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
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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.
Gary Hunt · Cliff diver
He lost the title by one point and rebuilt everything around it.
Three somersaults and four and a half twists in two seconds, from 27 metres up. Gary Hunt on the defeat that turned a good diver into a champion.
Asked whether missing out as a junior felt like failure:
Every competition, every opportunity to quality for international competition was a bit heart-breaking, I guess. My goal as a young diver was to compete for my country and it never happened for me as a junior. Yes, of course it feels like a failure at the time. But I think to myself now, if I had qualified for those competitions at a young age and had that wish satisfied, maybe I would not have continued and reached the level that I’m at now, because I still had that fire inside me pushing me to get better.
Asked why he does not regret losing the championship by a single point:
It made me work a lot harder afterwards. I didn’t feel like I was taking things easy before that, but losing the title was a catalyst and it made me rethink things, rethink the dives that I wanted to do, and rethink my training strategies, my workload. And I really feel like I wouldn’t be as good a diver today if I had won that first competition, because I think I would have just kept on going how I was going. I feel like I needed that as a driving force for getting better.
Asked what he gave up to work harder:
Absolutely, I’ve made sacrifices but that’s part of being a high-level athlete. I live in France at the moment and so I see my friends and family a lot less than I would do if I was in England, but I think that helps me keep my head down and just focus. I have a lot less distractions here, and that’s definitely been a help. It was very important for me to just focus on high-diving, and that’s a sacrifice that I’m willing to make. You know that time is ticking, that I’m not going to be able to do this sport forever, so I think to myself: “Why not just make those sacrifices now? There’ll always be time for hanging out with friends and family later.”