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.
Roger Frampton · Movement coach
Natural movement is the pension plan you pay into daily.
He trained to look big, then found he could not touch his toes or sit in a squat. Now he teaches people to move the way they did as children.
Asked how his method began:
When I first got into training my goal was to be big. That’s all I cared about: looking big and buff like a movie icon. The cost of that was that I disregarded my natural movement and added to my tightness. I may have looked the part, but I couldn’t touch my toes and sitting in a squat meant falling over backwards. So several years ago I decided I would take it upon myself to strip my body of all this tightness and spend time daily getting my natural flexibility back.
Asked what is so bad about sitting:
The problem with sitting is the long periods of sedentary hours, with a body that has evolved to move. The second issue is that the chair is designed for comfort rather than how we are evolved to sit. If we want to see how we should sit we need look no further than the way children sit or how we sat as children. Children sit in a huge variety of positions on the floor, including on their “sit bones” and in a squat.
Asked why these basic movements matter:
Natural movement is our pension plan. When it comes to pension plans most of us think about money and what we will have for the future. But what if you get there and are stuck in a body that’s weak, tight, full of chronic pain and are reliant on somebody else to take care of you? For me, if I always take care of my body, my body will always take care of me. If we start taking care of ourselves today, we can keep taking care of ourselves for life. There are many, many examples of people well into their 80s and 90s doing what it takes and stretching their body daily using all types of movement practices. But start today. Just 10 minutes of self care for your body per day can make all the difference.