From the desk of Adam Thomas

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To this test I feel there isn’t much more I can do. Perhaps this is a task I need to reaccess, but lately I decided to test my mettle and go for things. Let the chips fall where they may. 

I’ve learned that holding back is killing my happiness. Insecurity is a mechanism that will slow down your dreams.

This is not to say I am perfect, but I am slowly learning to slay that dragon. 

You cannot prepare forever.

Imitation is Suicide. Insist on yourself; never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stand up. The immobile fear that stopped me for so long was vanquished in an evening with a payment of 5 bucks and a double shot of whiskey.

The Divine Idea behind it is simple. Go out, perform, and be you on the stage. It is a craft I am working on, and through it I recognize things I have not quite seen before. 

Not quite sure yet how this will result in a new me. I have had new confidence, learned how to stand in front of a crowd, and also learned a little bit more about my own writing, on how to be a real editor.

The short term benefits note a long term success, but what success I am not sure. 

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The importance of sleep and creative outlet can only make you better with your work. If you neglect these things, prepare to become a robot.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

My greatest fear is to lay it all down, to bet the house, to go out 100%. I always need a hammock there to protect me. 

Stay with me. I am still working on it. I am slowly cutting it with each passing day.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

5 Years Ago: Relax. The road will be bumpy, but you will get to where you need to be.

5 Years From Now: I hope nothing has stopped you.

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

One week to live, I would try to travel a lot more to take in as much of the country as I could. There is a lot of beauty disguised in everyday life that we miss.

Thing about it is, that is something I couldn’t prepare to accept during the day. We are too busy as human beings. It would be easy to type these words on the screen and be sappy, however, it seems like that is nothing more than a cop out to the fantasy life we tend to run into.

We as human beings love the circle. It comforts us. It is the reason why we love our routine. It is also why we miss things.

So it is often death that makes us feel most alive.

With that said, I have always wanted and waited to write the next best American screenplay/novel.

For this I feel I need to put myself in deprivation from most mediums for at least and hour a day and put pen to paper. This is an actionable goal I will be pushing for after Trust30 is over.

I wait because I want to focus on this. 5 days has netted me a little bit more of an understanding of myself. I feel I have to see the rest of this through.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sydney Australia

That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can I maximize June in Standup, Mainframes, and The Gamer Studio?