The 5 am club

The Billionaire’s Maxim #1
To Create Magic in the World, Own the Magic within Yourself.
Look in the mirror. Your relationship with you predicts your relationship with
the world. Remember that you have a primitive longing for silence and
solitude—and that it is in quietude that self-awareness rises. French
mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote: “All of humanity’s problems stem from
man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Release your need for
complexity and immerse yourself in the stillness only the early morning can
provide so you get to know yourself again. Because a flight from solitude
really is an escape from freedom.
To become an everyday magician, so your life is rich with passion, plenty
and peace, grow more comfortable being still. So you start to hear the
whispers of the great genius who slumbers within you. In restfulness, you’ll
remember all you truly are. You’ll reaccess that supreme self, abundant with
creativity, potency, invincibility and a love that has no conditions. In this
sanctuary of silence, you will also be afforded something so rare in this age:
time for yourself to 
be
. And the more you do so, the more you’ll discover how
life really works. You’ll also begin to differentiate between your beliefs that
are merely cultural constraints and those that are actual truths. And between
the trustworthy voice of your intuition and the persuasive pronouncements of
your fears. In solitude, you’ll also receive the disruptive insights that will
transform your field. I know it sounds strange but amid serenity, you’ll
actually visit the alternate reality in which visionaries like Nikola Tesla,
Albert Einstein, Grace Hopper, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, Marie
Curie, Andrew Carnegie, Katharine Graham, Sam Walton, Rosalind Franklin,
and Steve Jobs, among other luminaries, spent much time. Why do you think
the legendary scientists, inventors, industrialists and artists all made so much
effort to be alone? I’ve shared with you that long stretches spent in noiseless
contemplation is one of the secrets of the advanced mind. Ultimately, you’re
the only person you’ll be with your entire life. Why not strengthen your
relationship with your greatest self, fully know your genius and start a
lifetime love affair with your most noble nature?
The second magic charm was in the form of a flower. The billionaire relished

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its fragrance. He then smiled and passed the letter associated with it to his
students for their review. It read: