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.
Saoirse Ronan · Actor
Nail your colours to the mast, then be ready to set sail.
Four Oscar nominations before thirty, and a rule about speaking up: nail your colours to the mast, then be ready to set sail.
Asked whether people in the public eye should speak up:
It’s simple for me. I’ve always been of the opinion that if you’re going to nail your colors to the mast, be prepared to set sail at some point! That said, I’ve always found that whole thing about using a platform a bit naff. I don’t think you should ever get above your station; nor would I dare to be arrogant enough to suggest my view is any better than someone else’s, but in the case of me having a genuine interest in fashion and clothes and sustainability and the way we go about what we do… and for whatever reason, the media wanting to repeat those words – well, I’m kind of ok with that.
Asked whether she has always been tenacious:
I was never very bold as a child. I was uncertain about a lot of things, and really relied very heavily on my parents for support, confidence and belief. Even now, my mother and I are like best friends. We're very close and she's always been a role model for me. The relationship with your mam is the most important relationship you’ll ever have in your life, and particularly in terms of those formative years. Your mam is your mam, and I have so much respect for her sense of dignity and integrity. [...]
Asked how actors are regarded by the public:
[...] The thing is, when you’re inside the industry, you realize a lot of actors are disenchanted. I know other actors who are very cynical about this profession. In all honesty, I never want to become like that. I want to be positive and professional in what I do, but also put that same cautious energy into the messages I carry.