My older P.E. brothers are hyped about some capital allocator pulling 19% returns - Brookfield Capital or something
Complex models. Downside hedging. Deep macro insights.
Cool story bro.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Bitcoiners have quietly been compounding at 60%+ for a decade.
25x. 50x. 200x.
Not by being clever, but by being clear.
They saw what others didn’t:
The fiat system is broken.
The money printer isn’t a glitch, it’s the business model.
And these aren’t a few mythical OGs from 2011.
There are thousands. Probably tens of thousands.
But sure, let’s keep glorifying 19% a year.
Let’s keep pretending complexity = brilliance.
Their big diss on bitcoin is volatility. Well, the market’s trying to price a perfectly scarce, 24/7 global asset…
In a money that’s infinite, manipulated, and dying.
No wonder it looks volatile.
Maybe the real alpha isn’t in spreadsheets.
Maybe it’s in guts.
In clarity.
In being right before it’s obvious.
With Bitcoin back at $107K, it’s a good time to remember:
Bitcoin won’t save you.
Not at $300K.
Not at $500K.
Not even at $1 million a coin.
But it will expose you.
Your fears. Your addictions.
The parts of you still waiting to be seen.
It doesn’t fix your inner world.
It reveals it.
#ProofOfHeart
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Most men don’t need more success.
They need more honesty, with themselves.
The grind won’t heal you.
You can’t outrun your inner world.
Eventually, it catches up.
It’s why an SUV is a must for me these days! No other reason than to be above the lights
Learning this from my mentor, Brandon Hawk, was a game changer for me.
Sovereignty / Phase One: Build success.
Sovereignty / Phase Two: Learn how to feel it.
Take the armor off in small moments.
That’s how you build a life that’s actually yours.
There’s no bottom to their grift
"I’m finally finding the solidity and grace to simply be unapologetically who I am"
Holy shyt, so well said. Erik has made it through to the other side.
For the rest of us, we're likely just beginning. Proof of Heart is here to guide you, when you're ready.
Love to hear it. Thanks for sharing. I'm on the same journey, although in the early innings of it.
Care to share something specific about yourself that you've come to truly own?
I'm working on accepting that the old me from pre-covid times—well-liked, super social, and naive—is dead and gone.
I'm also working on owning my desires, which I have felt a lot of shame about. I thought I had to be a stoic monk on a mountaintop.
copper wire coming from the earth and wrapped around thin metal pole in the plant dirt. Thank me later.
You’re not stoic.
You’re emotionally armored. And it's weighing you down.
That armor was built in childhood, and grew heavier in fiat culture.
Now, it's the exact thing keeping you from peace, purpose, and intimacy.
