Law 13 · Build Before You Are Ready
The man who paid for his own risk.
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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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All stories →One story a week.
Someone who earned their ground, read slowly, in your inbox on a Sunday. The coffee ships to the list first.
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.
- Rory McIlroy: Nobody can lie to you better than you.
- Patrick Cantlay: Relearning golf from scratch after a broken back.
- Minjee Lee: Investing in the next generation.
- Bryson DeChambeau: He tested every assumption in golf and kept only what the ball agreed with.
- Jon Rahm: The anger stays. He decided what it is allowed to do.
- Jordan Spieth: Outside the top hundred, then back, one millimetre at a time.
- Brooks Koepka: Golf rewards nothing twice. He trained for the variable.
- Justin Thomas: At his lowest he read, listened and rebuilt, so it never happened again.
- Scottie Scheffler: World number one, and he still says do not play only golf.
- Xander Schauffele: His father would not let him pose with a fifth-place trophy.
- Max Homa: A bad shot gets one joke, then it is over.
- Tony Finau: A scholarship on the table, and he put $50,000 on himself instead.
- Othman Almulla: His country had no professional golfer. He became the first and took the 80s on the chin.
- Stewart Cink: At forty-seven he unpacked the fears and won twice.
- Adam Scott: Bad luck on the back nine is no reason to change.
- Shane Lowry: Weather the storm, and come out the other side.
- Phil Mickelson: Every shot is psychology, and the hotel room counts too.
- Lee Westwood: Pick the shot, trust it, and never change your mind.
- Patrick Reed: He learned to play from the rough, and came to love it.
- Collin Morikawa: The big moment does not rattle him. A crosswind might.
- Bubba Watson: His father's rule: never take a day off, however big the win.
- Danny Willett: Dig your heels in and keep working.
- Jason Day: Get up earlier, work longer, and meet the fear head on.
- Lydia Ko: Step back, rebuild, and return a different player.
- Dustin Johnson: The nerves never go. He learned what they do to him.
- Justin Rose: The medal is just metal. The story is what he passes on.
- Ian Poulter: Look your opponent in the eye, and welcome the stare back.
- Sergio Garcia: Never keep doing the same thing. Find the extra half percent.
- Gary Woodland: He thought winning would come easy. The drought taught him otherwise.
- George Groves: Two deep breaths, and the nerves of a big crowd settle.
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.