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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About the author
Shane Quigley
The people I interviewed
Actors, athletes, adventurers and founders. Tap a face to read their story.
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.
A new story every week.
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.
Charlize Theron · Actor
Everything hurt. She had made the commitment, so she kept it.
Three months of martial arts, eight fight trainers and two cracked teeth for one spy thriller. Charlize Theron on commitment, injury and the mother who taught her not to be afraid.
Asked what it was like coming home to her two kids:
Some nights, it was painful to pick up my kids, everything hurt. My muscles were in agony. Sometimes the older one would jump on me, want to play and I was crying inside, but I never showed it. My Mom, she was out here with me while we were filming looking after my kids and I'd come home in the evening, a little battered and shaken and she's look at me and say: “Do you have to put yourself through this? Why do you have to do everything?” And I was like: “Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I've made this commitment, this is what I have to do.” Even though my body was like: “Please, it's been six months, please stop.”
Asked whether nearly being paralysed on an earlier film changed how she works:
That was in another category, another league of pain and potential permanent damage. It's made me a little wary because I'm fully aware of the damage I could cause myself. That's why I'm so focused on training and getting it right to the very last move, because that's how you protect yourself from injury.
Asked where her confidence comes from:
I've always admired and been drawn to women who are motivated and ambitious. Ambition in a man is seen as being very attractive and inspiring, but an ambitious woman is usually regarded with suspicion or hostility. It’s considered unfeminine. But I was lucky to have the best female role model a young girl could ever have. My mother is an intelligent woman who was already dressed and ready for work at seven in the morning when she would come into my room in the morning to get me to wake up and get ready for school. During my childhood she taught me to be self-confident and not be afraid of anything.