True Hard Truths.

Hard truths are still true. No one cares about your degrees, no one cares about your qualifications, no one cares about your attempts at conforming to the standard of those who've gotten to where they're at by doing the opposite of what they've told you to do to achieve high goals. The only thing anybody cares about is their bottom line. And when it comes to that, there's getting it done and there's not getting it done; it's a zero-sum proposition. Results, by any means necessary, is what it takes to beat the competition at whatever race you're in.

The world is a cutthroat ocean and all it takes to get to Treasure Island is the smarts to navigate the waterways. Instinct and experience is the name of that game and those are things - like much in life that the teachers in schools don't tell you while they're brainwashing you to work your youth away and stay perpetually broke simply to fill the pockets of those in the system of which employ's them to begin with. The important aspects of life can't be taught in any structured environment, behind any desk or in any lecture.

Life is unfair and life is unpredictable. To quote that old Motorhead song: "It's all about the game and how you play it."

This is a world where men like Paul Levesque, who haven't spent a day in a business class in their lives, usurp high-placed positions within conglomerates away from people who've spent portions of their lives studying to attain that spot. Like chess, all that matters in this life is how you place your pieces, nothing more.