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The mixed martial arts pioneer and multi-title champion Frank Shamrock has a system he trains fighters in that he calls plus, minus, and equal. Each fighter, to become great, he said, needs to have someone better that they can learn from, someone lesser who they can teach, and someone equal that they can challenge themselves against.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
The secret sauce of the West, what Ben Shapiro referred to as “Athens plus Jerusalem,” faith and reason operating in harmony make the West work. It works not only because it's successful in its own rights as a positive claim, but because it boxes out or gate keeps the Gnostics. Athens plus Jerusalem keeps Alexandria at Bay.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
“All of you welfare preachers—it’s not unearned money that you’re after. You want handouts, but of a different kind. I’m a gold-digger of the spirit, you said, because I look for value. Then you, the welfare preachers . . . it’s the spirit that you want to loot. I never thought and nobody ever told us how it could be thought of and what it would mean—the unearned in spirit. But that is what you want. You want unearned love. You want unearned admiration. You want unearned greatness. You want to be a man like Hank Rearden without the necessity of being what he is. Without the necessity of being anything. Without . . . the necessity . . . of being.”
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