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
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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.
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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.
Shane Lowry · Golfer
Weather the storm, and come out the other side.
No golfers in the family, just a pitch-and-putt course down the road in Mullingar. Shane Lowry on blown leads, pressure on the final holes, and why no single result defines a golfer.
Asked about the biggest challenge in golf:
I think for me it’s always been about contending with how the sport can produce such different results. You can go into a tournament on such a high and supremely confident in your ability, but there is so much around you that can work against you. [...] I think most golfers, as they progress their game, learn how to come to terms with that. It’s nice to think winning a tournament makes you the very best; but then missing a cut doesn’t make you a bad player, so you have to take each in context. [...] The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. You are a good golfer – you will win and you will lose!
Asked how a boy from a non-golfing family got into the game:
No, that’s absolutely right. My uncles played the game, on my mum’s side, but not professionally – just as a social thing. Mullingar in County Westmeath, the village where I grew up, has a local pitch and putt course and that’s about it. But that’s how I got into the game and I was no older than 10 years old when I first started going there. [...] It wasn’t until I was in my middle teens that there was a new golf course built a few miles away from where we lived. I joined that club, Esker Hills, and things went from there. But it did take a while from me to bring my handicap down, in fact I was still playing off four when I was 16 years old. [...] My parents were actually trying to get me into college, but I wasn’t letting that happen – I always wanted to be a pro golfer, instead.
Asked whether he has overthought shots under pressure:
Sure, and I have done that before when I have thrown away leads. I guess the US Open in 2016 is an example of that. [...] I think there are points in every round where you just have to weather the storm. That will always come in any sport and any contest – individuals, teams or whatever… they get on top in a clash and get a bit of momentum. The trick is to get through that spell and emerge out the other side.