Translated:

John McAfee was asked countless times about the "secret to success," and finally, he got tired of pretending.

He said straight up: You won't like this answer.

Many people spend their entire lives desperately striving, frequently making mistakes, and frantically competing, yet they still end up spinning their wheels in place.

It's not a lack of ability, nor is it bad luck.

Because deep down, you're like a balloon tethered tightly to the ocean floor.

A balloon is born to float upward.

What’s truly keeping you suffocating in the deep water isn't a barren talent, but the burdens weighing you down:

Fear, resentment, disappointment, and an obsession with the victim identity.

Unless you sever these rotten ropes, no matter how much you struggle, you'll never break the surface.

Cut them loose, and rising to the top becomes a simple physical inevitability.

McAfee's solution is brutally cold, just one sentence:

Cut it off immediately, never linger in battle.

If a partner pisses you off or a business associate stabs you in the back, and you can't turn the page within 10 seconds, you've already lost that round completely.

Because that's already in the past.

Ten seconds ago was the past, ten hours ago was the past, ten years ago was the past too.

In this physical world, the past doesn't even exist.

Every extra second you spend in anger is using your present life to pay exorbitant rent to a dead ghost.

Stop ruminating, stop resenting, and snip away all the downward-dragging forces pulling at you.

What’s trapping you has never been the cruel external world, but that rotten rope you're clutching so tightly, unwilling to let go. https://x.com/huxlab/status/2109531794861183183