Law 13 · Build Before You Are Ready
The man who paid for his own risk.
Tom Hardy put $2.5 million into Taboo knowing half the room would hate it. On why permission never arrives, and why he stopped waiting for it.
Tom Hardy · Actor
Law 18 · Become Dangerous, Then Govern It
The challenges on the mat are bigger than on set.
The director has a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He says the mat is harder than any film set, because nobody can help you there.
Guy Ritchie · Director, jiu-jitsu black belt
Law 13 · Build Before You Are Ready
Doing things rather than dreaming about them.
DJ, actor, kickboxer, and now director. Elba on a father who died at seventy-two and the urgency that followed.
Idris Elba · Actor
The first cup is the quiet one.
A washed Colombian for the hour before the day gets its hands on you.
Red apple, panela, a long clean finish. Roasted in the UK to order and posted through the letterbox, so it is on the counter when you come down. Grind it while the kettle runs. Drink it before the phone.
Inside every bag there is a card. One of the twenty-two laws, printed on thick stock, yours to keep or pass on. The coffee is the point. The card is the gift.
250 g · Huila, Colombia · Washed · Whole bean or ground
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Shane Quigley
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A code · not motivation
The 22 Laws
of Growth & Freedom
Twenty-two patterns, found in the lives of people who had to earn their ground. Read them slowly. Come back to one.
A man does not rise in one heroic moment. He rises by returning to the work after comfort, failure, resentment, fear, and distraction have all invited him to stop.
One slow, painful brick at a time.
In life, everything meaningful is earned.
Rise Strong. Nothing’s Given.
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RSNG Coffee · No. 01
The Foundation
Washed Colombian. Red apple, panela, a long clean finish.
The first coffee in the range. A clean washed lot from Huila, roasted light to medium for clarity rather than weight, so it is as good black at six in the morning as it is with milk at ten. Roasted in the UK the week it ships, posted flat through the letterbox.
- Origin
- Huila, Colombia
- Process
- Washed
- Roast
- Light-medium
- Weight
- 250g
- Roasted
- UK · to order
- Inside
- One law card
The first roast is on its way.
Inside every bag
A card in every bag
Thick uncoated card, one colour, one of the twenty-two laws on the front and the whole of it on the back. It comes stapled to the back of the bag and tears off clean. Keep it on the fridge. Give it to someone who needs it.
Stop wishing it was. Start building.
rsng.com/laws/1
Later · the tool
Pocket will hold you
to the code.
It reaches you only when it needs you.
An agent on your phone that carries the 22 Laws as its operating code and runs one practice a day in the law's voice. It is not ready. The coffee, the laws and the proof are. Leave your email and you will hear when it is.
No blue. No streaks you did not earn. The accent appears only when something needs you.
Today
Become Hard To Threaten
You named your salary yesterday. If it stopped on Friday, what is the first thing you would do on Monday?
Practice
Do the work.
Short, plain exercises. Each one serves a law. Most take minutes a day. Pick one and start tonight.
Allan Russell · Attack coach
Nobody is born a natural goalscorer.
Allan Russell is the Scottish former striker England call on to sharpen their forwards. He believes finishing is learned, and that confidence is built on the training ground.
Asked how much confidence matters to a striker:
Everything, it’s everything – in essence that’s why I put a new movement programme together because when a striker suffers a drop in confidence they should be able to go back to the fact that they can trust their training, that they can trust their decision making, trust their technique in pressure situations and execute the right finish, at the optimum moment with the right technique – aiming to hit the corners. That’s the mantra, keep it low, hit the corners. When players are feeling low in confidence they can go back to thinking: “Ok I do it 9 times out of 10 in training, I’m good, I’m composed and I believe in my technique.”
Asked how much finishing is learned and how much is natural:
No one is born a natural goal-scorer. Lots of people think strikers can do things naturally. But when you look back to the learning phase of their career, a lot of these guys that look now as if they do things naturally have gone through a learning curve to do what they do. Maybe a certain coach at a certain time focused them on a certain area – but whatever it is, they would have focused their training on striking specifically. As young players, at a junior stage, they also watched good players and learned from that. Good technique resonated in their mind, they learned to visualise and then put into action what they saw – but no one striker was born a natural goalscorer.
Asked how he works on weaknesses without denting confidence:
So, if a player struggles with a certain weakness you have to decide how to help the overcome that, nuanced to what they best react to. You certainly don’t go and continually hammer it home to them that they’re not so good at X, Y or Z. You feed the information to them, the coaching points on how to improve – but you allow them to make mistakes because a lot of the time they’ll recognise the weakness anyway and learn from that.