The belief that you can have a smooth, problem-free life is a dangerous fiction, because you’re chasing something that cannot possibly exist. If it wasn’t unsatisfying enough to be a human being, you’ve just made it even more unsatisfying, because you’ll never realize that the thing you’re chasing cannot be attained. So, what’s a more realistic view of the world? Read More

It’s almost unfair that we are even consciously aware, because we’re born into suffering. We’re born into misery. It is not possible to live a life without some suffering. We’re wired for it, and the universe is wired against us. We are in a constant battle from the day we are conceived. But that’s okay. That doesn’t mean you have Read More

Seek to become anti-fragile. Strive to be the kind of person who grows stronger when things don’t go your way. See every failure as a valuable lesson. View every setback as resistance to help you grow and improve. Consider every rejection as feedback, offering greater awareness of what’s right for you and what isn’t, as well as insight into your Read More

This video is an excerpt from a recent Ask Dan Anything session in Brojo Skool. Dan Munro advises against seeking external solutions for self-expression and childhood development goals, emphasizing the importance of self-reliance and autonomous thinking. He argues that asking for advice too often can perpetuate a cycle of dependency. Instead, he urges the questioner to take bold, potentially “wrong” Read More

This one actually comes up quite a lot. People who have struggled socializing, making friends or dating—even when they overcome some of their social anxieties—they still find other people generally uninteresting. I want to give some insights into that. First, I’ve got to acknowledge this: some people just won’t be of interest to you. No matter who you are, there Read More

I have a few clients who identify as spiritual. They are often quite frustrated when trying to be part of spiritual communities. The problem, as they see it, is that they have to put up with a lot of nonsense: think of things like scam artists and gurus that are actually sexual predators, not to mention the basic stuff like Read More

An observation I’ve made in my own life and with my clients is a lot of people think they value freedom, but they secretly don’t. They think Freedom means doing whatever you feel like and having lots of options and lots of time available. But the truth is what they really value is Safety and that’s how they behave. Doing Read More

First time I ever went on a tour of a prison I was taken into the maximum security unit. There was a guy in there who was notorious because he had escaped from the unit twice. Yet when I walked in there, I felt like I was being sealed inside a can… inside a vault… inside a box. There was Read More

When the US gymnast Simone Biles proclaimed herself to be the best in the world, people called her arrogant and cocky. Yet the truth is she’s won the World Championship 5 times, and is crushing the Olympics. So she literally is the best gymnast in the world. She obviously wasn’t saying it to seek approval because she got a lot Read More

A lot of people talk about being “busy” as if it’s something that happens to them, like all these tasks just drop out of the fucking sky and take up your day. And that is how a lot of people feel. They’re waiting for their own to-do list to give them a break… as if they didn’t create that list Read More

The “Drop In” technique is a simple exercise I made up to help you figure out what you would do with your life if you weren’t held back by fear, previous obligations, and whatever programmed identity you’ve been clinging to. It’s pretty simple: how it works is you imagine that you’ve literally just been dropped into this life, right now. Read More

As many of us become adults and go from our 20s to our 30s, we start to wonder: Why the fuck do I feel tired all the time? Where has my energy gone? Now this can happen for lots of different reasons, but what a lot of you won’t realize is it’s happening because you’re a people pleaser. People pleasing Read More