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.
Julie Dray · Actor
Feel like a fraud, then go and learn to jump.
Julie Dray grew up a pampered Parisian child actor who had never heard of BASE jumping. A year filming among wingsuit flyers ended with her skydiving for real.
Asked how she grew into the part:
We filmed for a year all over the world [with BASE jumpers] and it’s a very small community, even though there are people everywhere. They are amazing people, driven, not judgemental, passionate – they really welcomed me. I had half my head shaved and felt so confident as Ash, but after a while I felt like a fraud and so I went to pass my freefall course and in my free time I started jumping – skydiving. I was shooting something else in LA and went to the jump zone, and that jump ended up in the film. I started as this Parisian actress with nothing to do with this world, and by the time I finished the movie I didn’t want to leave the community.
Asked whether the jumpers are as reckless as they look:
None of the jumpers had any illusions about the reality of the sport and will tell you that if you jump thinking that you are going to be safe, then you are truly naive. You need to be humble about your skills and your level, and you have to commit 100% – once you jump you have to be serious about it, even though you do it a lot.
Asked what the jumpers taught her about living:
I was an amazing gift to play Ash and to be in this community, and see how these people think, it was really refreshing – it’s a whole different mentality about life and death, what matters – they don’t have time to lie, don’t have time for bullshit, they never know if they are going to make it to tomorrow. They live in the moment – there is a real celebration of life and being in the present.