Here’s what worked for me…
In a Universe governed by entropy, ignorance and confusion is the natural state of mind.
Success is a function of persistence, perseverance, tenacity, endurance, application, willfulness, doing it. Do not forget that.
Everyone is a pathological lier, stop listening to whoever the hell that is.
Simple truths, no matter how boring or unpopular are better in the long run than made-to-believe, whatever it pays.
Oh, and do things the hard way, it is the only way you will truly own it. If you haven’t noticed, everything else is over leveraged.
(with apologies to Harlan Ellison)