Jeast Bassey

Behavioural economics explains why generosity without conditions destroys the people you give it to. Helping someone repeatedly without requiring growth on their part does not 'support' them. It updates their internal model of what life requires from them. You taught them that effort is optional because someone else will absorb the consequences. So the next failure is cheaper than the first. You have effectively subsidised their stagnation. Genuine help requires that the recipient feel the cost of their own decisions before assistance arrives. Everything else is enabling, dressed up as kindness.

The man who has nothing to prove is the most dangerous man in any room. He does not need the title. He does not need the win. He does not need to be liked. You cannot manipulate someone whose self-worth is not on the table.

life is so weird! Some years ago, in a Manchester bedroom, i started a podcast with a $100 microphone and called it The Diary Of A CEO... The idea was that i'd share some of the more personal things in my diary - that first episode got 40 subscribers on Apple. Most of them were my friends. Thankfully, two of my friends told me it wasn't as embarrassing as I thought it was, and told me to carry on. Today, about 6 years after bringing the show to YouTube, we hit 16,000,000 subscribers. This month we had 90 million± downloads/views (a new record for us), and added 600,000+ new subscribers to the show. no rational person looking at me sat in that bedroom at 3am, trying to figure out how to edit on garage band, using a sock as a pop-shield for the microphone, would have forecast any of this. i certainly did not. all of this has been so weird to me that it's mentally easier to just not think about it, and focus on the work... which is the decision we've always made and will continue to make In an industry dominated by American media giants, I'm really proud that a show founded in Britain by a team of now hundreds of Brits, many of them young people in their first job, can compete globally... And i'm reminded again what's possible with the right people, the right focus, a willingness to work very hard, (and some good fortune and timing). AND... i'm reminded again of the power of the creative industries in the UK. FLIGHTSTORY, our media company behind The Diary Of A CEO and a growing slate of other shows, just finished its 25,000 sqft campus in central London and is expanding in the US. We're hiring like crazy - so please get in touch if you're looking for a job! We're looking for everything from software engineers, creatives, C-suite level execs and more! To the audience who show up week after week, thank you so much for handing me one of the great, unexpected, privileges of my life! ok, back to work!

Fat loss isn’t magic, it’s not motivation, it’s not timing, hacks, or detox. Fat loss is mathematics. Calories in, calories out, consistency over time. You don’t negotiate with equations, you execute them.

The simplest way to avoid eating junk food is not to buy it.

Father to father, your child is not watching what you say. They are watching what you do when you are tired. When money is tight. When you are disrespected. When things do not go your way. You are not raising a child. You are building their first mental model of what a man looks like under pressure. Make it something worth copying.

You are more likely to get a job than becoming profitable trading forex Lock in to change the odds 🔒

To everyone just starting out: Take a picture of your early beginnings (no matter how raw). Every epic story is made 100x better with a picture of “where it all started” And if you think you’re gonna make history, might as well make it history.