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.
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.
Judd Lormand · Actor
Do not get worked up. Breathe, then find the next step.
Judd Lormand plays the commander who runs the missions from the operations room in SEAL Team. The real officers he studied taught him to keep his head, on set and off it.
Asked whether playing a commander has taught him anything:
It's actually helped me a lot in real life. Blackburn, he can't get worked up. He can't let his emotions, his temper, get the best of him because it doesn't do any good. He's got to be continuously thinking and so now, in real life, when the flight gets cancelled or this and that is happening, I think it's really helped me over the last year or so not to get worked up. Not to get stressed. I say: “Well, just Blackburn it, Judd”. What would Blackburn do? Just take a deep breath, figure out the next step.
Asked what real commanders told him:
It was kind of my choice in the beginning to keep this guy level-headed, keep him even keeled. Then, when I spoke with a couple of lieutenant commanders, I realised I'm on the right track because they were telling me the most important thing is: not to lose your cool. I had this army guy tell me: “You have to play with the cards you're dealt and you're dealt different cards every single mission, so you do the best that you can.” These guys that I talked to were extremely tough, extremely rigid guys but they were super sensitive as well and that really helped me to put the final touches on Blackburn, as far as who he is.
Asked about the human story behind the headlines:
Correct, and I’ve always been a supporter of our troops and any country’s troops, who make the conscious decision to say: “You know what I’m going to defend our country.” I think that's just an incredible service and I was always wanting to say: “Thank you for your service.” But one of the aspects that I never looked at was have we ever told the person who's serving or going overseas, have we ever told their husband or wife: “Thank you for your service?” Because it’s a family job.