for getting what you want out of self-righteous people?

Sadly, no! I try to just avoid them, and they're generally not very successful people. But if anyone has good insights, I'm all ears.

Thanks for the kind words, man, I really appreciate it. I get the occasional ultra-hostile vicious critic and I don't like that, but when I hear that someone really digs it here and gets a lot of it... yeah, that means a lot to me. Thanks.