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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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.
James Haskell · Rugby player
Three quarters of the result is on the plate.
James Haskell won almost 80 England caps on a body built as much in the kitchen as in the gym. He tracks what he eats, and says most men get the fuel wrong.
Asked where his passion for eating right comes from:
I realised over the years that nutrition is the biggest stumbling block to achieving the gains or the goals you want to achieve. When I talk to people at the gym and they say they’re eating enough of the right stuff but they can’t bulk up, or they’re eating right but they can’t lose weight. Well they’re obviously not eating enough or eating right! I’m firm believer that 75% of any successful exercise plan hinges on good diet. And that’s where people are going wrong.
Asked how diet turns into performance:
It doesn’t help that there’s a lot of misinformation and contradictory messages out there about food and fuelling for sports. I’ve learnt how nutritional changes can change me. I can add or drop 5kg in a matter of weeks simply by tweaking my diet. I track all I eat, recording the macros (macronutrients) and eating right for my goals without needing to spend loads on health supplements or so called superfoods.
Asked whether he still trains as hard:
Absolutely. But just like my diet, my training has changed too. When I was younger training was all about being the biggest, strongest shape for the game I played. I was focused on building muscle, developing strength, bench-pressing every day – though even then I’ve always varied it to include things like martial arts. [...] I’ve always looked to improve, the entire time, as life is a learning curve and my increased interest in diet, tracking my intake and investigating the importance of hydration and recovery, especially as I get older, has become much more important.