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.
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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.
Tony Finau · Golfer
A scholarship on the table, and he put $50,000 on himself instead.
A garage, a carpet and a mattress for a driving range. Then a scholarship turned down for a $50,000 winner-takes-all bet.
Asked what he puts his success down to:
I don’t think that I would be the player or the person I am if I hadn’t made a crucial decision when I was younger. That was when I was offered a scholarship at BYU (Brigham Young University) in Utah, but instead, I decided to play a tournament called The Ultimate Game. This was an event which was 40 guys putting in $50,000 each and playing for a winner-takes-all $2 million. The first hole was over 400 yards, with an elevated tee and the rest of the hole was downhill. I drove the green and Lee Trevino, who was there as part of the tournament was stunned that, not only did I manage to do that, but that I had even attempted it. I wasn’t fortunate enough to win first prize, but I did get a decent cheque and also Trevino helped me then get sponsorship with Callaway, so that was me on the road to professional golf.
Asked about the garage driving range:
That’s about the size of it, yeah. When we were kids, my parents didn’t have a whole lot of money, so my dad improvised. He saw that we enjoyed watching golf on television, went into town and bought the best clubs that he could afford and brought them back for us. He told us that we were allowed to play in the garage to practise and he gave us a carpet to hit the ball off and a mattress to take all of the power and speed out of the ball. [...]
Asked about giving back to kids who started where he did:
Yeah, that was so great to be able to do that and it’s something that I will always be looking to do, because that’s a massive part of me. It has never crossed my mind to come from where I did, achieve what I have and live the life that I do and to not recognise that there are kids who are in similar positions that I was. [...]